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

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 in short supply, Bolivia certainly has the advantage of not needing to import the valuable material. The country's deputy minister of Science and Technology, Roger Carvajal, said this week that the basic outline of the government strategy to commercialize the lithium deposits (estimated to be about half of the world's supply) have been decided on. ... Read more →

GM and Toyota agree: gas, battery prices defining parameters for plug-in acceptance Sebastian Blanco

GM has not been secretive about how important gas prices in late 2010 will be on the price of the Chevy Volt. During a webchat this week, GM vice chairman Bob Lutz said again that higher gas ...

REPORT: Toyota secretly tested lithium-ion Priuses for three years Sebastian Blanco

Details are scarce, but it turns out that Toyota has been testing Priuses with lithium-ion batteries in them for years. Not many vehicles were involved – Bloomberg says only 126 such Priuses ...

Columnist: Hybrid growth in the near-term will benefit ... lead-acid battery makers? Sebastian Blanco

Even though demand for hybrid vehicles is expected to grow like mushrooms after a summer rain in the coming years, there's a big problem looming, says John Peterson, a writer for investment site ...

More details on Ford partner's lithium-ion battery plant in Michigan Xavier Navarro

Ford's battery partner, Johnson Controls-Saft, recently announced plans to build a lithium-ion battery factory in Holland, Michigan. The batteries will power Ford's upcoming all-EV and plug-in hybrid ...

Geneva 2009: Clever EDAG "Light Car Open-Source" is like safety television for tailgaters 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

EDAG has presented its new "Light Car – Open Source" concept here at the Geneva Motor Show, and while it outwardly appears to look like any other nondescript electric bubble car, there's a lot of innovative content on the inside screaming for attention. It's hard to know where to start: ...

EDTA 2008: Prototype Toyota plug-in Prius is locked, darn it 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

At the EDTA Conference this week in DC, a nicely-decorated plug-in Prius sat in the Toyota booth. As you can see in this picture, the prototype was locked and this was duly noted in stickers on each door. We briefly spotted Toyota's Jaycie Chitwood by the car but when we went back to see if ...

Wisconsin gives Johnson Controls-Saft $500,000 for hybrid battery tech 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The State of Wisconsin will give Johnson Controls-Saft a half-million dollar grant to aid in the development of hybrid battery technology, it was announced yesterday. The grant is part of Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle's Clean Energy Wisconsin Plan, and requires Johnson Controls-Saft to invest ...

Lutz says Volt's batteries are "flawless" 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Now that we've seen at least a blurry vision of the Chevy Volt's exterior and a Photoshopped front end (above), how about hearing a bit more about the inside, specifically the batteries? According to GM's master of ceremonies vice chairman, Bob Lutz, the lithium ion battery packs that are powering ...

Ener1 CEO paints rosy future for li-ion battery technology 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

click to enlarge Ener1 has been in the news quite a bit these last few weeks, and new CEO (and former and current Chairman) Charles Gassenheimer thought it prudent to write a letter to shareholders about the current status of the company and the future of li-ion batteries in the automotive market. ...

EnerDel update from chairman Charles Gassenheimer 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We spoke with Ener1 Chairman Charles Gassenheimer back in December at the EVS23 expo and at the time he was quite bullish on his company's prospects for 2008. So far this year, there has been quite a bit of good news for the company. Ener1's li-ion battery subsidiary, EnerDel, put a lithium-ion ...

Ford picks Johnson Controls-Saft to supply batteries for PHEV Escapes 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

When Ford handed over the keys to a plug-in Escape hybrid to Southern California Edison last December, one of many secrets the companies kept to themselves was which battery maker was responsible for the lithium-ion batteries fulfilling the electric part of the equation. The company has now been ...

Continental buys into Enax, a Japanese battery company 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The automotive li-ion battery world got a little cozier today, with the news that Continental has purchased a 16 percent stake in the Japanese "battery specialist" (Automotive News Europe's words) Enax. ANE says that the two companies will together develop "high storage batteries for automotive ...

Nissan Forklifts announces new lithium batteries that forecast EV 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Nissan has announced a new range of forklifts that use lithium ion batteries provided by Nissan and NEC's joint venture AESC. These batteries were first seen powering the Mixim and the Pivo 2 concepts during the Frankfurt Motor Show. Does this move of the batteries to actual production vehicles ...

SAE Congress '08: Q&A with Dr. Patil of Compact Power 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

About a month ago, we spoke with Dr. Prabhakar Patil of Compact Power, Inc. about CPI's lithium-ion battery technology. We didn't want to miss the chance to chat in person during the SAE Congress this week, so we stopped by the CPI booth. The reason most AutoblogGreen readers would be following the ...

The April 2008 Chevy Volt update: a visit to the Battery Systems Lab 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The thing that strikes you when you enter GM's Battery Systems Lab (BSL) is the EV1. On the hallway walls are the promo images of the Chevy Volt. For our visit, GM also set up two of the T-shaped batteries that powered these vehicles. The older one that moved the EV1 weighed around 1,200 kg lbs. ...

