Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2014

is expanding its ultracapacitor-based Engine Start Module (ESM) product line ( earlier post ) to provide the same benefits to class 3 through 6 medium-duty trucks that it has been offering previously to class 7 and 8 heavy-duty diesel trucks. New medium-duty ESM. The third terminal connects to the starter solenoid. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 24, 2012

The humble lead-acid battery, the planet's most recycled product, has been starting engines and providing power for car electrics ever since such a thing was required. Now, battery startup Energy Power Systems (EPS), fronted by.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2018

Mazda Motor Corporation, ELIIY Power Co., The three companies will work together to develop durable, heat- and impact-resistant 12-Volt lithium-ion batteries as a viable replacement for lead-acid starter batteries in motor vehicles by 2021. and Ube Industries, Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2014

The study, which provides a joint industry analysis of how different types of batteries are used in different automotive applications, concludes that lead-based batteries will by necessity remain the most wide-spread energy storage system in automotive applications for the foreseeable future. stop-in-motion, voltage stabilisation).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2020

New York City Transit Authority has selected BAE Systems to supply 435 electric hybrid power and propulsion systems for its new fleet of transit buses, reducing carbon emissions and fuel consumption. With fully electrified accessories, each bus can also support engine stop/start technology for idle reduction. Series-E components.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2009

Exide Technologies entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the US Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and the University of Idaho to develop and commercialize improvements on lead-acid battery technology for applications including hybrid electric vehicles and renewable energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2019

LiFePO 4 2,000 Wh (80Ah) battery: a high-power super-safe battery with a superior life cycle. Epsilor’s lithium-ion vehicular battery family of products is intended to replace traditional lead-acid batteries, offering four times the energy and approximately half the weight of lead-acid batteries of similar size.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2014

Ballard Power Systems signed a definitive agreement for the sub-license of intellectual property (IP) to M-Field Energy Corporation, a sustainable energy company, for material handling systems to be deployed in Europe.

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Teslarati

JUNE 11, 2021

The new 12v li-ion battery replaces the conventional lead-acid battery that has been considered the “standard” in automobiles for a long time. The previous lead-acid battery did not have a consistently long lifespan and was sometimes changed up to three times a year by some owners.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2013

Axion Power International, Inc, the developer of advanced lead-carbon PbC batteries and energy storage systems ( earlier post ), has entered a strategic relationship with ePower Engine Systems LLC. the diesel engine powers a generator that in turn provides power directly to the traction motors.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2022

Trucks can replace lead-acid batteries with supercapacitor technology because it is more reliable, guarantees to start in very cold weather, and prolongs the engine starting system’s service life. Skeleton’s modules also deliver 2x faster cold cranking time and much higher cranking power than a battery.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2017

At the 38 th Vienna Motor Symposium Volkswagen is introducing a new, more fuel-efficient “Coasting - Engine off” micro hybrid system—which shuts off the engine completely—as well as a new, compact three-cylinder natural gas engine for the Polo. Coasting - Engine off. liters/100 km. New e-Golf. 6 and I.D.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2021

Nissan has begun using second-life battery modules from first-generation LEAF electric vehicles as the power supply for automated guided vehicles (AGVs) in its plants. About eight years ago, Nissan’s engineers found a way to take three of these modules, repackage them and fit them inside an AGV.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Wirtz Manufacturing, a global provider of equipment design and technology for the lead-acid battery market, has made a strategic investment in ZAF Energy Systems, a manufacturer of nickel-zinc (NiZn) batteries. These improvements permit long cycle life, high specific energy and specific power, along with maintenance-free operation.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Sodium-ion battery technology has an inherent advantage over other power-storage technologies because it uses low-cost materials that are sustainable and widely available. Current cell designs can provide gravimetric and volumetric energy densities comparable to lithium-ion and greatly in excess of lead-acid batteries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

The military is interested in replacing lead-acid batteries with higher performing Li-ion systems. A123 Systems has introduced the Military 6T Battery, a robust Li-ion battery system engineered specifically to meet the demanding requirements of military vehicles. From a 2011 TARDEC presentation. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2015

European manufacturer Skeleton Technologies announced the availability of a new 24V Engine Start Module (SkelStart ESM), which uses high-performance ultracapacitor technology to ensure engine start at any time, in any conditions. The batteries are then only required to provide low power loads once the engine is up and running.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2016

On the other hand, passive engine-off coasting alone showed no CO 2 reduction potential for NEDC and some in WLTP according to the paper presented at the 2016 SAE World Congress. Possible 48V vehicle architecture for active and passive engine-off coasting + recuperation + boosting. Brown et al. Click to enlarge. gasoline or 2.0l

