Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

The buses—full-size, low-floor models for the city’s regular route network—will operate on MHI’s high-performance “ MLIX ” lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. Use of a specially developed charger enables full recharging in approximately half the required time, compared with current CHAdeMO type quick charging systems.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2016

John Goodenough, known around the world for his pioneering work that led to the invention of the rechargeable lithium-ion battery, have devised a new strategy for a safe, low-cost, all-solid-state rechargeable sodium or lithium battery cell that has the required energy density and cycle life for a battery that powers an all-electric road vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2023

Graphite contains flat layers of carbon atoms, and during battery charging, lithium atoms are stored between these layers in a process called intercalation. These nanodots, roughly 10 nanometers wide, were connected to the MXene’s layers by carbon materials. A paper on their work is published in the journal Small. Alhajji, E.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) battery scientist Nitash Balsara and co-inventor Joseph DeSimone of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have launched Blue Current , a startup company backed by investment firm Faster LLC, to commercialize their non-flammable electrolytes for Li-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2011

Researchers with the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have embedded arrays of tin (Sn) nanopillars between graphene sheets without adding any polymer binder and carbon black for as-formed use as a high-performance anode material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2018

Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have used two-dimensional (2D) MoS 2 (molybdenum disulfide) as a protective layer for Li-metal anodes, greatly improving the performances of Li–S batteries. The deposition and dissolution process of a symmetric MoS 2 -coated Li-metal cell operates at a current density of 10?

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Carbon is seen as an attractive potential cathode material for aprotic (non-aqueous) Lithium-air batteries, which are themselves of great interest for applications such as in electric vehicles because of the cells’ high theoretical specific energy. Given the role of carbon as a possible porous positive electrode for nonaqueous Li?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

The project aims at demonstrating power supply stabilization in the region by introducing cargo container-type large capacity energy storage system using a lithium-ion rechargeable battery, which has a maximum power output capacity of 2MW. Each battery container houses more than 2,000 units of lithium-ion rechargeable batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2017

In a review paper in the journal Nature Materials , Jean-Marie Tarascon (Professor at College de France and Director of RS2E, French Network on Electrochemical Energy Storage) and Clare Gray (Professor at the University of Cambridge), call for integrating the sustainability of battery materials into the R&D efforts to improve rechargeable batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2012

In an open access paper published in the International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials , researchers from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences review significant developments and remaining challenges of practical Li–air batteries and the current understanding of their chemistry. —Zhang et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

MAHLE Powertrain and Allotrope Energy have unveiled a new battery technology which offers ultra-fast recharging coupled with good power density. Lithium-carbon battery. In addition, Li-C cells are free from rare-earth metals, are fully recyclable, and are not susceptible to the runaway events. —Mike Bassett.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Schematic showing the chemical reduction reaction of one Li 2 S 6 molecule by lithium to form six Li 2 S molecules, involving the diffusion/driving of lithium out of the graphene layers in the graphite. The approach offers a new way to introduce lithium into the cathode in Li?S air, or Li?organic Lithium-sulfur (Li?S)

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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. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Earlier post.) Engineering E.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2012

High voltage lithium-ion battery prototype. NEC Corporation has developed a prototype next-generation manganese lithium-ion battery featuring cathodes that support higher voltage operations (4.5V NEC currently develops and produces lithium-ion batteries with cathodes made with manganese. Click to enlarge. from the 3.8V

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia have called for new tools that can more accurately measure an electrochemical cell’s Coulombic efficiency (CE) when evaluating cycle life of lithium-ion cells as well as other battery chemistries. Such CE measurements would have to be precise on the scale of at least ±0.01%.”

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2019

The findings could pave the way for bringing rechargeable lithium metal batteries from the lab to the market. They promise twice the energy density of today’s lithium-ion batteries with graphite anodes, so they could last longer and weigh less. As the battery cycles, its stores of active lithium and electrolyte are depleted.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2011

Example of a lithium-water rechargeable battery. Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. A typical Li-air battery discharges at 2.5-2.7

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Qnovo

AUGUST 12, 2020

A common denominator is the battery’s energy density : it is the amount of electrical energy per unit volume (or per unit weight) that a rechargeable battery can store. State-of-the-art energy density figures for lithium-ion batteries stand today near 700 Wh/l and 300 Wh/kg. Its capacity to hold ions has already maxed out.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a novel strategy to improve the efficiency and performance of non-aqueous lithium-oxygen (Li-air) batteries. O 2 systems require an open system to obtain oxygen from the air; Li metal must also be used as the metal electrode to provide the lithium source. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

The team plans to explore rechargeable Lithium-Air systems, which could offer 10 times the energy capacity of lithium-ion systems. Lithium-ion rechargeable (secondary) batteries are based on a pair of intercalation electrodes. Lithium-ion rechargeable (secondary) batteries are based on a pair of intercalation electrodes.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2010

Four different architectures of Li-air batteries, which all assume the use of lithium metal as the anode. IBM and its partners have launched a multi-year research initiative exploring rechargeable Li-air systems: The Battery 500 Project. They will serve as guidelines for the research to be carried out on Li-air systems.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

kWh lithium-ion battery pack (from the Jetta Hybrid), which stores the kinetic energy recovered from regenerative braking; assists in the starting phase of the fuel cell; and adds a dynamic boost to the maximum acceleration of the Golf SportWagen. The hydrogen is stored in the tanks at a pressure of 700 bar (10,150 psi).

