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A technology developed by Purdue researchers could provide an «instantly rechargeable» method that is safe, affordable and environmentally friendly for recharging electric and
hybrid vehicle batteries through a quick and easy process similar to refueling a car at a gas station.
John Cushman, Purdue University distinguished professor of earth, atmospheric and planetary science and a professor of mathematics, is commercializing a technology that could provide an «instantly rechargeable» method forelectric and
hybrid vehicle batteries through a quick and easy process similar to refueling a car at a gas station.
Not exact matches
The new additions include three plug - in
hybrid vehicles, which come on top of eight
battery - powered cars and two fuel - cell
vehicles.
While
hybrid electric and full electric
vehicles have become more common in recent years, the aviation industry has been slow to embrace e-planes, partially because of the weight and cost of lithium - ion
battery packs.
They include ECD's low - cost cell for solar power; «rewritable» compact discs and DVDs; an instant - start, regenerative fuel cell currently in development; and a rechargeable nickel - hydride
battery for powering
hybrid - electric
vehicles, which ECD is producing in a joint venture with Texaco.
Although lead - acid
batteries will continue to account for more than 62 percent of secondary
battery demand in 2015, sales of lithiumbased rechargeable
batteries, which are widely used in both portable devices and
hybrid vehicles, will record the strongest increases.
Growth will be supported by the rising popularity of
hybrid and electric
vehicles, which will encourage domestic suppliers to dramatically boost production of Li - Ion
batteries.
Many would likely be electric
vehicles, either all - electric
battery cars or plug - in electric
hybrids.
Indeed, A123 struggled to compete in an increasingly crowded
battery business, and it didn't offer a radical enough performance improvement over established lithium - ion
batteries to immediately win over a fledging
hybrid -
vehicles market (see «A123's Technology Just Wasn't Good Enough»).
While portable consumer goods alone continue to provide impressive growth in demand for lithium
batteries, the start of mass production of
hybrid, plug - in
hybrid and electric
vehicles presents the most significant upside potential for lithium demand.
This is around a ten per cent increase for a full
hybrid electric
vehicle all the way up to double the cost for a
battery electric
vehicle.
Spanning 17 elements — from lanthanum to lutetium, plus scandium and yttrium — they find use in computers, screens, superconductors, oil refineries,
hybrid or electric
vehicles, catalytic converters, compact fluorescent lightbulbs, light - emitting diodes, lasers, audio speakers and microphones, cell phones, MRI machines, telecommunications,
battery electrodes, advanced weapons systems, polished glass, and even the electric motors that run automobile windows.
In our model, achieving
battery costs of $ 100 per kilowatt hour (kWh) with
vehicle ranges of 300 miles could lead to 90 percent penetration of EVs,
Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) and PHEVs [in new
vehicle sales in 2030].»
An explosion in the number and kind of commercially available
hybrid trucks means
battery power isn't just for lightweight commuter
vehicles anymore
Over the years, Easley produced code that went on to be used in renewable energy research, including
batteries for early
hybrid vehicles, as well as for the high - thrust liquid oxygen / liquid hydrogen Centaur rocket used to get space capsules into orbit.
In the early 1990s, Waters helped develop the
battery pack system for General Motors» electric car, the EV1; helped set an EV world speed record at 183 mph; later founded Bright Automotive, a company that invented a 100 - mpg plug - in
hybrid electric commercial
vehicle; and now heads Waters and Associates, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in global sustainable mobility and housing.
McCain's platform revolves chiefly around monetary challenges for companies and consumers — including a $ 5,000 tax credit for consumers who buy zero - emission cars (encouraging automakers to create such
vehicles) and a $ 300 - million X PRIZE — like competition to develop a
battery for plug - in
hybrids and fully electric cars.
Hydrogen fuel cell
vehicles are vying with next - generation
hybrid car technology (which can be plugged in to recharge its
battery rather than relying on the gasoline engine) to be the electric car of the future.
However, plug - in
hybrids with a real electric range of about 60 km drive the same number of kilometers electrically as
battery electric
vehicles.
In addition to offering
vehicles powered by a number of alternatives (fuel,
battery or both), car companies are going to win customers in the future based on the networked services they offer drivers and passengers and how well these services are delivered, says Nancy Gioia, Ford Motor Co.'s director of Sustainable Mobility Technologies and
Hybrid Vehicle Programs.
«When taking into account that production of the far smaller
batteries of plug - in
hybrids is associated with less carbon dioxide emissions than production of the larger
batteries of electric
vehicles, their carbon dioxide balance is even better,» says Patrick Jochem of KIT's Institute for Industrial Production.
This gap in research has now been closed by scientists of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT): They compared the performances of 49,000
battery electric cars and 73,000 plug - in
hybrid vehicles in Germany and the US using data from fleet trials and automotive manufacturers as well as from websites for drivers to manage and monitor their
vehicles.
This is the result of a comparison of
battery and plug - in
hybrid vehicles in Germany and the US by scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Fraunhofer ISI (Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research), which is now reported in Nature Scientific Reports.