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The Automobile Division of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers has awarded its Prize for the Environment to Ricardo, Ford Motor Company, Controlled Power Technologies and Valeo engineers for their paper HyBoost—An Intelligently Electrified Optimized Downsized Gasoline Engine Concept. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Navitas Systems will leverage the award to enhance the capabilities of its current Ultanium Military 6T Battery by significantly increasing the energy and power density over the current first generation lithium version. Ragone plot show’s TARDEC’s goals for Gen 1 and Gen 2 Li-ion 6T batteries compared to lead-acid 6T.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2016

Flux Power Holdings, a developer of advanced lithium batteries for industrial applications including electric forklifts, delivered a custom-developed, 72-volt battery pack to power electric aviation ground support equipment (GSE), initially baggage/cargo tractors.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2013

Valence Technology recently announced the availability of the U-Charge P40-24, the first in a new generation of high-power battery modules utilizing the company’s lithium iron magnesium phosphate chemistry. Paul Krueger, Senior Director of Engineering. The 1.024 kWh (25.6

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

In the HyBoost project, Ricardo, Ford Motor Company, Control Power Technologies (CPT) and the European Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (EALABC) demonstrated a concept they termed “intelligent electrification”. ADEPT will use CPT’s SpeedStart micro-mild hybrid (BSG and stop-start) and TIGERS energy recovery systems.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2011

Nanophosphate Engine Start Battery (12V): Click to enlarge. The Amp20 cells were designed for plug-in hybrid and electric vehicle applications, and offers a power density of more than 2,400 W/kg and 4,500. The system comes equipped with battery management electronics for cell balancing and protection. The additional lifetime of 2.5

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Maxwell Technologies signed an agreement with Purkeys, an electrical systems solutions provider for the trucking industry, for distribution of Maxwell’s ultracapacitor-based Engine Start Module (ESM) product line to the North American heavy-duty trucking industry. —Bruce Purkey, chief creative engineer at Purkeys. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2018

Exide Industries Ltd, India’s largest manufacturer of lead acid storage batteries and power storage solutions provider, and Switzerland-based Li-ion battery manufacturer Leclanché SA announced a joint venture to build lithium-ion batteries and provide energy storage systems for India’s electric vehicle market and grid-based applications.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Engineers at GS Yuasa in Japan have developed a 12V lithium-ion battery targeting the start/stop systems market. The external configuration of the Li-ion battery is compatible with DIN LN5 12V lead-acid batteries, and the operational voltage range is almost the same as the lead-acid battery. Click to enlarge.

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Electrek

MARCH 16, 2023

RYOBI was known for using older lead acid batteries in its riding mowers for years, but that’s no longer the case. With the introduction of its 80V brushless mower line , we now have lithium-ion powered riding mowers from the well-known brand, delivering user-swappable power options here.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2012

Nanophosphate EXT is designed to significantly reduce or eliminate the need for heating or cooling systems, while maintaining long cycle life at extreme high temperatures and delivering high power at extreme low temperatures. “ Yann Guezennec, senior fellow at CAR and professor of mechanical engineering at the OSU. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a $150,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant of $150,000 to Axion Power to fund a commercialization plan for the use of its PbC batteries ( earlier post ) in a low-cost, high-efficiency dual battery architecture for micro-hybrid vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2017

During the testing, four ZAF NiZn batteries will take on the same workload as the eight lead acid batteries that are typically used in eighteen-wheel commercial long haul trucks. On a life cost per kilowatt-hour basis, it is half the cost of lead acid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2015

is introducing two 24-volt versions of its ultracapacitor-based Engine Start Module (ESM). The new higher voltage ESM is suited for improving equipment uptime and power reliability in buses and industrial vehicles such as cranes, backhoes, bulldozers, graders, pavers, off-road trucks, portable compressors and others with diesel engines.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2015

The focus is on high-energy density and high-power density batteries suitable for transportation and renewable energy storage applications. Work on commercially available systems such as lead-acid and nickel-metal hydride batteries will not be considered by this program.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2012

As a result, Ford engineers have more than 25 patents pending for innovations developed in the electronic control strategy for the $295 system. With an appropriate modification of the alternator control strategy, lead-acid batteries can provide brake energy recuperation functionality. It is a more durable 12V lead-acid battery.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

The US military and most NATO countries to-date have used lead-acid batteries in the 6T form factor to provide starting and energy storage for its ground vehicles. Navitas will focus on optimizing the cell chemistry and mechanical design to amplify service life, energy density and low temperature power capability.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2013

The 1200F cell is a high-powered energy solution intended to optimize the performance of lead acid, AGM and Lithium-ion batteries in cars, tractors and motorbikes, enabling improved start/stop technology performance and serving as a reliable and cost-effective feature of hybrid engine vehicles.

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