Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2020

A couple of years ago, the market for nickel sulfate was largely driven by the plating industry and non-Li-ion battery applications such as NiMH and NiCd batteries with stagnated y-o-y growth. As a crucial raw material in Li-ion batteries used to electrify vehicles, a significant volume of nickel sulfate will be required in the decade ahead from the booming automotive sector.

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2020 NiCd Li-ion NiMH 64

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The powertrain consists of a 350 kW diesel generator and a 350 kW NiCd battery. Alstom will supply two H3 hybrid shunting locomotives for Audi’s freight transport. The automotive manufacturer will use the shunting locomotives to reorganize its factory traffic in Ingolstadt. The locomotives will be delivered at the end of 2015 and the end of 2016.

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2015 NiCd Supplies Audi 84

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

Yunasko and others have demonstrated 35 Wh/kg, with the intermediate supercabatteries, matching lead-acid and NiCd batteries. A new report by market research company IDTechEx—“Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors: Supercapacitors 2014-2024”—finds that supercapacitors are improving faster than lithium-ion batteries in most respects.

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2014 NiCd Li-ion Lithium Ion 81

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Nickel-zinc batteries are chemically very similar to nickel-cadmium, NiCd. The PowerGenix battery has up to a third more energy density than a traditional NiCd battery when measured by either weight (Wh/kg) or by volume (Wh/l). PowerGenix, the developer of nickel-zinc (NiZn) rechargeable batteries ( earlier post ), has signed a product evaluation contract with HELLA, a Tier 1 supplier to major automotive manufacturers worldwide.

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2013 Nickel Cadmium NiCd Nickel Metal Hydride 79

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2009

BYD Auto, which is a subsidiary of China-based BYD Group, the leading provider of NiCd batteries (65% global market share) and lithium-ion cell phone batteries (30% global market share), uses BYD lithium-ion iron phosphate cells in its energy storage system. Chinese carmaker BYD and Volkswagen have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the options for partnership in the area of hybrids and electric vehicles powered by lithium batteries.

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NiCd 2009 Lithium Ion E6 60

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2011

The energy density is higher than those of nanostructured porous carbon materials and reaches the regime of batteries such as Pb-acid, NiCd, and lithium ion battery (10–150 Wh kg -1 ). Ragone plots of Aza-CMPs. Source: Kou et al. Supplementary material. Click to enlarge.

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2011 Polymer NiCd Energy Storage 84