March 2015 archive

Industrial battery material titans in lawsuit over NMC

The high-tech patent wars have spread to a new front, engaging two of the world’s largest industrial companies in a multibillion-dollar court battle over lithium-ion batteries. At issue is a battery chemistry that, while little known to the public, many experts believe currently holds the best chance of electric cars penetrating the mass market. The …

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På jagt efter nye batterier fra Kina

True Cousins har de seneste år arbejdet med at udvikle og bygge lynhurtige el-motorcykler og -biler. Til dette skal der bruges batterier og de fortæller i et blog-indlæg på ingeniøren om udfordringerne ved at købe batterier fra Kina.   Efter at have udvekslet over 150 mails og modtaget 5 vareprøver over 4 måneder med 2 …

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Dyson invests $15m in Sakti3 battery technology

Dyson is investing $15m in a new type of battery that promises to double smartphone battery life and allow electric cars to drive over 600 miles per charge. The British vacuum company was alerted to the University of Michigan spin-off called Sakti3, which has developed next generation solid-state technology that can store twice as much …

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New board member of the Danish Battery Society for 2015

  Søren Højgaard Jensen, Frederik Flemming and Søren Juhl Andreasen stood for re-election. Søren Juhl Andreasen had to leave his post as he is seeking new challenges in a Fuel Cell company. Kjeld Nørregård, Project Manager at Teknologisk Institut, Aarhus was elected instead. New Board Member og DBS 2015   Senior Project Manager, Transport and …

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Images from Danish Battery Symposium 2015

The Danish Battery Symposium 2015 was very well received by participants as well as speakers and exhibitors. We had a good turn-out similar to last years symposium, with around 60 participants at the meeting and more than half joined together for a delicious (but slow) dinner at SanGiovanni La Cantina i Aalborg. The presentations from the …

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Participants at DBS Symposium 2015

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Advanced Management System for Li-Sulfur Batteries

As the trends in power generation and consumption are moving towards environmentally friendly solutions, batteries might play very important role in grid-oriented solutions (i.e. renewables smoothing), and especially in the transportation sector. Electrification of the transportation requires secondary batteries with high energy density, long lifetime and low cost. Currently, one of the most promising candidates …

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Electrical powered ferries meet the challenge?!

Everything starts with the why! Why do we need changes in the powering of short sea ferries? The shorts sea shipping is challenged by environmental, social and economic issues – in short there is a need to ensure sustainable transport. This presentation will show why we find that the E-ferry concept is found to be …

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