http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20170911PD204.html Solid state battery maker Prologium enters electric car market 12 September 2017 Aaron Lee, Taipei; Joseph Tsai
Taiwan-based solid-state battery maker Prologium Technology is currently talking with several car vendors about supplying batteries for their electric cars and will begin mass producing a lithium ceramic battery (LCB) for a client at the end of 2017, according to the company. Some market watchers believe the client is a China-based car vendor, but Prologium declined to comment on matters about its clients. China is currently the largest electric car market worldwide and over 40% of worldwide electric car shipments were supplied to China in 2016. The scale was twice as large as that of the US, according to figures from International Energy Agency (IEA). While Tesla has a strong leadership in the electric car market, other vendors including Japan-based Toyota and Korea-based Hyundai, are also aggressively developing solid-state battery electric cars. Toyota is expected to release vehicles powered by such batteries in 2022. Facing fierce competitions, China-based car vendors have been eagerly looking to expand their presence in the market. So far, Prologium's solid-state battery has already been validated by half of its potential clients. One of the clients has already signed a contract and is expected to release its solid-state battery-based electric car in early 2018. Since lithium batteries face development limitations for adoption by electric cars and have often been marred by reports of fire hazards, car vendors have been seeking alternative products to enhance the safety, and solid-state batteries are one of their options. Although Tesla is adopting lithium polymer batteries for its vehicles, 70% of the components in the battery module are for protection mechanisms and the battery management system, meaning the adoption of solid-state batteries is able to improve the safety and cut down the number of protection components to allow efficiency in assembly. However, solid-state batteries' high prices due to its limited economies of scale will still prompt most vendors to choose lithium batteries to save costs. [© DIGITIMES] ... http://www.prologium.com/index.aspx?02F0EA87FB60FF526BD81D51338B43D5 Solid-state LCB (Lithium Ceramic Battery) LCB adapts solid-state electrolyte instead of liquid/ jelly ones so there is no leakage. Even it’s damaged by folding, hitting, penetrating, or burning, LCB doesn’t fire nor explore. All rechargeable Li batteries need the “protection circuit” to control the voltage and to prevent from exploring and irreversible damaging. But LCB is ultra-safe and still works after abnormal charging without the protection circuit (no shortage, no fire, and no explosion). FLCB, adopt FPC (Flexible Printed Circuit) as substrate of LCB, is only 0.38mm and able to do dynamic bending. PLCB, adopt Al-foil pouch as package of LCB, is only 1-2mm with high capacity. ELCB, adopt Lithium Metal as anode of LCB, is 810Wh/L and under developing now ... http://www.prologium.com/upload/images/20141229-17563282.jpg For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
