Over £1.3m of funding has been awarded by the Technology Strategy Board to a consortium led by advanced battery manufacturer Axeon and including Ricardo UK, which will develop a new lightweight battery for use in electric small city cars, improving their performance, functionality and range. The aim of the project is to develop an innovative [...]
Osaka, Japan – Panasonic Corporation has developed a 1.5 kWh battery module from 18650-type (18 mm in diameter x 65 mm in length) lithium-ion battery cells, which are widely used in laptop computers, to provide energy storage solutions for a wide range of environmentally friendly energy technologies. For example, multiple units can be connected in [...]
Renault and Better Place have signed a definitive agreement that reflects their partnership in Israel and Denmark. The agreement marks nearly two years of development effort in creating the world’s first mass market zero-emission vehicle with switchable battery. According to this agreement, Better Place will start importing and distributing Renault’s first passenger electric vehicle – Fluence [...]
Canadian electric car start-up Zenn Motor Company Inc has announced that it no longer has any plans to produce a vehicle. Instead it will focus on its key electric drive technology , the ZENNenrgyTM drive. There is a big difference between designing and prototyping an electric car ( or any car for that matter) and [...]
WORLD-first technology that will increase electric vehicle range by up to 20% is to be developed in North East England. Smith Electric Vehicles is working on a new ultra-efficient electric drive line, along with smarter, more energy efficient ancillary systems, such as heating and air conditioning. Combining all these elements together, Smith’s engineers believe they [...]
A new study produced by Carnegie Mellon show that Lithium battery technology performs over time better than has been previously suggested. The cumulative effects of deep discharge on several lithium battery chemistry types from both normal vehicle usage discharge and Vehicle-to-Grid discharge over 2000 test cycles was evaluated.
Demos Charging Infrastructure for Fixed and Switchable Battery Electric Cars Yokohama, Japan — Better Place recently achieved a milestone in accelerating the mass-market adoption of electric vehicles by demonstrating the world’s first battery switch technology along with electric car charging spots. This simple range extension technology delivers a cleaner, more convenient experience for drivers. Better [...]
Research to be Centered at Argonne National Lab in Chicago Advanced lithium-ion automotive battery producer EnerDel and the Nissan Motor Co. of Japan are teaming up to research a new generation of electrical conductive material intended to reduce cost and improve the performance of electric and hybrid vehicle batteries. “This project is about continuing the [...]
WARREN, Mich. – The Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric vehicle is expected to achieve city fuel economy of at least 230 miles per gallon, based on development testing using a draft EPA federal fuel economy methodology for labeling for plug-in electric vehicles. The Volt, which is scheduled to start production in late 2010 as a 2011 [...]
Compact Power, Inc. (CPI), today announced that it has been chosen by General Motors (GM) to provide complete lithium-ion battery packs for a SUV that will debut in 2011. The battery packs will be made at CPI’s R&D and manufacturing facility in Troy, Mich. Battery cells for the packs will come from CPI’s [...]
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