Archive for July, 2009

Companies Lining Up to Join Electric Car Battery Revolution

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Source: News Tribune
Class: SYNDICATED NEWS
SYNOPSIS: The companies range from small niche firms to giants such as Dow Chemical and Johnson Controls.
WASHINGTON – The Energy Department is getting ready to hand out about $2 billion in grants to create a domestic industry for electric-car batteries, and 122 companies are scrambling to get pieces.
The companies range from [...]

Lotus Engineering’s View of Next Generation Electric City Car

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Source: EV Worldwire
Class: EVWORLDWIRE
SYNOPSIS: Automotive Engineer commissions Lotus to design electric city car.
Better known for their high performance racing machines — and the starting point for the Tesla Roadster and Dodge EV — Lotus Engineering took a crack of designing the next generation urban/city electric commuter for Automotive Engineer.
Since the car is intended simply [...]

White House To Unveil Battery Grants

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Tuesday, July 21, 2009
David Shepardson / Detroit News Washington Bureau
Washington — The White House plans to unveil the first group of grants from a $2 billion fund for battery research in the next few weeks with some of the funds directed to states like Michigan, a top economic adviser said tonight.
As part of the $787 [...]

Hybrid-Electric Corsa LeMans P1 Prototype

Monday, July 20th, 2009

SYNOPSIS: Utah-based hybrid-electric LeMans racecar exhibited in Washington, D.C.
It was an electric day for the Corsa Motorsports team when it accepted an invitation from the U.S. Department of Energy to display the team’s No. 48 GZ09-SH electric/hybrid Le Mans P1 Prototype racecar on the L’Enfant Quad at the U.S. Department of Energy’s headquarters building [...]

Functional Battery Made With Virus/Nanotube Electrodes

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

By John Trimmer
In the latest bit of battery tech to come out of MIT, researchers have modified a virus so that it connects charges stored in standard lithium battery materials with a carbon nanotube electrode.
Researchers have developed a specific formulation of lithium-iron phosphate that allows lithium charges to rapidly move in and out of the [...]

BMW Develops Electric Scooter

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

Leccy Tech BMW has cracked the electric scooter nut and will start to sell what appears to be a genuinely usable electric bike in 2011.
That’s assuming a report in overseas magazine Solo Scooter is correct, of course.
The putative BMW machine will apparently have a top speed of 120kph (75mph) and a range on a full [...]

Thin-metal lead acid battery/capacitor

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Next Alternative, Inc. Over the past five years the company has developed a breakthrough “hybrid” battery/capacitor that produces capacitor-like power while maintaining the energy storage ability of a conventional lead-acid battery. Based on advanced thin-metal lead-acid battery technology, this new-generation hybrid battery is four to five times more powerful than conventional lead-acid batteries and is [...]