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Plug In India

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

By Kamlesh & Raphae Every major automaker has announced plans to build Lithium-Ion battery gigafactories. Video: EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think! So there is a lot of Lithium out there, even if we continue to use Lithium-Ion batteries for the next 20 years, we are good.

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Electric Vehicles India

AUGUST 10, 2021

Currently, India is importing 100% of lithium-ion batteries from China, Europe, the US and Japan. There are two types of batteries widely used in India at present is the lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries. The more energy can be stored in the battery, the lighter the battery pack lighter will be the electric car.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2012

A team from Stanford University and Ruhr-Universität Bochum have demonstrated the novel concept of a “desalination battery” that uses an electrical energy input to extract sodium and chloride ions from seawater and to generate fresh water. A constant current is then applied in order to remove the ions from the solution.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2011

Volvo Cars, A-hus and Vattenfall recently launched the six-month One Tonne Life project—an attempt by a family (the Lindells) to cut their carbon dioxide yearly emissions from seven tonnes per person to a more sustainable one tonne. The Volvo C30 Electric is powered by a 24 kWh Li-ion battery pack (22.7

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2010

One compartment contains a metallic lithium electrode (anode) in an organic solvent (1m LiClO 4 in ethylene carbonate/dimethyl carbonate), while the other contains an aqueous electrolyte solution (LiNO 3 /H 2 O) with a carbon-based hydrogen generation electrode (cathode). Only lithium ions can pass across the LISICON film.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2009

Researchers at MIT have developed a lithium iron phosphate electrode material that achieves ultra-high discharge rates comparable to those of supercapacitors, while maintaining the high energy density characteristic of lithium-ion batteries. Glassy lithium phosphates are known to be good, stable Li + conductors. Kang and Ceder (2009).

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Monique closes her EV’s fueling port and heads onto the highway with enough stored energy to drive 640 kilometers (400 miles). The battery in her EV is a variation on the flow battery , a design in which spent electrolyte is replaced rather than recharged. Their energy density is as little as 10 percent that of lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2011

The Ragone plots of graphene surface-enabled Li ion-exchanging cells with different electrode thicknesses. This approach obviates the need for lithium intercalation or deintercalation—the basic process used in Li-ion batteries. Credit: ACS, Jang et al. Click to enlarge. —Jang et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2010

IBM and its partners have launched a multi-year research initiative exploring rechargeable Li-air systems for transportation—The Battery 500 Project ( earlier post )—but are viewing it in terms of a multi-decade development cycle. Also on the list of five is the arrival of advanced batteries, including air batteries (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Densities for steel springs and Li-ion batteries provide a comparison. Carol Livermore, associate professor of mechanical engineering and her team used an ordered grouping of carbon nanotubes (CNT) as a spring to store elastic energy for later use—much as a steel spring stores energy in a mechanical watch.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2015

CEES has three main research thrusts: the development of advanced lithium-ion and multivalent ion batteries; the development of rechargeable metal-air batteries; and Development of reversible low and elevated temperature fuel cells. Advanced Li-ion and multivalent ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Electrochemical properties of sulfur-carbon composite. (a) 4 —confined in a microporous carbon (MPC) matrix with pore size of ?0.5 carbon composite containing S 2?4 sulfur batteries, such as Li?S, Of these, the Li?S 1 , calculated on the basis of the Li anode (?3,860 The application of Li?S

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The tanks can store around five kilograms of hydrogen at a pressure of 700 bar—enough to drive more than 500 kilometers (310.7 kilowatt-hours, which is recharged by recuperation or alternatively from a power socket. kWh Li-ion battery in the h-tron is adopted from the Audi A3 Sportback e-tron plug-in hybrid.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

In April, Axion Power International Inc received an order from Norfolk Southern Corp (NS) for PbC lead-carbon batteries for use in an all-battery-powered switcher locomotive. PbC batteries are multi-celled asymmetrically supercapacitive lead-acid-carbon hybrid batteries. The battery-electric NS-999, “under the long hood”. Source: NS.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2010

Although lithium-ion cell and pack costs are expected to fall sharply by 2020, they are unlikely to drop enough to support widespread adoption of fully electric vehicles without a major breakthrough in battery technology, according to a new study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Tradeoffs among five principle Li-ion chemistries.

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