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Battery Technology Google Invests in Aptera Motors and Lithium - Ion Battery Maker AtaCell Matsushita to Increase Lithium - ion Battery Production by 300 % Hitachi Maxell Claims Huge Lithium - Ion Battery Breakthrough.

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In January of last year, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology published a paper that dug in deep to the environmental impact of lithium - ion battery production and used that to compare a mid-sized electric car to a similarly sized gasoline powered car.

We see more and more news of Li - Ion battery production volume increase and cost decrease - some (most?)

Not exact matches

Demand by the consumer electronics industry for low cost lithium - ion batteries has made mass production in Asia more economical.

The rise of the consumer electronics industry has enabled the mass production of low cost lithium - ion batteries in Asia.

The new lithium - silicon batteries, nearing production - ready status thanks to startups including Sila Technologies and Angstron Materials, will leapfrog marginal improvements in existing lithium - ion batteries.

The company added that production of the batteries will begin at Tesla's Fremont, Calif. factory before expanding at the beginning of next year to the Tesla Gigafactory, the $ 5 billion facility for producing lithium - ion batteries that is under construction in Nevada.

In what appears to be a serious opportunity for W.A, the smart money in the lithium space is now moving downstream into the production of lithium - ion battery chemicals such as lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide and the mining of lithium is now looking a bit like the poor cousin.

To make his new model affordable, Musk decided he needs a plant that can produce 500,000 lithium - ion battery packs per year — equal to the world's current production.

In fact, Tesla has said that by 2018 the Gigafactory will be able to produce almost as many lithium - ion cells as the rest of the world's battery production combined.

Comment: Polypore's been hit by GM's decision to idle production of the Volt, which runs on a Polypore lithium ion battery, according to Seeking Alpha.

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.

Scientists from the University of Wollongong have developed prototype battery cells based on sodium - ion technology, which the university says can achieve excellent cycling stability and easily be scaled up to mass production.

Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla Motors, for instance is investing $ 5 billion to build the Gigafactory, which will become the world's largest production site for lithium - ion batteries.

The profit reduction isn't much of a surprise given General Motors» (NYSE: GM) decision to idle production of the Chevrolet Volt, which runs on a Polypore lithium ion battery.

By 2018, we plan to produce 35 GWh of lithium - ion battery cells annually, nearly as much as the rest of the entire world's battery production combined.

The original Roadster battery was the very first lithium ion battery put into production in any vehicle.

Though Tsuga did not explicitly comment on whether this was related to Tesla's newest mass market sedan, it's presumed that he was referring to automation of Model 3's 2170 li - ion battery cell and pack production at the Gigafactory.

Tesla is planning to build the biggest lithium - ion battery plant in the world in an effort to not only reduce cell costs for its electric vehicles but to ramp up production as well to keep up with projections that it will be churning out 100,000 vehicles annually by 2015.

There are several reasons for this including over production of iron ore to maintain market share and an aggressively growing lithium ion battery business which requires cobalt in existing chemistries.

By 2020, the company plans to produce as many lithium - ion batteries annually as the entire world produced in 2013 — enough for a fleet of 500,000 electric cars — and with a 30 per cent reduction in production cost per battery.

«Our method of producing nanoporous silicon anodes is low - cost and scalable for mass production in industrial manufacturing, which makes silicon a promising anode material for the next generation of lithium - ion batteries,» said Zhou.

A lithium - ion battery storage system achieves the best possible balance between differences in energy production and consumption.

If true, it is a good bet that the Korean firm's six - year effort to beef up its production of lithium ion batteries — mostly used in mobile devices — figured strongly in the decision.

Professor Lee expressed his hope for «the production of next - generation, high - performance sodium ion batteries.»

At that rate, according to Musk, the company will require the world's entire current production of lithium - ion batteries.

Big mining companies are all looking for this important resource integral to the production of lithium ion batteries due to the rise in popularity of electric cars.

