electric car batteries Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 22 Nov 2013 07:20:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Pressure Cooker Technology Helps Make Better Lithium Ion Batteries https://www.greenoptimistic.com/pressure-cooker-lithium-ion-battery-20131122/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/pressure-cooker-lithium-ion-battery-20131122/#respond Fri, 22 Nov 2013 07:20:02 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=43763 With all the issues that come with current electric car batteries – long charge times, short-range, bulky batteries – evolution is vital for this clean energy to become cost-effective. Fortunately, researchers at the University of California-Riverside have redesigned the component materials of the batteries themselves as a way to begin solving these major roadblocks. By […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/pressure-cooker-lithium-ion-battery-20131122/feed/ 0 43763 GM Wants to Reuse Depleted Chevy Volt Batteries For Storing Renewable Energy https://www.greenoptimistic.com/gm-chevy-volt-batteries-reuse-20100924/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/gm-chevy-volt-batteries-reuse-20100924/#respond Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:43:01 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=10615 In collaboration with ABB Group, a power grid supplier, GM will study how batteries that will have formerly powered Volt electric cars will get a second life, being capable to store energy generated by solar and wind power generators.

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