Bosch to Begin Production of Automotive Batteries in Europe by 2016
23 May 2012, 08:16 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Bosch is the world’s largest automotive components supplier, and being such a big name, we need to take note whenever they have something to announce. This time, it’s their announcement ...
How About Recharging in the Time It Takes to Refuel?
7 Jun 2011, 09:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Two main obstacles stand between the electric vehicle and a bright future: range and recharge time. While one has created a new shopper condition called “range anxiety,” the other is sti...
Johnson Controls and Saft Part Ways on Battery Production
19 May 2011, 12:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's not often these days that we see two companies that have joined forces to develop battery systems part ways. With the thriving industry of electric and hybrid cars in its early stages and ...
Lithium Technology to Supply Asian Fleet of Test Vehicles
11 Apr 2011, 08:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Two new fleets of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids are in the making somewhere in Asia, where an unnamed auto maker will benefit from the products developed by the Lithium Technology Corporatio...
EPA to Create Electrification Standards
7 Apr 2011, 09:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Having given birth to a brand new industry, the electric vehicle and anything related to it is still engulfed in a shroud of mystery. From infrastructure to charging standards, the industry must do ...
Former AMD Exec to Lead Ener1
28 Mar 2011, 13:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There seems to be a lot of love going on between IT companies and the more recent electric vehicle and battery manufacturers. Whereas last year news of all sorts of IT industry execs getting a role ...
New Battery Structure to Revolutionize Charging
21 Mar 2011, 12:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As the electric vehicles are becoming a reality, the race to create a better, more capable and faster charging battery is intensifying. More and more universities across the world, acknowledging the...
Computers to Create the Perfect Battery
14 Mar 2011, 16:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The essential component of an electric vehicle, the battery, has quickly and at the same time became the EVs biggest enemy: the battery. Too expensive, too ineffective and too big, the battery is at...
Dow Kokam to Supply Motiv Power and ZeroTruck
8 Mar 2011, 13:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the expanding new industry of large-format battery systems, every single contract might mean the difference between success and a shameful Chapter 11 filing. On the other hand, with more and more...
Europe Backs EV Battery Switch Idea
7 Mar 2011, 08:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As the electric vehicles are getting ready to leave their mark on Europe, the continent's regulators are scrambling to find ways to insure that these types of vehicles can make a difference. Cu...
New Lithium-Ion Battery to Kill Range Anxiety
24 Feb 2011, 09:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It was only a matter of time until some real progress was made in the development of lithium-ion batteries, the building blocks of the new and brave electric vehicle age. Currently, the batteries fi...
Envia Details Battery Technology
27 Jan 2011, 12:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After earlier today American start-up company Envia Systems received the blessing of car maker GM, together with a $17 million investment, the company decided to give a glimpse of the technology whi...
GM Bets $17 Million on Envia Systems
27 Jan 2011, 08:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It appears that American manufacturer GM has decided on how to play the whole electric vehicle game: instead of working on its own on most of the systems that go into such cars, it will invest in co...
Nissan Goes Forward with Leaf US Plant Construction
27 Jan 2011, 07:57 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Nissan continues the construction of its manufacturing facility in Smyrna, Tennessee, which will produce lithium-ion batteries for the company's first all-electric vehicle already on sale in th...
Johnson Controls Battery Recycling Plant Build Begins
19 Jan 2011, 06:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Having opened the flood gates to millions and millions of batteries in need of recycling, car makers across the world will soon feel the pressure of having to rid themselves of the piles and piles o...
Toyota Developing Magnesium Batteries as Alternative to Lithium
13 Jan 2011, 10:42 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / According to Bloomberg report, Toyota is had at work developing a magnesium battery for their future hybrid models. The magnesium-sulfar alternative to lithium models is being developed at the carma...
ActaCell Gets Funding for Battery Research
30 Dec 2010, 09:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With the number of electric vehicles and hybrids increasing by the month all over the world, being one step ahead of the rest of the industry is essential in ensuring future success of future models...
Nissan Leaf Battery Status Check by Telenor
21 Dec 2010, 11:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Aside for bringing a breath of fresh air to the choking automotive industry, electric vehicles will also spawn a new owner experience for their buyers. From now on, owning a vehicle will forever cha...
Nissan Leaf Won't Lose Value Faster than Conventional Rivals
10 Dec 2010, 08:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Now that Nissan Leaf has entered production, buyers from all over the world are making plans whether to purchase the 2011 European Car of the Year and how smart such an acquisition would actually be...
Toyota, Daimler, BMW Turn to Tesla-inspired Laptop Battery Solution
8 Dec 2010, 19:37 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / Toyota Motor Corp, Daimler AG and BMW AG are looking at laptop batteries to power their electric cars, following an example set by California-based automaker Tesla Motors. The three aforementioned a...