Mar 29 2010

The battery industry, technological upgrading and environmental pressures increase

China Battery Industry Association pointed out that the past two decades, the rapid development of China’s battery industry has now become the world’s largest battery producer and consumer countries, but faces a difficult technological upgrading and environmental pressures.

In 1988, China’s annual output of 5.984 billion batteries, battery exports 947 million and exports worth 038 million U.S. dollars, by 2007, China’s battery production reached 33.7 billion, exports amounted to 25.168 billion and exports 8.046 billion U.S. dollars . Battery output has more than half of world production. Lithium-ion battery, Ni-MH batteries, solar cells and other new energy sources to form industrial battery products, fuel cells, super capacitors to achieve the rapid development of the study. 2007 sales reached 164 billion yuan of China’s battery, the battery number of firms over 3000, has formed a complete battery industry in the national economy has an important position and role. travelmate 290 battery , travelmate 4000 battery .

However, the battery industry currently faces a larger domestic and international pressure. As countries around the world to improve environmental protection requirements, and some developed countries have stopped the lead, cadmium, nickel and other nonferrous metal production in the country, resulting in soaring prices of some products, so that the lower the cost of battery production enterprises increased substantially.  travelmate 2300 battery , aspire 1680 battery .

In addition, from 2004, the export tax rebate rate of the battery began to drop year by year, starting in 2006, lead-acid batteries, mercury oxide battery was canceled the export tax rebate policy, which also reduced the export competitiveness of the battery business.

In recent years, in order to meet environmental requirements, manufacturers increase
Canadian investment in environmental protection, resulting in operating costs.  aspire 1410 battery ,travelmate 4500 battery.

China Battery Industry Association said the association will actively guide the enterprises to adjust product structure, the direction of the development of diversified, and actively improve the production process, speed up the pace of eliminating backward production capacity as soon as possible transition to the production of efficient, environmentally friendly and energy-saving battery direction, promote the sustainable development of the battery industry.  acer lcbtp03003 ,acer aspire 1300, acer btp-aqj1 , acer btp-arj1 ,asus a42-a3.

Mar 29 2010

Economic crisis, the unemployment problem in the battery industry

After the global financial crisis, it is generally an important issue of concern is that the financial crisis and the ensuing economic crisis will not be transmitted to the community, will not lead to social crises? This is the most important issue is unemployment. fujitsu laptop battery,fujitsu fpcbp80 , fujitsu fpcbp77 .

Financial crisis, the unemployment problem is occurring in our employment pressure is already a great background. The present case, the migrant workers and university graduates has become a deteriorating employment situation in two of the largest group of victims. In fact, the coastal export large volumes of business failures, unemployment, migrant workers as early as in the global financial crisis began before the outbreak of large-scale, owing mainly to the dollar, yuan appreciation, export tax rebate cancellation, in particular the tightening monetary policy, corporate lending tension. The impact of financial crisis on China after the occurrence and further critical of the situation. It is estimated that by the end of 2008, the number of returning migrant workers may be more than 10 million people. Fresh college graduates in 2009 will reach 6.1 million, plus there is no employment in the calendar year, more than 7 million graduates need to address the unemployment problem. fujitsu fpcbp68 , fujitsu fpcbp63 , fujitsu fpcbp95.

White-collar or middle class than the unemployment problem appears to migrant workers with the focus, the size of the former is not as big, but because these people a unique position in society, their social impact of unemployment may be even greater. Of particular note is the white-collar or middle class One of the characteristics of unemployment is the unemployment caused in the course of their job instability and job insecurity, a sense of far more than the actual unemployment situation, therefore, this part of the unemployment caused by occupational panic and crisis of confidence, it will be even more serious, and may thus lead to serious social problems. The image that, eventually, employment is reduced by one position, there may be 10 people going through short-term unemployment or job changes, 100 people produce work of insecurity. Linked with this is that the confidence of the community received a heavy blow. In China, as middle-class household debt ratio is generally high, many people have a large need for a monthly mortgage repayment, so the impact of the instability of work would be enormous. acer laptop battery
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Governments, in response to the economic crisis, one must consider the important question is how to protect employment, at least not overly worsening the unemployment problem. The Chinese government recently introduced a series of response measures, one of which is to solve the employment problem.

