Battery

IBM is developing a new super battery that is 1000 times more efficient than today's lithium-ion batteries, reports New Scientist. The battery will give electric cars a range of 800 kilometers may be a reality within a few years. IBM is developing a new battery type for electric cars that can seriously compete with fossil fuels. The technique is based on lithium-air technology. Instead of using metal oxides in the positive electrode they are using carbon dioxide which interact with the surrounding air to create electricity.

Today Sanyo is the world’s largest maker of rechargeable batteries and has about 28 percent of the world market for nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries for hybrid cars.
According to the Kyodo news service said Mr. Mitsuru Homma, head of the rechargeable- battery unit, that the company intends to increase this to 40 percent in 2020.

According to a pressrelease from ABB  the research project will examine how used batteries from electric cars can be used as energy storage devices.

The project will investigate the potential of re-using lithium batteries from GM's Chevy Volt electric vehicle for cost-effective energy storage, which in turn contributes to improving the efficiency of electrical systems as they evolve into smart grids.

Students of the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences design electric car that needs no charging.  At first glance, the E-Quickie looks a lot like a recumbent bike with a driver’s cabin.  E-Quickie weigh 60 kg and running at 50 km / h.Some of the less young of us might also feel reminded of the Messerschmidt bubble car.

Innovatum in Trollhättan receives funding almost 8352000 Euro (87 000 000 SEK) to support for the electric car project Ze Saab 9-3. In this project they priority security and development of batteries.
The goal is to quickly produce a test fleet of over 100 electric vehicles.
The project involves, among other battery manufacturer Boston Power Inc and the Swedish start-up company Electroengine

The press release:

An article in Sciencenews describes that scientists in Stanford have made batteries and supercapacitors with ordinary office paper and some carbon and silver nanomaterials. The paper-based devices show excellent performance largely due to paper’s porous nature: at the nano scale, paper is a tangled matrix of fibers.

Funded in part by the EU and ENIAC (the European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council). Its objective is the development of nanoelectronics technologies, specifically for electrical and hybrid vehicles.

E3CAR aims to develop nanoelectronics

"Coda is a pure electric car for everyone," said company CEO Kevin Czinger.

The Coda Sedan is producing zero-emission.
The brand is American, owned by Miles Rubin, but the rest are Chinese. The company is headquarting in Southern California. The company maintain complete control of the brand, design, and intellectual property, while finding solutions to help reduce the cost of manufacturing. The actual car is a Hafei Saibao, which has old Mitsubishi technology under the hood,
while the batteries are from Tianjin Lishe Battery Joint-Stock.