Electric Vehicle Battery Information
Battery university - Get the Coffee! It's an all-nighter.
Flooded lead acid
VRLA - Valve Regulated Lead Acid
Just a fancy way of saying advanced, sealed, starved electrolyte lead acid.
Flywheel - mechanical batteries
Fuel Cells
LIB - Lithium Ion Battery
LPB - Lithium Polymer Battery
Magnesium-Lithium
- Used in Mitsubishi Motors Corp ultra-compact urban-use concept electric vehicle with a range of 90 miles.
- Japan Storage Battery Co. Ltd. Manufactures the battery. No mention of this on their website.
NiMh - Nickel Metal Hydride
NaNiCl - Sodium Nickel Chloride
Zebra Battery, in testing with BMW and others... more info soon.
Ni-Zn - Nickel Zinc
Press releases look promising. Very little information or
data on this technology at this time.
Silver Hydrogen
Ultra Capacitors
Ultracapacitors with sohpisticated variable voltage DC-DC
converters can more efficiently handle the high power
requirements of acceleration and regenerative braking. They
don't store much energy compared to a battery. Continued development
of the converter and ultracapacitors could make them economical to
improve battery or fuel cell vehicle efficiencies.
Vanadium Redox
Zn-Air - Zinc Air
Essential for long battery life. Required for sealed lead acid batteries.
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