Mar
12
A New and Promising Battery Charging Idea
March 12, 2010 | 20 Comments
A group of Mississippi State University researchers in the school’s Center for Computational Sciences, the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the Department of Chemistry with collaborators at Florida State University’s Department of Physics and the Center for Materials Research and Technology has a new lithium ion battery charging technique in early research. The results are […]
Feb
12
The Latest Electric Vehicle Controller
February 12, 2010 | 2 Comments
The researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed, fabricated and demonstrated a PHEV traction drive power electronics system that provides significant mobile power generation and vehicle-to-grid support capabilities. (The Oak Ridge press release isn’t specific, but here PHEV seems to mean Plugin Hybrid Electric Vehicle, not parallel hybrid EV.) The […]
Feb
10
A Battery That Can Be Made Into Panels
February 10, 2010 | 3 Comments
Researchers from Imperial College London, their European partners, and the Volvo Car Corporation, are expanding development of a prototype battery material which can store and discharge electrical energy. The material is also strong and lightweight enough to be used for car parts and can be shaped to fit into panels as needed. The researchers expect […]
Feb
9
The Best Electric Vehicle Motor
February 9, 2010 | 8 Comments
The electric motor as we know it was first designed by Nikola Tesla and then vastly improved for commercial use by George Westinghouse with many improvements along the way. Today’s motors follow two dominating designs called permanent magnet and induction that are descriptions of the rotating assembly inside the case that delivers the twisting force […]
Feb
5
The Battery Explosion Is Coming, Part Two
February 5, 2010 | 2 Comments
The cover story at Nikkei Electronics Asia titled ‘Winning in the Gigantic New EV Market’ examines over 16 web pages the positioning of industry in lithium ion battery production. Its a long piece so I’ll condense it down, but by all means if you’re interested in a world view seen from the Japanese point of […]
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