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LG Finishes Electric Car Battery Factory, Leads Battery War
South Korean electronics giant LG has just finished what it claims is the world’s largest lithium-ion battery plant for electric vehicle traction batteries. Capable of producing enough lithium ion batteries to put 100,000 electric cars on the road LG’s chemical devision LG Chem is keen...
Batteries For Electric Cars Have Barely Begun To Get Better
Do you remember the shoe sized cell phones of the early 90s? Much of that size was due to the battery. Even with that large battery, you were lucky to get 30 minutes of talk... March 23, 2011 by Patrick Connor 12
Winner: $845K Porsche 918 Spyder Is Now World's Priciest Hybrid Car
We’ve known for some time that Porsche’s 918 Spyder plug-in hybrid concept from the 2010 Geneva Motor Show would eventually enter production but today, more than... March 21, 2011 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran 1
Do Battery-Pack Failures Reduce the Life of Hybrid Cars? A Reader Asks
Our reader Jonathan P asks: I have a 1997 Saturn that, remarkably, is still running. It probably has the book value of a large watermelon, so if anything major goes wrong... February 23, 2011 by John Voelcker 25
Oil Exec Says Electric-Car Batteries 'Not Ready for Primetime'
It's always good to hear the arguments against electric cars. Some are valid, some are idiotic, and some simply betray a lack of knowledge about how the auto industry really... February 11, 2011 by John Voelcker 34
Technical Details Revealed: 2012 Audi Q5 Hybrid Crossover
Sometimes you just never know where you'll dredge up technical details on vehicles that carmakers haven't yet launched. Technology conferences can be a good source. Take, for... February 1, 2011 by John Voelcker
Choice Of Electric-Car Battery Size? GM Investment May Make It Real
A recent investment by General Motors in a new lithium-ion battery cathode technology will give the automaker more pricing options for future generation electric vehicles. It... January 31, 2011 by Alysha Webb 6
GM Bets On Cheaper Electric-Car Batteries With Envia, Invests $17 Million
Riding high on a bout of good press of its Chevy Volt, GM is putting $7 million into its next big bet on electric cars: cheaper, higher-energy batteries. In his state of the... January 28, 2011 by VentureBeat's GreenBeat 7
Volvo V60 Plug-In Hybrid Wagon Coming At Geneva Motor Show
While working energetically on its C30 DRIVe Electric battery-electric vehicle, Swedish carmaker Volvo has also been developing green powertrains for its larger vehicles for... January 27, 2011 by John Voelcker 3
2011 Nissan Leaf Laurels: Euro Car of the Year, U.S. Cell Plant Underway
Initial deliveries of the 2011 Nissan Leaf battery electric car have been fitful, compared to hundreds of Chevy Volts sold each week. But Nissan's first modern mass-produced... January 26, 2011 by John Voelcker 1
Battery Wars: General Motors Licenses American Argonne Tech
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... Actually, no--fairly recently and not so far from home, the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory patented a... January 12, 2011 by Antony Ingram 3
2012 BYD e6 Electric Crossover To Cost $35,000, 200-Mile Range
Later today at the Detroit Auto Show, Chinese carmaker BYD will take the wraps off a new incarnation of the e6 crossover it's shown twice before. This time, however, it comes... January 10, 2011 by John Voelcker 4
2011 Detroit Auto Show: Ford C-Max Hybrid & Energi Plug-In Concepts
While Toyota dominates global hybrid production, Ford was the first company to launch a hybrid SUV: the Ford Escape Hybrid, in 2004. Now, Ford is pioneering another hybrid... January 9, 2011 by John Voelcker 2
2012 Ford Focus Electric NYC Debut: What You Need To Know
As you may have seen by now, the 2012 Ford Focus Electric was officially launched today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas by Ford CEO Alan Mulally. At the very... January 7, 2011 by John Voelcker 1
GM To Use Argonne National Lab Advances In Next-Gen Volt Battery
General Motors announced today that it has licensed lithium-ion battery technology developed at Argonne National Laboratories, the research institution that's funded largely... January 6, 2011 by Bengt Halvorson
ActaCell Nabs $3 Million For Cheaper, Better Hybrid Batteries
Recently, we wrote about the move in the private sector to use electric and hybrid delivery trucks. Companies like FedEx and Frito Lay are tapping into benefits of greener... December 31, 2010 by VentureBeat's GreenBeat
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