Due
to the environmental issues and limited reserve of fossil
fuel, Electric vehicle has been considered as the future
of transportation. Countries have taken all kinds of
Incentives to promote the development of the Electric
vehicles. However, the development and acceptance of
EV has been greatly hindered by the availability of
a viable battery technology.
Existing
batteries for EV are facing the following
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Insufficient energy density that severely
limits the range of the vehicles:
typically only
30 to 50 km per recharge ;
Long recharging time: usually 8 hours;
Short Service Life: typically less than 2
years;
High unit cost of other advanced technologies,
such as NiMH or Li-ion;
Unstable performance of other advanced battery
technologies, such as potential explosion
disaster of Li-ion
Secondary Pollution, such as Lead-acid battery. |
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With extraordinary vision,
the founders of Powerzinc Electric, Inc. realized the
huge potential market of Electric vehicles(EV) whereas
the battery is the main bottle neck of the commercialization
of the EV. they evaluated all kinds of the batteries
technology and made decision to research and develop
the zinc air fuel cell technology in 1995. After four
years research, they have made significantly breakthrough
in the zinc air fuel cell technology and demonstrated
great promise to meet the requirements for Electric
vehicle propulsion. To commercial the advanced, environmentally
friendly technology, they officially established Powerzinc
Electric, Inc. in the United States in 1999 and Powerzinc
Electric(Shanghai),Inc. in 2000.
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