Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have demonstrated in the laboratory a lithium-sulfur (Li/S) battery that has more than twice the specific energy of lithium-ion batteries, and that lasts for more than 1,500 cycles of charge-discharge with minimal decay of the battery’s capacity.

Li-ion 359

Li-ion Lithium Sulfur Energy Batteries 359

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Fraunhofer IWS in Dresden, Germany will hold its 3rd annual workshop on Lithium-sulfur batteries from 12-13 November 2014. As with the prior Lithium-Sulfur Battery Workshops in 2012 and 2013, this year’s symposium will bring together an international audience of scientists and industrial customers.

Lithium Sulfur 225

Lithium Sulfur Batteries Battery Sodium 225

CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Lithium sulfur and lithium carbon batteries are almost ready for prime time.

Lithium Sulfur 145

Lithium Sulfur Carbon Batteries Battery 145

CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 14, 2022

A new biologically inspired battery membrane has enabled a battery with five times the capacity of the industry-standard lithium ion design to run for the thousand-plus cycles needed to power an electric car.

Lithium Sulfur 145

Lithium Sulfur Lithium Ion Electric Vehicles Batteries 145

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Scientists from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea, have found that a new catalyst material can improve lithium–sulfur battery life significantly. To improve battery life, scientists have been looking for catalysts that can make this degradation efficiently reversible during use. Capacity Lithium?Sulfur

Lithium Sulfur 259

Lithium Sulfur Li-ion Batteries Battery 259

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2014

The composite shows good rate performance and excellent cycling stability for use as a cathode material in Lithium-sulfur batteries. Polyaniline is an interesting conducting polymer because it works as a substrate to load sulfur and can be used as a cathode in lithium sulfur batteries. Batteries'

Lithium Sulfur 246

Lithium Sulfur Universal Polymer Batteries 246

CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 7, 2023

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory say they have found ways to make stable lithium-sulfur batteries that last 700 cycles.

Lithium Sulfur 127

Lithium Sulfur Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 127

Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2019

Researchers at Beihang University in Beijing have developed a linear molecule sulfur-rich organic material as sulfur cathode for a lithium-sulfur battery. The tetramethylthiuram disulfide-sulfur (TMTD-S) cathode material delivers an initial capacity of 685?mAh 1 at 0.2C (1?C?=?1061?mAh 1 after 200 cycles.

Lithium Sulfur 220

Lithium Sulfur Batteries Battery Energy Storage 220

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award approximately $36 million to 22 projects to develop transformational electric vehicle (EV) energy storage systems using innovative chemistries, architectures and designs. Advanced Aqueous Lithium-Ion Batteries.

Lithium Ion 360

Lithium Ion Range Zinc Air San Diego 360

Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2013

Controls and energy storage top the list. The greatest amount of investment is related to, in order of funding, controls; energy storage; vehicle body and architecture; and electric motors. HI-WI, iKRAVT); controls for energy storage systems (i.e. Energy storage. Source: JRC. Click to enlarge.

Energy Storage 210

Energy Storage Energy Vehicles Li-ion 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2023

b) Region-specific/vehicle-specific/battery-specific cumulative (from 2010 to 2050) demand for critical metals and the cumulative potential secondary production from recycling. (c) c) Sensitivity of cumulative requirement under different battery scenarios. Recycling w/2nd” denotes retired batteries reused as ESSs before recycling.

Transportation 418

Transportation South Africa Lithium Sulfur Congo 418

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Consultancy Frost &Sullivan has selected UK-based lithium-sulfur battery developer OXIS Energy to receive the 2014 European Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation. Additionally, OXIS Energy’s lithium-sulfur battery has long lifecycles. OXIS Energy was founded in 2005.

Lithium Sulfur 210

Lithium Sulfur 2014 Energy Batteries 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2014

Schematic of hybrid anode placed in a Li–S battery. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have designed a lithium–sulfur battery using electrically connected graphite and lithium metal as a hybrid anode to control undesirable surface reactions on lithium.

