Indian energy management firm Acme has tied up with South Korean company Samsung SDI to manufacture and market lithium-ion batteries in telecom, solar power, defence sectors and other allied industries in India and the African continent.
The first shipments of lithium-ion batteries have left LG Chems’s battery plant in Holland, Michigan earlier this month after three years of setbacks and delays including a significant fine from the US Government.
A Harvard University materials scientist has devised a way to make lithium-ion batteries using a 3-D printer. The technology is still in development stage. The concept is to make inks that are used to print anodes for lithium-ion batteries, the inks use suspended nanoparticles of the desired materials, such as compounds of lithium for batteries and silver for wires.
A Japan Airlines Boeing 787 flight from Helsinki to Tokyo experienced a problem with its lithium-ion battery, just months after the Dreamliner fleet was cleared for flight after battery problem grounded it in January.
During flight 414 on 10 November a cockpit indicator showed one of the two batteries connected to the plane’s auxiliary power unit was in trouble. Following an inspection that showed no fault with the battery and the voltage and electrical current were within normal range, the flight continued.
Chinese lithium-ion battery manufacturer Sinopoly Battery Limited has signed a Letter of Intent with Smith Electric Vehicles to supply batteries for 20 000 electric vehicles destined for China.
The deal will be worth US$100m for Sinopoly to manufacture batteries for Smith’s commercial electric vehicles. Smith is making 15 000 for mainland China and 5 000 for Taiwan.
A Chinese lithium-ion battery maker called Qingdao Haiba New Energy Company is opening a production site at Ulan Chab, Inner Mongolia. The new facility will cost CNY1bn (US$163m) and is expected to be complete in 2014.
Panasonic is planning a big increase in lithium-ion battery capacity in 2014 to cope with increased demand for hybrid and electric vehicles.
Energy storage consultancy Clean Horizon has signed a deal to license battery performance data from France’s Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA).
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Shock story of the week, BMW is considering ramping up production of its i3 electric car as demand exceeds the carmaker’s expectation.
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Germany may be worried that it does not have the lithium-ion cell making business it thinks it so desperately needs but when it comes to lithium-ion tool making, its machine makers may yet give the Asians a run for their money.
Marco Stehr of Manz AG, showed the latest ideas in lithium electrode slitting in Stuttgart this week— not using blades but laser technology at the World of Energy Solutions exhibition.
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