Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

European 3D solid-state battery start-up LionVolt successfully closed a seed round of €4 million, bringing its total funding this year to more than €5 million. LionVolt spun off last year from TNO at Holst Centre, building on six years of research and development of its innovative battery design. 3D solid-state battery (3DSSB).

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Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

There’s more to a lithium-ion battery cell than a handful of lithium in a little metal can. Battery supplier Panasonic Energy has signed a long-term agreement with H&T Recharge, a German battery component manufacturer, for the supply of battery cans in North America.

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2023

Fifty years after the birth of the rechargeable lithium-ion battery, it’s easy to see its value. It was manufactured in small volumes by Exxon, appeared at an electric vehicle show in Chicago in 1977, and served briefly as a coin cell battery. Did Exxon invent the rechargeable lithium battery?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2014

Ford’s C-MAX Solar Energi concept combines a rooftop solar panel with an off-board solar concentrator—essentially an inexpensive Fresnel lens canopy. C-MAX Solar Energi Concept, which will be shown at the 2014 International CES in Las Vegas, is a collaborative project of Ford, SunPower Corp. Ford C-MAX Solar Energi Concept.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2018

a startup founded by former Stanford University researchers developing next-generation battery technology for potential aerospace and industrial applications. Cuberg developed an advanced lithium metal rechargeable battery cell that is designed to be a drop-in solution to existing large-scale battery manufacturing processes.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2021

Audi and its Chinese partner companies FAW and SAIC are showing four world premieres: the brand-new Audi A6 e-tron concept vehicle and the all-round updated Audi Q5L, in addition to the Audi A7L and an SUV study, still kept beneath a cover, named Audi concept Shanghai. A6 e-tron concept.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Fifty years after the original COPO Camaro special order performance models were introduced, Chevrolet’s eCOPO Camaro Concept is demonstrating an electrified vision for drag racing. The eCOPO Concept is all about where we go in the future with electrification in the high performance space. —Russ O’Blenes.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2023

Komatsu has developed a concept machine for a medium-sized hydraulic excavator that combines a hydrogen fuel cell and Komatsu-developed key components. For the concept machine, Komatsu applied a hydrogen fuel cell system and hydrogen tank produced by Toyota Motor Corporation to Komatsu's medium-sized hydraulic excavator.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2021

Wildcat Discovery Technologies, a technology company that uses proprietary high-throughput methods to develop new battery materials rapidly, announced that Dr. Peter Lamp, General Manager of the Battery Cell Technology Group at BMW AG, has joined its Board of Directors. One example is Wildcat’s CM3. Currently, 5V LiNi 0.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2019

Genesis revealed the Mint Concept ahead of the opening of the 2019 New York International Auto Show. The Mint Concept is a battery-electric luxury car for the city, with a new vehicle typology featuring organic design and an innovative interior user experience. The overall motif skews to the sportier side of Athletic Elegance.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

The virtually silent power delivery of the BMW i7 xDrive60 is further helped by improvements to the electric drive units’ acoustics, a model-specific mounting concept and newly developed noise encapsulation for the electric motors. The extremely slim high-voltage battery with a cell height of just 4.3-inches kWh of usable energy.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2016

One potential path for delivering higher energy density storage that current Li-ion batteries is to use a multivalent ion such as Ca 2+ or Mg 2+. Now, researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) have demonstrated the first rechargeable calcium-ion battery. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 21, 2021

The Nissan e-NV200 Winter Camper concept shows how an electric van can be converted into a home away from home. The modified van is equipped with a 220-volt battery to power onboard accessories, which can be recharged using a roof-mounted solar panel. If you're going to build a camper van, why not make it electric?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Audi is presenting the battery-electric e-tron GT concept four-door coupé as a show car at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The Audi e-tron GT concept has a 4.96-meter Together with the targeted airflow of the body, large air inlets in the front effectively cool the assemblies, battery and brakes. meter (16.3 ft) length, 1.96-meter

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2013

MIT researchers have engineered a new rechargeable, membrane-less hydrogen bromine laminar flow battery with high power density. For applications that require the storage of large quantities of energy economically and efficiently, flow batteries have received renewed attention. Credit: Braff et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2022

When setting up the demonstrator vehicles, the company took over the vehicle integration of the fuel cell system, the safety concept of the entire vehicle, the complete manufacturing process and the road approval. By implementing the new drive concept, a range increase of several hundred kilometers was achieved.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Mercedes-AMG laid out its new electrified drive strategy , which is based on two pillars: Performance hybrids with a completely independent drive concept under the technology label E PERFORMANCE. Battery-electric AMG derivatives based on the new Mercedes Electric Vehicle Architecture (EVA) for luxury and premium-class vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2021

million) in Innovate UK funding to advance development of its range-extender concept for heavy-duty applications. While the FPE concept is not new, Libertine’s control and manufacturing know-how has unlocked its potential as a vehicle range-extender. million (US$3.6

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2014

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a safe, extended cycling lithium-metal electrode for rechargeable Li-ion batteries by entrapping lithium metal within a porous graphene network (Li-PGN). This in turn significantly limits the rate capability of such batteries. Batteries' O 2 and Li 3 V 1.98