Lithium Sulfur 225

Lithium Sulfur Li-ion Hybrid Batteries 225

CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Despite its current troubles, Stellantis is pushing forward with big EV battery plans including new lithium-sulfur technology and a new lithium-ion battery factory in Indiana. The post New Lithium-Sulfur EV Battery Could Reverse The Ill Fortunes Of Stellantis appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Lithium Sulfur 113

Lithium Sulfur Lithium Ion Indiana Batteries 113

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The Faraday Institution will award up to £55 million (US$67 million) to five UK-based consortia to conduct application-inspired research to make step changes in battery chemistries, systems and manufacturing methods. Next generation sodium ion batteries–NEXGENNA. CATMAT will be led by Professor Saiful Islam of the University of Bath.

Energy Storage 223

Energy Storage Li-ion Lithium Ion Energy 223

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

UK-based Lithium-sulfur battery company OXIS Energy ( earlier post ) reported developing a Lithium-sulfur cell achieving in excess of 300 Wh/kg. In August, for example, OXIS Energy and Multi Source Power technologies (MSP) formed a partnership to develop Li-sulfur batteries for marine applications.

Lithium Sulfur 225

Lithium Sulfur 2015 2018 Companies 225

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2017

Ford is exploring a variety of “beyond Li-ion” solutions, including Lithium-sulfur, Lithium-air and solid-state lithium-ion batteries. A Li-air battery, with its air cathode, is a low-cost system, Anandan said. The bulk-type solid state battery could meet automotive design targets.

Energy Storage 186

Energy Storage Li-ion Ford Energy 186

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

To develop higher capacity batteries, researchers have looked to lithium-sulfur batteries because of sulfur’s high theoretical capacity and energy density. It also consumes fresh lithium and electrolytes, and reduces battery performance. Credit: Xing Gao, Siwu Li, Ying Du and Bo Wang.

Lithium Sulfur 191

Lithium Sulfur Li-ion Energy Batteries 191

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2018

A team of researchers in China has devised a simple and mass-produceable method to modify a Li metal anode to avoid the formation of an unstable solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) and the subsequent growth of Li dendrites in high-energy-density Li-S batteries. A paper on their work is published in the journal Energy Storage Materials.

China 249

China Lithium Sulfur Batteries Battery 249

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Researchers in China are proposing a new strategy for addressing some of the issues limiting the commercialization of high energy density lithium-sulfur batteries ( earlier post ): using small sulfur allotropes (different forms of the same element)—i.e., sulfur batteries, such as Li?S,

Li-ion 281

Li-ion China Batteries Battery 281

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2014

CALEB Technology and California Lithium Battery ( CalBattery )—both based in California— signed an MOU to establish a joint venture to produce a new line of safe, high performance lithium ion batteries for consumer electronic devices, power tools, and electric vehicles (EVs). Batteries' Earlier post.).

Li-ion 247

Li-ion Los Angeles Lithium Sulfur Batteries 247

Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2022

Lithium-sulfur batteries are prospects for future batteries as they are made from cheaper and more environmentally friendly materials than lithium-ion batteries. They also have higher energy storage capacity and work well at much lower temperatures. Yu-Chuan Chien, Matthew J. 2022.03.001.

Lithium Sulfur 195

Lithium Sulfur Li-ion Batteries Battery 195

CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 6, 2023

I was recently able to interview Celina Mikolajczak, Chief Battery Technology Officer at Lyten. Previously, she worked with Tesla for more than 6 years as a top battery engineer and manager. She’s excited about bringing lithium-sulfur batteries into a new era at Lyten, one in which […]

Lithium Sulfur 116

Lithium Sulfur Batteries Battery Tesla 116

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Ovonic has been researching MH-Air as a next-generation energy storage system. BASF has acquired Ovonic Battery Company (OBC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices Inc. The company also has a battery materials research facility in Troy, Mich. Advanced Ovonic Battery Technology – NiMH, Li-Ion.

NiMH 239

NiMH Li-ion Nickel Metal Hydride Batteries 239

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2013

Researchers at Stanford University and SLAC led by Stanford associate professor Yi Cui have used a sulfur–TiO 2 yolk–shell design for a cathode material for a lithium-sulfur battery that achieved an initial specific capacity of 1,030?mAh?g This is the highest performing sulfur cathode in the world, as far as we know.