«Moreover,
hybrids can foster public confidence and prevalence of electric mobility, as they have the same range than cars with internal combustion engines, contrary to
battery electric
vehicles.»
Ultimately,
hybrid vehicles and electric cars — whether powered by
batteries or fuel cells — will deliver even more environmental rewards.
Data evaluation revealed that plug - in
hybrid vehicles with a real electric range of about 60 km drive the same number of kilometers electrically as
battery electric
vehicles, namely, up to 15,000 km per year.
Patrick Plötz, Fraunhofer ISI, emphasizes: «Plug - in
hybrid vehicles represent a good addition to
battery electric cars in order to meet the goal of reducing greenhouse gases.
This means that plug - in
hybrids are a good addition to
battery electric
vehicles in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The innovation could expedite the adoption of electric and
hybrid vehicles by eliminating the time needed to stop and re-charge a conventional electric car's
battery and dramatically reducing the need for new infrastructure to support re-charging stations.
A plug - in
hybrid electric
vehicle (PHEV) utilizes both electric and combustion motors, circumventing the limited storage capacity of even the latest, much improved
batteries.
The
batteries will extend the range of electric
vehicles and plug - in
hybrid electric
vehicles, and provide more power with fewer charges to personal electronics like cell phones and laptops.
A systematic empirical comparison of the electric performances of
battery vs.
hybrid vehicles has been lacking so far.
Steffen Møller - Holst at SINTEF Energy Research believes that
battery - powered
vehicles will play a very important role in the emission - free transport of the future, but that this will happen in combination with
hybrids, rechargeable
hybrids and hydrogen - powered
vehicles.
Meanwhile, just about every automaker is working on a new generation of electric
vehicles, including both
hybrids and cars that operate entirely on electricity stored in
batteries.
«Ifbattery is developing an energy storage system that would enable drivers to fill up their electric or
hybrid vehicles with fluid electrolytes to re-energize spent
battery fluids much like refueling their gas tanks.»
All the
vehicles began the endurance event having fully charged their accumulators (whether
batteries or capacitors) from the grid, as is the norm for a plug - in
hybrid vehicle.
A recent Carnegie Mellon University study suggests that
hybrid plug - in
vehicles would be more expensive over a lifetime of use than comparable gas - powered cars due to the
battery's hefty cost.
Although the Volt concept, which is being introduced today at Detroit's North American Auto Show, is a kind of
hybrid vehicle, the design emphasizes electric
battery rather than gasoline engine operation.
As it stands, a conventional Toyota Prius
hybrid vehicle, which burns gasoline when its
batteries are not engaged, and the all - electric Nissan Leaf produce roughly the same amount of greenhouse gas pollution: 200 grams per mile, according to data from the U.S. Department of Energy.
Electrifying the light - duty
vehicle fleet through expanded deployment of plug - in
hybrids,
battery electric
vehicles, and hydrogen fuel - cell
vehicles.
Hybrid - electric
vehicles, such as the Toyota Prius and 472 of SEPTA's buses, have for years used regenerative braking to charge on - board
batteries and reduce fuel consumption by reusing the stored energy upon acceleration.
In a new report, Electric
Vehicle Market Forecasts, Navigant research projects that under its base scenario, global sales of light duty electrified vehicles (i.e., vehicles that use electricity for traction, including hybrids, plug - in hybrids, and battery - electrics) will grow from 2.6 million vehicle sales in 2015 to more than 6.0 million... Read
Vehicle Market Forecasts, Navigant research projects that under its base scenario, global sales of light duty electrified
vehicles (i.e.,
vehicles that use electricity for traction, including
hybrids, plug - in
hybrids, and
battery - electrics) will grow from 2.6 million
vehicle sales in 2015 to more than 6.0 million... Read
vehicle sales in 2015 to more than 6.0 million... Read more →
Results: High capacity, safe
batteries are needed for efficient
hybrid or electrical
vehicles and for storing and releasing electricity from intermittent power sources like wind turbines and solar panels.
For example, plug - in
hybrid electrical
vehicles need better
batteries to drive longer distances.
In an article to appear in the journal Energy Policy, the authors find that urban drivers who can frequently charge their
vehicles (every 20 miles) can reduce gas consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and expenses with a plug - in
hybrid with a
battery pack sized for about seven miles of electric travel.
In addition to questioning a 40 mile electric range, some analysts are questioning
hybrid - electric
vehicle's
battery lifespan.
Hydrogen fuel cell
vehicles (FCVs) are a form of all - electric
hybrid merging a fuel cell stack with a traction
battery.
The 2017 Kia Optima Plug - in
Hybrid Electric
Vehicle is scheduled to arrive in U.S. dealerships about the middle of the third - quarter of 2016, with a 9.8 killowatt - hour electric
battery pack delivering about six - times the current car's energy output and a pure - electric range of 27 miles.
There has been a lot of talk recently about new inductive
battery charging methods that could do away with wires and plugs, and Toyota is taking a step forward with its wireless charging system for plug - in
hybrids and electric
vehicles.