should batteries be included in R&D ?
The car battery will play an important role in enabling electric vehicles (e-vehicles) to gain wide acceptance in the country, a research scientist said.
Dr. J.B. Manuel Briona, a research scientist at the center for engineering research and sustainable research at De La Salle University, told the BusinessMirror in an interview that the main concern now is the low capacity of batteries that prevent e-vehicles to travel long distances within the metropolis.
If the Philippines is really serious in pushing e-vehicles, Briona said car-battery manufacturers should start research and development to produce high-quality batteries, such as lithium ion, to enable e-vehicles to have longer running time on the road.
“Maybe the Department of Science and Technology PA3282U-1ACA,PA3083U-1ACA,PA3282U-2ACA,could provide local [car battery] makers the funds to finance research and development in battery making toward strengthening the industry for the country,” he said.
“The challenge right now is to increase the capacity of the battery without increasing the density of the vehicle. By 2015, experts are projecting there will be more powerful and cost- efficient batteries for e-vehicles,” he said.
According to Briona, the problem does not end there. He said current models of e-vehicles could not expand their running capacity because it would cause problems on the density of the vehicle. He said this would slow down the travel pace of the vehicle, resulting in reduced trips and producing lower revenues for the driver.
Briona said the dearth of battery charging stations is also a major concern of e-jeepneys. With sufficient number of charging stations, Briona said operators would seriously consider getting an e-jeepney to their fleet.
To boost the deployment and acceptance of e-vehicles in the country, Briona said the government must pursue an honest-to-goodness battery recycling program. For a start, he said car-battery manufacturers in the country could start looking at lithium ion as an alternative to lead acid.
Moreover, he said recycling is important because the parts of old batteries can be used in the development of new batteries.
According to Wikipedia, lithium-ion batteries “are a type of rechargeable batteries in which the cathode [positive electrode] contains lithium. The anode [negative electrode] is generally made of a type of porous carbon.”
Briona suggested that the Philippines study the Singaporean model as far as research and development in car-battery technology is concerned.
The Singapore government provides funds to the companies to boost their research-and- development programs.
In a bid to boost the awareness on e-vehicles in the country, the Makati City government introduced the e-jeepney. The Land Transportation Office was tasked to initially evaluate the road-worthiness of the vehicle.
According to Yvonne Palomar-Castro, PA3097U-1ACA,PA3396U-1ACA,PA3467U-1ACAGreen Renewable Independent Power Producer project director, the e-jeepneys can now be sold to public-transport cooperatives and jeepney operators.
The 14-passenger-capacity e-jeepney is powered by an electric motor with 12 six-volt lead-acid batteries and runs 40 to 60 kilometers per hour.
Meanwhile, Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Cities director Red Constantino said in a press briefing during the launch of e-jeepneys in Makati that they hope to replicate the program in parts of Metro Manila and the provinces to enable the people to experience a pollution-free mode of public transport.
Development of power battery
From the end of 2009 so far is, GAIN Holdings of myth. The purchase announcement yesterday, the total cost of 2.75 billion Hong Kong dollars, the target company, all the rights and interests of the Union Grace Holdings Limited. In addition, GAIN Capital Holdings Chairman Li Ka-Shing in length and the Department DellXPS M2010 battery ,Dell Studio 1536 battery of discount of 18.9% of the shares in the placement of 400 million shares. At this point, GAIN Capital Holdings Union Grace Holdings Limited and its subsidiaries Lei Day of Poly (Hong Kong) in his pocket and into the field of electrical vehicles and lithium batteries.
News sparked a share price rise too far, 26 Ka Shing Holdings in January rose 62.22 percent to close, it touched intraday high of 1.57 Hong Kong dollars. In fact, the GAIN Capital Holdings stock price boom, the long-held myth. The company late last year announced the acquisition of Poly Lei days in hot new energy companies that are its stock prices way up, from December 1, 2009 rose to 0.130 Hong Kong dollars on the way January 26, 2010 is less than 1.460 Hong Kong Dollar is harvested in February will be 10 times between the rise.
Qiao Shi Operating Capital
Memorable is the company for the acquisition of this operation in the capital embodied in skills, the company did not pay in cash, but never Li Ka-Shing, the placement of shares, the harvest nearly 2 billion Hong Kong dollars in cash.
