Automotive Lithium Batteries

Automotive Lithium Batteries

The fundamental difference between a conventional heat engine, like the motor in your car, and the latest thermal cars, like hybrids, plug-in electric cars, and fully electric vehicles are the processes used to transform stored energy into kinetic energy. Traditionally, energy is stored in chemical form in a vehicle’s starter battery and gas tank, then released through chemical reactions as a spark inside the engine ignites the fuel to release energy through combustion. Since electric cars store energy in batteries made from rare earth elements like lithium, nickel, cobalt, or graphite, reducing the transportation industry’s impact on the environment will depend heavily on improving mining practices and developing alternative sources of electricity to charge automotive lithium batteries.

Along with providing an eco-friendly line of E3 Lithium batteries, our focus remains on improving sustainability through the recycling, recapturing, and reusing automotive products that produce the spark, including:

Under normal use, electric vehicles don't overheat. While HEV, PHEV, and EV motors often have a coolant jacket to manage excess heat, it rarely gets warmer than a cup of coffee, which is much less heat than that released by a traditional combustion engine.

Nonetheless, it is important to keep batteries at the right operating temperature to optimize charge and discharge functions. As you can see, comparisons between electric vehicles and conventional vehicles are complex. However, as the world decarbonizes electricity generation to meet climate guidelines, battery manufacturing and vehicle operating emission levels for newer electric vehicles will also be reduced. At E3 Spark Plugs, we are committed to the same founding principles of energy, efficiency, and ecology that led to our DiamondFire line of environmentally friendly ignition products.