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FAA grounds US Boeing 787 Dreamliners after second incident with Li-ion battery; GS Yuasa Lithium Power the manufacturer

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When the FAA issues an airworthiness directive, it also alerts the international aviation community to the action so other civil aviation authorities can take parallel action to cover the fleets operating in their own countries. United Airlines is currently the only US airline operating the 787, with six airplanes in service.

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Saft and ESMA to Cooperate on Supercapacitor Development, Production and Commercialization; Heavy Diesels First Target

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In addition to the main cooperative agreement with ESMA, Saft has also signed a distribution agreement for the supercapacitors with KBi (Kold Ban International), a US company specializing in diesel engine starting systems that is already an established ESMA distributor for North America.

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Take a detailed look at 7 types of energy storage batteries

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It consists of two electrochemically active electrodes of different compositions as positive and negative electrodes, respectively, and a chemical substance that provides media conduction as an electrolyte, which provides electrical energy by converting its internal chemical energy when attached to some external carrier.