27May/090
GS Yuasa and Mitsubishi’s electric vehicle lithium-ion battery joint venture plant to expand production capacity
According to Reuters, citing the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported, GS Yuasa (GS Yuasa) will work with Mitsubishi Motors and Mitsubishi Corporation jointly build a new plant, the production of laptop battery electric vehicles. The report also said that the new plant will enable the battery production increased three-fold.
GS Yuasa, Mitsubishi Motors, Mitsubishi Corporation in December 12, 2007 set up a joint venture Lithium Energy Japan. July 31, 2008, the joint venture factory address - Kusatsu City, Shiga, Japan Kasayama - confirmed. In August 2008 announced that the joint venture: The fiscal year 2008 (April 2008 -2009 3 months) completed the trial production, and from the 2009 fiscal year (April 2009 -2010 in March) the beginning of mass production "LEV50" lithium-ion sony battery , with an annual output target is 200,000 for 2009, Mitsubishi plans to market the electric car "i MiEV" (car sales in 2009 plans to 2000) used.
April 21 this year, GS Yuasa and Honda hybrid cars lithium-ion VGP BPS9 battery joint venture company Blue Energy Co., Ltd in Japan, Kyoto Prefecture field Fukuchiyama Town Mayor held a foundation stone laying ceremony. The plant is expected to put into operation in autumn 2010.
GS Yuasa, Mitsubishi Motors, Mitsubishi Corporation in December 12, 2007 set up a joint venture Lithium Energy Japan. July 31, 2008, the joint venture factory address - Kusatsu City, Shiga, Japan Kasayama - confirmed. In August 2008 announced that the joint venture: The fiscal year 2008 (April 2008 -2009 3 months) completed the trial production, and from the 2009 fiscal year (April 2009 -2010 in March) the beginning of mass production "LEV50" lithium-ion sony battery , with an annual output target is 200,000 for 2009, Mitsubishi plans to market the electric car "i MiEV" (car sales in 2009 plans to 2000) used.
April 21 this year, GS Yuasa and Honda hybrid cars lithium-ion VGP BPS9 battery joint venture company Blue Energy Co., Ltd in Japan, Kyoto Prefecture field Fukuchiyama Town Mayor held a foundation stone laying ceremony. The plant is expected to put into operation in autumn 2010.
27May/090
Flexible ultra-thin silicon solar cells will provide an alternative
Stepped down from the roof solar
In people's eyes, the roof of photovoltaic cells has long been commonplace. But one day in the future, more compact than the current micro-photovoltaic cells will be applied in more areas, windows, roof sunshades and even their shadow will appear.
University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Professor of Materials Science and Engineering John Rogers (John A. Rogers) and his research team invented a new technology, makes the plastic, cloth materials printed on translucent materials such as ultra-thin flexible silicon cells possible.
Solar energy to put on body
If the technology will eventually lead to large-scale applications, will now generally fixed at the roof of the solar power industry with an alternative to stepped down from the roof as soon as possible. New type of silicon cells can be printed on the plastic surface of the volume, and create a variety of functions, can be printed on T shirt or other clothing, in the acquisition of energy when people wear.
Dr. Luo Jiesi and his team manufactured using standard printing such a silicon solar cell, the thickness of silicon less than the traditional process of one-tenth of the laptop battery . In addition, the battery array can muffle a pencil firmly, showing its flexibility is also very good. Technology has been licensed to Durham, North Carolina, (Durham) semiconductor companies Semprius, the company plans to launch in a year to manufacture the silicon cell module.
University of California at Berkeley (the University of California, Berkeley) and an assistant professor of electrical engineerJiewei Allison (Ali Javey) in the "natural materials" (Nature Materials) comment that the magazine, Rogers Dr. methods for large-scale the production of highly efficient solar cells and high toughness provides a new idea.
Traditional crafts manufacturing silicon solar cells rigid, heavy and opaque, but because of the stability characteristics of high-performance, as well as the inexhaustible resources of the silicon so that it continues to occupy the mainstream in the market Inspiron E1505 battery . But easy to brittle silicon ultimately limit the scope of its application. Dr. Jiewei said: "Dr. Luo Jiesi has solved a series of technical barriers, new technologies can be silicon or other inorganic substances in the interception of TLC and thin-layer attached to these other materials on the surface."
