Batteries
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Nio's upcoming flagship model could offer the largest battery pack yet in a passenger car.
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Startup aims to be a Carfax for EVs, with battery health reports
With a connected-services account, Recurrent will track your battery's condition, providing a bill of health that could boost trade-in or resale value.
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Electric self-driving Apple car reportedly to use next-level battery tech in 2024
Apple is planning to launch an electric car in 2024 with radical new battery tech, Reuters reported Monday. Despite an apparent slowdown in what is sometimes referred to as "Project Titan," the iPhone maker is moving ahead with plans for a complete car that will be sold to consumers, according to...
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EV battery pack prices fell 13% in 2020, some are already below $100/kwh
Lithium-ion battery pack prices have again fallen at a faster rate than might have been anticipated years ago. That will result in more affordable EVs, sooner.
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Toyota EV with solid-state batteries: 10-minute full charge, prototype reportedly due in 2021
With prototypes powered by solid-state batteries already due for 2021, Toyota could ramp up production of the tech before 2025.
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QuantumScape battery tech: A fast-charging electric-car game-changer?
The California-based battery company QuantumScape suggests that its solid-state battery technology has the lifespan needed for widespread use.
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Automakers face a dilemma in which they need to make a bet on the continued advances in battery cost, advanced materials, or both.
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Ford considers making its own batteries for EVs, as it builds up “digital ecosystem”
Batteries could give Ford greater supply integration—on top of what one executive terms "the bigger revolution" in software and connectivity.
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Report: AI will dramatically speed up battery development—and thus, EV adoption
With the use of machine learning and AI, electric-car battery researchers may be able to speed up the time needed for materials choices and cell design.
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Nio offers 100-kwh battery pack, more range in subscription-based upgrade
A larger battery is being offered as an upgrade by subscription, and with battery-swapping already offered it adds up to a lot of flexibility—all in China, so far.
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Battery supplier SKI: 500 miles of range with 20 minutes of fast-charging, ready in 2021
With two quick 10-minute fast-charges, SK Innovation says that its cells on the way next year will give EVs a 500-mile range.
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Report: LG Chem to triple cylindrical-cell production for EVs, plans "new form factor" cells
Battery supplier LG Chem announced a big production boost of the cylindrical cells used by Tesla—and soon, Lucid and Rivian.
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Taiwan-based Foxconn, Apple's longtime manufacturing partner, has announced an open platform for electric cars, as well as a software ecosystem for EV manufacturing.
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InoBat claims 20% range boost by 2023, Gigafactory by 2025
Big energy-density targets and AI-informed cell technology are part of the battery startup InoBat's ambitious rollout plans.
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Report: Tesla might buy stake in LG Chem battery spinoff
Tesla reportedly is interested in a minority stake in the South Korean company's battery operations.
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Mercedes-Benz offering world-first solid-state batteries in city bus
The first production Mercedes-Benz vehicle in the world to have solid-state batteries will be a city bus.
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SK Innovation's Georgia plants will make batteries for 300,000 EVs annually
A mammoth pair of battery plants will supply cells for several of the electric vehicles to be built in the U.S.—including the F-150 Electric.
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Musk: Battery Day tech will go high-volume in 2022, help offset cell shortage
Tesla CEO Elon Musk hints a technology revealed at its Battery Day won't be up to full speed until 2022 but could counter a battery shortage.
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General Motors is continuing to explore using its batteries in VTOL craft for use for short flights across congested urban areas.
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Hyundai and SK Innovation see leased EV battery packs part of more sustainable ecosystem
The battery supplier SK Innovation and Hyundai are aiming to devise a comprehensive plan for EV battery cells, cradle to grave.
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VW-backed solid-state battery firm QuantumScape is going public
California-based QuantumScape has existed for about 10 years and is hoping to bring its lithium-metal battery technology to production.
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Report: Ford sees "insufficient scale" for its own battery factory to make sense
Ford indicated that it would need to make 100,000 to 150,000 EVs annually for a battery factory to be beneficial—apparently a target it doesn't see soon.
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In China, Nio wants to lease battery packs for the EVs it sells
Nio is planning to lease its batteries separate from its electric vehicles—in addition to the battery-swapping services already offered by the Chinese automaker.
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Report: Pandemic delays global EV growth, though $100/kwh will arrive earlier
The research firm Wood Mackenzie anticipates that battery affordability targets will arrive soon—even though the pandemic has revised EV sales projections down 2%.
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