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Camel Group wants a slice of the lead-acid automotive market

Lead-acid company Camel group wants in on the car market.

Chinese lead-acid battery company Camel Group has filed a statement to Shanghai Stock Exchange announcing that they are setting up an electric car battery company in conjunction with smelters Wanyang Group.

lead-acid, Camel, Wanyang Group, automotive

Swedish start-up steps into the US market

Refind's battery sorting system manages batteries of all chemistries.

Battery Solutions LCC has become the first US-based company to invest in battery sorting and data collection technology as it buys Refind Technologies’ Optical Battery Sorting system, OBS 600.

Refind, Battery Solutions, battery sorting

Solid-state battery developer becomes Dyson’s first investment

Satki3's solid-state li-ion batteries will be used in Dyson vacuum cleaners.

The start-up solid-state battery developer Satki3 – which sprung out of the University of Michigan – has become British vacuum cleaner inventor Sir James Dyson’s first-ever external investment.

Satki3, lithium-ion, solid-state, Dyson

Saxony opens its first Li-ion battery park

The opening of Dreseden's first battery park.

Dresden’s regional utility supplier DREWAG opened Saxony’s first battery park this week.

DREWAG, younicos, Nidec, LG Chem, lithium-ion

SAFT announces new Chairman of management board

Ghislain Lescuyer, new Chairman of the Management Board at Saft Groupe.

The Supervisory Board of French battery firm Saft Groupe has appointed Ghislain Lescuyer as its new Chairman of the Management Board.

saft, Ghislain Lescuyer, apponitments

Korean researchers develops ultra-thin li-ion battery

In a bent state the battery lights up six LED-lamps.

Researchers at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed a flexible lithium-ion battery that is thinner than a credit card.

KAIST, lithium-ion, research

ZBB Energy announces new flow battery

ZBB Energy Corporation has announced a new ZnBr flow battery developed for behind-the-meter storage intended for commercial buildings.

US company ZBB Energy Corporation has announced a new ZnBr Flow battery developed for behind-the-meter storage intended for commercial buildings.

ZBB, Zinc-bromide, flow battery

Siemens serves Qatar with Ni-HM hybrid powered LRV

ONE of the first Siemens Avenio light rail vehicle (LRV) equipped with a nickel-metal hydride hybrid energy storage system is being tested ahead of delivery to Qatar.

siemens, Ni-HM, hybrid