"We hope that Japan would be able to maintain the field of rechargeable battery technology superiority" (Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) Fuel Cell Hydrogen Technology Development Department Chief of power-storage technology development room).
NEDO selected the Kyoto University coalition of 22 legal entities, as the beginning of the year 2009 "innovative cutting-edge science and basic research-type battery" project R & D units. The project will be put into practical use by 2030 as the goal, develop the energy density of more than 3 times the current level of technology in rechargeable batteries. Project will be time-consuming and 7 years, the total investment amount of ¥ 21,000,000,000.
In 2008, the United States, Germany, by putting forward proposals to import 1 million as soon as the goal of electric vehicles, and to the ibm laptop battery development areas a large number of the national budget allocated. Emerging market countries, China has not only issued a national policy, BYD Auto (BYDAuto) and other auto makers also introduced their own plug-in hybrids, "battery-development environment, drastic changes are taking place" (bow to take).
Rechargeable battery electric vehicle development has evolved into the competition between countries.
Given this situation, the Japanese economy, Trade and Industry on September 25, 2008 issued an urgent recommendation that the "use of basic scientific research is needed to explore beyond the previous generation of technology improvements, based on new innovative ideas and materials, rechargeable IBM thinkpad t40 battery , thinkpad t41 battery technology . " Based on this advice, bringing together Japan's "car manufacturers, battery manufacturers, material manufacturers, as well as universities and research institutions, the whole nation to unite for development" (bow to take).
Explore the era of post-lithium batteries
The specific objectives of development projects in the year 2013 end of the project to develop the energy density of three times the current level of rechargeable battery. This goal will be the original "2030 to develop the energy density of more than 5 times the current level of rechargeable thinkpad t42 battery , thinkpad t43 battery" project Ruler (Note 1). Since different uses rechargeable batteries need to vary the energy density, therefore, NEDO "no specific value" (bows to take).
Existing electric cars can be three times the performance of rechargeable batteries for the 250 ~ 300Wh/kg around. Experts say this figure is to rely solely on existing technologies to improve the development of materials, barely possible to achieve the limit. Thus, in addition to improving existing technologies, this development project has also joined the performance, beyond the new type of lithium battery rechargeable battery project, intended a two-pronged goal.
To promote development through the coordination of and competition
R & D system is also very different from the past. NEDO first to set up industry, government and science can be brought together to conduct a research base for the purpose of the implementation of an open recruitment, thinkpad r50 battery , thinkpad r51 battery ,chosen as the center of Kyoto University alliance. To participate in enterprises, research institutes and universities will be divided into "high degree of analytical technology", "cell reaction analysis," "Materials innovation", "innovation cell" four group research.
Four groups on will set up a management team. The team is only permanent full-time staff by NEDO, NEDO is not sent to the employees of enterprises. The aim was not biased in favor of a particular enterprise, from a neutral standpoint to study the progress of management, technology development trends related to the investigation and to participate in the coordination of interests, through careful management system to vigorously promote research. Before that, NEDO has never been within the IBM fru 08k8193 , IBM 92p1060 management team in collaboration with researchers as a whole mechanism.
In the plan, "(NEDO) hope that the coordination and competition interspersed with each other" (bow to take). The business areas in which coordination is the use of large-scale requires enormous test cost-ray radiation facility "SPring-8", high-intensity proton accelerator facilities, "J-PARC" and other devices to develop battery-height analysis and parsing techniques, and a clear cell-based reaction mechanism and mechanism.
The area of competition is to use the results to develop battery materials and a new rechargeable battery. To seven years after the end of the program, "at least should meet to develop button-sized IBM 08k8214 , IBM 08k8195, the actual charge and discharge through the confirmation stage of the work" (bow to take).
(Note 1) NEDO R & D focus on rechargeable batteries there are existing programs beginning of the year 2006, the "the smooth linkage of the system of power-storage system technology development" and the beginning of 2007, "a new generation of automotive high-performance power-storage system technology development."
