“We are ready to sell the battery to whoever is interested. We are making it a core business, because we think that the battery is going to be an essential piece of technology for our century.” - Carlos Ghosn, president and CEO of Nissan Motor Co. Count Japan’s Nissan Motor Co. among the corporations who view [...]
SB LiMotive, the Bosch and Samsung joint venture, has announced the commencement of construction of a 28,000 square meter plant in South Korea that will start commercial production of lithium-ion batteries for hybrid cars by 2011 and electric vehicles by 2012. SB LiMotive also revealed that the venture is expected to create around 1,000 job [...]
“Battery technology has improved, but is still far inferior to gasoline in terms of how much energy they hold. The energy density—which is the amount of energy a lithium-ion battery stores per unit weight—is really not enough to produce a family-sized sedan with a 300- to 500-mile range.” -Spike Narayan, a key IBM researcher- IBM’s [...]
You know the battery that’s currently powering your laptop? If Panasonic has anything to do with it, the same type of battery may end up powering hybrid and all-electric vehicles in the years to come. In an effort to curb costs on increasingly popular battery-powered vehicles, Panasonic Corp. has developed a 1.5 kWh battery module [...]
Instead of letting old batteries collect dust in the garage or end up wasting away in a landfill where they will likely do harm to our environment, why not turn that battery into something everyone can enjoy…..like a tree! Between October 3 and 10, CAA Niagara of Ontario, Canada is collecting
While the overall consensus is that battery powered hybrid and all-electric vehicles are the future of the world’s auto industry, how to go about implementing the change to these vehicles has sparked up quite a debate. One of the concepts that seems to draw the greatest reaction is Shai Aggasi’s Better Place battery-swapping stations. As [...]
While lithium ion batteries continue to become more common and more popular by the day, not everyone is sold that this particular battery chemistry is the way to go. After three years of performing road tests on a fleet of 126 Priuses
While hybrid and all-electric cars and trucks seem to be the vehicles getting all the love from the media these days, another method of transportation is quietly experiencing it’s own form of modern transformation. More and more we’re seeing people turn to battery-powered bicycles to help get them from point A to point B and [...]
With over 50% of the world’s know lithium reserves lying within it’s borders, the country of Bolivia is paying close attention to the rapid rise of lithium batteries. The auto industry and the rise of hybrid and all-electric vehicles are the primary factors for the increased demand in lithium; however everything from cell phones, laptops, [...]
Toyota Motor Corp. has reportedly developed a new technology that may dramatically boost the storage capacity of lithium ion batteries, thus opening the door to more practical and efficient electric vehicles. Japan’s Nikkei business newspaper said the new technique eventually would allow lithium ion batteries to store 10 times the energy of current ones. This [...]
