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MARCH 26, 2018

Researchers led by a team from MIT, with colleagues from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), BMW Group, and Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a fundamentally new approach to alter ion mobility and stability against oxidation of lithium ion conductors—a key component of rechargeable batteries—using lattice dynamics.

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MARCH 3, 2015

At the Geneva International Motor Show, Mercedes-Benz unveiled the Concept V?ision ision e: a plug-in hybrid concept version of its V-Class MPV ( earlier post ). The MPV concept can travel up to 50 km in the all-electric mode if driven at a maximum speed of 80 km/h (50 mph). The Concept V?ision The Concept V?ision

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

Audi urban concept with support for wireless charging. Audi is introducing a 1+1 urban concept technology study for urban and metropolitan areas. The cabin of the Audi urban concept offers slightly offset seating for two; the roof slides back for entry, and the canopy can remain open in good weather. lb), stores 7.1

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

At the Manhattan stop on its year-long “Born Electric” World Tour, BMW i featured the BMW i8 Concept Roadster—shown for the first time in North America—and the BMW i3 Concept. i3 Concept. A single-speed gearbox sends the power to the rear wheels and accelerates the BMW i3 Concept to a top speed of 150 km/h (93 mph).

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JANUARY 7, 2022

At the EICMA event, a fully electric motorcycle showing a revolutionary power train technology concept that makes use of ultracapacitors will be unveiled to the public. The technology can be used in a real-world electric vehicle (EV) powertrain by combining them with traditional lithium-ion cells to form a hybrid battery system.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Concept GC-PHEV. Mitsubishi staged the North American debut of its Concept GC-PHEV (“Grand Cruiser”)—a next-generation full-size crossover plug-in hybrid. The Concept GC-PHEV features a supercharged 3.0-liter The system’s high-capacity main drive lithium-ion battery pack can also act as a mobile power source.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Kia Motors America (KMA) unveiled the Trail’ster e-AWD concept at the 2015 Chicago Auto Show. This technology is designed for easy, lightweight packaging, with the compact battery pack stored under the cargo floor. The Trail’ster, based on Kia’s Soul urban passenger vehicle, is primarily powered by a 1.6-liter liter gasoline Soul.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Both smart and MINI are unveiling electric scooter concepts: the smart escooter and the MINI Scooter E Concept ; both will premiere at the upcoming 2010 Paris Motor Show. The traction current is supplied by a 48-volt lithium-ion battery pack. MINI Scooter E Concept. MINI Scooter E Concept. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Also at the LA Auto Show, the new Honda FCEV Concept made its world debut. The concept expresses a potential styling direction for Honda’s next-generation fuel-cell vehicle anticipated to launch in the US and Japan in 2015, followed by Europe. At the Tokyo Motor Show, Toyota highlighted its own new FCV Concept with a world premiere.

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MAY 18, 2019

In 2018, Volkswagen announced at the Vienna Motor Symposium that it would make the innovative low-voltage concept accessible to a broad public. While the Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) charges the battery via the grid with a plug, the MHEV does not have a battery that can be recharged via a plug, but is equipped with a 48V belt starter generator.

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MARCH 5, 2013

The concept and layout of the hydraulic hybrid system. The gas cushion stores energy by the gas being compressed rather like a coiled spring. The amount of energy that can be stored in the pressure accumulator depends on the size of the system. The power-split concept permits various drive options. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Comprising 104 pouch cells, the lithium-ion battery stores 14.1 The lithium-ion battery is integrated into the rear of the vehicle below the luggage compartment floor in such as way that there is no step in the luggage compartment. Convenient recharging is also possible on the road. Three driving modes.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

The 48 V on-board electric subsystem uses a lithium-ion battery as its energy store. When braking, the electric machines act as a generator and recharge the lithium-ion battery. An additional belt-driven starter generator is connected to the engine which also operates at 48 V.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

This is the opposite of the approach taken by Toyota with its Mirai fuel cell vehicle ( earlier post ) and Honda with its new FCV Concept ( earlier post ). The h-tron concept car shows that we have also mastered fuel cell technology. kilowatt-hours, which is recharged by recuperation or alternatively from a power socket.

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MARCH 21, 2011

The team achieved rates of up to 400C and 1,000C for lithium-ion and nickel-metal hydride chemistries, respectively (where a 1C rate represents a one-hour complete charge or discharge), enabling fabrication of a lithium-ion battery that can be 90% charged in 2 minutes. Most capacitors store very little energy.

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MARCH 6, 2012

Within its compact 4.464m length, the two-seater EMERG-E contains a pair of electric motors, a lithium-ion battery pack, four inverters, a three-cylinder range-extending internal combustion engine and a gasoline tank. Infiniti will produce two fully functioning EMERG-E prototypes in the next step of this concept development program.

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APRIL 18, 2017

Using a 150 kW (DC) fast charger, the high-performance battery can be 80% recharged within 30 minutes. The 83 kWh lithium-ion battery is housed in the CUV’s floor. The concept car offers similar interior space to the all-new 2018 long-wheelbase Tiguan, but is 3 inches shorter, 1.9 Like the I.D. BUZZ, the I.D. inches tall.

