Latest Lithium-ion battery Stories
Research and Markets announces the addition of "Energy Efficient Motors Market (2013–2018):By Product (Synchronous (Reluctance, Permanent Magnet), Asynchronous (Squirrel Cage, Wound Rotor), DC Motor (Brushless, Brushed)); Type (IE3, IE2, IE1, NEMA); Application (Fans, Pump, HVAC, Compressed Air)" to its catalogue. Dublin, Ireland (PRWEB) March 13, 2013 The growing use of electric motors and automation has resulted in the greater demand for energy efficient electric motors. The...
Maxim's tiny ultra-low-power fuel gauge constantly updates the remaining battery status, tracks battery health, and enhances user experience. SAN JOSE, Calif., March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: MXIM) today announced that it is sampling the MAX17050, the industry's highest accuracy battery fuel gauge. It uses the company's patented ModelGauge(TM) m3 algorithm, which improves upon the traditional coulomb counting approach by combining it with the...
ECommerce Battery Distributor offers customers an instant rebate as an encouragement to recycle warn out laptop batteries when purchasing a new battery. Cleveland, Ohio (PRWEB) March 03, 2013 Laptop Battery Express has announced an instant rebate discount to encourage the recycling of worn out laptop batteries. With the widespread use of mobile electronics, batteries are the key power source that enables technology products to be taken nearly everywhere. Consumers use an average of six...
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson Controls, Inc., the world's leading supplier of automotive batteries, is slated to begin production this spring of Li-ion battery packs out of its advanced battery plant in Holland, Mich., for Torqeedo's all-electric boat motors. Torqeedo, a German-based manufacturer, will use Johnson Controls' Li-ion automotive battery packs to power its award-winning 80-Horsepower electric boat motor called DEEP BLUE. "With our leading battery...
[WATCH VIDEO: Stretchable, Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery] Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Samsung unveiled a flexible touchscreen glass at the 2013 International CES earlier this year, and now researchers have the proper battery to go along with that display. Northwestern University's Yonggang Huang and the University of Illinois' John A. Rogers have created the world's first stretchable lithium-ion battery. They reported in the journal Nature Communications...
Soldier Worn Integrated Power Equipment System reduces battery weight carried by soldiers by up to 30% ANN ARBOR, Michigan, February 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Arotech Corporation (NasdaqGM: ARTX), a provider of quality defense and security products for the military, law enforcement and homeland security markets, announced today that its Battery and Power Systems Division received an order from the United States Army for over 1,500 units of its award-winning SWIPES[TM]...
CARLSBAD, Calif., Feb. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) announced today that three scientists are presenting data at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) conference showing the Ion PI chip is on the same rapid performance trajectory demonstrated by the first three Ion PGM(TM) chips. Since the first Ion chip launched two years ago, semiconductor sequencing output has jumped over 1,000-fold from 10 Mb to more than 10 Gb, and that...
LONDON, Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The global lithium-ion battery market was worth $11.7 billion in 2012 and is expected to double by 2016, according to Frost & Sullivan. This will happen despite the recent issues experienced by Boeing, and despite Airbus' decision to abandon these batteries. In fact, these incidents may affect the demand only in the short-term. "Although consumer application accounts for the highest revenues, fastest growth can be witnessed in the...
Flintec has launched a new range of load cells and a weigh module designed specifically for vessel and silo weighing in the food and pharmaceutical industries. The new Model Q50 pancake load cells and associated Model 66-20 weigh module are constructed in electro-polished stainless steel in compliance with the best practice in the food and pharma industries. Cardiff, Wales (PRWEB) February 19, 2013 Flintec has launched a new range of load cells and a weigh module designed specifically for...
AUSTIN, Texas and SEOUL, South Korea, Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Samsung SDI, an affiliate of Samsung Group, and Xtreme Power, a privately held Austin, TX company, today announced that they have been selected by the Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies (CCET) to install a 1MW/1MWh Lithium Ion based Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) system at the Reese Technology Center in Lubbock, Texas as part of a Smart Grid Demonstration Project (SGDP). The $27 million...
