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Webinar Join Us - Learn More On Battery Production - How to Generate Premium Product Atmosphere - Dry Rooms
Thursday June 17, 2021 at 11AM EST. Weiss Technik will educate the audience on relevant information surrounding Battery Production and having the right conditions that will enhance your battery testing as well. Webinar can help engineers in all industries including Automotive, Electronics, Aerospace and Defense. Register ...
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DNV GL's 2018 Battery Performance Scorecard
DNV GL's first annual Battery Performance Scorecard provides independent ranking and evaluation of battery vendors based on testing performed in DNV GL's laboratories. Advances in battery technology are accelerating, and lithium chemistries lead the way. Energy densities are increasing, cell weights are decreasing and battery lives are lengthening, all at a dramatic rate. Costs, too, have ...
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Arizona Utility and NREL Launch One of the Largest-to-Date Home Energy Storage Studies
With home battery energy systems (BES) gathering market momentum, residents and utilities worldwide are weighing the benefits of storage. To advance understanding of this emerging technology, one utility in central Arizona is collaborating with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to launch one of the largest BES studies to date for up to 4,500 of its customers. Salt River Project ...
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Alfa Chemistry: Lithium-Ion Battery Testing Contributes to Enhanced Battery Performance
Earlier this month, Alfa Chemistry announced the launch of its lithium-ion battery testing service, in a hope to support the growing demand for alternative energy sources. The service newly released is designed to provide reliable and accurate testing for lithium-ion batteries. Currently, lithium-ion batteries enjoy prevalence in fields like automotive, consumer electronics and renewable energy ...
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Agilent Technologies` N6700 modular power system family adds application-specific modules for battery test, mobile device manufacturing
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the addition of two new application-specific modules to the N6700 Modular Power System (MPS) family, the N6783A-MFG mobile communications DC power module and the N6783A-BAT battery charge/discharge module. The N6783A-MFG module offers sourcing and measurement capabilities specifically designed to meet the challenges of battery-powered (mobile) ...
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Johnson Controls Unveils Newly Renovated, World-Class Battery Technology Center and Test Facility
Johnson Controls, Inc., (NYSE: JCI) today opened its newly renovated, state-of-the-art Battery Technology Center and Battery Test Facility at its Power Solutions headquarters in Glendale, Wis. The facility is the largest energy storage technical center in North America. "Our Battery Technology Center and Battery Test Facility will ensure that we not only have the best products on the road, but ...
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Uganda test-drives its first electric car
Ugandan scientists and students at Makerere University have built an electric car. The two-seater Kiira EV ('Kiira' means roaring in Lusoga, a local dialect), which is powered by a lithium-ion battery, was test-driven early this month (1 November) at the university. It can reach a maximum speed of 200 kilometres (km) an hour but needs recharging after an 80km run. Sandy Stevens Tickodri-Togboa, ...
By SciDev.Net
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BioSolar’s International Partner Prepares Anode Materials Incorporating US-Produced Performance Boosting Silicon Additives
BioSolar, Inc. (OTCQB:BSRC) (“BioSolar” or the “Company”), a developer of breakthrough energy storage technology and materials, today announced that the Company’s material manufacturing partner has prepared a new batch of anode materials incorporating US-produced performance boosting silicon additives. The anode materials will be used for the next phase of prototype ...
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BioSolar’s International Partner Prepares Anode Materials Incorporating US-Produced Performance Boosting Silicon Additives
BioSolar, Inc. (OTCQB:BSRC) (“BioSolar” or the “Company”), a developer of breakthrough energy storage technology and materials, today announced that the Company’s material manufacturing partner has prepared a new batch of anode materials incorporating US-produced performance boosting silicon additives. The anode materials will be used for the next phase of prototype ...
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DNV GL Launches First Battery Performance Scorecard to Provide Independent Data to Battery System Buyers
DNV GL recently released its first annual Battery Performance Scorecard, to help equip energy storage product buyers with objective data to guide their purchase strategies. The Battery Performance Scorecard provides independent ranking and evaluation of battery vendors based on testing performed in DNV GL's laboratories. The release comes as increased electrification is beginning to disrupt ...
