Advancing Battery Technology for Modern Innovations
2021年5月18日 · Li-ion battery technology has progressed significantly over the last 30 years, but the best Li-ion batteries are nearing their performance limits due to material limitations. They also have significant safety concerns—such as catching on fire if overheated—leading to increased costs because safety features must be designed into the battery ...
7 Top Trends in Transportation Technology - The American …
2020年1月15日 · Researchers at the DOE Battery Manufacturing R&D Facility test new technologies for hybrid electric and full electric vehicles. Photo: Oak Ridge National Laboratory But the limitations of lithium-ion batteries—energy density, and safety—must be overcome before electric cars gain significant market share.
A Solid Foundation for Battery Technology - The American Society …
2023年8月29日 · In 2021, Factorial Energy raised $200 million, forging partnerships with Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, and Hyundai to jointly develop the solid-state battery technology leveraging industry expertise and an automotive OEM perspective. Poornima Apte is technology writer in Walpole, Mass.
Blog: Electric Vehicle Advances Accelerate - ASME
2024年11月6日 · General Motors LLC of Pontiac, Mich., is getting $8 million to develop and demonstrate an automatic sorting and de-hazarding system for end-of-life EV batteries, while ReJoule Inc. of Signal Hill, Calif., will utilize $6 million to develop and scale EV battery diagnostics technology. Elsewhere, the pursuit of a better battery continues as well.
Making the Next-Generation Lithium-Ion Batteries Safer, Longer
2018年10月24日 · Samsung Advanced Institute of Technologyin 2017 announced a new battery material called “graphene ball” that enables a 45 percent increase in capacity, and a charging speed that is five times faster than standard lithium-ion batteries. A battery based on the graphene ball material requires only 12 minutes to fully charge, according to ...
Using Concrete to Carry a Charge - ASME
2021年9月2日 · A bigger challenge is how to recycle it when the building or battery is ready to retire. Composite materials are notoriously hard to recycle. “One possible solution for recycling is to crush the old concrete batteries to make new concrete batteries,” said Zhang. Another possibility is to simply use the rubble as aggregate for roads.
Reusing discarded EV batteries to store wind & solar power - ASME
2022年10月27日 · “Our controller allows us to use the battery packs as they come out of the vehicle, using the pack’s battery management system software,” said Hall. The B2U system allows batteries with different levels of health and capacity work together. “Each battery type has different guardrails in terms of voltage, current, cell temperature, etc.”
3 Emerging Trends Automotive Engineering - ASME
2013年2月19日 · In order to expand battery operating range and reduce costs, some researchers are designing and testing new battery chemistries and subsystems. Advanced chemistries could allow batteries to operate through greater temperature extremes, last …
Hemp Carbon Makes Supercapacitors Superfast - ASME
2013年7月31日 · Today, it is also used for food, fuel, medicine, building materials, and plastics. Now the energy storage industry is starting to take notice, thanks to new Canadian research that shows supercapacitors with electrodes made from hemp-based carbon nanosheets outperform standard supercapacitors by nearly 200%.
Building Better Batteries - ASME
2017年1月5日 · Thai used her material in a 1.2 volt capacitor, which shares the same chemistry as a battery. The capacitor could have withstood countless more cycles, but she grew tired of running the tests and pulled the plug after three months. “I didn’t want to wait anymore,” she said.