Electric vehicle recharging

SAE J2464, Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicle Rechargeable Energy Storage System (RESS) Safety and Battery Abuse Testing... 

Applications of Electric Vehicle Rechargeable Energy Storage Systems... 

Gamburtzev S., Velev O.A., Danin R., Srinivasan S., Appleby A.J. Performance of an improved design of metal hydride/air rechargeable cell . In Batteries for portable application and electric vehicles. C.Holmes, A.Landgrebe ed. Pennington Electroch. Soc, 1997, 726-33. 

I.V. Barsukov, T.I. Motronyuk, V.Z. Barsukov, V.I. Drozdik. Metal-Free 1.5V Rechargeable Batteries Steps of Optimization and Prospects for the Practical Application// In book Batteries for Portable Application and Electric Vehicles, C.F. Flolmes and A.R. Landgrebe eds., The Electrochemical Society, Inc., Pennington, NJ, 592-596 (1997). 

Design inexpensive, high-energy-density, and quickly rechargeable storage batteries that make electric vehicles truly practical. 

By the late 1990s, it was clear that only the big automakers could make the electric car really happen. But, these were the same companies that had disdained electric cars earlier. GM once sued California in the U.S. District Court in Fresno to block imposition of the state s zero-emissions rules. These regulations would require automakers to build thousands of electric vehicles using rechargeable storage battery technology. But, the auto industry contended that conventional, electric-powered cars were too expensive and too limited in range to be profitable. 

The Ecostar van was Ford s first electric since the time of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. The Ecostar was the first electric vehicle that resembled an actual production car instead of a conversion. It had a recharge port and a battery charging meter. The Ecostar provided a pleasant driv-... 

U.S. Electricar built the lead-acid Electricar Prizm in Torrance, California, at Hughes Power Control Systems, a GM subsidiary that also designed the car s DC-to-AC inverter. Instead of a gas gauge there was a range meter. The batteries were in a covered tunnel underneath the car. Most electric vehicles have good low-end torque for excellent 0-60 acceleration, but the Prizm was a little sluggish initially but then picked up quickly. The car used a recharging paddle. 

Finally, pure battery-electric vehicles (BEV) operate on batteries alone, with all normal operations powered by the battery. As a result, a BEV has a sizable battery pack. Recharging BEVs today still requires between three and eight hours and is... 

The battery industry has seen enormous growth over the past few years in portable, rechargeable battery packs. The majority of this surge can be attributed to the widespread use of cell phones, personal digital assistants (PDA s), laptop computers, and other wireless electronics. Batteries remained the mainstream source of power for systems ranging from mobile phones and PDA s to electric and hybrid electric vehicles. The world market for batteries was approximately 41 billion in 2000, which included 16.2 billion primary and 24.9 billion secondary cells. 

Another approach is to use a lithium/sulfur cell with nonaqueous electrolyte systems. Rechargeable lithium batteries are being developed for portable power applications such as electric vehicles, partly because of their specific energy ranges 100-150 Wh kg (and... 

The high specific energy for this cell of >100 Wh kg" give electric vehicles powered by these batteries a range of up to 250 km, sufficient for the daily use in a city. These batteries are fully rechargeable, safe, and have been found to need no maintenance over 100000 km they are thus considered an attractive proposition for the electric vehicles of the future. 

---