Canary Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

What I’m referring to here is a subtle change in the makeup of EV batteries that carries some significant implications. A significant shift is underway in the electric-car segment. No, I’m not talking about the shift to EVs. That’s still progressing despite a few manufacturers getting cold feet. A type of…

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 27, 2023

The Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) – which aims to drive development of the digital tech – has announced a reference library of use cases and case studies, including use of digital twins as a tool to decentralise power grids.

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Charged

JUNE 8, 2022

Semiconductor manufacturer Renesas Electronics has introduced a new complex device driver (CDD) software module for designers of EV battery management systems. The AUTOSAR-compliant CDD software is designed to work with Renesas’s BMS reference design hardware kit, which is composed of the ISL78714 IC and the RH850/P1M MCU.

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Charged

MARCH 25, 2025

The expanded warranty not only covers the trucks battery, but also the powertrain, motors, controllers, wire harnesses, cables and key electric components. Orange EV , a manufacturer of Class-8 electric terminal trucks, has introduced a new 7.5-year, year, 30,000-hour warranty.

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Charged

APRIL 25, 2023

At this week’s Auto Shanghai, CATL announced a new battery technology that it says offers sufficient energy density to enable the electrification of passenger aircraft. Such performance could enable a number of applications currently considered difficult or impractical for lithium-ion batteries, including aviation. Source: CATL

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Charged

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Researchers from Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU have teamed up with partners in the COOLBat joint research project to develop next-generation battery enclosures for EVs. This configuration protects the battery cells from mechanical loads and overheating at once.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

There are many types of welding used for the interconnection of battery packs. Refer to the IPC specifications for 4556 and 4552. There are many ways to interconnect cylindrical cells in a battery pack. Figure 4 Hesse Customer Solutions Battery Pack. Sponsored by Hesse Mechatronics. Benefits of Smart Welding.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

There are many types of welding used for the interconnection of battery packs. Refer to the IPC specifications for 4556 and 4552. There are many ways to interconnect cylindrical cells in a battery pack. Figure 4 Hesse Customer Solutions Battery Pack. Sponsored by Hesse Mechatronics. Benefits of Smart Welding.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Li-ion is the principal battery chemistry used in EVs, for example. Photoionisation detection (PID) sensors are able to detect potential problems before they occur in the manufacture and use of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, and the enormous variety of devices that use rechargeable batteries. Famously, in 2016, around 2.5

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Charged

APRIL 18, 2022

Nissan has unveiled a prototype production facility for laminated all-solid-state battery cells, which the company aims to bring to market in 2028. This prototype facility, within the Nissan Research Center in Kanagawa Prefecture, is designed to promote the development of solid-state-batteries.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2023

The plant will process end-of-life lithium batteries from sectors such as auomotive. Since 2017, ABB has delivered electrification and automation equipment to power Northvolt’s Ett gigafactory for lithium-ion batteries in Sweden. ” The Revolt Ett site.

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Charged

MARCH 4, 2021

Ford CEO Jim Farley says the US government needs to support domestic battery production and the rollout of public charging infrastructure. “We We need to bring large-scale battery production to the US,” Farley said at a recent financial conference, adding that he planned to bring up the issue in upcoming talks with government leaders.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The concentrated lithium is eventually moved from the evaporation ponds to a nearby facility for processing into lithium carbonate the material that goes into rechargeable batteries. Lithium extraction at the Salar de Uyuni is in the preliminary stages of being developed.

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Charged

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Wire bonding cylindrical battery packs is becoming more mainstream in the alternative energy market these days. This article will review the design guidelines for how to successfully implement a wire or ribbon bonding process for battery packs using cylindrical lithium-ion cells. Wire bonded battery pack for Formula SAE Race Car.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 11, 2020

Energy storage software company Stem will operate a 345-megawatt-hour portfolio of distributed batteries in Southern California Edison utility territory. But it didn’t develop or build these batteries — it’s taking them over from long-time competitor AMS. Managing these batteries isn't a simple task.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 18, 2021

Hawaii's largest utility enlisted a new tool in its quest for a carbon-free electricity system: thousands of batteries installed in people's homes. Hawaiian Electric won regulator approval for a $25 million plan to harness solar and batteries at 6,000 homes across the islands of Hawaii, Maui and Oahu. Venice Beach, Calif.-based

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 2, 2020

Portland General Electric, the largest utility in Oregon, is jumping into the cutting-edge business of turning home batteries into grid resources. The company announced this week that it has received approval from regulators to link up 525 homes with solar-storage systems into a controllable fleet, often referred to as a virtual power plant.

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Charged

APRIL 27, 2022

Global lithium-ion battery production capacity could reach over 6,000 GWh (6 TWh) by the end of the decade, according to lithium industry authority Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. Battery manufacturing facilities (now invariably referred to as “gigafactories”) are being built by automakers and battery suppliers around the world.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

When analysts speak about storage pricing declines, they are referring to battery pricing, which continues to decline every year. For example, the lowest pricing for lithium-ion batteries is generally available for either a major supply contract or for very large-scale deployments of 500 megawatt-hours (MWh) and above.

