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Most promising green technologies number one: lithium ion batteries

Posted Apr 22nd 2008 at 8:19AM by Jeremy Korzeniewski

Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in


Some day, the world may rely solely on electric transportation. While that day is pretty far off in the future, when it happens it will likely be because the lithium ion battery which led the way. Currently, a large number of vehicles in the product-pipeline are scheduled to be released with batteries that are not yet in production. The Chevy Volt looms large as the number one example of a company putting a huge amount of faith into the lithium ion battery. Tesla's exciting Roadster literally uses thousands of little lithium ion batteries which usually find their way into laptop computers. There's truly a great deal riding on the future of lithium ion, and we expect that it will be these batteries which power our upcoming electric cars. Let's move.


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Panasonic starts feasability studies for manufacturing LiIon cells

Posted Dec 27th 2007 at 12:15PM by Sam Abuelsamid

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Toyota

We've all heard about the reports that Toyota has delayed plans to incorporate lithium ion batteries into their hybrid vehicles due to safety concerns. Toyota has a battery joint venture with Panasonic that produces the nickel metal hydride batteries used in current Toyota hybrids. Panasonic has reportedly been working on lithium cobalt oxide chemistries like those used in consumer electronics batteries. It's not clear yet what direction Panasonic has decided to take with lithium batteries, but they are evidently moving forward. During an end of year speech, Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe announced that Panasonic EV Energy was studying what it would take to start manufacturing lithium ion cells for automotive applications. There's no word on when production might actually happen, but at least they are looking at what it would take.

[Source: Toyota, via GreenCarCongress]

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Tags: lithium-ion-cells, panasonic-ev, toyota

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