The Portuguese factory was expected to produce 50,000 lithium ion batteries a year for electric cars.

Liotech, a joint venture between RUSNANO and Chinese holding company Thunder Sky, has launched the world’s largest high-capacity lithium-ion battery factory near Novosibirsk.

The lithium ion batteries are essential for electric vehicles. The two companies, first announced in July, will form Advanced Electrolyte Technologies.

Porous Power Technologies, LLC, manufacturer of SYMMETRIX® battery separators, announces a new strategic partnership. Finland-based Ahlstrom Corporation has purchased a 49 percent stake in Porous Power.

Certainly, there has been plenty of chatter about magnesium?s potential in the clean technology market, especially when it comes to developing electric vehicles.

Currently most electric vehicles and hybrids including the Chevy Volt and Buick LaCrosse E-Assist use lithium metal oxide chemistry in their Lithium Ion battery

Liotech, the joint venture between China’s Thunder Sky and Rusnano has opened the world’s largest lithium-ion battery factory. The plant will produce batteries for electric vehicles.

The Volt electric vehicles has been under fire since the NHTSA opened a formal probe into the plug-in hybrid electric-car this past weekend following test results.

Responding to growing global demand for an additional secure supply of lithium chemicals, particularly from electric vehicles battery manufacturers, Talison is aggressively pursuing its proposed plant.

Maxell has introduced a rechargeable lithium ion battery designed with superior capacity in low temperatures.

PRBA delivers a safe, efficient, and essential power source for portable electronic equipment such as notebook computers, cell phones, power tools, PDAs, and MP3 players, as well as hybrid and electric vehicles.

Toyota Motor Corp. and BMW AG announced that they had forged a partnership in which the two companies will conduct joint battery research for next-generation electric cars.

BMW and Toyota May Collaborate on Lithium-Ion Battery Development For Electric Cars.

Maxell Corporation of America, the leading manufacturer of battery and data storage products, has introduced a rechargeable lithium ion battery.

Batteries by their nature are designed to store high energy and thereby can present a risk if that energy is released.

They are batteries, compressed air storage, flywheels, hydrogen, superconducting magnetic energy storage, thermal energy storage, ultracapacitors, and vehicle-to-grid (V2G).

Electric cars are critical to President Barack Obama’s plans to reduce US dependence on foreign oil. He has called for putting 1 million of electric vehicles on the road by 2015.

The average lithium ion battery can handle about 400 charge/discharge cycles before it deteriorates too much to be of practical use.

Resarchers are hoping that a new rechargeable battery with more storage and faster recharge time could help revolutionize the use of electric cars.

A team of engineers at Northwestern University say they have created a new electrode for lithium-ion batteries that will allow cells to hold up to 10 times as much charge and recharge 10 times faste.