Generally speaking, the problem of unemployment depends on two factors: First, population structure and the annual entry into the labor age population ratio; Second, economic growth. Experts have been in accordance with national demographic situation in order to guarantee economic growth, employment growth in labor force based on the needs to define a recession over the critical point of national economies: China 8%, India 6%; other developments in China 3% -5%, Europe and the United States and other developed countries 0%. at home, but also the formation of such a general consensus that China’s economic growth rate must protect more than 8%, otherwise the problem of unemployment would be worse. There is a saying that economic growth fell by 1% each, it will be an increase of about 10 million unemployed people. Therefore, to maintain growth response to the problem of unemployment has become the most important measures. acer btp-58a1 , ace btp-60a1 , travelmate 240 series battery.

However, the relationship between economic growth and employment, not just depend on the rate of economic growth, but also depends on economic growth model. Sometimes, the impact of the latter is even more important. Thus, 8% economic growth and employment, there is no fixed relationship between the. Data show that the marginal increase in the different industrial sectors input 1 million, can be formed is not the same employment opportunities, commercial drink industry to improve employment 0.247, while including metal manufacturing, electric power, machinery manufacturing, chemicals, etc., re – chemical industry are less than 0.05. Strengthening entrepreneurship and SME financing, policy support would mean the creation of many employment opportunities. Therefore, how to deal with the financial crisis, measures to ensure the growth of the real implementation of the expansion of employment up, is currently an urgent problem to be solved.  ace btp-52ew , ace btp-63d1 ,acer batcl50l.

Mar 26 2010

Sanyo Electric released the ground when riding rechargeable electric bicycle, driving distance to extend the 53%

Sanyo Electric has released the ground when riding through the recovery of the electricity generated by the motor for the lithium-ion rechargeable battery,Sony for electric bicycle (Figure 1). According to this model, called “energy-saving charge mode” and the auxiliary power larger “power mode (Power Mode)” compared to extend the driving range of approximately 53% (Figure 2). The car with 26-inch “CY-SPL226″ and 24-inch “CY-SPL224″ two, prices are ¥ 157,290. Will be held April 21, 2010 on sale.

Of the original model can be recovered during braking or downhill power. However, Teng Chiao pedal on the ground when the charging function is not available. This time the newly developed energy-saving charging mode, even in the plains on the road can also be charged (Figure 3). Under normal circumstances, driving in the plains state of charging, the pedal is more heavy, so the rider will increase the burden,VGP-BPS2VGP-BPS2A, but the new car “in order to minimize the impact on the feeling of driving, will monitor the driving status, and to ms for the to determine the timing recovery unit “(consumer electronics company Sanyo Electric Appliance Division, including the Ministry of Planning and Manpower Planning, Minister of two-wheelers of goods Tetsuya Taniguchi).

Charge condition is to prevent the shaking in 5 seconds after the start, but also to achieve the speed of 7km / h or more. Of course, even in energy-saving charge mode, if the start uphill and speed up the auxiliary power is required, the same can be automatically switched to motor-assisted drive mode. Traveling time and help regeneration switching, VGP-BPL2VGP-BPL2C,can embed crank torque sensor to detect the pedal pedal power, the use of motor speed calculated by the speed and acceleration through the speed calculated to determine and control (Figure 4). For example, the hard phases of acceleration will not carry out electrical regeneration. “As hard phases of acceleration when the acceleration will be increased, this time in order to avoid electrical regeneration, would limit the recovery of power following an acceleration carry out the” (consumer electronics company Sanyo Electric Appliance Division, Department of Manufacturing Technology 2 omnibus Minister of dry self-denial) .

In addition to saving outside the charge mode, this new additional features include battery power is left to inform the rider with less “Electricity Storage (Power Reserve)” function (Figure 4). Battery remaining capacity is about 1Ah, they will stop using the auxiliary power provided by the motor driving mode. If, after a long press the power button, can use the remaining 1Ah capacity. According to reports, in energy-saving charge mode, it can be riding around 6km. In addition, lithium-ion rechargeable battery with a rated capacity of 7.6Ah.VGP-BPS8VGP-BPS8A,VGP-BPL8, VGP-BPL8A.

Mar 25 2010

The new expansion of crystalline silicon solar cells Solar to meet the needs of European outsourcing

Taiwan-based crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar battery  manufacturers of new solar energy technology company (Neo Solar Power, referred to as NSP) to expand its annual production capacity to 800MW to meet the outsourcing needs of the European market. NSP’s existing annual production of 240MW. Since the fourth battery quarter of 2009, production has already reached saturation, the company has drawn up preliminary plans for increasing production is expected to be in the second quarter of 2010 will be increased output 180MW.

Demand increases and in 2010 made the foreseeable surge in orders for NSP’s decision in 2010 to increase its output to 600MW. However, the battery  face of the European PV manufacturing market continued growth in demand, NSP final decision on its production in 2010 increased to 800MW.

