China's Baotou Plant Starts to Make Nickel-Hydrogen Batteries for Freezing Buses
Tang Shihua
DATE:  Nov 22 2018
/ SOURCE:  yicai
China's Baotou Plant Starts to Make Nickel-Hydrogen Batteries for Freezing Buses China's Baotou Plant Starts to Make Nickel-Hydrogen Batteries for Freezing Buses

(Yicai Global) Nov. 21 -- A nickel-hydrogen battery project in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has begun to churn out these efficient energy-storing units for electric buses in cold regions. 

The plant in Rare Earth High-tech Industrial Development Zone in Baotou has kicked off operations, state-backed Science and Technology Daily reported. 

"The project solved the battery problems facing pure electric buses in high-latitude cold regions," said Wu Junjun, the management committee director of the industrial park.

Nickel-hydrogen, or NiMH batteries, work in temperatures as low as minus 55 degrees Celsius and take only eight minutes to recharge. 

"Our core technologies and equipment all have independent intellectual property rights, and the 31 core technologies are Chinese patents," said Yuan Aidong, the deputy general manager of Haoming Rare Earth New Power Technology.

"Foreign NiMH batteries are mainly used for hybrid vehicles, and we are the only company that uses NiMH batteries on pure electric buses," added Yuan who also works as a research & development head for the project.

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Keywords:   Ni-MH Battery,Power Cell