Durable PbC Batteries Facilitate Large Fuel Efficiency Gains
Axion Power International’s PbC brand lead-carbon batteries are being tested on a Peterbilt 386 tractor converted to series hybrid electric operation by ePower Engine Systems of Florence, Ky. The PCB batteries’ tolerance to repeated charge cycles is enabling significant fuel efficiency gains.
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SuperPolymer 2.0 Lithium Ion Batteries for Two EV Models
Canada’s Electrovaya, which recently introduced the SuperPolymer 2.0 version of its advanced lithium ion battery, says it’s shipping battery packs to China’s Dongfeng Motor for two different electric vehicle models.
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Canadian Firm to Supply Lithium Ion Batteries for Electric Cable Ferry
Toronto-based Electrovaya is promoting a new version of its SuperPolymer brand lithium ion battery. SuperPolymer 2.0 “represents the integration of our automotive and grid knowledge, our customers’ feedback, recent safety enhancements in the aerospace sector and our overall vision of the future design of advanced batteries,” the company says – all with an emphasis on safety.
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AABC, EDTA, WEVS Are All Coming Up Soon – ACT Expo Too
The spring meeting season is getting into full swing and organizers of electric vehicles gatherings in Europe and the U.S. are stepping up promotion of their events.
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Swiss All-Electric Airplane’s No-Fuel Journey Is to Start Early in May
The Swiss backers of the Solar Impulse all-electric airplane will attempt to cross the U.S. via a series of flights this spring, commencing around May 1 at Moffett Field south of San Francisco.
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New Oil Lease-Backed Energy Security Trust to Pay for R&D
President Obama has proposed to pay for research into alternative fuels and new energy systems out of a new Energy Security Trust, which would itself be funded by about $2 billion over ten years from off shore oil lease revenues. Natural gas for trucks gets specific mention, as does speedier permitting for domestic energy production.
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‘Supercapacitive’ Batteries Can Be Made on Lead Acid Lines
New Castle, Pa.-based Axion Power says it’s completed shipping a $475,000 order for its PbC brand lead carbon batteries to the Norfolk Suffolk railroad for trials in a pure battery electric yard switcher locomotive, the line’s first, designated NS-999.
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Says Lithium Is Safe, But Switches to Ni-Cad for A350
Airbus Industrie said Friday that it’s sure lithium ion batteries are safe, but that it’s switching to nickel cadmium for its new A350 XWB widebody jet – Europe’s answer to the super-efficient, and now grounded, Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
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Wanxiang America Outbids JCI, Judge Says OK
It looks as if A123 Systems, and its Nanophosphate lithium iron phosphate battery technology and factories, will be acquired by Wanxiang America Corp, which has substantially outbid Johnson Controls, Inc.
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City Becoming EV Central with Incentives & Argonne Batteries,
FedEx Is Adding 100-Plus Smith Battery Trucks to World Fleet
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s $15 million incentive program for battery trucks has been followed by word that Smith Electric Vehicles will open an electric vehicle manufacturing facility there, “creating hundreds of direct and indirect jobs and boosting the already rapidly growing battery and electric vehicle sector in the City.”
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