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As a company that sees plug-in hybrids as the future, it makes sense that Volkswagen would want to advance the technology needed for these cars. What's less expected is how VW wants to do this: through a new annual "Science Award for Electrochemistry," offered jointly with BASF SE, that any ...

Automotive supplier Bosch says it will build a pilot production line in Eisenach, Germany to develop and manufacture future generations of lithium-ion cells. Bosch says the line will produce samples for trial purposes in late 2012 and then expand until it can hit an annual production volume of ...

BASF, one of the world's biggest chemical companies, says it will invest "three-digit million euro sum" (that's somewhere between $144 million and $1.43 billion U.S.) over the next five years in research, development and production of advanced battery technologies. Part of that massive ...

Last November, BASF broke ground on what it hails as the largest lithium-ion cathode production facility in all of North America. With the aid of a $24.6-million grant from the DOE and the company providing $25-plus million in additional funds, BASF's facility in Elyria, OH is currently ...

BASF broke ground on what it calls the largest lithium-ion cathode production facility in all of North America. With the aid of a $24.6-million grant from the DOE under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the company providing $25-plus million in additional funds, BASF's facility in ...

The main obstacle to the mass adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is often said to be the current range limitations of battery technology. What if the energy density of batteries, and therefore the range of EVs, could be increased by 500 percent? ...

Catalytic converters are quite common for gasoline engines but diesel catalysts are less known, in part because they face greater challenges. Still, diesel catalysts have not disappeared because they are efficient and, when you start your car, they don't produce heaps of CO2. Their main problem is ...