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AUGUST 16, 2011

in which OBC is granting GS Yuasa a license to use nickel-metal-hydride (NiMH) technology developed and patented by OBC for the life of licensed patents. OBC invented NiMH rechargeable battery technology that is used globally in hybrid-electric vehicles, and in many consumer and commercial rechargeable batteries. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 14, 2009

wants to expand the production capacity for the NiMH battery packs it uses in hybrids by 10%. The automaker is now seeking access to enough NiMH batteries to equip 1.1 Panasonic EV Energy is capable of churning out roughly 700,000 NiMH battery packs a year. Toyota Motor Corp.

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NiMH Toyota Production Battery 218

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NOVEMBER 1, 2009

has reached an agreement to supply NiMH batteries to PSA Peugeot Citroen for its diesel-electric hybrid cars starting in 2011. Sanyo supplies NiMH batteries to Honda and Ford and is expected to supply lithium ion batteries to the Volkswagen Group and Toyota Motor Corp. The Nikkei reports that Sanyo Electric Co.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Toyota Motor Corporation will continue to use NimH packs for most of its hybrid vehicles after three years of testing Priuses fitted with Li-ion packs. Toyota last month ended road tests of 126 Priuses in the US, Japan and Europe that began in 2006, company spokeswoman Jana Hartline said in an interview.

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NiMH Nickel Metal Hydride Toyota Hybrid 231

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NOVEMBER 26, 2010

These values are comparable to those of NiMH batteries, the researchers note, but the new supercapacitor offers the ability to be charged or discharged within seconds or minutes. Researchers from Nanotek Instruments and Angstron Materials have developed a graphene-based supercapacitor that exhibits a specific energy density of 85.6

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NiMH Nickel Metal Hydride Energy Battery 356

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JUNE 11, 2009

Although Toyota has been working on Li-ion batteries for strong hybrids, and has had 126 Priuses equipped with Li-ion packs on the road for the past three years, NiMH cost performance wins compared to lithium for this application, Kuroda said. Toyota has been able to bring down the cost of the NiMH pack in the Prius “dramatically”, he said.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Panasonic Corporation has developed a NiMH-based 12V Energy Recovery System for start-stop systems in vehicles. The 12V Energy Recovery System, which is designed to be connected in parallel with the main lead-acid battery, is based on new D-size nickel metal hydride (NiMH) battery cells. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

A National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) project, funded by GM, found that an ultracapacitor-based energy storage system (ESS) in a Saturn VUE BAS (belt alternator starter) mild hybrid performed at least as well or better than the NiMH battery system in the production hybrid.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

APRIL 21, 2011

NIMH battery modules used in the Toyota Prius. I am converting a 1999 Ford Probe into an electric car. I have found really really cheap 7.2v My question

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NiMH Conversion Cheap Battery 102

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JUNE 29, 2009

will more than triple its production of NiMH batteries for hybrids, citing growing demand for these vehicles. It said it will invest several billion yen to expand production lines at its Sumoto plant, in Hyogo Prefecture, which is the only plant where it makes NiMH batteries for hybrid cars. Sanyo Electric Co.

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NiMH Hybrid Battery Batteries 150

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JUNE 10, 2009

kWh NiMH plug-in hybrid (PHEV) conversion kit that enables all-electric mode driving at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour (until the battery pack is depleted) in a converted Prius. kilowatt hour NiMH battery pack with the 6.1kWh pack, retails for $12,500. Poway, California-based Plug In Conversions Corp.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

JULY 7, 2010

1100 mah NIMH batteries. I have several hundred 7.4v Can I wire them together to make a battery pack large enough to power an AC electric car? Hi, ManZie.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

DECEMBER 20, 2008

AC motor question: I'm looking for a less expensive, probably US-made AC motor. I'm aiming my design at 1400 lbs maximum.