China will account for more than 60 % of the world's production of wet - process separators for Li - ion batteries, with more than 10 billion square meters capacity, according to China - based market intelligence firm CCM.

The production car's sizeable 90kWh lithium - ion battery pack, good for 310 miles in the road car, should also be game for several laps at race pace.

The race car's lithium - ion batteries are said to be similar to production EVs, but won't have enough juice to get to the top on a single charge.

This month, Panasonic will begin making Li - ion batteries at its new Suminoe plant in Osaka, which features integrated production from electrodes to battery cells.

This, he says, will take more than 10 years and require innovation to reduce the cost of Li - ion materials to less than half current levels, a 10-fold increase in the speed of production and battery recycling to extract and reuse rare metals.

The S400 uses a small motor sandwiched between its 3.5 - liter V - 6 and seven - speed automatic and is the first production hybrid to use lithium - ion batteries.

Samsung SDI is a leader in the production of lithium - ion batteries for mobile phones and laptops.

The power density of the Fe battery is about 10 % less than in Li - ion batteries, he says, but the safety and much cheaper production cost make it a better choice.

Citing recent advances in lithium - ion battery technology that has reportedly increased its range from an original 134 miles to close to 250 miles, high - ranking insiders at Audi's headquarters in Germany suggest the R8 e-tron will now go into limited production during the latter half of 2014.

Toyota says the materials to make lithium - ion batteries costs less than nickel - metal hydride, but production costs are greater.

Yesterday, Mitsubishi announced it would be extending the production and shipment stoppage of the Outlander PHEV until it can find the cause of an overheating lithium - ion battery that caused one of the vehicles to catch on fire.

The concept car in Paris featured a Tesla sourced lithium ion battery pack and a 100 - kW electric motor — but there's no word on how close the production version will be to the prototype.

The SUV's lithium - ion battery will be powered by the new 48V electrical architecture that was previewed by the 2015 Evoque mild hybrid Concept e. Similar to the concept, the production - spec Evoque PHEV's electric motor will be used as the 1.5 - litre engine's starter motor.

The LC 500h is the first production Lexus to use a compact, lightweight, lithium - ion hybrid battery.

Mitsubishi will extend its production halt and stop sale of its Outlander PHEV until it fully determines the cause of an overheating lithium - ion battery event that occurred in one of the PHEV Outlanders back on March 21 and a few other similar incidents involving battery pack issues in the plug - in crossover.

When the Fit EV production model is introduced, it will be powered by a lithium - ion battery and coaxial electric motor.

It seems that despite adopting: — a lithium - ion battery; — a «high - pressure direct fuel injection that replaced the less - efficient multi-port injection type»; — a new Hydra - Matic six - speed automatic transmission that replaces the conventional four speed used previously; — a «new BAS design [that is supposed to] ha [ve] noteworthy fuel economy gains compared to the earlier system»; — all those «talks» of «advancements gained from production of multiple generations of hybrid technology as well as development of the Chevy Volt»; — and significantly less horsepower and oomph than an Accord hybrid that was first debuted 7 years ago, there are actually little to show for any significant advancement in fuel economy from GM's latest hybrid.

Like the production Nissan LEAF, the Nismo RC is powered by a lithium - ion battery composed of 48 compact modules and a high - response 80kW AC synchronous motor that generates 107 horsepower and 280Nm of torque.

As we already know, the Toyota Prius V Hybrid uses either lithium ion technology or nickel - metal hydride for the batteries and therefore estimate production figures can come from the available supply.

While providing a safe and space - saving means of accommodating the lithium - ion battery, it also ensures that the concept offers the same generous and variable cabin space provided by the current series production models.

Called the Generation EQ, the high - riding SUV is planned to go into production in 2019 as an electric rival to the likes of the Audi e-tron quattro, Jaguar E-Pace and Tesla Model X, boasting a lithium ion battery that is claimed to provide it with a range of up to 310 miles between recharging.

Daimler AG began its own development and production of lithium - ion battery systems in 2009.