Electric vehicle projects are getting a cash boost from the Canadian government. Canada’s Minister of State (Sport) and Member of Parliament for Bramalea-Gore-Malton, the Honourable Bal Gosal, announced Friday, May 3, that the Government of Canada will invest over $21 million for 13 innovative clean energy projects in the Greater Toronto Area. These projects are
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Electrovaya is launching its new generation of lithium ion battery technology, to be known as SuperPolymer 2.0. Electrovaya said the Lithium Ion SuperPolymer 2.0 battery technology is a new generation of lithium ion batteries. It represents the integration of the company’s automotive and grid knowledge, customers’ feedback, recent safety enhancements in the aerospace sector and
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Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced it has established the world’s first process to reuse rare earth metals extracted from nickel-metal hydride batteries for new nickel-metal hydride batteries to recycle precious resources. Honda said that so far, it has been extracting an oxide containing rare earth metals from used nickel-metal hydride batteries at the plant of
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BASF announced today it will open a Research and Development Laboratory and an Application Technology Center for Battery Materials in Amagasaki, Japan. BASF is confident both facilities will be fully operational by the end of 2013. The laboratory will focus on researching electrolytes and electrode materials for high-performance batteries as part of Basf’s global R&D
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Canadian-based Lithium Electric Vehicle Corp. (LEVC) will qualify for Canadian government incentives on both the national and provincial levels for its research and development efforts toward improving Nevada-based Terra Inventions Corp.’s all-electric vehicle propulsion technology. The Canadian Scientific Research & Experimental Development (SR&ED) program is said to be one of the most beneficial and most
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The 2014 Honda Accord Plug-in Hybrid Sedan is heading to Canada in the spring of 2013 for market viability testing. Honda stated during the announcement that the 2014 Accord Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) Sedan will provide the athleticism and craftsmanship of the all-new Accord, charged with a remarkable dose of hybrid efficiency and electric torque. “The
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