Midtronics has unveiled a diagnostic and an analytic tool for the military market. The GR8-1100 MIL Battery Diagnostic Station and the MDX-600 MIL Series Battery Conductance and Electrical System Analysers will test and charge batteries specifically used in military vehicles.
Advanced lithium-ion battery makers are in line to obtain some bargains as machinery that cost in excess of $40m new goes up for private treaty sale, according to Chris Hillseth of Hillseth Enterprises.
California-based Hillseth has made a business from disposing of advanced technology plants from the pharmaceutical, electronics and now the battery sector.
Hillseth told BBB that some of the equipment was “as good as new” and hardly used.
Was the sale a consequence of recent lithium maker bankruptcies in the USA, BBB asked?
“The recent events in the industry are not necessarily a projection of the future. The potential is definitely out there, locally and internationally, as we have already received inquiries from within the US. This particular equipment is from Canada,” Hillseth said.
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A round up of news from the companies at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference, AABC14, in Atlanta Georgia 3 - 7 February, including Ford, BMW, Chrysler and Digatron.
Redflow, the Australian developer of zinc-bromine flow batteries, has named Flextronics as its manufacturing partner.
US-based Flextronics will be responsible for increasing production of the flow battery to get it to a commercial level for use in stationary storage markets.
The Nissan Leaf was the best-selling EV in Europe in 2013 with 11,120 vehicles sold. Sales increased 204% compared to 2012 and are 25% greater than the next best-selling EV, which was the Renault Zoe.
Norway accounted for a large portion of overall EV sales, 7,882 EVs were sold there in 2013- this accounts for 5% of overall car sales. The government of Norway has invested heavily in charging infrastructures for EVs and offer substantial incentives for purchasing an electric car. In October 2013 the Leaf was the best selling car in the country – including non-electrified vehicles.
Arbin Instruments has expanded its Industrial Battery Testing (IBT) series for high volume test applications with an energy efficient cycle tester for a wide range of cell requirements. The IBT series can provide hundreds of independent channels that can test single cell devices with voltages as low as 5V.
The IBT series uses pulse width modulation technology— a technique that conforms the width of the pulse to control the power supplied to electrical devices— as a way to reduce costs for companies wanting to scale-up their battery testing.
Spanish electric utility provider Endesa has commissioned Spain’s first grid-connected energy storage systems on three of the Canary Islands, off the western coast of Morocco.
Each of the three sites will utilise different methods of storing energy. The facility of the island of Gran Canaria will have 1MW/3MWh lithium-ion batteries that will be used as a power source, as well as for voltage regulation and demand management services.
UK-based Faradion Limited has secured investment from a group comprising Haldor Topsoe, a catalysis technologies developer, and Finance Yorkshire’s Seedcorn and Rising Stars Growth Fund.
Haldor Topsoe acquired an 18% equity interest in the Sheffield sodium-ion battery developer and will collaborate to co-develop and scale up the technology to commercial level. The Danish engineering firm will also hold a license to manufacture and sell cathode materials using Faradion’s technology.
Samsung Ventures Investment Corporation has invested in the Michigan, US, -based graphene engineering company.
The lithium-ion giant is providing XG Sciences with investment as part of a funding round to further the company’s R&D efforts. The terms of the investment have not been disclosed.
Highview Power Storage has been awarded £8m ($13.3m) by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to build a grid-scale liquid air energy storage demonstration project.
DECC awarded the money as part of the Energy Storage Technology Demonstration Competition to find innovative UK energy storage ideas and bring them to demonstration level.
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