Battery Heating

  • Tesla Motors - Model S lithium-ion battery pack

    A Woburn, Massachusetts, company may be attracting big name attention for its solid-state technology that it says can withstand higher temperatures and offer higher capacity. For battery makers, producing a stable solid to withstand the rigors of charging and discharging has proved elusive. Ionic Materials said in February that it had secured $65 million in funding from investors during its most recent round of fundraising. Axios reported in February that investors included electronics giant Samsung and consumer electronics maker Dyson. Sun Microsystems and Java co-founder Bill Joy sits on...

  • BMW i3 Concept MkII
    BMW Experimenting With Infrared Heating For Electric Cars

    Just how do you keep occupants of an electric car warm? That’s the question that automakers have been tackling for many years, as they bring mass-produced plug-in cars to market. Now BMW thinks it has the solution to keeping occupants warm in the middle of winter: infrared heating. The use of...

  • Nissan Leaf: Lost Battery Capacity
    2011 Nissan Leafs Start Losing Capacity Bars: Should You Worry?

    It had to happen some time, just not perhaps as quickly as this. Since Nissan’s all-electric Leaf hatchback launched in late 2010, many have been watching with interest to see how long it would be before the car’s 24 kilowatt-hour battery pack showed the gradual reduction in range and...

  • Volvo C30 Electric Arctic Test Drive
    Volvo C30 Electric Car: How Quickly Does It Warm Up In Cold Weather? (Video)

    Last week, we headed to Kiruna, Northern Sweden, where Volvo showed us just how its C30 electric car coped with harsh winters in the frozen arctic. Thanks to an interview with Volvo C30 Electric program manager Annelie Gustavsson, we’ve already explained the theory of keeping the C30 and its...

  • 2011 Nissan Leaf, Nashville, October 2010
    2012 Nissan Leaf: Heated Seats, Wheel & Battery As Standard

    While Nissan killed the Altima Hybrid, its sole U.S. hybrid vehicle, for 2012, the company has made a number of important upgrades to its Leaf battery electric car. For 2012, the Nissan Leaf will include as standard heated front and rear seats, plus heated steering wheel and outside mirrors...

  • 2011 Nissan Leaf
    2012 Nissan Leaf Gets Ready for Winter, Gets More Heating

    The 2011 Nissan Leaf may have been the first all-electric mass-produced electric car from a major automaker to hit the roads, but in the first few months following its launch Nissan came under a lot of criticism for not having a more sophisticated thermally managed battery pack inside the Leaf. Now...

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