The new silicon
Dr. Luo Jiesi and his team in the past 5 years has been engaged in research and development of flexible electronic components, this technology is nothing more than their follow-up results of previous studies. Dr. Luo Jiesi said they will first printing plate using standard thin solar cells will be installed to the semiconductor chip, and then seal with a soft rubber to other materials.
Dr. Luo Jiesi added: "The seal of the adhesive surface energy absorption from silicon cells, you can imagine at this time into a silicon seal on the Latitude D620 battery of the 'ink', and then we seal the battery to other printed materials, such as this piece of plastic above. "
Harvard University Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, the famous chemist George Seitz (George M. Whitesides), said Dr. Luo Jiesi on the one hand, relying on the results of research in recent years, advances in silicon technology system, on the other hand, to overcome the large-scale application of silicon can not be the fundamental defect.
He said: "The performance of silicon did not say, but previous rough rigid silicon production caused a lot of constraints. Dr. Luo Jiesi interception technology will be applied to inorganic silicon area of the system to overcome the traditional crafts produced by the lack of flexible silicon fundamental flaws. the new technology system not only to retain the traditional silicon technology, but also in related fields to lay the foundation for technological innovation. "
The thinner the lower cost
Translucent silicon micro-batteries 2M400 , 2P700 , 312-0279 , 312-0383 will also have a number of characteristics of new uses, for example, can be stained as a power-type window paint, people can change the battery to regulate the density of the translucent windows. Coating on the more sparse cell density, the transmittance of the window, the better.
Durham, North Carolina in the factory, Semprius is solar arrays for the R & D technology and busy.Rogers CEO (Joe Carr) said new technology allows the company some of the many opportunities to cope.
The company is also to include the Motor Company's potential customers, including R & D of photovoltaic modules. Karl said of the automobile manufacturers to equip with new cells are very interested in the roof.
Dr. Luo Jiesi said: "The flexibility and transparency of these features is excellent, but the light is the biggest advantage of the new Inspiron XPS M170 battery . The cost of solar power is the greatest enemy of the industry, only the unit cost of power generation dropped to low enough, the solar power generation can be large-scale applications. new battery technology often only 2 microns thick (1 micron to 100 great 1 m), and you know, the more thin battery lower cost. "
In people's eyes, the roof of photovoltaic cells has long been commonplace. But one day in the future, more compact than the current micro-photovoltaic cells will be applied in more areas, windows, roof sunshades and even their shadow will appear.
University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Professor of Materials Science and Engineering John Rogers (John A. Rogers) and his research team invented a new technology, makes the plastic, cloth materials printed on translucent materials such as ultra-thin flexible silicon cells possible.
Solar energy to put on body
If the technology will eventually lead to large-scale applications, will now generally fixed at the roof of the solar power industry with an alternative to stepped down from the roof as soon as possible. New type of silicon cells can be printed on the plastic surface of the volume, and create a variety of functions, can be printed on T shirt or other clothing, in the acquisition of energy when people wear.
Dr. Luo Jiesi and his team manufactured using standard printing such a silicon solar cell, the thickness of silicon less than the traditional process of one-tenth of the laptop battery . In addition, the battery array can muffle a pencil firmly, showing its flexibility is also very good. Technology has been licensed to Durham, North Carolina, (Durham) semiconductor companies Semprius, the company plans to launch in a year to manufacture the silicon cell module.
University of California at Berkeley (the University of California, Berkeley) and an assistant professor of electrical engineerJiewei Allison (Ali Javey) in the "natural materials" (Nature Materials) comment that the magazine, Rogers Dr. methods for large-scale the production of highly efficient solar cells and high toughness provides a new idea.
Traditional crafts manufacturing silicon solar cells rigid, heavy and opaque, but because of the stability characteristics of high-performance, as well as the inexhaustible resources of the silicon so that it continues to occupy the mainstream in the market Inspiron E1505 battery . But easy to brittle silicon ultimately limit the scope of its application. Dr. Jiewei said: "Dr. Luo Jiesi has solved a series of technical barriers, new technologies can be silicon or other inorganic substances in the interception of TLC and thin-layer attached to these other materials on the surface."
