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.

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Teslarati

MARCH 2, 2023

The company recovered ~95% of metals from EOL battery packs that could be used to produce anode and cathodes for cell production. Redwood Materials worked with partners on the program , including Toyota, Ford Motor Company, Volvo Cars, and Volkswagen Group of America.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2014

Several battery technologies are able to provide these functions in different combinations, with nickel-metal hydride and lithium-ion batteries preferred at higher voltages due to their fast recharge capability, good discharge performance and lifetime endurance. Other battery technologies (nickel-metal hydride, lead-based etc.)

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 2, 2024

Toyota Motor North America is expanding its battery recycling network with Cirba Solutions, a battery recycling materials and management company. New automotive battery plant Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina (TBMNC) is also under construction and expected to open in 2025 with a $14-billion investment.

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Teslarati

JUNE 15, 2023

The company believes it will make breakthroughs in lightweight solid-state vehicle batteries, which Toyota predicts will be produced in less time than current cells on the market. Toyota will apply its bipolar nickel-metal hydride batteries used by Aqua and Crown hybrid vehicles to its battery electric vehicles (BEV).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

To meet earlier demand for batteries for the Model S, in 2014, SMM ramped up production of lithium nickel oxide from 300 tons per month to 850 tons; that subsequently expanded in 2015 to the current 1,850 tons per month. SMM is the only refiner of E-nickel and cobalt in Japan. SMM’s nickel hydroxide has a large share of the market.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2013

The ESS is designed as a retrofit to replace the nickel metal hydride (NiMH)-based energy storage system currently used in Allison hybrid buses. The system is also suited for those interested in designing in lithium-ion technology from the onset, the company said. Li-ion battery maker EnerDel, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Toyota last month ended road tests of 126 Priuses in the US, Japan and Europe that began in 2006, company spokeswoman Jana Hartline said in an interview. Toyota Motor Corporation will continue to use NimH packs for most of its hybrid vehicles after three years of testing Priuses fitted with Li-ion packs.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 20, 2013

Toyota is one of few automakers still using nickel-metal hydride batteries in its hybrid vehicles, but that could change for its next generation vehicles. Reuters reports that the company aims to boost production of more common lithium-ion technology by six times for its future products.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The Toyota FC Bus was developed by Toyota, based on the company's experience in developing FC buses together with Hino Motors, Ltd. Nickel-metal hydride. Together with this, Toyota aims to engage continuously in the development targeted at the expansion of the introduction of the new FC buses from 2018. Number of tanks.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The lithium-ion battery supply agreement with Ford Motor Company builds on a long-term partnership between the two companies. The increased battery power, along with improved electric motor and generator capability, offset the decrease in combustion engine performance in the new Fusion that would have resulted from the switch to a 2.0L

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 6, 2015

As with most industries, that occasionally means big lawsuits, as companies try to protect valuable intellectual property they''ve spent years or decades refining. RELATED: Nickel-Metal-Hydride. Green Argonne National Laboratory Batteries lawsuit plug-in cars research research and development'

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2010

The company also introduced a new turbocharged version of the Sonata, the 2.0T. Compared with nickel-metal hydride batteries, lithium polymer batteries deliver the same power with 20-30% less weight, 40% less volume and 10% greater efficiency over the nickel-metal hydride batteries found in today’s hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2014

BASF plans to become the leading system supplier of functional materials for high-performance batteries, and has combined its own R&D with acquisitions to build a product portfolio including cathode materials and electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries, as well as licensing nickel metal hydride technology.

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Teslarati

JULY 30, 2021

Battery manufacturing has been a central focus of electric car companies since day 1. Batteries are the lifeblood of electric cars, and as more companies enter the EV sector, batteries and battery materials are becoming less available due to growing demand. Costs for both nickel and cobalt have skyrocketed recently. The patent.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2010

Sanyo has already been supplying nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) batteries for hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) to Ford, Honda and Volkswagen, and co-developing NiMH batteries with PSA Peugeot Citroën. In addition, Sanyo is co-developing lithium-ion batteries for hybrids (HEVs) with the Volkswagen group.

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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.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 24, 2013

What do you do with nickel-metal hydride batteries that were previously used in hybrid cars (pictured)? Its energy business company, Toyota Turbine and Systems, will sell the 10kWh systems [.]. Toyota has the answer.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Last year, the company invested $135 million in design, engineering and production of key battery components, and doubled its battery testing capabilities. In the span of 15 years, the industry has gone from lead-acid to nickel-metal-hydride to the lithium-ion batteries used in Ford C-MAX and Ford Fusion hybrids on the road today.