Company completed the acquisition of the total cost of 27.5 billion HK dollars. Among them, 100 million cash to Hong Kong Dollar in, pay 156.7 million Hong Kong dollar by 0.2 yuan per share of approximately 783.5 million shares at the price of the stock; 2.493 billion Hong Kong Dollar 8 Release-year zero - coupon convertible bonds to pay the exercise price of convertible bonds, at 0.2 Hong Kong dollar is fully convertible to 12.466 billion shares. The issue price and the cost of shares exercise price of convertible bonds before the suspension than the closing price discount of approximately 77.78% if the buyer would be the full exercise of convertible bonds to shareholders increased by 83.6% to. Done, will one day be the head of Poly Lei and Miao-Zhen Guo Zhong Xin Jia GAIN as the post of executive directors appointed.
The Li Ka Shing Ka Shing Holdings, look at the allocation program. Dividend per share of 0.73 Hong Kong dollars, which suspended a discount of 18.9% before. Raise 292 million Hong Kong dollars, net 290.5 million Hong Kong dollars. The company said that by paying 1 billion acquisition of the battery products business for the part of the consideration that the equilibrium will be used to pay for the construction of Poly Lei day Production of batteries, equipment, construction costs and provide additional liquidity of the company .
To operate the GAIN cash portion of the purchase price for the basic remuneration of the Li Ka-Shing, was the company's shares and convertible bonds as a cost, and placement of shares from the Li Ka-Shing 190.5 million Hong Kong dollars in cash.
Market participants said that as the purchase price will shares and convertible bonds, such a combination of cash will not cause the company changes the control. This would be no back door in the White Poly Lei my days, while the existence of convertible bonds, but also for future listing of Poly Lei prescribed days. Coupled with the star effect desired by Li Ka-Shing, will naturally lead to the market.
Optimistic about the market prospects
Enter Li Ka Shing Ka Shing Holdings shares on the electric car market movements, Buffett can not help people, with the potential of lithium battery company's history. This is obviously great investments in this area of the capital not only the two big brothers. Zhong Xin Jia Lei day, a unit of energy invested in the second half of last year 30 billion yuan investment in electric car project, a record of domestic investment in this area the most.
Xiangcai Securities researchers Shun Feng told reporters that the electric vehicles and the lithium battery market, the future of a great room for imagination that is thrown, capital heavyweights involved in the main. Currently, an electric car needs the equivalent of a cell phone lithium battery volume for 1 million times. If the electric car ,Dell studio 1537 battery ,Dell Studio 1555 battery,Dell Studio 15 batterwill be encouraged to release a large number of demand. Feng Shun I cried example: "car to the annual turnover of 10 million to be calculated if one of the one-thousandth of electric vehicles per year, 1 million units, the demand for lithium batteries is the amount of 100 million units, the amount of mobile phones .
The recent market rumors once, in February of this year, the state is the introduction of a private purchase of a pure electric vehicle scheme. The State Grid and China Southern Power Grid layout of the modern electric vehicle charging stations active market is not difficult to show the beauty of the electric vehicle industry blueprint. Feng Shun said: "Five years ago, the lithium battery business was driven approximately 25% of compound growth, especially on cell phones and notebook PC market. Then, when the electric vehicle market, have a breakthrough, it is not difficult is to maintain such a growth rate. "
new battery projest in Beijing
20. January morning in Beijing Nonferrous Metal Research Institute, Bai Qing Xiong, Vice President and his party had come, Jiangsu Province, three gold-Soviet Energy Technology Co., Ltd. signed power lithium-ion battery project. City People's Congress deputy director, Party secretary Yang Qiang, District Standing Committee of the party places of the city Economic Development Zone, the Working Committee for Zhang Lian-Dong, vice-mayor Liu Peilu, and other local leaders attended the signing ceremony. Ceremony was chaired by Zhang Lian-Dong.
The project is the Beijing Nonferrous Metal Research Institute and Jiangsu Jin Su Energy Technology Co., Ltd. to strengthen the technical cooperation, science and technology research6Y270 ，75UYF ， C1295 ， GD761 ， GK479 , Dell Latitude D810 battery， Dell Latitude D820 battery and development to achieve common development, is interactive win-significant results, implementation of the project contract obligation to the region, trade and industry to promote the pace of scientific and technological innovation, speed up transformation and upgrading of industrial structure and to play an active role in promoting the model.
The ceremony, Kim Su-Energy Technology Co., Ltd., Jiangsu, Chairman Mr. Chen Yulong, first made a speech, Bai Qing Xiong, Vice President, introduced lithium-ion battery co-operation projects and their development prospects. Yang Qiang at the ceremony on the cooperation project high marks and has given full recognition, he hoped that the project started early, can be early production, are already bearing fruit! Will do their utmost to make in solving the problems in construction projects and problems in the building for the project to the appropriate conditions and relaxed environment.