Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2020

A Korean research team from KIST and UNIST has developed a next-generation high-capacity cathode material for lithium-ion batteries by stabilizing the surface of over-lithiated layered oxides (OLO) using the DNA of salmon. Their paper appears in the journal Advanced Energy Materials.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2016

Cadenza Innovation , a Li-ion battery startup founded in 2012 by Dr. Christina Lampe-Onnerud, former CEO and founder of Boston Power ( earlier post ), has raised more than $5 million in growth capital. Lampe-Onnerud. Cadenza says that its cell designs combines the best properties from wound jelly rolls and large prismatic cells.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

In the race against climate change, state-of-the-art energy storage solutions are paramount to leveraging power generation from clean energy sources, and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers are exploring strategies to increase battery cell energy density while decreasing manufacturing costs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

Researchers at the University of Surrey (UK) are to begin work on a new lithium-ion battery technology that is capable of capturing CO 2 emissions, following a £243,689 award from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). However, the development of Li-CO 2 batteries is still in its infancy stage.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

JMBM Canada includes a team with more than 360 years of collective experience, including R&D, pilot to commercial scale cathode production and product qualification and quality assurance systems qualified for tier 1 automotive lithium-ion cell manufacturers. —Liam Condon, CEO of Johnson Matthey.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2021

Instead of using machine learning just to speed up scientific analysis by looking for patterns in data—as typically done—the researchers combined it with knowledge gained from experiments and equations guided by physics to discover and explain a process that shortens the lifetimes of fast-charging lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2012

Li-ion technology and cost directions through 2030. These developments could take the energy density of lithium-ion cells close to 300 Wh/kg. The Committee on Climate Change commissioned energy consultancy Element Energy , Li-ion manufacturer Axeon, and Prof. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2021

1 ) is about 40% lower than that of diesel, but it is similar to that of other e-fuels and about one order of magnitude higher than that of Li-ion batteries for BEV. 1 ) becomes competitive to other e-fuels; and the impact on climate change reduces by up to 92% compared to fossil diesel, if renewable electricity is utilized.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

The BEV Li-ion battery pack uses a LiNi ⅓ Co ⅓ Mn ⅓ O 2 (NCM) chemistry for its cathode active material. The FCV is powered by an 80 kW PEMFC and a 20 kW Li-ion battery, also based on the NCM cathode chemistry. NCM was chosen for its demonstrated specific energy of 135 kWh/kg and cycle life of 1300.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The cost of Li-ion batteries has plunged some 97% since their introduction three decades ago—a rate similar to the drop in solar panel prices. The contributions of high-level mechanisms to the cost decline of 18650-sized lithium-ion battery cells between the late 1990s and early 2010s. —Jessika Trancik.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 15, 2022

The EV revolution needs clean lithium mining if it's going to make a big impact on climate change.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2009

RUF Automobile GmbH unveiled the Stormster, an electric SUV based on the Porsche Cayenne, for the European Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, (COP 15). The lithium-ion battery pack is supplied by Li-Tec Battery GmbH. The Stormster. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2015

We hope this will provide motivation to remove carbon dioxide from the air and to mitigate the effects of climate change, and will decrease the cost of carbon composites for lighter weight electric vehicle components, and provide new higher capacity Li-ion anode opportunities for Li batteries. —Stuart Licht.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Vehicles are analyzed on the basis of a “Green Score,” a singular measure that incorporates unhealthy tailpipe emissions, fuel consumption, and emissions of gases that contribute to climate change. ACEEE 2012 “Greenest” Rankings. Make and Model. Specifications. Emission Standard. Green score. Mitsubishi I-MiEV. Honda Civic Natural Gas.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

Developing Robust all-Solid-State Li Battery with a Ceramic Electrolyte and Interfacially Engineered Lithium Metal Anode A next generation of a low cost and high energy density advanced solid state rechargeable lithium battery will be developed through the proposed project for use in the next generation of PHEV and EV rechargeable batteries.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The following Stanford faculty members received funding for advanced research on photovoltaics, battery technologies and new catalysts for sustainable fuels: Self-healing polymers for high energy density lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2021

The cost of the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used for phones, laptops, and cars has fallen significantly over the last three decades, and has been a major driver of the rapid growth of those technologies. Lithium-ion cell prices. An open-access paper on the work is published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2012

The goal os this project is to explore the potential of new classes of materials for making electrochemically superior, environmentally friendly, and affordable electrodes for lithium-ion batteries that may be used in such applications as electric vehicles. Principal investigators: David H.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The University of Texas at Arlington will develop acoustic stimulation and electrolytic proton production to produce lithium (Li) and nickel (Ni) from CO 2 -reactive minerals and rocks that contain calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg), while sequestering CO 2 in the form of carbonate solids. Idaho National Laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

