toyota battery Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sun, 16 Apr 2017 16:43:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Toyota Is On The Hunt For New Battery Materials With AI https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyota-battery-materials-with-ai-20170415/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyota-battery-materials-with-ai-20170415/#respond Sun, 16 Apr 2017 16:43:18 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=63603 Battery technology is holding back green autos, and Toyota knows it. They recently announced that they would be enlisting the help of advanced algorithms in their hunt for better battery technologies. The idea is that an AI can be created that will hunt down possible battery materials that are eluding us currently, and then they […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyota-battery-materials-with-ai-20170415/feed/ 0 63603 Toyota’s Next-Generation Magnesium Battery Technology https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyotas-next-generation-magnesium-battery-technology-20121129/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyotas-next-generation-magnesium-battery-technology-20121129/#respond Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:08:33 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=28961 Thousands of electric vehicles [EV] have been sold in the US, all with the same problem, range and expense. True, current battery technology, lithium-ion [Li-ion] has come leaps and bounds past its predecessors, nickel-metal hydride [NiMH] and nickel-cadmium [NiCad] and even lead-acid. Each step in battery technology increased the capacity and reduced weight. Still, current […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyotas-next-generation-magnesium-battery-technology-20121129/feed/ 0 28961 Toyota’s new all-solid-state battery: the power of ‘green vehicles’ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyotas-new-all-solid-state-battery-the-power-of-green-vehicles-20120927/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyotas-new-all-solid-state-battery-the-power-of-green-vehicles-20120927/#respond Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:51:29 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=26142 Environmentally friendly driving, fuel efficiency, electric vehicles- all topics that have been a subject of major debate in recent years, and yet only a limited few manufacturers have the courage to pursue ground-breaking developments. Toyota Motor Corp, one of the leading producers of ‘green vehicles’, might just hold the solution.  At a meeting held on September 24th, […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyotas-new-all-solid-state-battery-the-power-of-green-vehicles-20120927/feed/ 0 26142 Toyota Unveils Solid State Battery That Can Withstand High Temperatures https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyota-solid-state-battery-20101124/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyota-solid-state-battery-20101124/#respond Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:27:49 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=11974 Looking to gather momentum in the electric vehicle field, Toyota's focus is also on batteries. The Japanese giant has recently unveiled a solid-state LiCoO2 (lithium cobalt oxide) battery that features higher energy density and bears temperatures of up to 100 degrees Celsius.

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