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Going Off-Road With Hard-Carbon Lithium-Ion Battery Technology

EnerDel notes that batteries more quickly and efficiently adjust to load fluctuations than do traditional engine-driven generators. Shown is the MHPS-80.
EnerDel’s second-generation Mobile Hybrid Power System (MHPS) was delivered in May to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Research and Development Center in Champaign, IL. It offers a reduction in diesel fuel consumption of up to 70% “in most use cases as demonstrated by the military.” The MHPS-80, as delivered to USACE-ERDC, features an onboard 15-kW charging generator, an 80-kW·h lithium-ion battery system, power inverter, and dc input for wind and solar energy. Read more at http://articles.sae.org/13540/  .

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