Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2021

Although mass manufacture has made lithium-ion batteries cheaper, cost and durability remain obstacles to the widespread adoption of battery electrical vehicles. 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

JANUARY 11, 2023

ARPA-E selected the following 12 teams from universities, national laboratories and the private sector to address and remove key technology barriers to EV adoption by developing next-generation battery technologies: 24M Technologies will develop low-cost and fast-charging sodium metal batteries with good low-temperature performance for EVs.

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Electric Vehicles India

JANUARY 23, 2023

A lithium battery includes an anode, a cathode, a separator, an electrolyte, and a current collector. When the battery is charged, the positive electrode releases some of the lithium ions, which migrate through the electrolyte to the negative electrode. The company claims sodium-ion technology is safer and cheaper.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2022

The pilot will support E3 Lithium’s Clearwater project, which will draw lithium from under the Leduc oil field, Imperial’s historic discovery that first launched major oil and gas development in Western Canada. —Jason Iwanika, director of commercial business development at Imperial. E3 Lithium’s DLE technology.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

million research center, led by Michigan Engineering and funded by the US Department of Energy, will focus on understanding an emerging branch of science involving mechanical and chemical phenomena that affect advanced battery designs. —Jeff Sakamoto, professor of mechanical engineering at U-M and director of the new center.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded $3 million from its 2015 OPEN funding to a project to develop an all-solid-state sodium battery. A sodium-based battery, on the other hand, has the potential to store larger amounts of electrical energy at a significantly lower cost. Led by Steve W.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

This expanded portfolio has the dual aims of improving current generation lithium ion batteries as well as longer horizon materials discovery and optimisation projects to support the commercialisation of next-generation batteries. Next generation lithium ion cathode materials.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Researchers within the RS2E network on electrochemical energy storage (Réseau sur le stockage électrochimique de l’énergie) in France have developed the first sodium-ion battery in an 18650 format. The main advantage of the prototype is that it relies on sodium, an element far more abundant and less costly than lithium.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2011

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. The present sodium-sulfur battery operates above 300 °C. A = lithium or sodium (Li or Na), M represents a metal and 1 ≤ n < z.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Schematic of a sodium-nickel chloride cell with planar design. A planar (flat) sodium-nickel chloride battery could deliver 30% more power at lower temperatures than the typical cylindrical design, according to researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2020

Discussions underway with Glencore on commercial arrangements, financing and allocation of project economics; third party and government funding opportunities also under review. Sodium Treatment. Refinery design. Several EV manufacturers have expressed an interest in purchasing a North American cobalt sulfate. 56 million.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2014

With regard to overall storage capability and potential for further fuel efficiency improvements, the demand for larger battery systems based on lithium, nickel and sodium will continue to grow through the increased market penetration of vehicles with higher levels of hybridization and electrification.

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Driivz

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The ideal battery will be made of low-cost, plentiful materials that are lightweight and flexible enough to allow vehicle design innovations. Toyota is aiming to have a solid-state battery ready for commercial use by 2027-2028 that will have a 1,000 km cruising range and a fast charge time of 10 minutes.

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My Electric Car

JANUARY 29, 2023

For example the volumetric energy density of lithium-ion batteries has increased eightfold since 2008, from around 55 watt-hours/litre to 450 watt-hours/litre in 2020. At the same time the cost of lithium-ion battery packs declined 87% between 2008 and 2021. Another chemistry that is coming onstream is sodium ion.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. Earlier post.) —Licht et al. 5b00400.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

A major barrier to the use of high energy capacity silicon in a lithium-ion battery is the volumetric expansion of silicon under lithiation and delithiation, which results in electrode degradation and capacity fade. Silicon (shown in grey) is capable of holding 10 times as many lithium ions (shown in pink) as currently-used anodes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2020

Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), with the intrinsic advantages of resource abundance and geographic uniformity, are desired alternative battery technology to Li-ion batteries (LIBs) for grid-scale energy storage and transportation applications. A paper on their work is published in the journal, ACS Energy Letters. L) demonstrated