NSP company said it will be drawn up before the output from 360MW to 600MW to mention the plan is expected to spend about 27 billion new Taiwan dollars (about 84.5 million U.S. dollars); while the addition of 200MW project will be consumed nearly 1.4 billion Taiwan dollars (about 43.8 million U.S. dollars) in battery capital investment. The company plans to increase science and technology park located in Hsinchu, Taiwan (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan), the No. 2 plant began, the plant’s nameplate rated output of 680MW.

NSP’s recently announced first two months of 2010, revenue reached 1.879 million Taiwan dollars (about 58.8 million U.S. dollars), up the  battery previous year increased by 51%. The company’s product shipments in 2009 reached 200MW, is expected to reach 400 this year, shipments to 500MW.

NSP will also committed to improving the battery in 2010, the average conversion efficiency, the company plans to multi-crystalline solar cells, the average conversion battery efficiency of 17.2%, while single crystal solar cells, the average conversion efficiency of 18.5%.

Mar 18 2010

What can drive larger laptop screens?

Both Compaq (CPQ) and Gateway (GTW) announced today at Comdex that they are rolling out new versions of their notebooks with larger, battery,easier-to-read screens.

According to a recent survey from International Data Corporation, almost three-quarters of notebook users use their portable computer as their primary PC. Because of this, user demand has been growing for a solution to the headaches and eye strain created by many notebooks’ small screens.

In addition, with 14.1-inch screens on notebooks offering a larger viewable area than regular 15-inch monitors, the trend of replacing desktop PCs and monitors with powerful, big-screen laptops is an even more viable option.

Compaq is releasing new versions of its Armada 7700 and Armada 7300 line of notebooks. The 7700, which weighs around 8 pounds, now offers a 13.3-inch screen with a new integrated AC adapter and up to 32MB of RAM. The Armada 7300 notebooks, which weigh around 6 pounds, have a new 12.1-inch screen with a single battery support and an external AC adapter. Some models of the new Armada will start at $4,999.

According to Mark Vena, director of mobile product marketing for Compaq, the PC maker is responding to requests from customers who wanted to use their notebooks for regular applications like spreadsheets and Web publishing.

The new notebooks are aimed at “a lot of sales-type users who are consistently using their notebooks,” said Vena.

Gateway has also announced the immediate availability of the 13.3-inch display on the Gateway Solo 2300, with 14.1 inch displays to be available on the Gateway Solo 9100 at the end of the month.

Bob Moore, senior marketing manager for Gateway, said the 14.1-inch display will become standard for all of the company’s notebooks sometime next year.

Both the 13.3-inch screens and the 14.1-inch screens use XGA LCDs that allow the screen to display a larger viewable area. For example, a spreadsheet user will be able to see more columns on the XGA screen because of the finer resolution.

Moore believes that the growing demand for larger, higher-quality displays comes from more consumers using their notebooks as their primary computers and as presentation systems. However, he added that the 14.1-inch screen is as large as the Gateway notebooks will go right now.

“So far, this is the largest that we’re going to consider for a while,” Moore said. “You start to push the limits once you go past 14 inches.” dell vostro 1320 battery,dell vostro 1400 battery,dell vostro 1500 battery.

Mar 12 2010

Apple recall site had trouble

Those serial numbers on notebook batteries can be hard to read, but you’d think a server could handle it.

However, for several hours yesterday Apple Computer’s battery recall Web page was unable to recognize the serial numbers of batteries that clearly fell within the designated range listed by the company and the Consumer Products Safety Commission. Posters on CNET News.com’s Talkback pages noticed the site was recognizing notebook serial numbers but not battery serial numbers, even when it was clear from the released information that the batteries were subject to the recall. iBook G4 and PowerBook G4 users who have defective batteries are supposed to enter their serial numbers into the site, which will bring up an order form for a new battery if the serial number falls into a certain range listed on the recall site.

Several posters on Apple’s own support discussion boards also pointed out the problems, which we also confirmed while trying to fill out the form for a newsroom PowerBook. By Friday morning, the site appeared to be working normally, recognizing the serial numbers of batteries subject to the recall and bringing up the order form.
Apple’s recall follows that of Dell, which also had problems with battery serial numbers. For a brief period of time, Dell told its customers that it didn’t use the letter “O” in its battery serial numbers and to assume all circular O-like characters were zeros. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case, and Dell’s Web site would recognize the serial number with the zeros as a working battery. The company later corrected itself on its blog.

Apple had a few other problems Thursday, as news of the recall hit. Both the CPSC and Apple provided URLs to the recall site that were incorrect: the CPSC’s was a dead link, while Apple’s was for a battery recall that took place last year. The CPSC link now redirects to the correct site. Apple replaced the old recall site about an hour after the news broke Thursday.

