Industry News

New Battery Charger Offers Industry's Lowest Terminal Current

2020-01-10 2278

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today introduced a new switching battery charger integrated circuit (IC) that supports a termination current of 20mA. Compared to competing products that typically support termination currents higher than 60mA, TI's BQ25619 increases the 7%'s

Father of lithium batteries becomes oldest winner of Nobel Prize: 97 years old, wheelchair present

2019-12-16 2596

On December 10, the 2019 Nobel Prize ceremony was held in Sweden. The scene was marked by an endearing scene, as John B. Goodenough, now 97, sat

India reopens tender for renewable energy + storage projects

2019-09-26 2130

Solar Energy Corporation of India has once again attempted a tender for renewable energy + storage projects. This time, it has issued a tender with special terms that could lead to lower offers and attractive purchase rates for buyers. Specifically, Indian Solar

Australia breaks PV cell efficiency record again: conversion rate reaches 34.5%

2019-08-29 2287

Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia have once again broken the energy efficiency record for photovoltaic cells, boosting solar energy conversion efficiency to a staggering 34.51 TP3 T. Previously, Alta Devices of the United States had set a record of 2.5 TP3T.

How long do batteries in new energy vehicles generally last?

2019-05-23 2273

The first thing that needs to be made clear is that for the service life of the power battery of a new energy vehicle, it is generally not measured by time, but by the number of cycles. Since it is a cycle, there must be different starting charging points and power points at the termination of charging. If it is a deep charging and discharging, the

Revised Lithium-ion Battery Industry Regulations and Measures to Come into Force

2019-05-23 2399

In order to further strengthen the management of the lithium-ion battery industry and promote the industry to accelerate the transformation and upgrading, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) promulgated the "Specification Conditions for Lithium-ion Battery Industry" (hereinafter referred to as the Specification) and the "Interim Measures for Management of Specification Announcement for Lithium-ion Battery Industry" (hereinafter referred to as the