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2016

Materials researchers at the Swiss Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in Villigen and the ETH Zurich have developed a very simple and cost-effective procedure for significantly enhancing the performance of conventional Li-ion rechargeable batteries by improving only the design of the electrodes without changing the underlying materials chemistry.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

But to incorporate many different types of sensors, we need different material designs and tools. A little device that harvests energy from a runner’s evening jog clearly is not designed for a massive bison, which can weigh up to a tonne. Personalized health care could revolutionize traditional medical practice,” Gao says.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

Lithium-metal batteries are among the most promising candidates for high-density energy storage technology, but uncontrolled lithium dendrite growth, which results in poor recharging capability and safety hazards, currently is hindering their commercial potential. —Hanqing Jiang. —Wang et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2016

This Phase 4 testing program was designed to show viability of Zenyatta’s Albany graphite compared to synthetic graphite under realistic fuel cell operating conditions. treatment using sodium hydroxide. Zenyatta Ventures Ltd. The components made from Albany graphite were equivalent to the existing synthetic graphite components.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2016

A team at the Ohio State University has developed a membrane that regulates bi-directional ion transport across it as a function of its redox state and that could be used as a programmable smart membrane separator in future supercapacitors and redox flow batteries. plugin EVs to Tesla’s 85 kWh battery pack). —Herya and Sundaresan.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies (TX). This effort will build on Austin Energy’s existing Smart Grid programs by creating a microgrid that will initially link 1,000 residential smart meters, 75 commercial meters, and plug-in electric vehicle charging sites. 29,561,142. 125,006,103. 25,000,000. 24,978,264.

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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.

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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. Resources.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

Boon for automotive industry The PLI scheme for the automotive industry in India is designed to drive high-tech green manufacturing, specifically targeting Advanced Technology Vehicles (ATVs) such as electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. NEMMP 2020 was designed to have 6-7 million electric vehicles on the road by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2012

Temperature Regulation for Lithium-Ion Cells. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is developing an innovative battery design to more effectively regulate destructive hotspots that develop during use. environment of a lithium-ion battery in real-time. design for electric vehicle battery packs that can reroute.

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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. Chiang, MIT colleague W.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Most electrolytes currently used in Li-ion batteries contain halogens, which are toxic. An in-depth study based on first-principles calculations by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University has shown that the anions of commercially available electrolytes for Li-ion batteries are all superhalogens. —Prof.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2016

The technology is being commercialized by a Cambridge-based startup company, Ambri. Normally there is a single “itinerant ion” that passes through the electrolyte in a rechargeable battery—for example, lithium in lithium-ion batteries or sodium in sodium-sulfur. Earlier post.).

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Its physical structure allows it to store lithium ions. 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.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2011

This includes research on appropriate anodes, cathodes, and electrolytes for magnesium (Mg)-, sodium (Na)-, and lithium (Li)-based batteries and novel transition metal oxide- and nitride-based supercapacitor electrode materials. Sodium is another element that is less expensive than lithium. Novel cathodes and anodes.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Silicon Coated Nanofiber Paper as a Lithium-Ion Anode. DOE grant: $7,200,000). DOE Grant: $4,000,000).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Jervois intends for the SMP acquisition to transform it into a vertically integrated producer when the Idaho Cobalt Operations (ICO) commences commercial production. SMP Refinery is a nickel and cobalt electrolytic refinery designed and constructed by Outotec that commenced operations in 1981. million (US$4.5 million (US$6.75

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Baua Electric

MARCH 18, 2024

This electric forklift concept by Japanese equipment giant Komatsu is powered by sodium-ion batteries and promises safer, cheaper operation than the competition. The concept is equipped with a sodium-ion battery pack developed by Shanghai Hirano Environment Technology Co., and is designed to fit Komatsu’s existing 1.5-ton

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

The MiEV runs on a lithium-ion battery pack that can be charged in seven or so hours on a 240-volt line. The revised Think from Think Global has emerged as popular in Europe with a more stylish design than the earlier iteration. It features ABS brakes, dual airbags, and is designed to meet all European and U.S.

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