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Renault partners with Atomic Energy Commission to build batteries in France

The French half of the Renault-Nissan Alliance has reached an agreement with two partners to develop and produce lithium ion batteries in France. Renault, the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and the French Strategic Investment Fund (FSI) will create a joint venture for EV batteries. The venture will address the full lifecycle of the batteries, including recycling after they have been used in vehicles. Production is slated to begin in mid-2012 in conjunction with the start of production of an electric city car at Renault's Flins plant ... Read more →

Denso wants to standardize hybrid components, make batteries Sam Abuelsamid

Japanese automotive supplier Denso wants to expands its business of selling components and systems for hybrid and electric powertrains and sees standardization as a way to get there. Toyota is Denso's ...

REPORT: Bolivia will make its own lithium-ion batteries by 2018 Sebastian Blanco

Asia and Michigan, watch out. It's a long-term goal, but Bolivia is looking to capitalize on its large in-ground lithium supply by producing li-ion batteries by 2018. While lithium might not ever be ...

Mitsubishi Fuso delivers hybrid trucks in Europe, getting lithium batteries from SK Energy Sam Abuelsamid

Mitsubishi Fuso is moving full speed ahead in the hybrid truck market. The Japanese truck maker that is 85 percent owned by Daimler recently made the first deliveries of its Canter EcoHybrid in ...

LG Chem to Build $300-Million Advanced EV Battery Plant in Michigan Sam Abuelsamid

A new report is indicating that LG Chem is moving forward with plans to be build a $300 million advanced battery plant in southwest Michigan in the near future. The plant will be used to build ...

The economics of electric vehicles and end-of-life battery use 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

Why does (ok, ok, might) the Chevy Volt cost around $40,000? The main reason the car will cost so much more than a comparable sedan is the 16 kWh lithium ion battery pack running down the floor of the cabin. The exact price of that pack is still a GM secret, but it's probably in the ...

Magnetti Marelli signs deal for development and production of batteries 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

Magneti Marelli has just signed a deal with Italian battery maker FAAM SpA to cooperate on development and production of lithium ion batteries. Marelli is a parts-making subsidiary of Fiat and the batteries are being developed for use in transportation applications. In addition to its Italian ...

REPORT: Lithium ion batteries could be banned from airplanes 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

Some of the largest pieces of the puzzle that need to be expanded before electric cars are seriously ready to take the place of gas-powered cars and trucks in the majority of driveways around the world have to do with batteries. The latest technology that offers a glimmer of hope for the future ...

When economies of scale don't work: could OPEC model lead lithium producers to keep prices high? 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

If there's one repeated refrain we hear about the high price of advanced lithium batteries that are needed for the mass adoption of pure electric cars, it's that economies of scale will one day make the packs reasonably affordable. This seems a likely scenario, but is it inevitable? A paragraph in a ...

Toxco gets $9.5 million DOE grant for battery recycling 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

With lithium ion batteries expected to play an ever increasing role in future transportation, the problem of dealing with the batteries at end of life is now starting to come to the fore. Multiple battery companies are planning on building manufacturing facilities in the U.S. in the next few ...

Chevy Volt battery plant location to be announced this week 3 months ago on Autoblog Green

Back in January at the Detroit Auto Show, then-CEO Rick Wagoner announced that General Motors would be building the battery packs for the Chevy Volt at a new plant to be located somewhere in Michigan. At the time, no one from the company would admit where the plant would be located although it ...

Automotive Energy Supply Corp starts pilot production of batteries 3 months ago on Autoblog Green

Automotive Energy Supply Corporation has kicked off pilot production of lithium ion batteries. For those who have not been paying enough attention, AESC is the joint venture between Nissan and NEC that is developing batteries for electric and hybrid batteries. The first AESC production line is ...

Nissan to spend $1 billion on U.S. battery plant, 4 more plants in Europe 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

Nissan was one of the three recipients in the first round of low interest loans through the U.S. Department of Energy's ATVM program along with Ford and Tesla. Nissan will be getting $1.6 billion from the program that will be used to re-tool part of its Smyrna, Tennessee factory to build ...

Hitachi to multiply lithium battery production by a factor of 70! 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

By fall 2010, Hitachi plans increase its production capacity for lithium ion batteries by 600 percent in the first phase of a major expansion. Hitachi will be supplying the batteries for General Motor's second-generation mild hybrid system that debuts late next year for 2011 model year vehicles. GM ...

