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Peugeot to use Sanyo NiMH batteries in upcoming diesel hybrid

Earlier this year, Peugeot announced that it would introduce its first production vehicle based on the new 3008 crossover in 2011. Peugeot will likely be the first automaker to introduce a light duty diesel hybrid using PSA's Hybrid4 through-the-road architecture. For this first application, Peugeot will stick with nickel metal hydride batteries and, if a report out of Japan is accurate, PSA will be sourcing its batteries from Sanyo, the same company that supplies batteries to Ford and Honda for their hybrid models. In addition to the ... Read more →

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 ...

What are some advanced battery basics for beginners? Domenick Yoney

Electric cars have been with us since the very beginning of the automobile age and from that time until now, its most important component has been the battery. It stores energy chemically until it ...

Ford: don't get too excited about the Fusion hybrid, we may not have enough batteries Sebastian Blanco

While understandably excited about the 41 mpg highway city rating the new Fusion hybrid recently achieved, Ford is already throwing a wet blanket on the sales potential of the car, which will go on ...

Chevron drains battery planned for Mercedes ML 450 hybrid, Mercedes sues 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/Chevron_subsidiary_cancels_contract_for_hybrid_batteries'; Plans for Mercedes to release the ML 450 hybrid in 2009 may very well be canceled. The maker of the nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries that was to provide the energy storage component for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is it fair to compare battery inventor and hydrogen, solar advocate Stanford Ovshinsky with Thomas Edison? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

To list all of Stanford Ovshinsky's achievements would take half the storage on our server, but few environmentalists really know of him. Fifty years ago he envisioned a hydrogen economy and is the inventor of the nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) battery that is utilized in hybrid vehicles. Many other ...


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