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Stanford team identifies root cause of lithium intrusion into solid electrolytes

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Lithium metal batteries with solid electrolytes are lightweight, inflammable, pack a lot of energy, and can be recharged very quickly, but they have been slow to develop due to mysterious short circuiting and failure. When that happens, the battery fails. Yet others theorize different forces are at play. La 3 Ta 0.4

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Fraunhofer ISI/ICCT analysis of PHEV data finds real-world CO2 emissions 2-4x higher than official values

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For their statistical analyses, the researchers made use of anonymized data that vehicle drivers had voluntarily reported to online portals such as Spritmonitor in Germany and MyMPG in the United States. Plug-in hybrid vehicles often are not recharged regularly, which implies driving is often performed on the combustion engine.

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Houston-Galveston area to deploy 30 battery-electric delivery trucks

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The Smith Newton trucks include the company’s proprietary Smith Power, with variable 40-120 kWh battery pack options; Smith Drive, and Smith Link, an onboard system for monitoring the vehicle’s vital statistics. The project will have additional impact with an expected reduction in GHG emissions by 37.5

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Fujitsu and RESC collaborate on infrastructure to support electric scooters; consolidated cloud-based management of battery information

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Under this agreement, the portable cassette-type secondary batteries used in RESC’s electric scooters and the charging lockers that recharge them will be managed and analyzed by Fujitsu’s cloud service that employs location data, the Fujitsu Intelligent Society Solution SPATIOWL.

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EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think!

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By Kamlesh & Raphae Every major automaker has announced plans to build Lithium-Ion battery gigafactories. The aim is to build batteries at a large scale to reduce prices. Video: EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think! Multiple auto makers are seeking a secure supply chain for battery materials.

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Citroen all-electric E-C4

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It has a 50kWh battery pack which supports standard charging and fast charging. kW and 11kW Charger in which the 11kW charger takes up to 5 hours for a full recharge. However, the 100 kW fast charger takes up to 30 min for recharging the battery pack up to 80%. The home charger is 7.4

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Study finds testing the technology the strongest initial motivation for fleet managers adopting EVs

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However, EVs differ from those technologies in that they entail changes in consumer habit (recharging instead of refueling) and a lack of charging infrastructure, raising the level of uncertainty associated with the eco-innovation. Behavior Electric (Battery) Fleets Plug-ins Policy Sales' — William Sierzchula. 2014.05.022.

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