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NiMH Motoring Motors Motor 112

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JANUARY 23, 2013

Starting this April, Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) will sell an electricity management system that uses recycled nickel-metal hydride batteries from hybrid vehicles to Toyota vehicle dealers throughout Japan. The 10 kWh systems will be sold via TMC’s energy business company, Toyota Turbine and Systems Inc.,

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Nickel Metal Hydride Toyota NiMH Dealers 308

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JULY 9, 2019

Over the same period, the amount of NME used in li-ion batteries (primarily in the form of nickel sulfate) increased 69% whereas the amount of NME used in NiMH batteries (primarily in the form of nickel hydroxide and AB5 nickel-REE alloy) increased 26%.

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Li-ion NiMH Battery Batteries 271

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JUNE 5, 2021

ATC will launch remanufacture of both NiMH and LiON batteries and electric drive units in the 3 rd quarter of 2021 in Oklahoma City and 4 th quarter of 2021 in Zhangjiang, China. —George Kostopoulos, Vice President Global Sales and Marketing at ATC Drivetrain.

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North America Oklahoma City Asia Electric Vehicles 243

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), Toyota Chemical Engineering Co., Toyota Chemical Engineering), Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Sumitomo Metal Mining) and Primearth EV Energy Co.,

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Nickel Metal Hydride NiMH Toyota Battery 231

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Panasonic Corporation’s NiMH 12V Energy Recovery Systems ( earlier post ) is being applied in the new idle-stop (stop-start) minicars just introduced by Nissan Motor and Mitsubishi Motors in Japan: the Nissan DAYZ ROOX and Mitsubishi eK Space. The new models were designed and developed for the Japanese market by NMKV Co.,

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Nickel Metal Hydride Mitsubishi NiMH Lead Acid 218

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Through this agreement, SNAM (a subsidiary of Floridienne Group) will be responsible not only for dismantling and recycling, but also the collection of batteries from electric and hybrid vehicles (NiMH and Li-ion). The NiMH and Li-Ion batteries will be treated in compliance with European environmental standards.

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APRIL 21, 2011

They compiled a transparent life cycle inventory (LCI) in a component-wise manner for nickel metal hydride (NiMH), nickel cobalt manganese lithium-ion (NCM), and iron phosphate lithium-ion (LFP) batteries. A paper on the study appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. —Majeau-Bettez et al.

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APRIL 24, 2019

Another reason for the increase is that BEVs and PHEVs were collectively responsible for a greater share (92%) of global battery capacity deployed in February 2019 versus the year prior (87%)—meaning that a greater share of kWh deployed this year was in the form of Li-ion cells, as opposed to NiMH cells, which contain no LCE whatsoever.

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JUNE 18, 2013

Honda Motor Co., has agreed with TDK Corporation and Japan Metals & Chemicals Co., JMC) to jointly pursue the reuse of a rare earth metal extracted from nickel-metal hydride batteries in hybrid vehicles for magnets of new hybrid vehicle motors. Earlier post.).

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Nickel Metal Hydride Honda NiMH Hybrid 170

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JULY 25, 2011

OBC invented NiMH rechargeable battery technology that is used globally in hybrid-electric vehicles, and in many consumer and commercial rechargeable batteries.

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NiMH Conversion Solar Companies 220

Teslarati

MARCH 2, 2023

The battery recycling company also worked with dismantlers to collect and recycle lithium ion and nickel metal hydride (NiMH) from EOL vehicle batteries. “The The packs we collected were a mix of older NiMH and newer lithium-ion chemistries from more than a dozen different automakers.

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Nickel Metal Hydride Lithium Ion Battery Batteries 108

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JULY 21, 2019

In Japan, nickel is used primarily in NiMH batteries for HEVs as opposed to in China and the US where it is mainly used in Li-ion batteries for BEVs and PHEVs. In the US, as in China, battery nickel is consumed mainly as nickel sulfate.