Mar 06 2010

2009 China Li-ion battery technology industry development trend analysis report

The depletion of traditional energy resources and environmental pressure, the development of new energy vehicles have become the national Government is positive about the “key.” And substituting lithium battery-powered pure electric vehicles is becoming a hot international competition.

Recently, in the industrial and information technology in order to organize the “pure electric car industry, Opportunities and Challenges” as the theme of the electric car industry development forum, workers, said Miao Wei, vice minister of the letter, pure electric vehicles from the era of commercialization is not too Yuan, Li-ion battery electric vehicles will be China’s future development priorities.

“Lithium battery is a relatively good performance of the battery, the global electric vehicle batteries are mainly used lithium batteries. In China, the production of lithium batteries also have the advantage.” Jia Xinguang, senior automotive industry experts said, “The reason why the development of electric vehicles is not up is mainly subject to the battery. Therefore, the battery can not be separated to develop on this core technology. “currently the best hope to obtain the industrialization of the battery technology is lithium iron phosphate battery (LiFePO4). China’s major iron phosphate lithium dell vostro 1500 battery manufacturers and the Wanxiang Group, BYD, BYD one of the world’s cobalt lithium battery market of 30%.

China’s development of electric cars is most difficult to charge users, unlike Europe and the United States, has an exclusive resident garage can be used. Jia Xinguang said that at present the domestic establishment of hundreds of thousands of gas stations to spend a few dell vostro 1520 battery  decades, but it is impossible to spend a few decades to build charging stations. Therefore, the urgent need for charging, charging the solution needed to support national policies and infrastructure construction.

Miao Wei, vice minister of industry, said the letter, but in the long term, large-scale commercialization of electric vehicles to promote the need for battery industry and power grids, municipal infrastructure, and many other supporting facilities.

Deputy Minister of Finance Zhang Shao-chun in the electric car industry development forum, said the revitalization plans in the automotive industry has made it clear in public transportation, rental and sanitation and other priority areas, including pure electric dell vostro 1700 battery vehicles, including the promotion of energy-saving and new energy vehicles, and identify 13 pilot projects city.

It is understood that most of these cities, the government has produced a specific implementation plan, and started to cooperate with the automobile business. The FAW, Dongfeng, BYD, and other enterprises have adjusted their development strategies, increase new energy and electric dell vostro 2510 battery vehicle research and development input.

“Of course, in the promotion of public transport and other priority areas of research and development production of large enterprises, they can through the government to buy.” But in the long run, Jia Xinguang think that for China to achieve a pure electric vehicle commercialization of age, there is still a long way to go . Commercial implications, that is, sales market is dell RN873 accepted by the market, rather than rely on government subsidies to the policy-driven.

Of which contains a market position on the issue. Every year over 10 million sales of electric bicycles, and its complete industry chain is expected to extend to the field of pure electric vehicles. Jia Xinguang pointed out that in Europe, electric vehicles are mainly two-seat, and a number of small businesses are doing, while positioning our country in this respect is not the case. “We are targeting a market electric vehicles should be those riding a bike, but can not be targeted to those who ride high-end cars. After all, electric cars get replaced by BMW Mercedes-Benz is reluctant to dell GW240.”

“Management can not be overlooked issue is a big problem.” Jia Xinguang told reporters that the state licenses for the production of pure electric vehicles, the issuance of the policy is not introduced, there is no corresponding measures to manage. This is likely to lead to market confusion.

Obviously, a pure electric vehicle for China to achieve the era of commercialization is still some way to go. dell Inspiron 1525 battery.

Mar 01 2010

The 10-inch MSI wind is popular

One of our favorite new netbook laptops is the 10-inch MSI Wind, which has decent specs and performance, but is saddled with a terrible 3-cell battery–we got about two hours max from it. MSI blamed supply chain problems for preventing the initial run of the Wind from shipping with the more common 6-cell battery found in systems like the Asus Eee PC 901.

Now we hear that the 6-cell version is on the way, already popping up for pre-order in several online stores. There’s a catch, though; the new Sony battery jacks up the cost by $50, bringing the total price to $550, passing our magic $499 netbook optimal-price point. Asus also offers a 10-inch model with similar specs for $550, the Eee PC 1000H, but both these systems have standard hard drives, not the SSD drives found in most netbooks.

We’re currently testing new netbooks from Acer, Asus and Sylvania, so stay tuned for a serious netbook shootout to find which one is right for you. Sony VGP-BPS2,Sony VGP-BPS2A,Sony VGP-BPL2.