Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Toshiba Corporation announced the development of its next-generation SCiB (Super Charge ion Battery), which uses a new material to double the capacity of the battery anode. Toshiba launched the SCiB as a safe, long-life, fast charging lithium-ion battery in 2008 ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

million (US$11-million) European research project will seek to increase the lifetime and energy density of large-format automotive Li-ion batteries, with a target of a 4,000-cycle lifetime at 80% DOD (depth of discharge) and an energy density of 250 Wh/kg. Batteries Europe Research'

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Cars That Think

MAY 31, 2024

Gas Li-ion batteries thwart extreme cold South 8 Technologies demonstrates the cold tolerance of its Li-ion battery by burying it in ice at the 2024 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit. That’s a big improvement on conventional Li-ion batteries, which start to degrade when temps reach 0 °C and shut down at about –20 °C.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Site selections include several convenience stores as well as other channels of business including car rental locations, hotels and parking garages all in the New York City area. Saft will be supplying energy storage systems totaling close to 1 MWh, utilizing Synerion 24M lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery modules.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2010

Itochu Corporation, Mazda, Family Mart, EnerDel and 11 other partners have launched a 3-year project in Tsukuba City, Japan—the “Green Crossover Project”—designed to showcase a real-world integration of the smart grid, stationary lithium-ion grid storage, electric vehicles, rapid recharging and renewable energy technologies.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The new electrode concept comes from the laboratory of Ju Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and professor of materials science and engineering. —Ju Li. The expanding and contracting lithium inside these tubes moves in and out, sort of like a car engine’s pistons inside their cylinders.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2013

Up until now, Li-ion batteries have been considered to exhibit no “memory effect”—a deviation in the voltage of the battery resulting from repeated charging after being only partially discharged that can limit the usability of the stored energy as well as the ability to determine the state of charge of the battery reliably.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2010

Ener1 has signed up two new customers for its Li-ion batteries: Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and Toro. Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea will receive Li-ion battery packs for electric buses; the packs are similar configurations as packs currently in operation in California with AC Transit.

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Blink Charging

JULY 28, 2022

Electric cars are on the rise. The number of electric car sales nearly doubled from last year until now. About 10% of people buying a new car chose an electric one. When we think about electric cars, the image of Elon Musk shooting a Tesla into space with a Depeche Mode-like dummy promptly comes to our minds. Miles Ahead.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2014

Woven carbon fiber can act as an electrode for lithium ion batteries. Researchers in Sweden are exploring the use of carbon fiber as an active electrode in a multifunctional structural Li-ion battery in an electric car; i.e., electrical storage is incorporated into the body of the car. In this €3.4-million

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2010

Researchers at MIT have developed a new carbon nanotube electrode material for a Li-ion battery based on redox reactions of functional groups on the surfaces of the nanotubes. The carbon nanotubes self-assemble into a tightly bound structure that is porous at the nanometer scale.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Following from its research, Rosenbauer has recently introduced a new extinguishing system for burning Li-ion high-voltage traction batteries in electric vehicles. The extinguishing unit is positioned on the battery and, if necessary, supported on the car body or other points.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2017

Although estimates vary widely, the predicted penetration of lithium-ion technology into these large-volume markets could result in as much as a threefold increase of production for the cathode material, reaching nearly 400,000 tonnes per year by 2020. Note the trend in abundances of Al > Ca > Mg > Na > Li, and Fe > Mn > Ni > Co.

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Baua Electric

MAY 2, 2024

Each battery box stores 1,600 kWh of electricity, and is similar in size to a standard 20-foot container. According to Cosco, the ship can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2,918 tons per year, equivalent to taking 2,035 cars off the road. The ship’s main battery pack features LFP cells, and has a capacity of over 50,000 kWh.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Carbon fibers have already beeen demonstrated as high-capacity Li-ion battery anodes, opening the way for their use as structural electrodes—i.e., simultaneously carrying mechanical load and storing electrical energy. A slight reduction in stiffness is not a problem for many applications such as cars.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2009

The electric motor receives its supply of energy from a compact, 400 Wh lithium-ion battery. In this case, power is supplied directly through the 120-volt on-board network powered by the lithium-ion battery. The ActiveHybrid 7 stores energy in a compact, high-performance lithium-ion battery. The battery pack.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2016

