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HYVE, the UK’s largest independent battery manufacturing facility opened in Sunderland. The site is home to Hyperdrive Innovation, a developer and manufacturer of lithium-ion battery technology. Hyperdrive makes battery packs for electric vehicles and energy storage systems and has invested £7m into its manufacturing capabilities since moving to the site in 2014. The new site will allow the company to produce up to

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New Delhi: The Centre is planning to set up 50-GW battery manufacturing in India to achieve 30% electric vehicles by 2030 target. Earlier the proposal was to set up 40-GW battery manufacturing base in India but it has now been scalled up to 50GW. A proposal on the same has already been sent to the Cabinet, the Economic Times reported. Soon, the government

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While it is often stated only 5% of lithium-ion batteries are recycled, a review of research into the second life and recycling of lithium-ion batteries suggests that is a gross understatement. A new study found almost 100,000 tons of waste batteries were recycled last year – about half of what reached end-of-life. There are a good deal of misleading statistics

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By: Xuli Chen Rajib Paul Liming Dai Abstract The advancement of modern electronic devices depends strongly on the highly efficient energy sources possessing high energy density and power density. In this regard, supercapacitors show great promise. Due to the unique hierarchical structure, excellent electrical and mechanical properties, and high specific surface area, carbon nanomaterials (particularly, carbon nanotubes, graphene, mesoporous carbon and their

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BMZ Holding GmbH plans to join forces with KION Group AG, a provider of intralogistics solutions, to form a lithium-ion battery joint venture. The joint venture will be under the name of KION Battery Systems GmbH. This joint venture will produce lithium-ion batteries for industrial trucks in the EMEA region.  Both BMZ and KION boast of having world-leading know-how in lithium-ion technology. 

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Advancements in zero-emission fuel cells could make the technology cheap enough to replace traditional gasoline engines in vehicles.

Engineers continually pioneer new ways to improve battery technology. Scientists recently developed a material which could significantly extend the life of batteries and afford them higher capacities as well.

MIT Researchers have devised a new pulsed laser deposition technique to produce thinner lithium electrolytes using less heat. According to the researchers, the use of thinner lithium electrolytes could allow faster charging and might lead to higher-voltage solid-state lithium-ion batteries. Key to the new processing technique for the solid-state battery electrolyte is alternating layers of the active electrolyte lithium garnet component

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The Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) awarded £33m in the twelfth-round of government-funding to advance the UK’s low carbon automotive capability. The funding is intended for innovative programs that are expected to secure and create 2,230 jobs in research and manufacturing sectors across the UK. APC selects projects because of their contribution to the UK’s development of cutting-edge technology and their alignment to

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In an open-access paper in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society, researchers from Imperial College London and the Faraday Institution propose a new metric—the Cell Cooling Coefficient (CCC)—to quantify the rate of heat rejection from Li-ion batteries. The CCC (units W.K−1) is constant for a given cell and thermal management method and is therefore suited for comparing the thermal performance

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