The development of electric cars depends on lithium ion batteries, at least the first generation of electric cars. Chile is the largest producer of lithium, although Bolivia has the largest reserves.

Racing Batteries USA, Sharpsburg, Ga. was established to import UK-manufactured Lithium Ion Nano Phosphate (LiFePO4) batteries for electric vehicles.

Panacis is an Ottawa, Ontario based company that is a global leader in intelligent, high performance Lithium Polymer battery based energy storage systems.

At the heart of the explosion was a lithium-ion battery, according to a fire department official cited in local news reports.

As the potential for the further improvement of lithium-ion batteries is nearly exhausted, experts are now turning to a new and promising power storage device: lithium-sulfur batteries.

One person was seriously injured Wednesday morning by an explosion at a General Motors laboratory near Detroit during a test of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.

Under the contract, China BAK will deliver 1,000 lithium-ion high-power battery units in 2012 to power Chery’s Ruilin M1 electric vehicles.

Bloomberg put out an article yesterday that the electric vehicles are is being recharged with high gas prices. A123 Systems stock has a 52 week range of $0.82 ? 6.39.

Spherical graphite is used to make the anodes in Li ion batteries and is manufactured from the flake concentrate produced by graphite mining operations.

Phostech Lithium specializes in the manufacture of lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4), a cathode material used in the production of lithium-ion batteries for numerous applications, notably in the electric vehicles.

Due to environmental pressures and increasing oil concerns, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) are gaining prominence. Several electric cars are expected to use Lithium-ion batteries.

Hyundai Heavy Industries, South Korea’s leading shipbuilder, has agreed to set up a joint venture with Magna E-Car, Canada-based manufacturer of parts for hybrid and electric cars, in a bid to develop lithium-ion batteries.

China BAK’s battery module is comprised of cylindrical cells that can be used in electric vehicles (EVs), electric motors, electric bicycles (e-bikes) and power storage.

With the rapidly expanding markets for lithium ion batteries and metal organic chemicals, and in particular with the potential for growth in lithium batteries for electric vehicles, Rockwood is unifying its businesses.

Galaxy is advancing plans for a lithium-ion batteriesplant, to produce 620,000 battery packs per annum for the electric vehicles market.

Toyota Motor Corp. has started joint research with Germany’s BMW AG on a new lithium-ion battery for electric cars.

Mark Twain quipped, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”

Lithium-ion batteries require metal oxides and some of those materials, such as cobalt, are rather rare.

The NIST team discovered that there is likely a lower limit to how thin an electrolyte layer can be made before it causes the battery to malfunction.

Dalhousie University received over $6 million for two research projects. Dr. Jeff Dahn has received $4.1 million to advance the performance of lithium-ion batteries.