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

federal government is actively facilitating EV adoption, aiming to simplify the purchasing process for consumers , encourage companies to electrify their fleets , and assist businesses in installing EV charging stations. million per year in 2028.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

NiZn offers superior energy and power density compared to lead-acid and Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH) and avoids the high costs and safety issues associated with Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries. Further enhancement of cell capability is due to cathode and anode materials that are free of any heavy metal elements.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 21, 2012

Japanese carmaker Honda has already worked out how to extract rare earth metals from used nickel-metal hydride batteries (pictured): and now it expects to start reusing them before the end of the year.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Chemetall is part of a consortium of companies participating in “ LithoRec ”, a research and development project related to the recycling of lithium-ion batteries. This facility is also only one of two technologies in North America that can recycle nickel cadmium batteries, which is a common consumer type of rechargeable battery.

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Electric Auto Association

DECEMBER 1, 2022

But things changed for Cox when GM came out with a new version of the EV1 with a non-toxic nickel metal hydride (NiMH) battery with more than twice the energy of the original lead acid battery. Straubel as well as other executives from the company. This doubled the range of the car and his problem was solved.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2009

Saft has signed an agreement with ESMA , a Russian company, to cooperate in the development, production and commercialization of supercapacitors based on ESMA’s technology. ESMA’s patented asymmetric nickel capacitors feature one battery electrode mated with a double layer charge storage (capacitor) electrode.

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All Cars Electric

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

has signed an agreement with PSA Peugeot Citroen to supply nickel-metal hydride batteries for diesel-electric hybrids. The French auto company will use the batteries in the 2011 Peugeot 3008 SUV. The Nikkei is reporting that Sanyo Electric Co.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2009

The earliest part of the decade will see tremendous growth as dozens of manufacturers will start to meet the anticipated demands of newly electrified vehicles being launched by nearly every major global automotive company. 2012 will be the make or break year for the electric vehicle market.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Railpower sold about 55 Green Goats before the company filed for bankruptcy. General Electric (GE) has built a plant to manufacture sodium metal halide batteries ( earlier post ), and is showing a prototype road locomotive using those batteries that it intends to bring to market. Several Green Goats caught fire and were destroyed.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 4, 2007

Johnson Controls/SAFT, the huge battery company at which President Bush first publicly announced his support for plug-in hybrids, received one contract. GM today announced two contracts to "design and test lithium-ion batteries" for use in the Saturn Vue Plug-in Hybrid announced last month at the LA Auto Show.

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Setec Powerr

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

As the core of electric vehicles, batteries have naturally become the focus of research and development by global car companies. Different from traditional fuel vehicles, pollution-free has become their biggest advantage. Today I will tell you about the types of batteries used in electric vehicles.

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Green Cars News

JULY 2, 2009

The report in the Nikkei suggests that the company will raise capacity by 600 per cent next autumn on the back of receiving enough orders of lithium-ion batteries for 100,000 hybrid cars from General Motors Corporation.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 3, 2009

The report suggests that hybrid cars will be slow to move away from nickel-metal hydride batteries which have served them well so far. However, there is a need to prioritise energy capacity over power density for both plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and battery electric vehicles.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 11, 2008

T oyota President Katsuaki Watanabe made his company's intentions clear yesterday about PHEVs. Lithium-ion batteries , now common in laptops, produce more power and are smaller than nickel-metal hydride batteries used in hybrids now. Here's the story from the LA Times: Toyota promises plug-in hybrid vehicle in U.S.,

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 20, 2010

A sister company to Toyota Motor Corp secured a lithium supply deal in Argentina on Wednesday that could help the world’s largest automaker keep its lead in gasoline-electric hybrid cars. . Toyota uses nickel-metal-hydride batteries for the current Prius hybrid but has decided on lithium-ion batteries for future plug-in models.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 21, 2009

From the company that wants to introduce the world to people-powered cars (presumably a step up from Fred Flintstone’s day) comes the Imagine PS - a grid rechargeable neighbourhood electric vehicle that could even be used as a temporary power station.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2009

The company has since expanded to develop and produce numerous implantable medical devices, and has expanded to provide technology solutions for critical industrial applications, including customized battery power and wireless sensing systems. in 1970 to develop long-lived primary batteries to fuel pacemakers.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The company also recently signed an agreement with Mitsubishi for the introduction of the electric iOn—based on the Mitsubishi i-MiEV—at the end of 2010. Ah NiMH (Nickel Metal Hydride) battery pack is located under the rear load area floor, near the electric motor. Earlier post.). HYbrid4 technology. The 200V, 5.5

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