Toyota Unveils Solid-State Battery in Japan
7 Dec 2010, 16:08 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / Today's battery technology is in an incipient form that cannot sustain the emerging eco-friendly car industry. Fortunately, Toyota takes matters into its own hands and proposes a solid state ba...
Toyota Dismisses Lithium Ion Batteries for 10 More Years
6 Dec 2010, 10:23 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / The leader in hybrid technology, production and sales, Toyota Motor Corporation, says it will stay with nickel-metal batteries for at least 10 more years. This comes as a surprise, as most of Toyota...
Sanyo Supplies Batteries to Six Automakers
23 Nov 2010, 14:20 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / Back in August, Sanyo Electric Co, the world's biggest maker of lithium ion cells, has completed construction of the “Kasai Green Energy Park” lithium-ion production facility in Hyo...
Toyota RAV4 Electric Debuts in LA
18 Nov 2010, 08:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The collaboration between the Japanese from Toyota and American still-start-up electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla has turned reality at the Los Angeles Auto Show, where Toyota is presenting the ele...
Toyota to Recycle Hybrid Batteries
28 Oct 2010, 04:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Japanese manufacturer Toyota has a goal, a very sane one, given the size and needs of the company: make money. From everything, anything and however. Since selling cars proved to be quite a hard nut...
GM Halts Battery Replacement for Recalled Hybrids
28 Sep 2010, 12:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A disturbing problem looms on the horizon for American manufacturer GM, which will soon see pretty much all the mild hybrids sold since 2007 (Chevrolet Malibu, Saturn Aura and Saturn Vue vehicles) b...
Volvo Working on Revolutionary Battery
24 Sep 2010, 10:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The battery... The current nemesis of the really successful, dependable, electric vehicle and a major obstacle in the reduction of the retail price for any given EV. But that is today, because tomor...
Ener1 Boosts Capital
6 Sep 2010, 07:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ener1, the company which will likely become an important player on the electric vehicle market, announced over the weekend an increase in capital of some $65 million by selling $55 million of senior...
Liquid Cooled Battery for Ford Focus EV
2 Sep 2010, 14:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Slowly but surely, the details surrounding American manufacturer Ford's first passenger electric vehicle are being unveiled. The latest insight provided by Ford regards the EV's elementary...
Spheric Tech to Make Batteries Cheaper
31 Aug 2010, 16:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One of the main disadvantages of manufacturing an electric vehicle today is the high price of the battery, a small detail which in turn affects the price of the vehicle. The company which will find ...
Ford Tests EV Batteries Using Wireless Tech
21 Aug 2010, 06:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As one of the manufacturers who will release in the years to come a whole range of electric vehicles, Ford is currently hard at work testing the batteries which will go into those vehicles. In an at...
Nissan Leaf Battery Warranty: 8 Years or 100,000 Miles
27 Jul 2010, 20:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Talk about a twist... A week after American manufacturer GM dropped the bomb and announced an 8 years or 100,000 miles (160,000 km) warranty for the battery of its Volt PHEV, Japanese manufacturer N...
Johnson Controls to Buy Delkor
26 Jul 2010, 13:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American supplier Johnson Controls announced today it has reached an agreement with the Delkor Corporation to purchase 90 percent of their existing joint venture. The Delkor JV, based in South Korea...
Nissan Surveying Buyers on Leaf Battery Warranty
21 Jul 2010, 14:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Last week, American manufacturer GM shocked the automotive world by announcing a 8-year or 100,000-mile (160,000 km) warranty for the battery it will fit into the Chevrolet Volt. Aside for the fact...
Chevrolet Volt Gets Wet
17 Jul 2010, 10:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Testing of the Chevrolet Volt continues in the GM labs, with the latest gimmick being a very unlike... bath. Chevrolet engineers wanted to see how the battery of the plug-in hybrid vehicle behaves w...
GM Announces Volt Battery Warranty: 8 Years/100,000-Miles
15 Jul 2010, 07:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Just as rumored all day yesterday, American manufacturer GM announced the warranty it will offer for the battery fitted into the Chevrolet Volt. The carmaker says the battery will have perhaps the m...
Dow Kokam Battery Plant Breaks Ground
22 Jun 2010, 07:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Work on what is supposed to be an 800,000 square-foot, large-format battery manufacturing facility has begun yesterday in Midland, Michigan, with Dow Chemical Company, TK Advanced Battery, Groupe In...
Li-Ion Powered Think City Enters Production
16 Jun 2010, 08:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Norwegian electric vehicle manufacturer Think announced today it has started production of the Think EV powered by lithium-ion batteries. The batteries in question, built by EnerDel, have a capacity...
China to Become EV Battery Market Leader
1 Jun 2010, 14:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Oblivious to Germany's dreams of becoming the leader of the EV market and to the US' push for a quick electrification, China is planning a more covert approach with the aim of reaching the...
Magna Interested in Battery Production
27 May 2010, 09:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Even if an expansion into the hybrid and EV sectors by the biggest automotive supplier in North America, Magna International, has been somewhat hinted by several of its executives, one of the compan...