Argonne National Laboratory, which has contributed heavily to the research and development of Li-ion battery technology, is now pursuing research into Lithium-air batteries. Li-air batteries use a catalytic air cathode that converts oxygen to lithium peroxide; an [...]
Panasonic Corporation has developed an 18650-type high-capacity 3.1 Ah lithium-ion battery and began mass production of the battery this December. The new 3.1 Ah cell has a nickel cathode and an energy density of 675 Wh/L.
The company successfully achieved safety and higher capacity by using its Heat Resistance Layer (HRL) [...]
Costs of light-duty plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) are high—largely due to their lithium-ion batteries—and unlikely to drastically decrease in the near future, according to a new report from the National Research [...]
The Nikkei reports that Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co. (Mitsui Kinzoku), plans to enter the lithium-ion battery manganese cathode materials market, with a projected investment of up to ¥10 billion (US$113 million by 2013).
Mitsui Kinzoku is currently delivering cathode prototypes to battery manufacturers that supply automakers. A battery [...]
Engineering News. South Africa is reinvigorating its efforts to develop automotive lithium-ion batteries, with the government’s Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) now determining the commercial feasibility of battery manufacturing in the country.
South Africa’s drive to build batteries include the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the Industrial Development Corporation [...]
A team of researchers from Zhejiang University (China) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences has successfully synthesized a new SnO2 nanoarchitecture: extremely thin sheets, with minimum thicknesses of [...]
Quallion LLC, a developer of customized lithium-ion batteries, modules and packs for medical, military, aerospace, and vehicle applications, remains on track to develop an advanced lithium-ion anti-idling HVAC system for heavy-duty trucks, Dr. Hisashi Tsukamoto, the company’s co-founder, CEO and CTO, recently told Green Car Congress.
In May, Quallion had [...]
RUF Automobile GmbH unveiled the Stormster, an electric SUV based on the Porsche Cayenne, for the European Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, (COP 15). The Stormster is driven by a Siemens electric motor, with 270 kW (367 bhp) as in the eRUF sports car. The lithium-ion battery pack is [...]
Korea Times. SB LiMotive, the 50:50 Li-ion joint venture between Samsung SDI and Bosch (earlier post), has struck a 10-year exclusive lithium-ion battery supply deal with Delphi of the United States.
Under the partnership, SB LiMotive will supply batteries to the American company from 2012 through 2021, Samsung [...]
Valence Technology, Inc., an international developer of lithium iron magnesium phosphate energy storage solutions, has joined custom yacht builder Foundation Bénéteau Yachts, marine diesel engine company Volkswagen AG and Tier 1 driveline integrator ZF Marine to produce hybrid yachts.
Bénéteau, in association with ZF Marine, recently launched the new hybrid-electric [...]
Greentech Media reports that lithium-ion startup Imara has ceased operations, due to a lack of funding.
The battery company, which grew out of a project at SRI started almost a decade ago, has ceased operations. The company had experienced a delay in ramping up operations and could not line up [...]
Business Standard. India Hero Group subsidiary Hero Electric and Canada-based Electrovaya have signed a memorandum of understanding to form a joint venture for manufacturing lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. Details reportedly will be finalized within the next six weeks.
“We have today signed a MoU with Electrovaya for forming the [...]
Large-format lithium-ion battery maker Ener1, Inc. has received $20 million in fresh investment capital from ITOCHU Corporation, a long-term strategic partner of and current investor in Ener1. ITOCHU, which began its strategic relationship with Ener1 in 2003, purchased 3.2 million shares of common stock from Ener1 at a price [...]
The mass production of electric vehicles (EVs) requires mass production of the batteries that power them. Even if commodity prices increase, lithium accounts for only 3% of the price of a lithium-ion battery.
The truth about lithium: abundant and recyclable By Michal Vakrat Wolkin Now and for the foreseeable future, the state [...]
According to a new report from Pike Research, a rapidly growing global market for electrified vehicles—particularly plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles—will create a Li-ion transportation battery industry with nearly $8 billion in sales [...]
US-based lithium-ion battery producer EnerDel will supply the advanced battery systems at the heart of a new project, based in Tsukuba City, Japan, combining electric vehicles (EVs), stationary grid storage, solar power and a rapid charging infrastructure a in a real-world operating environment. The project involves more than a [...]
A team of researchers from Zhejiang University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a nanostructured tin oxide (SnO2) thin film material for use as an electrode in a lithium-ion battery. The material showed a reversible Li storage capacity of 524 mAh g-1 after 50 cycles.
A paper on their [...]
Automotive lithium-ion battery maker EnerDel will be using a portion of its recent federal stimulus grant to purchase eight AeroVironment (AV) advanced electric vehicle power cycling and test systems.
The addition of AV’s 170 kW ABC-170CE cyclers and its 250 kW AV-900 heavy-duty cyclers will expand the advanced battery testing [...]
The Nikkei reports that Nissan Motor Co. has nearly completed development of a lithium-ion battery using a lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide cathode (NMC). The new system, which will reportedly offer almost double the capacity of Nissan/AESC’s current manganese spinel cell, is supposedly slated for deployment in electric vehicles [...]
Automotive lithium-ion battery maker EnerDel is entering the utility-scale energy storage market, supplying batteries for one of the 16 new smart grid regional demonstration projects recently awarded funding by the US DOE. (Earlier post.) EnerDel will build the batteries for five 1MW power systems that will be used by [...]
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) will develop next-generation liquid electrolytes for lithium ion batteries (LIBs) using a new and stable fluorinated electrolyte salt (Li2B12FxH12-x), aiming to soon commercialize the liquid electrolytes for use in large LIBs for vehicles.
The new electrolyte salt, which can replace conventional electrolyte salts, was developed [...]
Engineers at the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) have developed a solid-state, rechargeable lithium-air battery. When fully developed, the battery could exceed specific energies of 1,000 Wh/kg in practical applications, the researchers wrote [...]