What has changed the business mainly is that Li-ion batteries have come around and finally supported an energy density that allows you to build a halfway decent car. However, the industry needs a technology change to deliver the next stage of batteries, with capacity on the order for 400-600 Wh/kg.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Broader commitments to climate change are spurring some countries, like Norway and Holland, or companies, like Volvo, to set their own targets. The greatest challenge is the same as that which is plaguing the adoption of fuel cells in the automotive market—the buildout of low-cost green hydrogen infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

In addition to helping to meet UK and EU climate change targets, we anticipate this research and development work will create significant market opportunities for UK-based companies. Development of high energy Li-S prototype battery cells. John Laughlin, the Technology Strategy Board’s Low Carbon Vehicles program manager.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Finally Takes Off in North America and Europe Battery makers around the world are cranking out lithium-ion batteries of various flavors as fast as they can. Last May, one of the story’s featured startups, Canada’s Li-Cycle, announced it would begin recycling the manufacturing scrap from Ultium Cell’s $2.3

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 25, 2021

LFP still makes up less than 10 percent of all Li-ion cells, but Castilloux said its global deployment soared more than 600 percent in the second half of 2020. But growth and government signals over a climate-change crisis suggest the boomtimes in batteries (see "Boomtimes in Batteries" [above or below TK]) are just beginning.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

million kWh of Li-ion batteries and revenue of $4.1 The potential for reducing carbon emissions by electrifying transportation has caught the attention of local and national government officials across Asia-Pacific due to concerns about the contribution of transportation emissions to climate change. billion in 2015.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

Addition of up to 50 mol% Na 2 CO 3 to a Li 2 CO 3 electrolyte decreases electrolyte costs and improves conditions for intercalation in Na-ion CNT anodes. This is a powerful economic incentive, rather than economic cost, to mitigate climate change through a carbon negative process. —Licht (2017). 2017.02.005.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2009

Gavin Jennings, Victoria Environment and Climate Change Minister. Li-ion; 50 kWh capacity. Climate control. The trial will allow us to examine the financial, social and environmental effects from the use of this new technology on Melbourne’s roads. Energy storage. Denso LD8i. Thermoking Citi RT. Passenger capacity.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 30, 2008

Much like GM's system in development for the Volt , the car's lithium ion battery power supply is supplemented by a traditional gasoline engine for long distance travel. VW says the car will use lithium-ion batteries and have an all-electric range of 31 miles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Bubble chart of plausible mainstream PHEV buyers’ battery requirements (light and dark gray circles) and experts’s requirements overlaid on a Ragone plot of NiMH and Li-ion batteries. Start talking about more than just climate change. Source: Ken Kurani. Click to enlarge. Tax the fuel.”

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2023

The cell of a flow battery uses two chemical solutions containing ions, one acting as the anolyte (adjacent to the anode), the other as the catholyte (near the cathode). Typical redox flow batteries use ions based on iron chromium or vanadium chemistries; the latter takes advantage of vanadium’s four distinct ionic states.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2015

Further, they reported in their paper published in Nature Climate Change , the cost of battery packs used by market-leading BEV manufacturers are even lower at US$300/kWh, and has declined by 8% annually. Cost of Li-ion battery packs in BEVs. —Nykvist and Nilsson (2015).

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

The process of recycling a lithium battery through accurate procedures to extract precious materials is known as lithium-ion battery recycling. The process of battery recycling The process of recycling a lithium battery through accurate procedures to extract precious materials is known as lithium-ion battery recycling.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

is creating a streamlined manufacturing process for silicon solar photovoltaic cells that requires only 10% of the silicon, half of the operating and equipment cost, and a quarter of the energy of incumbent technology, enabling sustainable solar manufacturing that will combat climate change by meeting global demand for solar.

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Electric Vehicles India

AUGUST 12, 2021

Climate change is a serious challenge and Omega Seiki Mobility is committed to providing solutions and the company is doing its bit in moving the world to sustainable mobility through our products.”. Omega Seiki Mobility offers its own electric three-wheelers RAGE+ brand.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The discovery came when MIT researchers Byoungwoo Kang and Gerbrand Ceder found out how to get a common lithium compound to release and take up lithium ions in a matter of seconds. The breakthrough could revolutionize electric car battery technology and pave the way for ultra-fast charging electric vehicles in as little as two years.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2011

27, which are key to meeting our climate change goals. The second iteration of drivetrain design also saw the introduction of Zytek’s first Li-ion battery pack. The Technology Strategy Board exists to help drive dynamic technological innovations such as the T.27,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Prius best embodies Toyota’s philosophy on advanced vehicle technology—for vehicles to become true solutions to our climate change and environmental challenges, they must be mass market solutions. Tesla has its EVs in the market, Nissan and Mitsubishi are poised to enter their EVs in the US soon.

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