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• Lithium Ion technology makes hybrid vehicles affordable and more practical

  
  Greenlaunches.com — Authority: 533
  A hybrid car may be on the wish list of many, but those long price tags make them out of reach. These vehicles tend to cost more because of the technology they use. However according to John German, an author and ex-engineer, the latest breakthrough in the field of clean energy storage, the Lithium ion battery, will ...
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• Expert says lithium ion batteries better for hybrids than full EVs

  
  Autoblog Green — Authority: 673
  Filed under: Emerging Technologies , EV/Plug-in , Hybrid Low-cost electric cars are waiting on nothing but a simple battery breakthrough. Thats been the long-held opinion of many experts for the last, oh, 50 years or so. Is lithium ion technology the tipping point weve been waiting for all these years? Well, ...
  22 hours ago

• Panasonic - Sanyo Collaboration Together Release Lithium-Ion Battery

  
  Computer Electronic Gadget Review — Authority: 139
  Panasonic and Sanyo have been working together to make lithium-ion batteries that will be strong enough to store enough energy to take care of the house for a week. They will be launching this device in 2011. This lithium-ion batteries will be better than cells that have fuel, which is considered an efficient ...
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• Panasonic to build home use lithium ion battery in 2011

  
  Autoblog Green — Authority: 673
  Filed under: Solar With the various tax incentives available, there is an increasing interest among homeowners in incorporating some sort of renewable energy system to help get partially or completely off the grid. The problem is that unless you live adjacent to a hot spring that you can use for geothermal, ...
  2 days ago

• New Hope for EVs: Bolivia Holding World’s Richest Lithium Field

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 133
  As the automotive industry has oriented itself towards green energy usage, the need of a "supreme" alternative resource is obvious. And what is more obvious is the demand of Electric Vehicles. EVs need to store their energy in batteries: mainly Lithium-Ion batteries. As of this particular reason, Lithium seems to be ...
  3 days ago

• Big Chevy Volt news expected on Jan. 7

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 159
  Apparently General Motors still has some surprises in store when it comes to its highly-anticipated Chevy Volt. The company says it will be announcing something big on Jan. 7 during the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.There are several things this could mean. First, the company could put a definite ...
  3 days ago

• Are Electric Cars More Energy Efficient Than Gasoline? The Answer Is Yes

  
  TechPulse 360 — Authority: 132
  A lot of hype is charging up prospects for the electric car. Some of it is clearly justified. In a perfect world, the pure, electric, plug-in vehicle appears to hold the key to the future. Power it with renewable energy from a solar or wind farm. Run it on a new generation lithium battery capable of 500 miles between ...
  4 days ago

• Digital Quantum Battery Could Boost Energy Density Tenfold (PhysOrg)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 151
  (PhysOrg.com) — Physicists theorize that quantum phenomena could provide a major boost to batteries, with the potential to increase energy density up to 10 times that of lithium ion batteries. According to a new proposal, billions of nanoscale capacitors could take advantage of quantum effects to overcome electric ...
  5 days ago

• Daimler to ramp up lithium-ion battery production

  
  Green cars: latest news — Authority: 485
  Lithium-ion battery production could increase by 10x its original target number if Daimler and Evonik get their way.According to a report in Germany’s Handelsblatt, the companies want to invest an additional €200million in their joint lithium-ion manufacturing venture Deutsche Accumotive GmbH & Co. KG to boost ...
  6 days ago

• Panasonic starts production of more powerful lithium ion cells

  
  Autoblog Green — Authority: 673
  Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Tesla Motors Tesla Model S - Click above for high-res image gallery Last week, Panasonic launched production of new, more powerful lithium ion cells at a factory in Japan. The new cells are of the same 18650 format used for laptop batteries and the Tesla Roadster . The new ...
  1 week ago

• Johnson Controls Signs Clean-Energy Vehicles Agreement With China’s Geely

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 161
  Chinese automaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. announced today that it has signed a wide-ranging global cooperation agreement with Milwaukee-based Johnson Controls Inc. Geely, which is developing electric vehicles and is the preferred bidder for Fords Volvo unit, said the partnership will cover auto parts, ...
  1 week ago

• Upcycling Plastic into Valuable Parts

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 486
  Nearly everyone who has ever been to a supermarket walked out with more than just the food that they purchased, they also walked out with potentially dozens of plastic bags.  This is a big issue as most of the plastic bags used in supermarkets and convenient stores cannot be recycled.  Although some amount of ...
  1 week ago

• BMW to Unveil Battery-Electric 1 Series Concept at Detroit Auto Show Next Month

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 161
  With more than 1,000 MINI E battery-electric vehicles in the field and a Megacity sub-brand of BEVs in the works , BMW today announced that it will debut its Concept ActiveE electric drive in a 1 Series coupe at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit next month. In a statement, the Bavarian automaker ...
  1 week ago

• Toyota launches plug-in hybrid, poised to continue green car dominance

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 159
  Bookmark this categoryToyota launched its plug-in hybrid electric vehicle in Japan today, setting it up to compete directly with General Motors’ Chevy Volt, which it resembles operationally. Given that the car has the longest driving range and best fuel economy available in a market-ready car so far, its impressive ...
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• Toyota Says It Will Offer ‘Affordable’ Prius Plug-in Hybrids to General Public in 2011

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 161
  Toyota Motor Corp will begin selling “affordable” plug-in hybrid cars in 2011, upping the ante on General Motors and Nissan as they aim to take the lead in the field of rechargeable cars. Toyotas first plug-in model, the Prius Plug-In Hybrid Vehicle, or Prius PHV, adds an external charging function and more ...
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• Toyota Says It Will Offer ‘Affordable’ Prius Plug-in Hybrids to General Public in 2011

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 161
  Toyota Motor Corp will begin selling “affordable” plug-in hybrid cars in 2011, upping the ante on General Motors and Nissan as they aim to take the lead in the field of rechargeable cars. Toyotas first plug-in model, the Prius Plug-In Hybrid Vehicle, or Prius PHV, adds an external charging function and more ...
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• Toyota Says It Will Offer ‘Affordable’ Prius Plug-in Hybrids to General Public in 2011

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 161
  Toyota Motor Corp will begin selling “affordable” plug-in hybrid cars in 2011, upping the ante on General Motors and Nissan as they aim to take the lead in the field of rechargeable cars. Toyotas first plug-in model, the Prius Plug-In Hybrid Vehicle, or Prius PHV, adds an external charging function and more ...
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• Upcycling: Transforming plastic bags into nanotubes

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 447
  Vilas Ganpat Pol at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois has discovered a way of transforming plastic bags into carbon nanotubes. The chemist who developed the technique calls it ‘upcycling’, which means converting a waste product into something more valuable. He converted waste plastic from throwaway ...
  2 weeks ago

• Turning waste plastic into carbon nanotubes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  London, Dec 12 (ANI): A chemist has created an ‘upcycling’ method of turning the disposable plastic carrier bags into carbon nanotubes.Vilas Ganpat Pol at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois developed the carrier-bag-to-nanotube technique and converts high or low-density polyethylene (HDPE and LDPE) into ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ricardo and QinetiQ Announce Reduced-Cost Lithium-ion Battery for Hybrid EVs

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 161
  British technology-service providers Ricardo and QinetiQ say theyve demonstrated the potential of a new, low cost lithium-ion cell chemistry and related battery management system for hybrid electric vehicles. The two companies claim to have created a battery pack, using QinetiQs new
  2 weeks ago

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