One of the interesting aspects of any market segment gaining in size is that it forces many manufacturers and researchers to find new and faster ways to do things. Every market is the same and the electric car market is going through a period where manufacturers are working with researchers to find ways to get their products to market with a longer range or faster charging … [Read more...]
Battery Metals
Modern humans in the developed world today are used to using some form of rechargeable battery, whether it is in a mobile phone, a laptop or an electric vehicle. Most of us don’t think about the contents of the battery other than the amount of charge it holds! However, the internal guts of these batteries may well become the foundation of new wars as the need and therefore … [Read more...]
The Electrification of Europe
I read an interesting article about the electrification of Europe namely how the big manufacturing groups are retooling their factories to produce more electric vehicles. Firstly, there was an announcement by Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), a major battery supplier in China, who are building a factory near Erfurt in Germany to satisfy orders from companies such as … [Read more...]
Lithium-Air Batteries
I have written a number of articles over the past year about new developments with batteries. One was about Graphene and the research undertaken to make this material provide more power and one has been about Lithium-ion batteries - the current mainstay of most mobile technology from cars to mobile phones and laptops. It is very difficult to extract more power out of a … [Read more...]
Lithium-Ion Batteries
I thought it would be good to delve deeper into this technology. There are in fact three types of batteries using Lithium. There’s the straight Lithium battery – those small round batteries used in clocks, watches etc, the Lithium Ion battery and the Lithium Ion polymer battery. I’ll discuss the last two as they are related when it comes to car usage. A Swedish scientist, … [Read more...]