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Lead Acid Batteries’ Comeback – Meet Silicon Joules

Nicholas Say — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 07:35:53 +0000

We are not going to get rid of the internal combustion engine tomorrow, and Chris Beekhuis knows this. He is the CEO of Gridtential, and they have developed a very interesting battery technology, named Silicon Joule. The lead-acid battery technology that his company has patented in Silicon Joule fills an interesting niche, and has the […]

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From Energy Storage to Power Generation – Your Car Battery May Find New Life as a Solar Cell

Ari Luis — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 19:56:01 +0000

Rumors have it that Tesla will put up a lithium ion car battery plant in Nevada. This is probably the beginning of the end of finding lead acid batteries under your car’s hood, a century and a half after it was invented. With around 200 million lead acid batteries in service today in the US […]

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Mild-Hybrid Vehicles Cheaper and Just as Efficient?

Benji Jerew — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 19:57:29 +0000

The typical hybrid vehicle is a few thousand dollars more expensive than its conventional sister, but what if it could be cheaper and still just as efficient? According to the Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium [ALABC] and Controlled Power Technologies [CPT], mild-hybrid vehicles with lead-acid battery packs can deliver fuel economy gains similar to an […]

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Better Lead Acid Batteries Built with Hard Drive Tech

Leigh Hutchens — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 10:27:30 +0000

Over the past three years, Gridtential has been slowly developing a better lead acid battery by using chip and hard-disk drive manufacturing processes. Gridtential used a grant from the California Energy Commission to demonstrate that its lead acid battery is far better than standard lead acid batteries. The company’s batteries have two times the energy density […]

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New Nickel-Lithium Batteries: Chance for 800 Miles Electric Car Autonomy

Cristi — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:41:09 +0000

The electric cars' problem of a low mileage may have found its solution. Recently discovered Nickel-Lithium batteries have 3.5 times more energy than the standard Lithium-Ion batteries and besides this, they are much safer to use.

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100 MPG Prius with Lead Acid Batteries

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:45:58 +0000

Plug-In Supply, Inc has just unveiled the "PbA10" Conversion System last week at the Plug-in 2008 conference in San Jose. Their system is based on the CalCars'Open Source design, and it turns a standard 2004-2008 Toyota Prius into a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) with an all-electric range of 10-15 miles and improved average mileage of up to 100 miles per gallon (plus 1 cent/mile of electricity).

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