The new silicon
Dr. Luo Jiesi and his team in the past 5 years has been engaged in research and development of flexible electronic components, this technology is nothing more than their follow-up results of previous studies. Dr. Luo Jiesi said they will first printing plate using standard thin solar cells will be installed to the semiconductor chip, and then seal with a soft rubber to other materials.
Dr. Luo Jiesi added: "The seal of the adhesive surface energy absorption from silicon cells, you can imagine at this time into a silicon seal on the Latitude D620 battery of the 'ink', and then we seal the battery to other printed materials, such as this piece of plastic above. "
Harvard University Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, the famous chemist George Seitz (George M. Whitesides), said Dr. Luo Jiesi on the one hand, relying on the results of research in recent years, advances in silicon technology system, on the other hand, to overcome the large-scale application of silicon can not be the fundamental defect.
He said: "The performance of silicon did not say, but previous rough rigid silicon production caused a lot of constraints. Dr. Luo Jiesi interception technology will be applied to inorganic silicon area of the system to overcome the traditional crafts produced by the lack of flexible silicon fundamental flaws. the new technology system not only to retain the traditional silicon technology, but also in related fields to lay the foundation for technological innovation. "
The thinner the lower cost
Translucent silicon micro-batteries 2M400 , 2P700 , 312-0279 , 312-0383 will also have a number of characteristics of new uses, for example, can be stained as a power-type window paint, people can change the battery to regulate the density of the translucent windows. Coating on the more sparse cell density, the transmittance of the window, the better.
Durham, North Carolina in the factory, Semprius is solar arrays for the R & D technology and busy.Rogers CEO (Joe Carr) said new technology allows the company some of the many opportunities to cope.
The company is also to include the Motor Company's potential customers, including R & D of photovoltaic modules. Karl said of the automobile manufacturers to equip with new cells are very interested in the roof.
Dr. Luo Jiesi said: "The flexibility and transparency of these features is excellent, but the light is the biggest advantage of the new Inspiron XPS M170 battery . The cost of solar power is the greatest enemy of the industry, only the unit cost of power generation dropped to low enough, the solar power generation can be large-scale applications. new battery technology often only 2 microns thick (1 micron to 100 great 1 m), and you know, the more thin battery lower cost. "
27May/090
German spending huge sums to develop lithium batteries into the era of new energy automobiles
The article come from http://www.batteryoffice.com
Recently, auto industry consultant for the research department was informed that starting this year, Germany launched a 360 million euros vehicle lithium-ion battery development program, almost all German cars and carry-owned energy giant to join.
The German government said the plan, the German mark will enter the era of electric vehicles. At the same time, Daimler Motor Company and RWE energy company that will work together to build 500 electric vehicle charging station. German auto industry alliance is expected to Germany in 2012 will be completed before the series of electric vehicles and off commercial production started.
According to the consultant for the automotive industry analysts pointed out Lee Sheng-mao, new energy sources for electric vehicles is the focus of automotive development, and the driving force for lithium batteries for electric vehicles is a source of motivation, the present power lithium battery technology bottleneck is almost resolved, the upcoming production stage to enter the industry. Now, the international automobile giants have been developed and will be the development of lithium battery power on the strategic position.
At present, Japan's R & D aspects of lithium batteries in the world. Disclosure by the Industrial Policy Bureau of Japan, Japan will strive in 2010 the new lithium batteries for next-generation electric vehicles. Toyota, Nissan Motor and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. signed an agreement and other related enterprises, efforts to develop uniform specifications for a new generation of automotive lithium-ion battery, and plans volume production in 2 years. Toshiba decided to spend ¥ 50,000,000,000 Development of electric vehicles using lithium-ion battery, this high-performance driving force within the next two years to enter the semi-commercial production.
Popularization of electric vehicles is a critical need to have sufficient power to add bases. Tokyo Electric Power announced that it would take the lead to participate in the infrastructure construction in the metropolitan area to more than 200 charging stations, after three years to more than 1000.
Tokyo Electric Power has successfully developed large-scale rapid charger, the charging time significantly shortened. It is reported that a full charge every 10 minutes, beyond the distance they traveled is 60 km. At present, the cost of the establishment of a charger is ¥ 4,000,000. The company in Japan's supermarket car parks, convenience stores and post offices and other public places have building equipment chargers. It is estimated that if the high-performance lithium batteries for more promotion, in Japan the use of the hybrid to reach the level of 7.2 million. Industry believes that the electric car market to the development of the next decade to how the size will depend on whether the cost of lithium batteries can quickly be reduced.
