Electric Cars Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The result of the 50 km/h frontal crash test met the Company’s expectations regarding the Sion’s crash safety and the robustness of Sono Motors’ proprietary polymer-based vehicle-integrated solar technology, which covers the vehicle’s entire body.

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Solar Motor Motors Motoring 104

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2009

EIG will supply 20Ah NCM Li-ion polymer cells to Miljøbil Grenland AS. is to supply 20Ah lithium-ion polymer cells to Miljøbil Grenland AS for the design validation and the subsequent engineering sign-off scheduled for early 2010. Click to enlarge. awarded South Korea-based Energy Innovation Group Ltd. Earlier post.).

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Lithium Ion Polymer Li-ion Motor 218

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

BlueIndy has placed into service in Indianapolis, Indiana the first 50 of an eventual 500 electric vehicles (Bluecars) that provide convenient, cleaner transportation with the swipe of a membership card. This is the France-based Bolloré Group’s first electric car sharing service in the US.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2013

Rendering of the battery-electric car ferry. Siemens, together with the Norwegian shipyard Fjellstrand, has developed a battery-electric car ferry, the miljøferge (environmental ferry) ZeroCat. The 80-meter vessel can carry up to 120 cars and 360 passengers. Click to enlarge.

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Electric Cars Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The result of the 50 km/h frontal crash test met the Company’s expectations regarding the Sion’s crash safety and the robustness of Sono Motors’ proprietary polymer-based vehicle-integrated solar technology, which covers the vehicle’s entire body.

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Solar Motor Motors Motoring 98

Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2017

ElectriPlast is a non-corrosive, electrically conductive resin-based material the properties of which allow it to be molded into any of the shapes and sizes associated with plastics, rubbers and other polymers while reducing component weight by 40 to 60%.

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Electric Cars Polymer Electric Electrical 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2022

The new generation of electric car manufacturers is starting to use these plastic materials, which enable free design and make cars around 40% lighter. —Begoña Galindo, a Sustainable Mobility Researcher at AIMPLAS. —Begoña Galindo, a Sustainable Mobility Researcher at AIMPLAS.

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Batteries Battery Polymer Automobile 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2023

They were also prototypes for testing polymer-based bodyshells. The extremely (aero)dynamic mid-engine sports cars are considered design icons of their era, not least due to their distinctive gullwing doors and eye-catching orange-and-black paintwork. In a radial-flux motor, the flow runs perpendicular to the rotational axis.

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Mercedes Concept Motor Motors 221

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The real potential of electric cars will be fulfilled when we as an industry can say goodbye not just to tailpipe emissions, but production-related emissions as well. Hexpol TPE : Soft polymer compounds, TPE. Polestar and its partners share a common goal: to decarbonize the complete supply chain and manufacturing process.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2021

MAN Truck & Bus and Sono Motors have signed a Letter of Intent to investigate the technical and economic feasibility of integrating Sono Solar technology into MAN’s eTGE electric transporter. Sono Motors is developing its own electric car that is suitable for daily use, with integrated solar cells and innovative mobility services.

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Solar Commercial Motor Motors 293

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2021

The LFP battery can be produced at a low cost and is suitable for mid-range electric cars. StoreDot’s technology has been shown to work effectively on cellphones, drones and e-scooters. VinFast earlier announced a partnership with Gotion High-Tech for LFP battery technology. Earlier post.)

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Vietnam Batteries Battery Taiwan 321

Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2015

It expects to produce 20,000 electric sports cars in 2015 and Advanced Battery Technologies will provide the fast charging lithium batteries for all these vehicles.

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Automobile Li-ion Lithium Ion Supplies 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2022

The synthesis facility will become the core of the graphene nanotube industrial hub and will be accompanied by production lines of nanotube concentrates for various polymers and nanotube dispersions to boost energy density of electric vehicle batteries.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Significant research is going into improved ways of storing electricity, including alternatives to the currently dominant lithium-ion battery-cell chemistry in electric cars. Engineers are nothing if not creative. That includes using supercapacitors to substitute for storage batteries in some circumstances.

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Polymer Lithium Ion Energy Store 60

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2023

More than 100 million electric cars are expected to be on roads worldwide by 2030. It is their special composition that makes these compounded polymers so extremely heat-resistant. Testing of these materials has been completed in-house, proving that they can safely withstand temperatures of up to 1,200 °C.

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Batteries Battery Li-ion Lithium Ion 195

Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2020

Unlike conventional lithium ion batteries (LIBs) that include a flammable liquid or gel polymer electrolyte, SSBs use a safe SE and promise to double the driving range of electric vehicles when loaded with the same weight of batteries. Performance and cost are the bottlenecks in the commercialization of SE technology and SSBs.

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Low Cost Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 259

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2021

But since the weight of the vehicles could be greatly reduced with the incorporation of the structural battery, less energy would be required to drive an electric car. In the longer term, it is conceivable that electric cars, electric planes and satellites could be designed with and powered by structural batteries.

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Carbon Fiber Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 416

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Electric car makers go to great lengths to ensure that the high voltage batteries used in their cars are safe, even under fairly extreme circumstances. Well, if the video above is anything to go by, there's plenty you can do to destroy lithium-ion polymer cells, if you fancy a.

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Lithium Ion Electric Cars Batteries Battery 88

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

According to the IEA, the global electric car fleet exceeded 5.1 Circa’s solvent Cyrene—dihydrolevoglucosenone—is specifically being used to recover polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)—a high performance polymer widely used as a binder in Li-ion battery cathodes.

