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0Neal Saiki claims battery breakthrough gives more range, costs less 1337349480
Engineering challenges are like a siren's call to Neal Saiki. Since leaving Zero Motorcycles in early 2011, the company he co-founded with his wife Lisa, he's spent lots of time and effort wrestling with the human-powered helicopter conumdrum. As engaging as that might be, however, he still ...
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Report: Lithium-ion battery costs will still be about $400/kWh by 2020 1333722900
Count Lux Research among the pessimists when it comes to the costs of lithium-ion battery packs. Lithium-ion battery costs will fall to about $400 per kilowatt hour by the end of the decade, more than double the $150 per kilowatt hour the U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium says will be required for ...
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Report: Need to replace a Nissan Leaf battery? How's £19,392 ($31,753 U.S.) sound? 1312409160
UK-based news outlet The Times (sub. req.) is reporting that the cost to replace the 24-kWh lithium-ion battery pack that provides the go-juice for the Nissan Leaf is a staggering £19,392 ($31,753 U.S. at the current exchange rate). The Times arrived at this figure after Andy Palmer, ...
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Renault turns to DHL for delivery of replacement electric vehicle battery packs 1310126580
In a rather unusual sort of way, Renault will rely on the expertise of international logistics company DHL to keep the automaker's electric vehicles in action. Officially, Renault has inked a three-year deal listing DHL as the sole provider of a "comprehensive international solution for the ...
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Video: Coda battery chief details electric Sedan's lithium-ion pack 1291410000
Coda Sedan battery pack – Click above to watch video after the jumpCoda Automotive wheeled out its electric Sedan at the LA Auto Show in mid-November. While Sean Blankenship, the automaker's senior vice president of marketing, was busy telling us how the Sedan's "production adjustment" was ... -
GM's patent application could give new life to aging battery packs 1289584500
GM-Volt.com found an interesting patent application from General Motors (filed a year ago) that entertains the possibility of refurbishing worn out lithium-ion battery packs such as the one in the Chevrolet Volt. While the Volt's 8-year, 100,000 mile battery warranty will cover a lot of people ...
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More reasons why electric vehicle battery pack production is likely to move stateside 1286286660
Coda Sedan – Click above for high-res image galleryHere's a corollary to this morning's post about export hurdles. Not only will electric vehicles (EVs) and related components face logistical problems moving from the U.S. to overseas markets, there are a host of other reasons why it just ... -
Battery warranties are the next piece of the EV puzzle, Nissan not talking yet 1279220160
Chevrolet Volt battery pack – Click above for high-res image galleryDuring the drive for vehicle electrification in recent years there have been plenty of questions not everyone has the answers to: "where can I charge it?," "how much will it cost?" and "how long will the battery last?" ... -
More details on the construction and production of the Volt battery 1279203540
Chevrolet Volt battery pack – Click above for high-res image galleryWhile we were at the General Motors battery plant in Brownstown, MI yesterday, we learned more about the Chevrolet Volt battery pack from newly promoted director of global battery systems engineering Bill Wallace. Over the ... -
Bake it, drown it, fire bullets at it - how batteries are tested in the real world 1273684920
We know that General Motors has the largest battery lab in the world, one that's capable of carrying out all kinds of scientific tests, but that's a little boring, if you ask us. If you want to test a battery's durability, do you really need fancy lab equipment and sophisticated computers? Or can ...