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MAY 30, 2012

Ovonic, based in Rochester Hills, Michigan, is the global leader in nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) battery technology and a leading producer of cathode materials and their precursors for both NiMH and lithium-ion batteries. The license also covers the proprietary processes used to manufacture these materials.

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Lithium Ion Nickel Metal Hydride Grant NiMH 225

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MAY 20, 2013

Most of Toyota’s hybrids still rely on NiMH batteries. The Nikkei reported that Toyota Motor Corp. plans to increase its output of lithium-ion batteries for the Prius and other models to more than 200,000 units a year. PEVE, in which the carmaker holds an 80% stake and Panasonic Corp.

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JUNE 20, 2012

Flow of the reuse of rare earth metals Honda is striving to achieve. Click to enlarge. Honda Motor Co., which has been extracting rare earth metals from used nickel-metal hydride batteries at the plant of Japan Metals & Chemicals Co., from April of this year, plans to begin reusing the extracted metals before the end of 2012.

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Nickel Metal Hydride Honda Li-ion NiMH 284

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FEBRUARY 6, 2021

It is also used to produce nickel hydroxide and other nickel compounds used in NiMH (blue) and NiCd (blue) batteries, and other applications (blue). Nickel sulfate is used directly in the production of Li-ion precursors (blue) and plating (blue).

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Ford calculates that its third-generation hybrid system, which among other enhancements replaces NiMH batteries with Li-ion batteries, could reduce the company’s use of expensive rare earth metals by up to 500,000 pounds (227,000 kg) a year, based on its past hybrid sales and projections for the future.

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MAY 7, 2014

Lithium-ion extends its lead, but NiMH sticks around. GWh of batteries used in plug-ins and hybrids in Q1 2014, with nickel metal hydride (NiMH) technology trailing at 28%—but kept aloft by Toyota’s loyalty to the lower-cost technology for its top-selling Prius. Lithium-ion batteries captured 68% of the 1.4

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JUNE 22, 2021

Optional were Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries, the same as those used in Toyota’s RAV4EV and Honda’s EV+. A NiMH RangerEV could travel nearly 100 miles in favorable conditions. Today, we have waiting lists of enthusiastic potential Ford F-150 owners eager to try out a new lithium-based version of the company’s latest EV truck.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The new Ford in-house Li-ion hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) pack delivers peak charge and discharge power of 35 kW, compared to 25 kW and 27 kW, respectively, in the older Fusion hybrid NiMH pack, said Chuck Gray, Chief Engineer - Ford Electrification Engineering, at the SAE Hybrid Vehicle Technologies Symposium. Atkinson from the earlier 2.5L

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Li-ion Nickel Metal Hydride Ni-Li Plug-in 225

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OCTOBER 29, 2011

Sanyo supplies NiMH batteries for hybrid electric vehicles developed by Volkswagen and also carries out the implementation of the next generation of NiMH and Li-ion batteries with car manufacturers—for example, Volkswagen Group.

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Portugal Spain Electric Vehicles NiMH 218

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DECEMBER 30, 2018

ABS, ETC, NiMH, LIB and PWB signify anti-lock braking system, electronic toll collection, Nickel metal hydride (battery), Lithium-ion battery, and printed wiring board, respectively. Recycling potential amounts of PMs from PWBs of ELVs in Japan 2040. The mean values (between minimum and maximum collection ratios) are shown.

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Nickel Metal Hydride Universal Japan Vehicles 321

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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Although NiMH is still the dominant battery in the high-voltage hybrid market, Li-ion technology started to take market share around 2009 and is expected to continually increase its share with time. The 170-page report also finds that while the combined global EV and plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) market share is expected to grow to about 1.5%

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APRIL 17, 2020

The expansion of this agreement will see SNAM collect Lithium-ion and Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries from across Honda’s dealer network and Authorized Treatment Facilities (ATF) in 22 countries, before analyzing how suitable they are for recycling and processing them accordingly.

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