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2020

build the next generation Bustech XDi low floor transit bus using Cummins battery-electric and hydrogen-fuel-cell technologies. The agreement provides for initial units to be developed for both battery-electric and fuel-cell electric, with plans to ramp up production in late 2021 and early 2022, respectively.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

A breakthrough regarding dendrites made by MIT researchers may finally open the way to the building of a new type of rechargeable lithium battery that is safer, lighter, and more compact than existing models, a concept that has been pursued by labs all over the world for years.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 5, 2024

The stretchable battery is gaining momentum in the electronics industry, where it might one day serve as an energy storage medium in fitness trackers, wearable electronics, and even smart clothing. Researchers believe the concept will become more valuable in the next decade, as electronic devices migrate closer and closer to human skin.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2012

Schematic representation of the working principle behind a complete cycle of the desalination battery, showing how energy extraction can be accomplished: step 1, desalination; step 2, removal of the desalinated water and inlet of seawater; step 3, discharge of Na + and Cl ? in seawater; step 4, exchange to new seawater. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

With this partnership, the parties are setting up a world-class player in the development and manufacture of high-performance batteries for the automotive industry from 2023. Produce batteries for electric vehicles that will be at the highest technological level in terms of energy performance, autonomy, recharging time and carbon footprint.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

Goodyear testing reveals that traditional tires can wear out up to 30% faster on electric vehicles due to the powerful, instant torque from electric motors and the additional vehicle weight from heavy battery packs. Increasing range is a high priority for consumers due to an underdeveloped electric recharging infrastructure in most countries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

O 2 battery (0.5 The dash lines indicate the calculated thermodynamic potentials for the batteries. Researchers at Ohio State University (OSU) have demonstrated the concept of a potassium-air (K?O O 2 ) battery with low overpotentials. oxygen battery research is facing a lot of challenges. charge cycle, K?O

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Among the vehicles Kia brings to the Paris Motor Show will be the Kia Optima T-Hybrid concept, the first demonstration of Kia’s new diesel-electric mild hybrid technology. liter turbo diesel in the Kia Optima, combined with a small electric motor fed by a 48V lead-carbon battery. Regenerative braking recharges the battery.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2014

Audi TT offroad concept. Audi is presenting an Audi TT offroad concept at the Beijing International Automobile Exhibition. Like many of the brand''s new production models, the Audi TT offroad concept is also based on the versatile modular transverse matrix (MQB). The Audi TT offroad concept can drive more than 50 kilometers (31.1

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

New research conducted by the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has identified a specific building block that improves the anode in lithium-ion batteries. GPa) is ascribed to arch action, a well-known civil engineering concept. The resulting maximisation of measured elastic modulus (~120?GPa)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

As described in an open access paper in the journal NPG Asia Materials , the system is an intermediate between a battery and a fuel cell, and is accordingly referred to as a hybrid fuel cell. Sodium can serve as an alternative to lithium in rechargeable batteries as the reversible storage mechanisms for sodium ions are very similar (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2012

Coinciding with the opening of the first BMW i Store on London’s Park Lane, the BMW Group presented the new BMW i Pedelec (Pedal Electric Cycle) Concept—a custom-made complement to the BMW i3 Concept ( earlier post ). The compact bicycle can be folded up quickly; the trunk of the BMW i3 Concept has room for two.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

will offer six units of the electric Nissan New Mobility Concept ( earlier post ) for Japan’s first ultra-compact mobility rental car service in Teshima, Tonosho-cho, Shozu-gun, Kagawa prefecture as part of a pilot project for ultra-compact mobility to be conducted on the island. Nissan New Mobility Concept. Nissan Motor Co.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2018

Low current is considered one of the biggest hurdles in the development of solid-state batteries; it is the reason why the batteries take a relatively long time to charge fully—some 10 to 12 hours for a solid-state battery. Their battery takes less than an hour to recharge. PO 4 ) 3 solid electrolyte.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

A research team led by Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA), reports in an open access paper in the journal Nature Communications the demonstration of a first proof-of-concept for a rechargeable magnesium-sulphur (Mg/S) battery. 1 —i.e., —Kim et al. 1 (2,484 mAh cm ?3

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2014

Illustration of drivetrain in the S60L plug-in hybrid concept. Volvo Car Group (Volvo Cars) will reveal the Volvo S60L PPHEV (Petrol Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle) Concept Car at the 2014 Beijing International Auto Show. kWh lithium-ion battery pack installed under the floor of the load compartment. S60L PPHEV Concept.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2018

Magnesium offers a number of advantages over lithium for rechargeable batteries: it is safer and earth-abundant, and doubles the total charge per ion, delivering larger theoretical volumetric capacity compared with a typical lithium-ion battery. Further, in Mg batteries (MB) the anode is energy-dense Mg metal (~?3,830

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Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

Goodenough , one of the inventors of the lithium-ion battery, died on 25 June at age 100. He probably is best known for developing the lithium cobalt oxide cathode in 1980—which became the foundation for Sony’s first commercial lithium-ion battery in 1991. It gave the battery a significant voltage boost: from 2.4 to 4 volts.

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