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JULY 26, 2016

Porsche’s Mission E concept. The concept version of the Mission E unveiled at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show is a four-door, four-seat sport car that delivers more than 600 hp (440 kW) system power and more than 500 km driving range. The higher the power density of a cell, the faster energy can be recharged and released.

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JANUARY 13, 2016

In a demonstration of its ongoing development of advanced alternative powertrains, Audi unveiled the new h-tron quattro fuel cell concept vehicle at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). The Audi h-tron quattro concept combines an Audi fifth-generation fuel cell stack delivering up to 110 kW with a power-optimized 1.8

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JANUARY 9, 2012

Volkswagen staged two world premieres at the Detroit Auto Show: the new Jetta gasoline-electric Hybrid and the E-Bugster battery-electric concept derived from the Beetle. The energy for powering the 85 kW (114 hp) electric motor is stored in a 28.3 kWh lithium-ion battery pack housed in a space-saving location behind the front seats.

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MAY 22, 2019

The new drive concept comprises a 2.0 The SUV’s lithium-ion battery is located under the luggage compartment floor. It is made up of 104 prismatic cells and stores 14.1 The concept is designed so that customers can do the lion’s share of their daily driving electrically. l/100 km (98.0 – 112.0

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The concept car has high-voltage 1.1 kWh lithium-ion battery pack (from the Jetta Hybrid), which stores the kinetic energy recovered from regenerative braking; assists in the starting phase of the fuel cell; and adds a dynamic boost to the maximum acceleration of the Golf SportWagen. Top: Drivetrain.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Novel Polymer-enhanced Rechargeable Aluminum-Alkaline Battery Technology – $2,000,000. Ionic Materials will develop a more energy dense (by volume and mass) rechargeable battery based on an aluminum-alkaline chemistry. Ionic Materials, Inc. Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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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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APRIL 1, 2011

Example of a lithium-water rechargeable battery. Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. 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. Credit: ACS, Lu et al. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

Novel materials can considerably improve storage capacity and cycling stability of rechargeable batteries. This concept was first reported for metallic high entropy alloys (HEA). Conversion batteries based on electrochemical material conversion allow for an increase of the stored amount of energy, while battery weight is reduced.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

kWh (net) lithium-ion battery (13.8 Another genuine world first is the combination with a large additional lithium-ion battery, which can be conveniently charged using plug-in technology. Market-specific sales concepts, including a rental model, are being evaluated at present. miles) in the NEDC. miles) from the 9.3

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JULY 28, 2022

There were no recharging stations, so batteries needed to be replaced much more often. An EV doesn’t use only one Li-ion (lithium-ion) battery, though. These components are much less dense than Li-ion, have a shorter lifespan, and must be recharged more often. Moving Forward. Efficiency in Numbers.

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JUNE 2, 2017

At the 2017 Geneva Motor Show the brand presented the potential of its new technologies in the form of the Audi Q8 sport concept showcar. The second component is a lithium-ion battery with 10 Ah charge capacity and a constant voltage of 48 volts. Earlier post.) Together the two components provide a new level of dynamics.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Researchers from Imperial College London and their European partners, including Volvo Car Corporation, are developing a prototype multifunctional structural composite material composed of carbon fibers and a polymer resin which can store and discharge electrical energy and which is also strong and lightweight enough to be used for car parts.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

A compact electric motor (60 kW / 82 PS and 210 Nm starting torque), the lithium-ion battery integrated into the floor and the power electronics form the hub of the new high-tech car’s drive system. Li-ion battery. The lithium-ion battery fitted in the e-up! Compared to other lithium-ion cells (e.g.

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JANUARY 10, 2014

In a paper published in Nature Communications , the researchers suggest that this simple hybrid concept may also provide scientific strategies for protecting metal anodes in other energy-storage devices. Sulfur is still dissolved in a lithium-sulfur battery that uses our hybrid anode, but that doesn’t really matter.” —Jun Liu.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Audi Q5 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Concept. Audi is also studying the potential of fuel cell drive systems for long-range electric mobility—the Audi Q5 HFC (Hybrid Fuel Cell) concept car has this technology on board. The concept car relies on synergism and consequently utilizes many technical components from the future hybrid models.

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MARCH 8, 2012

Suppes and his colleagues initially validated their concept of the convection cell using a zinc-alkaline chemistry. For instance, higher power output is possible with the flow (reported to 500 mA/ cm 2 ) of electrolyte when one of the reagents is stored in the electrolyte. In the paper reporting that work (Suppes et al.

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MARCH 6, 2018

The single-seat race car—equipped with Techrules’ Turbine-Recharging Electric Vehicle (TREV) system—is a lightweight, high-performance track variant of the Techrules Ren supercar that was first previewed at last year’s Geneva show. The flagship version—with a high-power 28.4 TREV technology.

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MARCH 28, 2015

While a conventional cathode stores ions between the layers of its molecular structure (intercalation) the metal fluorides store them via a reversible electrochemical reaction, called a conversion reaction. The lithium ions then bond temporarily to the fluorine atoms. CuF 2 conversion reaction by Hua et al.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Energy storage is provided by the lithium-ion battery, which is located in multiple blocks under the luggage compartment floor, under the rear seat and in the center tunnel. It stores 26.5 The Audi A3 e-tron can be recharged in about nine hours with a 230-volt household socket. Earlier post.).

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