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Charged

JANUARY 18, 2023

Thanks to the “Buy American” requirements of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and similar provisions in the EU’s new Battery Directive, traceability is becoming a critical function in the EV industry. Q&A with OPTEL’s Ken Fallu. But the auto industry, this is something new.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Lithium-ion batteries, a key enabler of today’s lightweight and handheld electronics as well as electric vehicles, have plunged in cost since their introduction three decades ago at a rate similar to drop-in solar panel prices, as documented by a study published last March.

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Charged

MARCH 7, 2024

What’s more, it will be North America’s first Ultium-based model to use lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries , which GM will source from an unnamed supplier. GM’s current Ultium battery cells use a nickel-cobalt-manganese-aluminum (NCMA) chemistry. We’ve got an established brand,” said GM CFO Paul Jacobson, referring to the Bolt.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The share of customers opting for batteries alongside solar, referred to as the "attachment rate," jumped from 15 percent in Q3 to 24 percent in Q4. The continued growth prospects inspired Berger to coin 2020 as the “year of the battery.” As a result, demand for our product offerings continues to increase.”

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Image: GM GM is launching its new PowerBank home battery unit today, which slots right into the company’s lineup of residential energy management products. GM doesn’t directly handle solar energy solutions but will refer interested customers to its preferred installer, Qmerit, to set that up.

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Energy Central

JUNE 24, 2024

The UK Space Agency and the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) are to collaborate on the world's first space battery powered by americium-241. Radioisotope power systems - sometimes referred to as nuclear batteries - fuelled with plutonium-238 have generally been used in space missions since.

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altenergymag

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The project will combine a silicon wafer, lead-based technology with the testing expertise of Electric Applications Incorporated (EAI) to develop high voltage reference batteries. Gridtential Energy was awarded a research project to generate sophisticated plug and play solar energy systems.

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Charged

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Electra Vehicles, a provider of predictive battery management and battery design software, has demonstrated a new system designed to improve the accuracy of EV driving range estimates. With Electra’s EVE-Ai software, the vehicle’s battery management system is constantly retrained to showcase the most accurate battery metrics.”

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

For those not yet up to speed, net zero refers to the goal of emitting no greenhouse gases by a specific date, typically 2050. And affordable, enabling technologies — electric vehicles and grid battery storage, among them — are quickly coming to market. First, what is net zero?

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 5, 2020

Eos Energy Storage spent 12 years building up a technology it says can rival the dominant lithium-ion batteries for storing grid power. Energy storage is a rapidly growing market, and energy companies are plowing unprecedented sums into battery projects. Exotic battery tech, exotic claims.

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Charged

MARCH 10, 2023

I was referring to the IRA’s revamped system of EV tax credits. As John Voelcker wrote in Car and Driver , Section 45X “has the potential to make EV batteries built in the US so cheap that large swathes of Western cell and battery manufacturing will rush to locate in North America.” This is now happening.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

At the Tesla Autonomy Event in April, Elon Musk said the Disruptors of Detroit were working on a new battery pack that would last a cool million miles, and said it would be available next year. Now Tesla battery research partner Jeff Dahn and his team have released a paper in which they describe this million-mile battery cell.

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Charged

MARCH 12, 2025

Orange EVs president, Kurt Neutgens, was proud to point out that DTI’s 30,000-hour truck is operating on its original battery pack, adding that all of the more than 1,300 trucks in Orange EV’s commercially deployed fleet also continue to operate on their original battery packs.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 27, 2020

The world’s largest asset manager has a new multibillion-dollar renewable energy fund in the works, and a good chunk of it may go to batteries. The idea was to offer clients a “niche strategy” in what was then commonly referred to as “alternative energy.” ” And it wasn’t an easy sell.

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Charged

JUNE 15, 2022

Electroflight says its new SEED (Scalable, Expandable Energy Device) can be rapidly deployed without the need to create a bespoke battery system. The new battery has a capacity of 4.3 It features fast-charging capability and a self-contained battery management system. kWh and specific energy of 196 Wh/kg.

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Charged

OCTOBER 26, 2022

A team of researchers from UC Irvine and four national laboratories has fabricated a cobalt-free cathode for lithium-ion batteries. This achievement resolves long-standing safety and stability concerns around high-nickel battery materials, paving the way for broad-based commercial applications.”.

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Charged

OCTOBER 5, 2021

With the significant growth and development of battery pack technologies, manufacturers of Electric Vehicles (EVs) are placing an increased emphasis on pack design optimization. This battery pack configuration consists of numerous battery modules, each of which contains groups of individual battery cells.

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Mr. Sustainability

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Summary - According to Oilprice, the price of a lithium-ion battery pack used to power an electric vehicle has plunged 89% in the last decade, from $1,100 per kWh to $137 per kWh. Marine batteries still cost significantly more, ranging between $800-$1,000 per kWh for retrofits to $500 per kWh for newbuilds. Only one way costs will go.

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