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SAE International issues best practice for lithium-ion battery storage

Green Car Congress

SAE International has released a new standard document that aids in mitigating risk for the storage of lithium-ion cells, traction batteries, and battery systems intended for use in automotive-type propulsion systems and similar large format (e.g., stationary, industrial) applications. —Ronald M.

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Event: City of Los Angeles Taking Green To the Streets

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LA City Councilman Paul Krekorian and Congressman Tony Cardenas It uses a lithium-ion battery designed for long duty cycle operation and can charge using the same J1772 charging receptacle as found on most light-duty vehicles. The truck’s 165 kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery uses nickel-magnesium-cobalt chemistry.

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NSF funds U of Kansas researcher developing machine learning technology to monitor and prevent thermal runaway in Li-ion batteries

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Supported by a new five-year, $500,000- grant from the National Science Foundation, a researcher from the University of Kansas is developing machine learning technology to monitor and prevent overheating in lithium-ion batteries. Nowadays these lithium-ion batteries are everyplace in our society. —Huazhen Fang.

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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

Cars That Think

meters long, weigh 62 kilograms, and store 3 kilowatt-hours. EnerVenue If you don’t discharge and then recharge them all the way, lithium-ion batteries can last for thousands of charge-discharge cycles. Here’s one of the gripes: It takes 60 to 80 kilowatt hours of electricity to produce a 1-kWh lithium-ion battery.

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ARPA-E awarding $36M to 22 projects in RANGE program for transformative EV storage

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million to develop a solid-state Lithium-ion battery that requires less protective packaging, which reduces cost and overall vehicle weight to improve driving range. Advanced Aqueous Lithium-Ion Batteries. For example, Solid Power located in Louisville, CO will receive approximately $3.5 Lead organization. Description.

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Fire risks associated with li-ion batteries & safety

Electric Vehicles India

The demand for lithium-ion battery-powered road vehicles continues to increase around the world day by day. As the technological advances in energy storage systems, specifically those that are part of the lithium-ion family. Read the complete article to know more about fire risks with li-ion batteries. .

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Nissan to provide LEAFs and LEAF-to-Home power supplies to roadside rest stations in Japan

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The Nissan LEAF, paired with the LEAF-to-Home power supply system, can be used as back-up power source in emergency situations if there are power outages and/or shortages by providing the stored electricity held in the Nissan LEAF’s onboard batteries. The lithium-ion batteries of Nissan LEAF can store 24 kWh of electricity.