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Enzinc Names Key Teaming Partners for Advanced Zinc Battery Testing through the CalTestBed Program
Enzinc Inc., an advanced battery technology developer bringing rechargeable zinc batteries to market, announced this week that it has teaming agreements in place with leading energy companies for its third-party product testing. The testing is being done at University of California Riverside’s facilities through a CalTestBed award valued at $292,000. The teaming partners include power backup ...
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An Adaptive Cell Model: The Key to Battery Pack Precision
Precise battery pack controls must balance a constant tradeoff between accessing the full performance capability of the battery pack and preserving battery health for full lifetime fulfillment in every given driving scenario. To create an equilibrium between performance and health preservation, the controls must operate off of an accurate depiction of battery cell characteristics. Similarly, ...
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SwRI opens Energy Storage Technology Center
Southwest Research Institute has opened a new Energy Storage Technology Center, amassing its diverse scientific research, development and evaluation of energy storage systems under one roof.The facility houses SwRI technology to evaluate and develop battery and energy storage systems for electric, plug-in and hybrid electric vehicles; grid storage; flywheels; and stationary systems such as flow ...
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BioSolar Prepares for the Next Phase of Its Super Battery Technology Development
BioSolar, Inc. (OTCQB: BSRC), a developer of breakthrough energy storage technology and materials, today announced its strategic plans for the Company's next phase of development that focuses on identifying partners to further collaborate with to advance its proprietary Super Cathode technology. The Company plans to pursue key benchmarks that include designing and building prototype electrodes ...
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Ascent Solar Becomes First CIGS Flexible Monolithically Integrated Module Manufacturer to Achieve External IEC 61646 Certification
THORNTON, Colo. - Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTI), a developer of state of the art flexible thin-film solar modules, announced today that it has become the first manufacturer of thin-film flexible monolithically integrated CIGS modules to receive full IEC 61646 certification upon completion of environmental testing. The environmental testing of Ascent Solar modules for this ...
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BioSolar Outlines Design Process and Next Steps for Developing the Company’s Second Batch of Prototypes
BioSolar, Inc. (OTCQB:BSRC)(“BioSolar” or the “Company”), today shared additional details of its design and engineering process as the Company’s technology partner Top Battery prepares the second batch of commercial grade prototype lithium-ion battery cells incorporating silicon anode materials imbedded with BioSolar’s additive technology. As previously ...
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TÜV SÜD on Growth Course: Significant Rise in Revenue and Earnings
TÜV SÜD significantly stepped up its pace of growth in 2010. In the past year, the international service corporation increased its revenue by 10.1 per cent to over EUR 1.55 billion (2009: EUR 1.41 billion), while earnings before taxes even show a year-on-year increase of 21 per cent to EUR 123 million (2009: EUR 102 million). The TÜV SÜD headcount rose by 1,600 to over 16,000 employees. The ...
By TÜV SÜD AG
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GM working on 200-mile electric car, exec says
As automakers race to make cheaper electric cars with greater battery range, General Motors is working on one that can go 200 miles per charge at a cost of about $30,000, a top company executive said. Vice President of Global Product Development Doug Parks wouldn't say when or if such a car will be built, however. Currently GM sells the $35,000 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, which can go 38 ...
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New Advanced Power Management
Particles Plus brings a new performance standard to the handheld particle counter market. With a patent-pending power management circuit design, the instruments provide the longest continuous and normal mode sampling of any handheld particle counter available today. The system allows the particle counter to be placed in the field for long term studies, periodically sampling and then powering ...
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Pomegranate-inspired battery design doubles stored energy
A new pomegranate-inspired design is the basis of a longer-lasting lithium-ion battery created by US researchers. They designed a battery with an anode made from ‘silicon pomegranates’, which doubles the amount of energy that can be stored compared to a standard carbon anode. Lithium-ion batteries are the rechargeable batteries that many of us use to charge our phones, tablets and ...
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