Tesla has a $100 million contract to supply the vehicle's electric motors, power electronics, proprietary lithium-ion battery packs, single-speed gearboxes and software.
For BlueSolutions, part of France's family-owned Bolloré conglomerate, Autolib' is also a priceless opportunity to showcase its proprietary lithium-metal-polymer battery, protected with more than 400 patents.
Small cameras typically use proprietary lithium-ion rechargeable batteries, which means you'll also have to lug around the camera's battery charger or buy a spare battery.
The proprietary lithium-ion batteries are purpose-built for automotive applications.
Battery-wise, the Canon and the Nikon use proprietary, rechargeable lithium-ion packs, while the Fuji runs on four AAs.
The bike is equipped with a battery module that is based on Toshiba's proprietary quick-charging lithium ion rechargeable battery "SCiB".
Seeo's rechargeable lithium batteries are built using a proprietary non-flammable polymer electrolyte it calls "DryLyte," which it claims is safer than traditional lithium-ion batteries.
Envia Systems – a developer of lithium-ion batteries made of a proprietary, composite cathode material that, ARPA-E reports, have the highest energy density in the world.
Currently the company is taking low-grade lithium bought on the open market and putting it through a proprietary filtering process to create lithium carbonate that is 99.999% pure.
(In a sign of just how insignificant a player the U.S. has become, the agency does not release domestic lithium production data because the nation's sole producer, Chemetall, considers the information proprietary).
