{"id":408,"date":"2009-05-04T10:52:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T10:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallvehicles.wordpress.com\/?p=408"},"modified":"2009-05-04T10:52:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T10:52:40","slug":"technology-research-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/04\/technology-research-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology &#038; Research Developments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Battery\/Ultracapacitor System for Small EVs<\/strong> &#8211; Using an NEV as the target vehicle, researchers from the Illinois Institute of Technology and Allborg University (Denmark) are working on a hybrid system that combines a battery pack with an ultracapacitor.?? The battery handles average power loads while the ultracapacitor handles peak loads.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The target NEV has a speed limit of 40-50 km\/h (25-31 mph), maximum power of 40 kW, and a weight of about 800 kg. The battery pack comprised two parallel strings of 14 series-connected 12 V NiMH batteries (Saft NHE 10-100). The ultracapacitor was a Maxwell BMOD0063 module with a nominal voltage of 125V.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Battery\/Ultracapacitor Hybrid\" href=\"with a speed limit of 40-50 km\/h (25-31 mph), maximum power of 40 kW, and a weight of about 800 kg. The battery pack comprised two parallel strings of 14 series-connected 12 V NiMH batteries (Saft NHE 10-100). The ultracapacitor was a Maxwell BMOD0063 module with a nominal voltage of 125V.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more:?? greencarcongress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bi-polar Lead Acid Battery For EVs<\/strong> &#8211; Last week a partnership between University of Glamorgan (Wales) and Atraverda was announced for the purpose of developing bi-polar lead acid batteries for a variety of commercial markets including EVs.?? Atraverda has expertise in conductive ceramics that would be used in the batteries.?? Prototypes are expected to begin testing within a year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The partners say their work could lead to lead-acid batteries that are up to 40% lighter, 20% smaller, have 40% more energy capacity and twice the lifespan of traditional lead acid batteries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Bipolar Lead Acid Batteries\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarcongress.com\/2009\/04\/glamorgan-atraverda-20090425.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more:?? greencarcongress.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battery\/Ultracapacitor System for Small EVs &#8211; Using an NEV as the target vehicle, researchers from the Illinois Institute of Technology and Allborg University (Denmark) are working on a hybrid system that combines a battery pack with an ultracapacitor.?? The battery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/04\/technology-research-developments\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,8,18,26],"tags":[68,120,166,2172,645,2183,1350,1357],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batteries","category-electric-vehicles","category-globalization","category-nev","category-technology","tag-allborg-university","tag-atraverda","tag-battery","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-illinois-institute-of-technology","tag-nev","tag-ultracapacitor","tag-university-of-glamorgan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}