Celanese AG (Germany) and Honda (Japan) announced that their research subsidiaries, Celanese Ventures Gmbh and Honda R&D Co., will cooperate in the development of membranes and membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) for the creation of a new fuel cell for car engines. The venture is hoped to both improve the performance of car fuel cells and […]
Ness Corp. (Korea) debuted a new line of 2.3V ultracapacitors. These ultracapacitors are specifically designed with portable and handheld devices in mind. For this reason, Ness Corp. claims that they are lighter, smaller and less expensive than regular ultracapacitors to operate. Ness Corp. also claims that the new ultracapacitors charge and discharge more than 100 […]
H Power Corp. (Clifton, NJ) announced that Gaz de France, the French national gas utility, has installed an H Power residential cogeneration fuel cell system, powered by natural gas, in a model house and has begun a five-month evaluation of the unit. The house is located on Gaz de France's research and development campus in […]
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considered likely to pass some recently-proposed amendments to a 1990 ZEV mandate. Originally CARB stated that, by the year 2003, 4 percent of all vehicles sold in the state of California had to be zero-emissions vehicles (ZEVs) and a further 6 percent had to be cars that fall […]
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP, Los Angeles, CA) and FuelCell Energy Inc. (Danbury, CT) have negotiated a contract for two additional environmentally-responsible fuel cell power plants to be installed in the Los Angeles area by DWP for $2.45 million. On 1 December, 2000, the Los Angeles City Council authorized the signing […]
American Flywheel Systems Inc. and Trinity Flywheel Power have merged to create AFS Trinity Power Corp. (Seattle, WA) to address the $12 billion market for power technology serving the digital economy. Headquarters of the combined company will be in Seattle and most manufacturing as well as research and development will be located in Livermore, CA. […]
The Guangdon Jiangment Yuyang Special Battery Plant (Guangzhou, China) reports that it has invented a substitute for the commonplace sulfuric acid rechargeable battery. The sulfuric acid rechargeable battery, which was invented over 100 years ago, has in recent years become a source of pollution. The company's invention uses a compound silicate gel as an electrolyte […]
SatCon Technology (Cambridge, MA) has announced fourth quarter financial results for the period ended 30 September, 2000. Revenue for the fourth quarter increased by $6.3 million, or 157 percent, to $10.3 million versus $4.0 million in the fourth quarter of 1999. Revenue for the year ended 30 September, 2000 increased by $15.6 million, or 100 […]
The Caterpillar Uninterruptible Power Supply 250 (Cat UPS), an integrated flywheel-based power supply system developed by EPRI (Palo Alto, CA), Active Power Inc. (Austin, TX) and Caterpillar Inc. (Lafayette, IN) has been declared a winner in the 2000 R&D 100 Awards program sponsored by R&D Magazine (Oak Brook, IL). Considered to be one of the […]
Active Power Inc. (Austin, TX) announced that it has received an order from Liebert Corp. (Columbus, OH) for thirty-six 240kW CleanSource dc flywheel units valued at more than a million dollars. The CleanSource dc is a compact, reliable, non-toxic replacement for lead-acid batteries used with uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems. Accordiing to Active Power, the […]
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) has announced the outline of its new mid-term business plan, named Value Creation 21, for the three-year period from April 2001 through March 2004. The Value Creation 21 plan seeks to establish a "new Matsushita" that will place top priority on providing value-adding services to customers through the […]
Sanyo Electric Co. (Osaka, Japan) has created a lithium-ion secondary battery manufacturing subsidiary, Sanyo Energy Co. (Beijing, China), in the Beijing Economic Technological Development Area in China. The Sanyo Group provided 100 percent of the capital for the new company, which will start with package assembly of lithium-ion secondary batteries. Starting in 2001, the new […]
Sonnenschein Lithium GmbH (Büdingen, Germany) announced their new Pulses Plus lithium batteries at the electronica 2000 conference. The company claims that these...
Metallic Power (Carlsbad, CA) announced that it has reached a milestone by demonstrating its latest prototype power source in a new portable...
Over a month after the end of the Mondial de l'Automobile, better known as the Paris Auto Show, reports are trickling out...