Ferdinand Porsche Award goes to lithium battery researchers 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

This year's "Professor Ferdinand Porsche Award" has gone to Dipl. Eng. Michael Keller from Temic Automotive Electric Motors GmbH, Berlin, and Prof. Herbert Kohler from Daimler AG, Stuttgart. The pair won the €50,000 prize for their work on lithium ion batteries for automotive applications. ...

Daimler looking for an extra partner in its lithium battery venture 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

Late last year, Daimler AG announced that it would partner with Evonik for the development and manufacturing of automotive lithium ion batteries. Daimler bought half of Evonik's LiTec battery unit at that time. Now, Daimler is looking to bring in another partner for the project. At this time, its ...

Nissan-NEC JV to invest for 200,000 Li-ion batteries annually by 2011 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

Nissan and NEC are apparently seeing a lot of potential for their lithium battery joint venture. The Japanese Nikkei is reporting that Automotive Energy Supply Corp. will spend upwards of $1.1 billion on production facilities for lithium ion batteries to be used in hybrid and electric vehicles. The ...

Toshiba wants EV battery business, 3M lithium cells/month in 2010 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

It's looking increasingly likely that plug-in vehicles will not entirely bring America energy independence, at least not in terms of energy storage. The fact that American business over the last couple of years seems to have largely given up on manufacturing in favor of being a service economy ...

Will lithium battery costs ever come down? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Battery-powered cars have a lot to recommend them, but they still have one major flaw - the batteries! Compared to almost any other energy storage solution, even the best of today's electrochemical batteries still have very low energy density and very high cost. Every major car manufacturer is ...

Bosch invests heavily in electric vehicle technology 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Automotive supplier Bosch plans to invest lots of money into electric vehicle technologies, including $400 million into a joint venture with Samsung to create lithium ion batteries. The first individual cells should roll out of Bosch's doors sometime next year with complete lithium ion packs ...

A-Class Mercedes: Goodbye fuel cell, hello Tesla battery? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We recently confirmed the rumor that, yes, Mercedes is planning on building an electric car or two and now some of the details are starting to be firmed up. In an interview with German business daily, WirtschaftsWoche, Thomas Weber, a Mercedes board member responsible for research and vehicle ...

Electro Energy sells "made in the U.S.A." lithium ion batteries 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Most of the lithium ion batteries available today are coming from the Far East. However, when problems such as factory fires or potentially prickly political situations arise, a domestic source is reassuring for certain customers. For this and other reasons, Electro Energy is happy to announce that ...

Honda President still prefers nickel batteries for hybrids 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

While many other car-makers (with the notable exception of Toyota) are jumping on the lithium ion bandwagon for new hybrid models, Honda will stick with nickel metal hydride for now. Honda President Takeo Fukui told Automotive News that lithium ion batteries are not yet reliable or durable enough ...

EVS23 videos: Ener1's lithium-ion Prius, details on Killacycle crash 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Electric car advocate and vlogger Doug Korthof has posted several videos from EVS23, including the video above, which is a look at Ener1's lithium-ion Prius. Doug asked Ener1 fairly technical questions, so if you are interested in things like the top of the discharge curve, the above video is just ...

AutoblogGreen videos: Electro Energy, Hymotion Prius at Green the Capitol Office Expo 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Below the fold are two more videos from yesterday's Green the Capitol Office Expo. The first video is Electro Energy telling me about their battery which has a structure that takes up less space and weighs less than your average battery. Electro Energy showed a Prius hybrid with extra batteries ...

New BAE LiIon battery for buses using A123 technology 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

BAE Systems already provides the hybrid electric drive system for DaimlerChrysler's Orion VII buses that are operating in transit fleets around the world. The company has just announced their next-generation system that will be available in 2008 switching to lithium ion batteries. The lithium ...

Building the Volt: You can't go into battle without supplies 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

One of the things that makes automakers so important to the economies of many industrialized countries is the jobs that go along with those companies. The carmakers and their suppliers employ several million people worldwide. Over the past century the world's automakers have built up a base of ...

Mitsubishi to sell electric car in the U.S. 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Mitsubishi President Osamu Masuko said the company plans to start selling an electric car similar to the hybrid concept they showed at the 2006 Detroit Auto Show. The car is likely to be based on the next-generation Colt platform which is smaller than the Lancer platform, the smallest car ...

Hybrid battery compromises charge for safety 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Lithium ion batteries have been bandied about as a possible solution to the development of more efficient regular hybrids, plug-ins, or practical electric vehicles. The Tesla roadster, for example, is powered by an extremely efficient lithium ion pack. Unfortunately such batteries have a greater ...


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