German Company Offering Simple and Effective Solution for Range Anxiety
25 Sep 2012, 14:17 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Battery packs of insufficient capacity are the main downside of owning and driving an EV nowadays, mainly due to the fact that advanced battery technology, which would allow the storage of more elec...
Bosch and Samsung Ending Lithium-Ion EV Battery Development Collaboration
13 Sep 2012, 12:49 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Four years ago, Samsung and Bosch signed a partnership to jointly develop advanced lithium-ion battery packs for EVs - SB LiMotive. However, now Bosch has decided that it does not need a partner in ...
Nissan Leaf Battery Pack Survives Massive Fire!
13 Aug 2012, 11:30 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While the battery pack of the Nissan Leaf may not be particularly good at maintaining its capacity in really hot climates, it seems to have no problem in withstanding a massive fire which has burned...
Battery Manufactuer A123 Systems Getting $450M Cash Injection from China
9 Aug 2012, 14:31 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Battery manufacturer A123 Systems Ltd. has hit a bit of a rough patch, recently, and the company is only now starting to recover. To further boost their effort, a Chinese auto parts company, Wanxian...
Lithium-Ion Batteries to Be Three Times Cheaper in 2020
9 Aug 2012, 10:35 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While you may think no dramatic reduction in the cost of batteries is possible within the next 10 years, you’d be wron, according to McKinsey Quarterly, who have done a study on the matter. Th...
Are Zinc-Air Batteries the Answer for EVs?
25 Jul 2012, 14:23 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / After Lithium-Air, now the discussion topic are Zinc-Air batteries, which while not widely used or acknowledged as a solution, are apparently one of the better alternatives currently out there. A...
What About Lithium-Air Batteries?
23 Jul 2012, 10:43 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We have been reporting a good number of battery innovations over the last few months, and this, Lithium-Air battery technology is one of the more promising ones. It features Lithium, which is the li...
UCR Says Sat-Nav Improves EV Range by At Least 10%
23 Jul 2012, 09:31 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / As increasing the efficiency of EVs as well as their range via improved batteries and more advanced components is a difficult, time-consuming and very expensive process, other ways need to be found ...
Will the Tesla Model S Get Poor Range in Cold Weather?
17 Jul 2012, 14:09 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Ia question asked by David Noland, a Tesla Model S reservation holder who is also a freelance writer. He posted an article on greencarreports.com, asking whether to go for the $10,000 more expensive...
Silicon Could Herald the Arrival of New and Better Batteries
17 Jul 2012, 12:56 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We all know that the main and really only downside to owning and driving an EV is the limited capacity of its battery, which translates into a range figure which is much lower than that of a normal ...
New Breakthrough - Working Spray-On Batteries
6 Jul 2012, 10:10 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While the biggest problem of modern batteries is their capacity, a group of graduate students from Rice University have taken battery tech in a different direction and they have made a rather import...
100 Year-Old Nickel-Iron Battery Technology Gets Boost
28 Jun 2012, 09:40 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The most common type of batteries used in pretty much anything from your mobile phone to electric cars are lithium-ion batteries. They have been steadily developed over the years and, now, they (alm...
Nissan Leaf Arizona Battery Problem Thickens
25 Jun 2012, 12:07 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We previously reported that many Nissan Leaf owners from Arizona were reporting the loss of one of the 12 battery capacity bars, after only a year of use, despite Nissan’s official claims that...
Cost of Batteries to Settle at $250 / €200 per kWh by 2015
22 Jun 2012, 10:26 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While predictions about future prices are not really accurate, and the further the deadline for something is, the lower the chances are for that ‘thing’ to materialize as intended. Howev...
Nissan Leaf Owners Report Loss of Battery Capacity
22 Jun 2012, 09:33 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / According to greencarreports.com, the battery pack of the Nissan Leaf is already starting to lose some of its capacity, around 8.3% of the total, or one of the 12 bars showing the state of charge, a...
The Problem of Recycling Automotive Batteries
18 Jun 2012, 11:55 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The advance of the EV and the hybrid is relentless. It is a matter of (few) years before we see all cars fitted with fuel consumption reducing devices, before the final transition to all electric. A...
A123 Systems Announce Battery Technology Breakthrough
14 Jun 2012, 11:12 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite not going through the happiest financial situation, A123 systems are still working on new battery technology, having recently announced a breakthrough in nanophosphate EXT, offering numerous...
Hydro-Quebec Developing Ultra-Fast EV Charger
11 Jun 2012, 13:25 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / One of the main reasons cited by the automakers for the rather sluggish introduction of pure EVs are the very long charge time, with some cars taking up to 8 hours to be fully charged from a standar...
Colorado-Based Company Developing 1,000x More Powerful Battery
1 Jun 2012, 09:02 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite saying that an improved version of the Lithium-Ion battery was at least 10 years away, apparently, it may not be the case, as a Colorado-based company founded in 2010, Prieto Battery, aims t...
Next-Gen Car Batteries Research Will Take 10 Years
25 May 2012, 09:13 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The current generation of batteries still aren’t compact enough, and still can’t store enough energy to give EVs the range of a conventionally-powered vehicle. Lithium-Ion batteries have...