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Does FastTech sell counterfeit battery cells too, or is it only the battery shrink sleeve they sell which is counterfeit? Does the battery shrink sleeve come with battery brand and model names on it?

http://www.murata.com/en-us/about/newsroom/news/company/general/2016/1031 http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201610/16-1031E/index.html October 31, 2016 Murata Manufacturing and Sony Sign Definitive Agreement for the Transfer of Battery Business Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Sony...

Earlier this Batterybro blogpost said INR was the same as NCA in the table at the top, while further down in the description of each chemistry instead it said INR was the same as NMC. So they didn't even agree with themselves what chemistry INR actually was, as the content of this blogpost was...

Press release: HENRIK FISKER RELAUNCHES FISKER INC. http://www.fiskerinc.com/s/Fisker-Inc-Press-Release.pdf Bloomberg article: Henrik Fisker Is Starting a Namesake Car Company Again http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-04/henrik-fisker-is-starting-a-namesake-car-company-again...

You have been spending too much time writing about battery tech if your spell checker starts to auto correct 'what' to 'watt' :mrgreen: Anyway, LG Chem has also acquired rights to use some of Sion Power's patents in April. So that's probably where some of their intellectual property will hit...

Sion Power reports 400 Wh/kg, 700 Wh/L and 350 cycles under 1C for Li-ion battery with Li-metal anode technology 3 October 2016 Sion Power reported that a Licerion-Ion system has achieved 400 Wh/kg, 700 Wh/L and 350 cycles under 1C discharge conditions. Dr. Yuriy Mikhaylik, Sion Power’s...

You can read more about it here: Hanyang/BMW team develops high-energy density Li-ion battery with carbon-nanotube-Si composite anode and NCM concentration gradient cathode 20 May 2016 Researchers from Hanyang University in Korea and the BMW Group have developed a new fully operational...

MIT Technology Review Why We Still Don’t Have Better Batteries Startups with novel chemistries tend to falter before they reach full production. by Richard Martin August 29, 2016 Earlier this year, Ellen Williams, the director of ARPA-E, the U.S. Department of Energy’s advanced research...

Why are we still using lame lithium-ion batteries after so many promising alternatives? By Ryan Whitwam on September 1, 2016 at 9:30 am There’s a lot of research going on around battery technology as devices as diverse as smartphones and cars are increasingly held back by limited energy...

UNIST/Stanford team develops new Li-ion anode with silicon-nanolayer-embedded graphite/carbon; 1,043 Wh/l full LiCoO2 cell Researchers affiliated with Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea, and Stanford University have demonstrated the feasibility of a...

24M and partners awarded M from ARPA-E to develop ultra-high-energy density batteries with new lithium-metal anodes As part of its new IONICS (Integration and Optimization of Novel Ion Conducting Solids) program awards (earlier post), the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects...

AVERE Clarifies Effects of New Type Approval at Eurobike Conference http://www.bike-eu.com/laws-regulations/nieuws/2016/9/avere-clarifies-effects-of-new-type-approval-at-eurobike-conference-10127483

UCR team finds adding even small amounts of tin to Si-based anode greatly improves charge capacity and cycling stability Link to article: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2016/08/20160804-ucr.html If you want to learn what coulombic efficiency is and how it's measured, watch this excellent...

Here's the same article in English: The Queen of Batteries unveils her new invention that can increase the range of Teslas by 70% http://nordic.businessinsider.com/the-queen-of-batteries-unveils-her-new-invention-that-can-increase-the-range-of-teslas-by-70-2016-7/ Another article: Boston-Power...

Sony is planning to sell its battery division to Murata By Sam Byford on July 28, 2016 02:52 am Sony has announced that it's entered into negotiations to sell its battery business to Murata, a Japanese components company that plans to use the purchase to expand its energy operations...