Lithium Sulfur 231

Lithium Sulfur Batteries Battery Energy Storage 231

Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2014

In a new report , Navigant Research forecasts that the market for next-generation advanced batteries (i.e., The technologies covered in the report include Lithium sulfur (LiS); Magnesium-ion (Mg-ion); solid electrolyte; next-generation flow batteries; and metal-air batteries. GWh of batteries being sold—i.e.,

Li-ion 240

Li-ion Market Lithium Sulfur Batteries 240

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Pyrrolidinium-based ionic liquids have been identified by researchers worldwide as promising next-generation electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries. CSIRO has been actively researching and developing ionic liquids for electrochemical applications, especially lithium batteries, for 10 years now. Boulder Ionics Corp.,

Lithium Ion 218

Lithium Ion Lithium Sulfur Batteries Battery 218

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2018

A team of researchers led by scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have designed an active polyelectrolyte binder (PEB) that actively regulates key ion transport processes within a lithium-sulfur battery, and have also shown how it functions on a molecular level.

Lithium Sulfur 199

Lithium Sulfur Polymer Design Li-ion 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2014

Researchers at Tsinghua University have combined two types of carbon materials to create a new composite sulfur cathode material for a high-energy and high-power lithium-sulfur battery. Future work will explore the increase of sulfur loading, as well as the optimization of the structure of the cell.

Lithium Sulfur 210

Lithium Sulfur Carbon Hybrid Energy 210

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Researchers at Jiangsu Normal University in China have devised a boron-doped carbon-sulfur (BCS) aerogel with consecutive “core-shell” stuctures as a binder-free cathode for lithium-sulfur batteries. These problems result in low specific capacity and poor cycling life of Li-S batteries. doi: 10.1039/C8CC07594H.

Carbon 220

Carbon Lithium Sulfur China Batteries 220

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2018

The “classic” high-energy capacity Lithium-sulfur battery is predicated on the use of a sulfur-based cathode and a Lithium-metal anode. Among the issues hampering the commercialization of this attractive technology are the safety and performance issues associated with the use of the lithium-metal anode.

Li-ion 231

Li-ion Lithium Ion Batteries Battery 231

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Vasant Kumar at the University of Cambridge and Professor Renjie Chen at the Beijing Institute of Technology has devised a three-dimensional hierarchical sandwich-type graphene sheet-sulfur/carbon (GS-S/C ZIF8-D ) composite to address performance-related issues in Lithium-sulfur batteries such as low efficiency and capacity degradation.

Carbon 218

Carbon Li-ion Lithium Sulfur Batteries 218

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2016

The researchers said that their work, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), represents a significant breakthrough to enable high performance lithium batteries. Using lithium metal in organic liquid electrolyte systems faces many challenges in terms of battery performance and safety.

Li-ion 199

Li-ion Lithium Sulfur Polymer Batteries 199

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2015

While incremental improvements will extend the market dominance of Li-ion batteries into the next decade, a new generation of post-Li-ion battery technologies are rising and will be worth $10 billion by 2030, according to Lux Research. Among their findings: Transportation market is hotbed for new battery tech.

Li-ion 150

Li-ion Lithium Sulfur Batteries Battery 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2015

Stanford University scientists have created a new ultrahigh surface area three-dimensional porous graphitic carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies. Electrochemical performance of 3D HPG carbon for Li−S batteries. (a) Tests were also conducted on lithium-sulfur batteries.

Energy Storage 150

Energy Storage Carbon Lithium Sulfur Energy 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Researchers at Cornell University are proposing a new scheme for cathodes for lithium-sulfide batteries ( earlier post ) to prevent lithium polysulfide dissolution and shuttling during electrochemical cycling. They evaluated the synthesized material as cathode materials in a half-cell lithium battery. Earlier post.)

Li-ion 257

Li-ion Lithium Ion Batteries Battery 257

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2021

million (US$31-million) commitment to build on its momentum in four key research challenges: extending battery life; battery modelling; recycling and reuse; and solid-state batteries. Also, a focused research project on battery safety has been assembled, integrating research previously carried out in several different projects.

Commercial 218

Commercial Lithium Ion Batteries Battery 218