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CATL unveils new sodium-ion battery for electric vehicles 

Electric Vehicles India

CATL unveils new sodium-ion battery for electric vehicles . The Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL), the world’s largest electric car battery maker has unveiled a new battery that runs on the affordable and abundantly available sodium instead of lithium. CATL unveils new sodium-ion battery.

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Battery revolution! Has Stellantis cracked the code for super-cheap EVs that will undercut ICE?

EV Central

The global auto giant Stellantis has done a deal with a French battery-maker to secure fresh sodium-ion battery technology for its future EVs that could see electric cars finally undercut petrol cars on purchase price. Not that sodium-ion batteries are perfect, not just yet at least. READ MORE: Range anxiety solved?

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MIT-led team devises new approach to designing solid ion conductors; implications for high-energy solid-state batteries

Green Car Congress

Researchers led by a team from MIT, with colleagues from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), BMW Group, and Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a fundamentally new approach to alter ion mobility and stability against oxidation of lithium ion conductors—a key component of rechargeable batteries—using lattice dynamics.

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Japanese carmakers still ‘most sustainable’

Green Cars News

While BMW tops the ranking of all 17 manufacturers in most of the years assessed, other European carmakers PSA (Peugeot, Citroën), Renault, Volkswagen and DaimlerChrysler/Daimler AG only occasionally keep pace with the industry leaders. Its sodium oxide value contributions show the worst level of resource efficiency in the entire study.

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How Umicore is ensuring sustainability in the North American EV battery chain

Charged EVs

Our investment decision is backed up with a 10-year supply agreement with [Japanese battery manufacturer] AESC , taking high-nickel battery materials equivalent to 50 GWh annually by 2030 and powering the cars from its customers in North America, like BMW.

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Cadillac twin-turbo V6 and 8-speed transmission debut in 2014 CTS sedan

Green Car Congress

The Cadillac Twin-Turbo has 15% greater power density than BMW 535i’s turbocharged 3.0L six, which is rated at 300 horsepower (223 kW), for a ratio of 100 hp/liter (74 kW/liter), and even the BMW 550i’s TwinPower 4.4L mm sodium-filled exhaust valves enable the engine to process tremendous airflow. Large, 38.3-mm

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How Umicore is ensuring sustainability in the North American EV battery chain – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Our investment decision is backed up with a 10-year supply agreement with [Japanese battery manufacturer] AESC , taking high-nickel battery materials equivalent to 50 GWh annually by 2030 and powering the cars from its customers in North America, like BMW.