An 8.75MW battery storage network which will capture and reuse the energy created by braking subway cars will help Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) reduce operating costs, ensure energy resiliency, and support the stability of the electrical grid. Saft will provide the lithium-ion battery technology.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The drive toward decarbonization and the demand for electric cars has increased the focus on sustainably producing energy-dense cathodes. The ethanol is safer to store and handle than ammonia, and afterward it can be distilled and reused. NMA-LTO full cells shows capacity of 186 mAh g −1 with 81% retention over 200 cycles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2009

The polyhedra aid the eye in seeing the ions grouped as (green) Fe/Mg-enclosing octahedra and (yellow) phosphate tetrahedra. The (blue) oxygen ions are made very small to permit viewing of the arrangement of the other ions. a provider of lithium-ion batteries, modules and packs. Click to enlarge. ton trucks. “

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

kWh/liter—about 10 times the capacity of Li-Ion batteries. POWERPASTE stores hydrogen in a chemical form at room temperature and atmospheric pressure to be then released on demand, said Dr. Marcus Vogt, research associate at Fraunhofer IFAM. It has a hydrogen capacity of about 10 mass-% (i.e. 10 kg POWERPASTE ?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a new zinc-polyiodide redox flow battery offering more than two times the energy density of the next-best flow battery used to store renewable energy and support the power grid. Source: Li et al. Click to enlarge. Flow batteries. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Stanford University scientists have identified a new solid-state Li-ion electrolyte predicted to exhibit simultaneously fast ionic conductivity, wide electrochemical stability, low cost, and low mass density. sulfur (Li?B?S) 1 in Li 5 B 7 S 13 and 80 (?56, 1 in Li 9 B 19 S 33. V for Li 5 B 7 S 13 , 0.16

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Setec Powerr

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Slow charging (conventional charging, car charging) is suitable for car chargers and home wall-mounted charging piles. For battery replacement, the car battery is charged by replacing the power battery. Car owners do not need to look for charging stations and spend time charging. How does a lithium-ion battery work?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Using a neutron beam, chemists and engineers at The Ohio State University have been able to track the flow of lithium atoms into and out of an anode in real time as a Li-ion battery charged and discharged. They may also be less prone to overheating. By using in?situ —Liu et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2011

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a self-assembling three-dimensional nanostructure for battery cathodes (Li-ion and NiMH) that allows for faster charging and discharging without sacrificing energy storage capacity. Most capacitors store very little energy. This does both.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

An international team from MIT, Argonne National Laboratory and Peking University has demonstrated a lab-scale proof-of-concept of a new type of cathode for Li-air batteries that could overcome the current drawbacks to the technology, including a high potential gap (>1.2 V) V versus Li/Li +. Courtesy of the researchers.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

However, most of these Li-rich materials suffer from voltage drop and capacity fading during cycling, thus limiting their use. It is a huge deal if you can get these lithium-rich electrodes to work because they would be one of the enablers for electric cars with a much longer range. —William Chueh.

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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 18, 2017

Two technical problems of Li-ion batteries are particularly long-standing. For the experiments, the team used self-heating Li-ion battery (SHLB) NCM cells with two embedded nickel foils. —Zhang et al. Each cell had a 152 × 75 mm footprint area, nominal capacity of 9.5 Ah and weighed 210 g. —Zhang et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

International Battery (IB), a US manufacturer and developer of large-format lithium-ion rechargeable batteries, has been chosen as the battery system provider for the first-of-its-kind Community Energy Storage (CES) systems, developed by S&C Electric Company for American Electric Power (AEP).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

The V90 is the latest in the premium car maker’s top-of-the-line 90 series sitting alongside the award winning XC90 SUV ( earlier post ) and the recently-launched S90 premium sedan. The Twin Engine technology supports three modes of operation: Pure, in which the car runs on electric power alone. Earlier post.) The 96-cell, 9.2

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Charging is phased during the day so at peak hours, when electricity is most expensive, the building draws power from the cars. The system will help encourage Nissan LEAF owners to charge their cars with electricity generated during the night, when demand is low, or sourced from solar panels.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The mechanical underpinnings for the Passat and Golf HyMotion cars are based on the Modular Transverse Matrix (MQB) that was developed by Volkswagen and is used throughout the Group. The concept car has high-voltage 1.1 The hydrogen is stored in the tanks at a pressure of 700 bar (10,150 psi). Passat HyMotion in LA.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

An 8-module Li-ion traction battery from AKASOL GmbH powers the ZF electric Advanced Urban Vehicle concept presented at the IAA in Frankfurt. AKASOL is a supplier of Li-ion batteries for high-performance applications. Earlier post.). AKASOL acquires cells from cell manufacturers and produces modules and packs.

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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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