Advanced Battery and Ultracapacitor Systems for Automotive Applications

摘要

1. At present, NiMH is established as tried and tested standard for hybrid vehicles. 2. The HEV market, anticipating 2M battery packs per year by 2010, will add 1.3 to 1.6 bill.$, an additional ～20%, to the consumer electronics battery market 3. The trend in the HEV market, similar to consumer electronics market, is toward Li-Ion technologies: better performance, lower material costs, and significantly more R&D expenditures, all favor Li-Ion batteries. 4. The HEV market will eventually adopt Li-ion when the abuse tolerance, low temperature limitations, and cost of such chemistries are brought within the automotive requfrements.