Driving force in the development of lithium batteries and electric vehicles, the distance between China and developed countries have been getting smaller and smaller. According to "Nikkei Electronics News," the statistics, at present, in BYD Li-ion batteries and nickel-metal hydride batteries only in Sanyo, Sony and Panasonic, the become with each of the three Japanese manufacturers of the famous giant international battery. In the field of electric vehicles, BYD can say that has to go the forefront of the industry. BYD market by the end of 2008 hybrid vehicles F3DM, can be the same as mobile phone, the charging socket in the home, that is over seven hours, broke the electric vehicle battery charging station to be in professional charge of the bottleneck. Hybrid vehicles in general use in low-speed electric drives, high-speed motor on the need to drive with the engine and fuel. However, F3DM electric drive can be used alone, the maximum speed of 150 km and range up to 100 km mileage. In contrast, the currently available dual-mode technology --- the other two companies General Motors and Toyota are the electric cars for sale, a charge can only travel 25 kilometers.
The German government said the plan, the German mark will enter the era of electric vehicles. At the same time, Daimler Motor Company and RWE energy company that will work together to build 500 electric vehicle charging station. German auto industry alliance is expected to Germany in 2012 will be completed before the series of electric vehicles and off commercial production started.
According to the consultant for the automotive industry analysts pointed out Lee Sheng-mao, new energy sources for electric vehicles is the focus of automotive development, and the driving force for lithium batteries for electric vehicles is a source of motivation, the present power lithium battery technology bottleneck is almost resolved, the upcoming production stage to enter the industry. Now, the international automobile giants have been developed and will be the development of lithium battery power on the strategic position.
At present, Japan's R & D aspects of lithium batteries in the world. Disclosure by the Industrial Policy Bureau of Japan, Japan will strive in 2010 the new lithium batteries for next-generation electric vehicles. Toyota, Nissan Motor and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. signed an agreement and other related enterprises, efforts to develop uniform specifications for a new generation of automotive lithium-ion battery, and plans volume production in 2 years. Toshiba decided to spend ¥ 50,000,000,000 Development of electric vehicles using lithium-ion battery, this high-performance driving force within the next two years to enter the semi-commercial production.
Popularization of electric vehicles is a critical need to have sufficient power to add bases. Tokyo Electric Power announced that it would take the lead to participate in the infrastructure construction in the metropolitan area to more than 200 charging stations, after three years to more than 1000.
Tokyo Electric Power has successfully developed large-scale rapid charger, the charging time significantly shortened. It is reported that a full charge every 10 minutes, beyond the distance they traveled is 60 km. At present, the cost of the establishment of a charger is ¥ 4,000,000. The company in Japan's supermarket car parks, convenience stores and post offices and other public places have building equipment chargers. It is estimated that if the high-performance lithium batteries for more promotion, in Japan the use of the hybrid to reach the level of 7.2 million. Industry believes that the electric car market to the development of the next decade to how the size will depend on whether the cost of lithium batteries can quickly be reduced.
Driving force in the development of lithium batteries and electric vehicles, the distance between China and developed countries have been getting smaller and smaller. According to "Nikkei Electronics News," the statistics, at present, in BYD Li-ion batteries and nickel-metal hydride batteries only in Sanyo, Sony and Panasonic, the become with each of the three Japanese manufacturers of the famous giant international battery. In the field of electric vehicles, BYD can say that has to go the forefront of the industry. BYD market by the end of 2008 hybrid vehicles F3DM, can be the same as mobile phone, the charging socket in the home, that is over seven hours, broke the electric vehicle battery charging station to be in professional charge of the bottleneck. Hybrid vehicles in general use in low-speed electric drives, high-speed motor on the need to drive with the engine and fuel. However, F3DM electric drive can be used alone, the maximum speed of 150 km and range up to 100 km mileage. In contrast, the currently available dual-mode technology --- the other two companies General Motors and Toyota are the electric cars for sale, a charge can only travel 25 kilometers.