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Lithium-Ion Battery Safety Tester Tightens Standards
Electric cars aren't cut much slack in the mainstream media, and any issues are usually jumped upon before facts have time to surface. Recent high-profile battery failures have been seized with zeal whether automobile-related or not, but one product safety company is aiming to curtail that with...
Mitsubishi Issues Second Recall For Outlander Plug-In Hybrid In Japan
Mitsubishi has recalled 4,313 of its Outlander Plug-In Hybrids in Japan to fix a potential defect that it identified last month. The company resumed production of the plug-in... June 5, 2013 by John Voelcker 1
All-New 2015 Toyota Prius: What We Know So Far
The next-generation Toyota Prius hybrid may retain the same shape as its predecessors, but it's likely to be different in several important ways. With spy shots of 2015 Prius... June 3, 2013 by John Voelcker 9
How Are Electric-Car Batteries Made? Photos From Nissan's New Plant
Making a battery for an electric car is more like assembling microelectronics than the kind of auto-plant scenes we think of, involving huge steel stamping presses and... May 20, 2013 by John Voelcker 1
Toyota Accelerates Switch To Lithium-Ion Batteries, Still Lags Others
Toyota is one of few automakers still using nickel-metal hydride batteries in its hybrid vehicles, but that could change for its next generation vehicles. Reuters reports... May 20, 2013 by Antony Ingram 9
Wyoming Lithium To Make U.S. Self-Sufficient In Electric-Car Batteries?
It's a major threat to national security: A natural resource needed by one or many nations is controlled by only a few countries, which don't much like how the rest of the... May 17, 2013 by John Voelcker 31
Will Future Tesla Electric Cars Use Metal-Air Batteries?
Most advocates and industry analysts expect lithium-ion batteries to dominate electric-car energy storage for the rest of this decade. But is Silicon Valley startup carmaker... April 23, 2013 by John Voelcker 41
U.S.-Built Electric Cars To Get U.S.-Made Battery Cells Too
While the number of plug-in electric cars built in the U.S. is steadily increasing, the lithium-ion cells in their batteries have mostly come from overseas. But this turns... April 22, 2013 by John Voelcker 9
Cheaper Electric-Car Batteries: Slow & Steady Wins The Race
Did your parents ever tell you, "Slow and steady wins the race"? It can be annoying to hear as a child, but often it's true--and in the case of electric car batteries, it's... April 5, 2013 by John Voelcker 30
Boeing 787 Battery Safety Updates: What Changes Were Made?
People take air safety pretty seriously, so when smoke filled the cabin of a new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft a few months back, the entire fleet was quickly grounded. It... March 20, 2013 by Antony Ingram 10
Nissan Leaf Electric Car Reports Own Battery-Cell Failure Via Carwings
Wouldn't it be nice if your car could tell you not just that something was wrong, but that something might be about to go wrong? A Nissan Leaf in Washington state did just... March 12, 2013 by John Voelcker 13
Tesla CEO Musk: Boeing 787 Batteries 'Inherently Unsafe'
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk is hardly shy and retiring. He tweets out random financial results, states as fact things that haven't quite happened yet, and regularly speaks his... January 30, 2013 by John Voelcker 25
Boeing 787 Batteries Same As Those In Electric Cars? Umm, NO
Gird yourself: It's possible we're about to see a new wave of attacks on electric cars that ignore battery science. This time the culprit is the troubled Boeing 787... January 17, 2013 by John Voelcker 49
Battery Tech Limitation Discovered, Improvements On The Way?
There are three main paths to improving batteries for future electric vehicles. One is the development of entirely new technology replacing today's batteries entirely with... December 17, 2012 by Antony Ingram 2
Nissan Builds First Lithium-Ion Cells For 2013 Leaf Electric Car (Video)
Just two years after the first Nissan Leaf was sold in the U.S., Nissan said today it has opened a plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, to fabricate lithium-ion cells for electric-car... December 12, 2012 by John Voelcker 7
Ford Cuts Rare-Earth Metal Use In Hybrid Batteries, But ...
With plug-in cars now on the market, rare-earth metals are a hot commodity. They're needed in one type of electric motor and various electronic components, and volume... September 14, 2012 by John Voelcker 13
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