Nikkei: An Interview with hybrid battery Project Leader

Site reporter (Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle) battery development and other topics, an interview with the U.S. car maker Cobasys nickel metal hydride rechargeable batteries, the company’s vice president and Systems Engineering, Sales Director Scott O. Lindholm. The interview is as follows.

- Your Company and General Motors, the newly released plug-in hybrid “Chevrolet Volt” used in lithium-ion rechargeable Latitude D620 Battery What is the relationship?

A: The Company and A123Systems Inc. launched a joint development of the battery. Combination of the company’s lithium-ion rechargeable battery technology, as well as the rechargeable battery in the development of hydrogen accumulated in the packaging technology and control technology, the battery system technology.

- Plug-in hybrid battery issue is?

A: The small-scale light of, and reliability is a major issue. For us is a very big challenge.

- If you do not use lithium-ion rechargeable batteries, Ni-MH rechargeable battery it can be equipped on the plug-in hybrids?

A: Ni-MH rechargeable batteries and lithium-ion rechargeable Latitude D610 Battery compared to a smaller energy density. Therefore, when the car is equipped with, in order to ensure that the lithium-ion rechargeable batteries with the same performance, we need a bigger size and weight, more difficult.

- The timing of the plug-in hybrids can achieve practical?

A: It depends on the automobile manufacturers how to design vehicles. If equipped with large-capacity battery, can be a long road, but the battery development will take time, so to achieve practical, quick or easy fixes. Even a short-term driving the small-capacity battery, but also, as mentioned earlier, there are still a lot of issues. No matter what kind of battery, the time to be practical by the automobile manufacturers to decide.

Tianjin will vigorously develop new energy industry

Learned that the “Eleventh Five-Year” period, Tianjin will vigorously develop new energy sources, new materials and environmental protection industries, the establishment of the North’s largest renewable resource comprehensive utilization demonstration zone, and strive to use renewable resources to achieve practical results.

“Eleventh Five-Year” period, Tianjin will plan 30 square kilometers, the development of new energy and new materials and environmental protection industries. These include new technologies, Huayuan Industrial Park, and two, the development of green batteries and fuel Latitude D600 Battery; Jinnan Environmental Protection Industry Park, the development of sewage treatment and other environmental protection equipment. To the “Eleventh Five-year” end of the period, new energy, new materials and environmental protection industry is expected to gross industrial output value at 210 billion yuan, an average annual increase of 33%, accounting for 1.5% of the total city.

“Eleventh Five-Year” period, total investment of 10.4 billion Tianjin plans, the development of new energy, new materials and environmental protection industries. Focused on lithium ion battery, Capacity Expansion, batteries, spare parts supporting the industrialization, as well as state-level R & D center power lithium battery testing center, fuel cell industrialization; polysilicon solar cells, 30MW amorphous silicon solar cells flexible, special features battery positive and negative materials, industrial upgrading. “Eleventh Five-year” end of Tianjin’s lithium-ion battery production will reach 500 million, Ni-MH battery to reach 500 million, the battery anode and cathode material 1 million tons of special high-grade materials, 18 million square meters diaphragm, electrolyte 200 tons of building materials of 300,000 square meters of solar water heating panels, wind power generation equipment 800MW.

“Eleventh Five-Year” period, Tianjin will be implemented through the introduction of strategic investors and resource integration, forming international competitiveness of the green battery industry R & D, production, management system, accelerating the industrialization process, foster a number of key enterprises with certain scale to form key enterprises as the leading industrial groups, and strive to various economic and technical indicators for ranking the forefront of the domestic industry to build national “green” Latitude D520 Battery industrial base; focus on development and production of sewage treatment and recycling, and recycling, air pollution control technologies and technology and equipment production, the consolidation of the environmental protection industry base in Tianjin as a national leader.

President Bush’s approval to extend the benefits of new energy tax bill

President Bush approved an extension of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects preferential federal tax bill. The scope of the newly approved tax concession is valid until 2008, involving wind power, geothermal power, biomass power generation, waste power generation, small hydro and so on. The new Act also extended for one year following the tax preferential policies, including the use of geothermal energy and solar buildings, the use of solar hot water, photovoltaic cells or fuel cell system for household heating, use fiber optic lighting systems, solar systems, and fuel cell equipment businesses, the use of new energy supply to households, and the strengthening of energy-efficient office building.

In addition, tax incentives also apply to new energy and energy efficiency research and development, which encourage research in this area above the invest more financial resources.

DICP-SAIT Fuel Cell Joint Lab Cooperation Agreement signed by two

Recently, Samsung’s executive director of integrated technology, Dr. Chang Hyuk, proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) Study Group Leader, Dr. Duck Young Yoo, direct alcohol fuel cell (DMFC) research team, Dr. Pak Chanho head and Samsung Advanced Institute of Latitude D510 Battery Technology Beijing Office Deputy Director Dr. Liang Longnan four-member delegation visited Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, the DICP-SAIT Fuel Cell Joint Lab summarizes a cooperation and signed a joint laboratory two cooperation agreements. A cooperation between the two sides expressed satisfaction with the outcome and hoped that through cooperation the two DICP-SAIT Fuel Cell Joint Lab big cooperation projects.