article thumbnail

BASF pitching NiMH batteries for grid energy storage applications

Green Car Congress

BASF Battery Materials will discuss its latest improvements in Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) battery technology for grid energy storage applications at the 8 th International Renewable Energy Storage Conference and Exhibition (IRES 2013), being held 18-20 November 2013 in Berlin, Germany.

NiMH 236
article thumbnail

Toyota Sticking With NiMH for Strong Hybrids in Near Term

Green Car Congress

Although Toyota has been working on Li-ion batteries for strong hybrids, and has had 126 Priuses equipped with Li-ion packs on the road for the past three years, NiMH cost performance wins compared to lithium for this application, Kuroda said. Toyota has been able to bring down the cost of the NiMH pack in the Prius “dramatically”, he said.

NiMH 150
article thumbnail

Software Upgrade to Prius PHEV NiMH Conversion Kit Enables All-Electric Driving At Up to 70mph

Green Car Congress

kWh NiMH plug-in hybrid (PHEV) conversion kit that enables all-electric mode driving at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour (until the battery pack is depleted) in a converted Prius. kilowatt hour NiMH battery pack with the 6.1kWh pack, retails for $12,500. Poway, California-based Plug In Conversions Corp.

NiMH 207
article thumbnail

Life cycle analysis of three battery chemistries for PHEVs and BEVs; environmental impacts higher than expected

Green Car Congress

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 paper on the study appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. —Majeau-Bettez et al.

article thumbnail

Anderman report projects annual global EV and PHEV market to grow four-fold to 1.4M vehicles between 2014 and 2020

Green Car Congress

Other battery market highlights from the report include: The NiMH market peaked at about 1.5 Dr. Anderman is founder and chairman of the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference (AABC). According to the report’s baseline estimate, the global Li-ion xEV business, totaling $4.1 billion in 2014, will reach $10.7 billion in 2020.

PHEV 150
article thumbnail

New Toyota/Hino fuel cell bus uses fuel cell system from Mirai

Green Car Congress

The fuel cell hybrid bus uses a NiMH battery. The new fuel cell bus is equipped with eight 480-liter high-pressure hydrogen tanks as well as two 114 kW fuel cell stacks and two 110 kW, 335 N·m motors to provide increased output.

Toyota 150
article thumbnail

The influencer

Electric Auto Association

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. “I had a 30 mile commute to work… and there were no charging stations there.” This doubled the range of the car and his problem was solved.

EV1 77