E-One Moli Energy Corp exhibits li-ion battery for electric vehicles 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Look out, A123. Better dust off your spurs, Saft. There's a new cowboy busting through the bat wings of the electric-car-battery-makers saloon. Yup, the E-One Moli Energy Corp, perhaps better known as the folks who the power in cordless Milwaukee Tools, are jumping into the automotive saddle. ...

Daimler's lithium-ion battery may find a home in BMWs and more 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The hybrid technology agreement between Daimler and BMW means that the world's (likely) first lithium-ion battery to go into a production vehicle - the S400 BlueHybrid (pictured) - will also probably make its way into BMW models. According to the Wall Street Journal and Just-Auto (reg req'd)], BMW ...

The Economist searches for the perfect vehicle battery 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Many of you out there are pretty knowledgeable about the batteries used in today's hybrids and electric cars. I am not. Sure, I've read thousands, nay, million of words about them. I can even recognize the scientific names of the more common chemistries such as LiFePO4 which stands for lithium, ...

Mercedes S400 li-ion hybrid will use Continental battery 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The Mercedes-Benz S400 BlueHybrid that was announced Friday, will likely be the first production lithium ion hybrid in the world. The important milestone here is the lithium ion battery chemistry, something that Reuters is giving us more information about. The S-class' li-ion cell will be supplied ...

Hybrid Technologies readies new li-ion batteries with "superlattice structures" 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Hybrid Technologies, the company that will bring some of its newly re-named LiV line of electric vehicles to the New York Auto Show next month, has announced that its new type of lithium ion polymer battery has passed tests and should allow electric cars to go 200 miles per charge once they're mass ...

Autoblog Green Podcast #9 - Ford's hybrids and hydrogen 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

This week, Sam brings back two interviews - one with Ford's Scott Staley about what's going on in Hybrid land, which is then balanced by a conversation with John Lapetz that pulls back the curtain on the hydrogen research that's been going on in Dearborn. Also touched on are the Chevy Volt and the ...

Popular Mechanics drives the Hybrid Technologies L1X-75 roadster 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

In February, we brought you news that Hybrid Technologies would be announcing a dealer network at the New York Auto Show this year. Read about all of that here. It seems that Hybrid Technologies showed up at the show right as Benjamin Chertoff from Popular Mechanics was leaving. As any self ...

Electric car conversion workshop teaches EV modding 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Electric vehicle (EV) advocate Jenny Isaacs has decided she can't wait for rising fuel prices to usher in a wave of hybrids and EVs, and has instead started a workshop to teach people how to convert their own vehicles. Isaacs has brought a Californian EV expert in to run a two-week course in her ...

ABG POLL RESULTS: Best way to spend the DOE's money 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

On the 13th February we posed the question "What is the best way to spend the DOE's money?", and asked you to vote for your favourite answer. After receiving 290 votes, the results are in and it looks like Lithium Ion battery technology was the clear favourite with 29 percent of the votes. Two ...

Interview with Ian Bruce, founder of Venture Vehicles, part two - safety and sales 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the image for a gallery of 29 images of the VentureOne concept and the Carver three-wheeler. This is the second part in an interview with Ian Bruce, founder of Venture Vehicles, where he talks about safety aspects of the VentureOne concept, and projected sales growth. In the first part of ...

Interview with Ian Bruce, founder of Venture Vehicles, part one - background and design 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the image for a gallery of 29 images of the VentureOne concept and the Carver three-wheeler. It is my pleasure to bring you a comprehensive interview with Ian Bruce, founder of Venture Vehicles and their EVP Design & Engineering. Venture Vehicles are creating the VentureOne, a new, ...

Team Fate beefing up a GM Equinox with li-ions for Challenge X 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility engineering competition is on. And the University of California, Davis Hybrid Electric Vehicle Group (Team Fate) is calling on Lithium Technology Corporation (LTC) to help them out in re-engineering the Chevy Equinox to use lithium-ion cells. The ...

A closer look at GM battery technology 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Along with the recent unveiling of the breakthrough Chevy Volt came the admission by GM that they felt battery technology had a ways to go before plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) can go mainstream. Digging into this, Technology Review has a feature article about the state of GM battery ...

China BAK Battery to produce advanced lithium-ion batteries 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

China BAK Battery, Inc. (BAK) has announced plans to develop and manufacture lithium-ion batteries, commonly used in laptops and cell phones, but increasingly being sought after for hybrid and plug-in electric vehicles. BAK will build a new facility in which to undertake the research and is ...

Lithium-ion or lithium polymer? What's the deal with lithium? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Lithium-ion batteries have been in use for some time in our personal electronics devices, most notably in laptop computers. The switch was made to lithium-ion from NiMh, or nickel metal hydride batteries because they are lighter, cheaper, and smaller than other kinds of batteries. They don't suffer ...

Big 3 boost JCI's li-ion battery project 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

In January, Johnson Controls Inc (JCI) and Saft Advanced Power Solutions, a Paris-based battery company, combined efforts in a joint venture (JCS) to further the development of lithium-ion batteries for vehicle applications. Last month, the U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium, an umbrella organization ...


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