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Daimler's lithium-ion battery may find a home in BMWs and more

Posted Mar 12th 2008 at 2:54PM by Sebastian Blanco

Filed under: Hybrid, Mercedes Benz



The hybrid technology agreement between Daimler and BMW means that the world's (likely) first lithium-ion battery to go into a production vehicle - the S400 BlueHybrid (pictured) - will also probably make its way into BMW models. According to the Wall Street Journal and Just-Auto (reg req'd)], BMW paid some of the development costs of this battery, developed by Continental AG, in order to have access not long after Daimler does. The li-ion S400 should be out in 2009 and other companies will be able to get similar batteries from Continental, the WSJ reported.

[Source: WSJ, Just-Auto (reg req'd)]

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Tags: benz-lithium, blue-hybrid, bluehybrid, li-ion, lithium-ion, lithium-ion-benz, mb, mb-li-ion, mercedes-benz, s400, s400-lithium

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Mercedes S400 li-ion hybrid will use Continental battery

Posted Mar 3rd 2008 at 6:32PM by Sebastian Blanco

Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Mercedes Benz



The Mercedes-Benz S400 BlueHybrid that was announced Friday, will likely be the first production lithium ion hybrid in the world. The important milestone here is the lithium ion battery chemistry, something that Reuters is giving us more information about. The S-class' li-ion cell will be supplied by Continental, which the tea leaves kind of predicted a few months ago. The S400 installs could give the battery maker a potential head start in its effort to beat Korea's LG Chem to produce the batteries for the Chevy Volt. A GM spokesperson told Reuters that both LG and Conti's batteries look encouraging to the automaker, so the advantage of being first on the market may not be as powerful as I suspect.

[Source: Reuters]

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Tags: benz-hybrid, blue-hybrid, bluehybrid, conti, continental-batteries, continental-gm, continental-mercedes, korea-lg, lg-chem, li-ion, lithium-ion, mercedes, s400, s400-hybrid

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