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Batteries Battery Polymer Li-ion 186

Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

Joint R&D includes carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) parts. The materials will be used to improve Hyundai, Kia, and likely Genesis electric vehicles. While many rivals push back EV plans, Hyundai’s US boss says the company is “all in” on electric cars. Can they do even better?

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

Joint R&D includes carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) parts. The materials will be used to improve Hyundai, Kia, and likely Genesis electric vehicles. While many rivals push back EV plans, Hyundai’s US boss says the company is “all in” on electric cars. Can they do even better?

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Hyundai Carbon Fiber Electric Vehicles Vehicles 52

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Hyundai introduced its refreshed IONIQ car lineup in a North American debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show. IONIQ Hybrid, Plug-in Hybrid and Electric cars all receive refreshed exterior and interior designs, added infotainment technology and new Hyundai SmartSense active safety features and driving assistance systems.

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Hyundai Miles Range Lithium Ion 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2020

Since butane can be liquified and thus can be stored and carried easily, the new technology could expand the application range of solid oxide fuel cells to portable and mobile applications such as electric cars, robots and drones. A paper on their work is published in the journal Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 20, 2011

With €3.5million in funding, a two-year research project has been launched by an EU consortium with the aim of developing fast rechargeable zinc-polymer batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles.

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Polymer Electric Cars Batteries Battery 54

EV Central

DECEMBER 5, 2022

EV FAQ: All your electric car questions answered READ MORE: Will my battery go flat if I leave my EV parked for too long? Polymer-based plastic is the other, but it’s nothing like the Tupperware container you store leftovers in. READ MORE: Do EV batteries wear out? So what’s an electrolyte?

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Batteries Battery Lead Acid Lithium Ion 113

Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2014

Researchers in Sweden are exploring the use of carbon fiber as an active electrode in a multifunctional structural Li-ion battery in an electric car; i.e., electrical storage is incorporated into the body of the car. (Photo: Peter Larsson) Click to enlarge. In this €3.4-million million (US$4.7-million)

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Carbon Fiber Carbon Li-ion Electric Vehicles 317

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Quimera is aiming to change the way that electrical cars are perceived by the car industry and raise public awareness regarding EV’s capacities, performance and range. Supplied by a series of lithium-polymer EIG batteries, the AEGT can run for about 30 minutes. Shakedown was 26 July at the Motorland F1 race track.

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All-Electric Carbon Fiber Polymer Energy Storage 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

The final product is either a fine micro-fibrous polymer mat that resembles white tissue paper, or polymer micro-beads with a diameter of ~ 0.5 - 5µm, with the hydride material entrained in ~50 - 200nm pores within the polymer. Cella Energy received their award at a ceremony held at the Royal Society of Science in London.

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2011 Hydrogen Energy Polymer 218

Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2009

Pininfarina and Bolloré, which set up a 50-50 joint venture at the beginning of 2008 with the purpose of designing, developing, manufacturing and distributing an electric car, displayed the latest version of the Pininfarina BLUECAR at the Geneva Motor Show on the Véhicules Électriques Pininfarina-Bolloré stand. Click to enlarge.

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Pininfarina Polymer Recharge Italy 186

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

The Precourt Institute for Energy, the umbrella organization for energy research and education at Stanford, will fund the following four studies: Nanostructured Polymers for High-Performance Batteries. This project explores the use of specially designed nanostructured polymers to make high-energy, low-cost, flexible and stretchable batteries.

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Energy Vehicles Power Powered 239

Green Cars News

OCTOBER 23, 2009

CT&T was founded in 2002 by former Hyundai Motor executive Young Gi Lee and currently produces two versions of its e-Zone electric vehicle, with the only difference being the battery pack – one has a lead acid battery pack, the other a li-polymer pack. .

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South Korea Electric Cars Lead Acid Cars 39

Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

Rather than plugging in the vehicle as you would for a battery-electric car, hydrogen fuel cells rely on compressed hydrogen. Currently the 2024 Hyundai Nexo compact crossover and the Toyota Mirai sedan are the only two hydrogen fuel cell (FCEV) EVs available to buy in the US, and that’s only in California.

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Waste Hyundai Hydrogen Las Vegas 52

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Car-sharing JV. The Renault and Bolloré groups have decided to set up a joint-venture, the aim of which will be to win and to install complete electric car-sharing solutions in France and Europe. This electric vehicle will ship with a Blue Solutions lithium-metal-polymer (LMP) battery with a capacity of 20 kWh.

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Electric Vehicles France Vehicles Cars 210

Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University and MIT believe they have developed a new solid-state polymer electrolyte for use in electrochemical devices including fuel cells and batteries. The major potential advantage of such a system is that it would produce electrolytes that can firmly bond to the fuel cell electrodes on either side.

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Pennsylvania MIT Polymer Fuel 44

Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Known as a gel polymer electrolyte, the material contains silica, nanoparticles and liquid electrolytes. Tesla has one factory cranking out batteries–and experimenting with new technologies. Chinese scientists recently discovered they could use a thick, gel-like substance in place of electrolyte fluid.

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Li-ion Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 82

Get Electric Vehicle

MARCH 31, 2021

The history of electric vehicle dates back to 1800s when the man wanted to get rid of the animal-powered karts they thought electric vehicles as the best alternative with great potential back in those days one-third of the vehicle on the road was an electric car. Improvement in charging technology. Autonomous vehicles.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles Lithium Ion Solar 52

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

Leading automotive design group Pininfarina unveiled the Nido EV, the first running prototype of the “Nido Development Program”, the project for an electric car conceived, designed and built entirely by the Pininfarina Style and Engineering Centre of Cambiano (Turin). The Nido EV. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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