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Cabot broadens range of performance additives for advanced lead-acid batteries

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Cabot Corporation, a global specialty chemicals and performance materials company, is introducing three new grades of PBX carbon performance additives that are designed to improve lifetime and performance for advanced lead-acid batteries used in applications such as telecom, electric forklift, e-bike and small micro-hybrid vehicles.

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Industry study finds lead-acid to remain most wide-spread automotive energy storage for foreseeable future; new chemistries continue to grow

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Several battery technologies are able to provide these functions in different combinations, with nickel-metal hydride and lithium-ion batteries preferred at higher voltages due to their fast recharge capability, good discharge performance and lifetime endurance. Other battery technologies (nickel-metal hydride, lead-based etc.)

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Exide Technologies, SRNL and University of Idaho to Collaborate to Advance Lead-Acid Battery Chemistry

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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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Epsilor Li-ion 6T battery under evaluation and field testing in five NATO countries

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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. The company also presented its 12V/110Ah (1.45 kWh) LiFePO 4 battery at IAV.

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ZAF Energy Systems opens NiZn battery manufacturing production plant in Missouri

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ZAF ) has opened a new production facility in Joplin, Missouri, dedicated to manufacturing its initial line of rechargeable nickel zinc (NiZn) batteries. NiZn batteries offer twice the storage capacity and three times the power of legacy lead-acid batteries in a smaller, lighter package. ZAF Energy Systems Inc. (

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NiZn batterymaker ZAF Energy Systems receives strategic investment from Wirtz Manufacturing

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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.

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JERA and Toyota deploy first large capacity Sweep Energy Storage System with second-life batteries

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The project plans to operate grid storage batteries for recharge and discharge operations, connected to the Chubu Electric Power Grid Co., The 485 kW / 1,260 kWh facility will comprise lithium-ion batteries, nickel metal-hydride batteries, and lead-acid batteries.