Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Toyota explains why it still uses nickel-metal hydride batteries. And a Chinese battery company says it will pass the magic $100-per-kilowatt-hour threshold as soon as 2020. VW announced that it is now designing the last combustion engines it will sell. All this and.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 25, 2018
Toyota Motor plans to introduce to the Chinese market plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) versions of its Corolla and Levin passenger cars in 2019 and a battery electric vehicle (BEV) model based on its C-HR / IZOA compact SUV in 2020. (To To be sold in China as a C-HR by GAC Toyota Motor Co., and as an IZOA by FAW Toyota Motor Sales Co.,
Green Car Congress
MARCH 30, 2010
As one of the conditions for allowing that deal, Chinese authorities demanded that Panasonic lower its ownership in the venture, Panasonic EV Energy Co. Panasonic EV is planning to triple annual production capacity at its Miyagi factory to enough nickel-metal hydride batteries for 300,000 hybrid vehicles.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 21, 2011
They compiled a transparent life cycle inventory (LCI) in a component-wise manner for nickel metal hydride (NiMH), nickel cobalt manganese lithium-ion (NCM), and iron phosphate lithium-ion (LFP) batteries. A reduction of lifetime estimations by one-third increases all categories of impacts by 30–45%.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) such as the Toyota Prius have been an important market for nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries. However, the best current technology to store the energy required by electric motors is the lithium-ion battery, and most (although not all) types of such batteries contain nickel.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 6, 2012
As these vehicle segments grow to hundreds of thousands and then millions of vehicles sold per year, Li-ion production will enter volume production, lowering their cost and making the technology cost-competitive with alternative technologies such as Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
This is key." ( Wall Street Journal ) 1/17/08 The handful in demonstration service now use nickel-metal hydride batteries and will shift to lithium as Toyota begins putting 400 plug-in Priuses into demonstration service worldwide beginning late next year or early 2010. ( Were starting to build the prototype," he said.
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