LG Chem has signed a deal to supply China’s largest SUV producer with 200,000 lithium-ion batteries for a range of electric vehicles.
The Korean firm signed the deal with great Wall Motor to supply batteries for the automaker’s new EV range, to be launched in 2017.
Shareholders at Lithium-ion and lead-acid battery separator firm Polypore International have approved the sale of the firm for around $3.2billion.
Approval for the deal - first announced in February - was obtained during a meeting on May 12 and paves the way for the deal to go through.
North American battery supplier Johnson Controls has opened a laboratory in its bid to develop lithium-ion battery systems for vehicles.
The Wisconsin company’s Johnson Controls Vehicle Engineering Systems Laboratory includes a dynamometer to investigate management of battery energy and power transfer.
General Electric is set to supply Con Edison Development with an 8 MWh lithium-ion Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in Central Valley, California.
The BESS will be the first time US energy firm General Electric (GE) has introduced a lithium-ion battery solution to a project.
Shenzen-based Highpower International has been awarded a contract by state-owned China Southern Power Grid (CSPG) to deliver an ESS system to balance out the supply to the South China grid.
Highpower’s 100kWh ESS comes with LiFePO4 batteries and has a 500V, 200 Ah capacity with 60KW maximum output power.
Germany Sonnenbatterie’s lithium-ion Energy Storage Systems (ESS) will be marketed to the U.S and Europe following a deal with Solar company Sungevity
Through the partnership, Sungevity will offer Sonnenbatterie smart ESSs to its network of customers from the second half of 2015.
Work is set to begin at Samsung SDI Battery Systems (SDIBS) lithium-ion battery plant following the Korean firm’s official opening ceremony.
The company will begin operations to manufacturer EV batteries for the European, American and Chinese markets at the plant in Graz, Austria.
It doesn’t matter how you spin it, lithium-ion battery manufacturer A123 Systems has had a heady mix of fortune this week.
Firstly the company, bought for £251million by China’s Wanxiang Group in 2012 after filing for bankruptcy, sold its the non-automotive lithium-ion battery and system integration branch.
The world’s first sodium-ion powered vehicle was demonstrated by British battery R&D company Faradion as it progresses its technology ready for market.
Bangladesh lead-acid battery manufacturers are concerned for their future after state-owned IDCOL paved the way for solar home systems (SHS) using lithium-ion batteries, reports United News of Bangladesh.
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