New battery charging algorithm increases capacity 30% for electric loco cells
It’s not just what you do, it’s the way you do it. That’s what researchers into lead acid batteries found, when they successfully designed a charging algorithm to overcome some of the aging processes...
View ArticleRail drives Indian battery boom
Battery giant Saft has just announced that it has cut the ribbon on a new factory in Bidadi, Bangalore, with its partner Amalgamations. The factory, which will double Saft’s local capacity, will...
View ArticleUK battery-powered trains a possibility
The US already has one and now the UK is tinkering with the idea of making battery-operated trains, with the government publishing a study to say that the vehicles are a future possibility for the...
View ArticleNext station: energy storage
Gravity and rolling stock are the keys to Jim Kelly’s Advanced Rail Energy Storage concept. An electric motor powered by surplus electricity propels a train up a slope and when the electricity is...
View ArticleUltracapacitors help trains save power
A Portland, US, light rail system is to implement a braking-energy recuperation system using ultracapacitors produced by Maxwell Technologies and a USD$4.2 million grant from the US Department of...
View ArticleFirst Sitras sale in US transit market
Siemens is currently installing its first Sitras Energy Storage (SES) unit with supercapacitor technology in the US, on the TriMet Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Line. The southeast Portland...
View ArticleAxion talks of transport plans
Axion Power International, the developer of advanced lead-carbon batteries and energy storage systems, talked of ongoing work in the transportation sector at this week’s Agrion Global Network for...
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