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Battery technology is advancing at an incredible pace. Keep up to date with the latest news and developments.

Aston Martin RapidE at Williams Advanced Engineering, Grove

UK’s Second Battery Build Facility Gets a Green Light

By / 11 April, 2017

Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) has led a consortium of organisations, including Unipart Group, Coventry University, WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group), Productiv, MCT ReMan and The National Composites Centre, in a successful bid for an APC (Advanced Propulsion Centre) Competition to build a high performance, low volume, flexible battery manufacturing facility – the second such facility in …

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Battery Cells

World’s First Sodium-ion Powered Vehicle Demonstrated

By / 15 May, 2015

We all know of lithium-ions, the chemistry used within batteries, which power everything from smartphones to electric cars. There are other chemistries too that do not receive quite as much attention. Familiar types such as Nickel Metal-Hydride (NiMH) are common place, but generally regarded as not being as useful as lithium-ion. However, there are plenty …

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Tesla Fremont Factory

Tesla & Panasonic Sign Agreement for Gigafactory

By / 31 July, 2014

Panasonic Corporation and Tesla Motors, Inc. have signed an agreement that lays out their cooperation on the construction of a large-scale battery manufacturing plant in the United States, known as the Gigafactory. The agreement builds upon a previous letter of intent by both companies to produce batteries in a single factory. Tesla will look after …

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Alcoa | Phinergy modified Citroen C1 with aluminium-air battery gives 1,000 mile range

1,000 Mile Electric Car a Reality on the Road by 2017

By / 26 June, 2014

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the title of this article is an April fools. However, it is indeed now a reality that could resign range anxiety to the history books. Alcoa, the Canadian based Aluminium company) and Phinergy (an Israeli clean energy company) debuted a zero-emissions electric demo car powered by a revolutionary aluminum-air …

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Toyota Hybrid Battery System

Toyota’s Power to the People

By / 20 February, 2014

This winter has been one of the worst on record worldwide. There have been terrible floods here in the UK as well as exceptionally cold weather in the United States of America. Thousands of people have been left without power and in the cold over the last few months. Generators for remote power are nothing …

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Volvo's Nano Battery Project

Volvo Revolutionises Electric Vehicle Batteries

By / 17 October, 2013

Volvo Car Group has developed a revolutionary concept for lightweight structural energy storage components that could improve the energy usage of future electrified vehicles. The material, consisting of carbon fibres, nano structured batteries and super capacitors, offers lighter energy storage that requires less space in the car, cost effective structure options and is eco-friendly. As …

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Samsung SDI Road Map

Samsung SDI Lead the Battery Charge at Frankfurt IAA 2013

By / 26 June, 2014

Samsung SDI, the global leader of consumer lithium-ion batteries is on the way to become the driving force of vehicle electrification with innovative battery cells and complete pack systems. Samsung SDI started mass-production of VDA-standardised lithium ion battery cells with prismatic aluminum housings for electrified vehicles. A 2020 product roadmap for cell capacity increase will …

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