Eco Trees

Bosch and Samsung have set up a new company that will produce Lithium-Ion batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles. The new company, SB LiMotive Co. Ltd, make part from long-term strategy of the two companies to develop cars with electric engine.

Bosch engineers regarded as a transitional technology the combination between the internal combustion engines and electrical equipments from a hybrid. The final goal is that on long-term to be used exclusively for electricity, more friendly to the environment. This will happen if the engineers will gain significant progresses in improving the batteries performance and if drivers will accept to recharge after a distance of 100 - 200 km.

"We start from the premise that, in 2015, from a number of 91 million new cars and vans, more than three percent will be hybrid and electric vehicles," explained Wolf-Henning Scheider, president of the Board of Directors of Gasoline Systems, a division of Bosch group. Samsung and Bosch want to start production of batteries in 2011.

Against an electric motor, hybrid models equipped with the spark ignition can save up to 25 percent of CO2 emissions, and the hybrid Diesel up to 20 percent, compared with the conventional aggregates with spark ignition.

These figures indicate that the internal combustion engine will become in the next 20 years the most often used propeller.