Abstract: According to one embodiment, an active material is provided. The active material includes an Nb2TiO7 phase and at least one Nb-rich phase selected from the group consisting of an Nb10Ti2O29 phase, an Nb14TiO37 phase, and an Nb24TiO64 phase. The active material includes potassium and phosphorus, and a total concentration of potassium and phosphorus in the active material is in the range of 0.01% by mass to 5.00% by mass. An average crystallite diameter is in the range of 80 nm to 150 nm. In a particle size distribution chart obtained by a laser diffraction scattering method, D10 is 0.3 ?m or greater, and D90 is 10 ?m or less. The active material satisfies a peak intensity ratio represented by the following Formula (1). 0<IB/IA?0.

Abstract: A traction battery assembly according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a tray, at least one battery module, a lid secured to the tray to provide an enclosure having an interior that houses the at least one battery module, the lid having a lid aperture, and a reinforcement member is secured directly to the lid. The reinforcement member has a reinforcement member aperture. A fastener extends through the lid aperture and the reinforcement member aperture. The fastener is secured to a structure within the interior. The reinforcement member is secured directly to the lid separately from the fastener.

Abstract: A battery pack includes a first cell, a second cell, and a third cell arranged along a first axis, the first cell including first tabs extending toward the second cell, the second cell including second tabs extending toward the first cell, and the third cell including third tabs extending toward the second cell, a first circuit body between the first cell and the second cell, a second circuit body between the second cell and the third cell, and a third circuit body connecting the first circuit body and the second circuit body, wherein at least one of the first through third circuit bodies includes a rigid circuit board, and at least another one of the first through third circuit bodies includes a flexible circuit board.

Abstract: A battery module includes an insulating base, a pair of electrodes and multiple battery packs. Each electrode is installed to the insulating base and has a bridge portion and a wire connecting part exposed from the insulating base, and a pair of lugs is extended smoothly from each battery pack, and an end of at least a part of the lugs is attached to each bridge portion correspondingly. Therefore, the lug is not being twisted or deformed easily, and the battery module may have good conductive efficiency, long service life, and convenience of changing the battery pack.

Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte for all-solid secondary batteries, a method of preparing the same, and an all-solid secondary battery, the sulfide solid electrolyte including lithium, phosphorus, sulfur, and a halogen, wherein: the sulfide solid electrolyte has an argyrodite-type crystal structure, a ratio (I(29.0)/I(30.0) ratio) of a peak intensity at a 2? of 29±0.1° to a peak intensity at a 2? of 30±0.1° is 0.06 or less, the peak intensities being obtained by X-ray diffraction analysis of the sulfide solid electrolyte, and a ratio (I(27.1)/I(30.0) ratio) of a peak intensity at a 2? of 27.1±0.1° to a peak intensity at a 2? of 30±0.1° is 0.06 or less, the peak intensities being obtained by X-ray diffraction analysis of the sulfide solid electrolyte.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a battery assembly of an electrified vehicle, and in particular to a battery pack with a vent gas passageway. An example battery assembly includes a battery array having a plurality of battery cells. Each of the battery cells includes a vent configured to release vent gas from a respective one of the battery cells. Further, the battery assembly includes an enclosure assembly surrounding the battery array, and a vent gas passageway within the enclosure assembly. The vent gas passageway includes a plurality of inlet ports, and each of the inlet ports is substantially aligned with a respective one of the vents.

Abstract: A battery cell pack has a plurality of battery cells that are assembled into a prismatic frame, with deformable separators interposed to accommodate elastic and plastic deformation caused by cyclic and acyclic expansion and contraction thereof during charging and discharging over the life of the battery cell pack. The battery cells are arranged in a horizontal stack within the prismatic frame, and the deformable separators are interposed between subsets of the battery cells. The deformable separators exert compressive force on the subsets of the battery cells along a longitudinal axis that is defined by the horizontal stack. The compressive force exerted by the deformable separators is at least a minimum force over a service life of the battery cell pack.

Abstract: An acid-type sulfonic acid group-containing polymer containing perfluoromonomer units, no monomer units having a halogen atom other than a fluorine atom, and acid type sulfonic acid groups, whose hydrogen gas permeability coefficient under the conditions of a temperature of 80° C. and a relative humidity of 10% is at most 2.5×10?9 cm3·cm/(s·cm2·cmHg), and whose mass reduction rate when immersed in hot water at 120° C. for 24 hours is at most 15 mass %. Liquid composition, membrane electrode assembly, polymer electrolyte fuel cell, and ion exchange membrane utilizing the acid-type sulfonic acid group-containing polymer.

Abstract: A method of refurbishing a singulated fuel cell stack interconnect includes scanning a first pulsed laser beam on an air side of the interconnect to vaporize seal and corrosion barrier layer residue without vaporizing a metal oxide layer located on the air side of the interconnect below the corrosion barrier layer residue, and scanning a second pulsed laser beam which is different from the first pulsed laser beam on the exposed metal oxide layer on the air side of the interconnect to reflow the metal oxide layer without removing the metal oxide layer.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes lithium composite oxide particles A and B containing Ni and Mn. The lithium composite oxide particles A include secondary particles a2 that are aggregations of primary particles a1, and contain at least one of zirconium and boron. The lithium composite oxide particles B include at least one of primary particles b1 and secondary particles b2, the primary particles b1 having a larger particle size than the primary particles a1, the secondary particles b2 being aggregations of the primary particles b1 and having a smaller particle size than the secondary particles a2. The mass ratio of the lithium composite oxide particles A to the lithium composite oxide particles B is within the range of 8:2 to 4:6.