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  2. History of the battery - Wikipedia

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    History of the battery. A voltaic pile, the first chemical battery. Batteries provided the primary source of electricity before the development of electric generators and electrical grids around the end of the 19th century. Successive improvements in battery technology facilitated major electrical advances, from early scientific studies to the ...

  3. Plug-in electric vehicle fire incidents - Wikipedia

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    As of February 2014, four fires after an impact have been reported associated with the batteries of plug-in electric cars. The first crash related fire was reported in China in May 2012, after a high-speed car crashed into a BYD e6 taxi in Shenzhen. [4] Two incidents occurred with the Tesla Model S in October 2013, one when a Model S caught ...

  4. General Motors EV1 - Wikipedia

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    2,908 lb (1,319 kg) with NiMH batteries. The General Motors EV1 is a battery electric car produced by the American automaker General Motors from 1996 until its demise in 1999. A subcompact car, the EV1 marked the introduction of mass produced and purpose-built battery electric vehicles. [2][3] The conception of the EV1 dates back to 1990 when ...

  5. Health and environmental effects of battery electric cars

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    The phase-out of fossil fuels and coal and transition to renewable and low-carbon power sources will make electricity generation greener, which will reduce the impact of electric vehicles that use that electricity. Most of the lithium-ion battery production occurs in China, where the bulk of energy used is supplied by coal burning power plants ...

  6. Environmental impacts of lithium-ion batteries - Wikipedia

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    Despite the environmental cost of improper disposal of lithium-ion batteries, the rate of recycling is still relatively low, as recycling processes remain costly and immature. [20] A study in Australia that was conducted in 2014 estimates that in 2012-2013, 98% of lithium-ion batteries were sent to the landfill. [21]

  7. Overvoltage - Wikipedia

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    Overvoltage. Voltage spike. In electrical engineering, overvoltage is the raising of voltage beyond the design limit of a circuit or circuit element. The conditions may be hazardous. Depending on its duration, the overvoltage event can be transient —a voltage spike —or permanent, leading to a power surge.

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