Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

OXIS Energy Ltd UK has signed a contract with CODEMGE PARTICIPACOES SA, a public company incorporated in the city of Belo Horizonte in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, to establish the world’s first digital manufacturing plant for the mass production of OXIS’ lithium-sulfur cells. OXIS Energy Brazil Holdings will manage the plant.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2020

OXIS Energy has successfully tested its Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery cell prototypes at 471Wh/kg and is confident of achieving 500Wh/kg in the next 12 months. It is the key building block for customer batteries and can be utilized in electric buses, electric trucks, aircraft and marine vessels.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2016

Li-sulfur battery developer OXIS Energy UK ( earlier post ) and Lithium Balance of Denmark are partnering to build a prototype Lithium-sulfur battery system primarily for the e-scooter market in China. This project represents a technology breakthrough for Lithium Balance.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The agreements are part of the White House’s Startup America initiative, which was launched in January and is designed to help young companies grow, move innovative technologies into the marketplace and create good-paying jobs in the United States. The company’s business plan is based on manufacturing devices to detect pests in buildings.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

OXIS Energy will develop a low temperature electrolyte for Lithium Sulfur (Li-S) rechargeable battery chemistry and Hyperdrive Innovation Ltd will develop a chemistry-agnostic battery management system and packaging that will withstand and outperform the current lead-acid battery solutions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2019

A Li/S cell built at high sulfur mass loading (4 mg cm -2 ) using the IL-based electrolyte demonstrated a stable capacity of 600 mAh g -1 for double the cycles of a cell using LiNO 3 additive (300 vs 150). Additionally, the mitigation of sulfur deposition through the Li-polysulfide migration to the anode side has been demonstrated. …

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2015

One of the main obstacles to the commercialization of high-energy density lithium-sulfur batteries is the tendency for lithium polysulfides—the lithium and sulfur reaction products—to dissolve in the battery’s electrolyte and travel to the opposite electrode permanently. Batteries Graphene Li-Sulfur'

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Baua Electric

MAY 25, 2023

The rugged mid-size SUV debuts on June 8, and teaser footage level to a obese, blocky design that are meant to enchantment to GX fanatics. Future the GX will keep on with body-on-frame building, Lexus has any other mid-size SUV that includes unibody building additionally debuting on June 8.

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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. Safety control and countermeasures are built into the design of today's LiB systems, but this adds complexity, cost and weight.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2014

The technologies covered in the report include Lithium sulfur (LiS); Magnesium-ion (Mg-ion); solid electrolyte; next-generation flow batteries; and metal-air batteries. In a new report , Navigant Research forecasts that the market for next-generation advanced batteries (i.e., billion in 2023.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2015

The design results in a class of hierarchically porous graphitic (HPG) carbons at temperature as low as 800 °C with record-high surface area (4,073 m 2 g –1 ); large pore volume (2.26 The general strategy toward the above-mentioned graphene networks is to use graphene oxides (GOs) as building blocks.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2014

The first Calbattery/CALEB LIB will utilize novel high-voltage lithium cobalt oxide cathode, high voltage dual-phase electrolyte, and conventional anode materials that can be used for power tools, laptops, and cell phones. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2015

cm 3 g −1 as supports for sulfur for electrodes in Li–S batteries. Ice-templating (or freeze-casting) uses the controlled freezing of colloids to template designed porosity in materials. Deville S, Saiz E, Nalla RK, Tomsia AP (2006) “Freezing as a path to build complex composites” Science 311:515-8 doi: 10.1126/science.1120937.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

UK-based materials company Ilika, also a developer of solid-state batteries, is taking part in a three-year project to develop protected anodes for lithium sulfur batteries, led by Johnson Matthey Plc and supported by Innovate UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2017

Announced in 2016, the Battery500 consortium, led by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), intends to build a battery pack with a specific energy of 500 Wh/kg, compared to the 170-200 Wh/kg per kilogram in today’s typical EV battery. Innovative electrode and cell design. Earlier post.)

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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.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2015

Researchers from Tsinghua University have developed what they call a “promising strategy” to tackle the intrinsic problems of lithium metal anodes for Lithium sulfur batteries—dendritic and mossy metal depositing on the anode during repeated cycles leading to serious safety concerns and low Coulombic efficiency.

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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. EnZinc Inc. Dendrite Free Zinc?Air Air Battery. University of Maryland.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2016

A US Department of Energy (DOE) program designed to spur the use of high performance supercomputers to advance US manufacturing has funded 13 new industry projects for a total of $3.8 Sepion’s polymer membrane technology provides a counterpoint, yielding long-lasting lithium-sulfur cells.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Vorbeck Materials , a startup company based in Jessup, Maryland, is using a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)-developed method for developing graphene for better lithium air and lithium sulfur batteries. These Liquid Desiccant HVAC systems deliver a 50 - 75% reduction in energy usage over conventional HVAC units.

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JULY 20, 2013

These include large-scale projects such as E3Car, which focuses on building a solid nanoelectronics technology for powertrain and power and high-voltage electronics for EDVs, and MOTOBRAIN, developing fault tolerant drive systems and control architectures.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will design, engineer, fabricate and test an integrated magnesium-intensive automotive assembly focused on a 45% weight reduction over currently-used steel counterpart structures. Advanced cells and design technology for electric drive batteries. Advanced cells and design technology for electric drive batteries.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The DOE-QTR defines six key strategies: increase vehicle efficiency; electrification of the light duty fleet; deploy alternative fuels; increase building and industrial efficiency; modernize the electrical grid; and deploy clean electricity. Near-term improvements will likely be the result of improved lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. will lead an effort to develop ultra-high energy low cost lithium-ion batteries enabled by disruptive new manufacturing processes.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

amounts a sunlight, Cornell’s design will increase efficiency and. ARPA-E OPEN 2012 selections: Advanced Vehicle Design and Materials. Ceramatec’s design would allow for low-cost materials and. Lithium-Sulfur Batteries. innovative water-based, lithium-sulfur battery. Earlier post.). Gas Technology.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2023

The battery in her EV is a variation on the flow battery , a design in which spent electrolyte is replaced rather than recharged. The design returned to life in the mid-20th century, was developed for possible use on a moon base, and was further improved for use in grid storage. In 2013, the team received a three-year, US $3.44

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2012

The top two awards, one of $9 million to a project led by Dow Chemical, and one of $8.999 million to a project led by PolyPlus, will fund projects tackling, respectively, the manufacturing of low-cost carbon fibers and the manufacturing of electrodes for ultra-high-energy-density lithium-sulfur, lithium-seawater and lithium-air batteries.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

EVs offer a virtual clean-slate from which to accelerate the design of safe, software-defined vehicles with computing and supporting electronics being the prime enabler of a vehicle’s features, functions and value. EVs require automakers to design new manufacturing processes and build plants to make both EVs and their batteries.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Graphite is the critical component of all current anode designs. Some advanced designs use a small amount of silicon, which can store more energy. In some cases it’s a hundred percent—it really depends on the design from the battery maker. There’s also pre-lithiation of the anode which is kind of preloading it with lithium ions.

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