2010 Volume 78 Issue 1 Pages 30-35
From the viewpoint of reducing carbon dioxide emissions, the practical use of electric buses has been expected to be one of the effective solutions to global warming. Even though lithium-ion batteries using lithium manganese oxide have been studied for use in electric vehicles, it is still necessary to improve their characteristics such as energy density, maximum operating temperature and cycle performance. Manganese oxide lithium-ion batteries for an electric bus developed by internal-combustion spray pyrolysis methods and its performance in an actual road test have been studied. The performance of the electric bus was satisfactory; the bus could run for 74 km on a full charge.
