Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Jutting out from the coast of China’s Fujian province, Changbiao Island may seem small and unremarkable. This is where the China National Nuclear Corp. is building two fast-neutron nuclear breeder reactors, the first of which is slated to connect to the grid in 2023, the second in 2026. Not so in China, India, and Russia.

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Push EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Contemporary Amperex Technology Thuringia GmbH (CATT), CATL’s first plant outside of China, has kicked off serial production of lithium-ion battery cells in December as scheduled, marking another milestone on CATL’s global journey. The plant has already started module production in its G1 building in Q3 2021. PushEVs.

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Germany Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 59

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

As coal plants close, they leave behind empty building shells and scores of lost jobs. Plant operators might save on costs, with transmission lines, cooling towers, office buildings, and roads already in place. In Hainan, China, Linglong One —the world’s first small modular reactor plant—is now under construction.)

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A mere two years removed from its initial entry into new markets of Europe, Build Your Dreams (BYD) is looking to expedite its expansion with the help of Arval – a major vehicle leasing company overseas. That news came five weeks ago, but it feels like five months due to the number of moves BYD has been putting out since then.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 5, 2023

One in every of China’s govern battery-makers reckons it has cracked a era to handover even inexpensive and extra tough packs for electrical automobiles. Enhancements in LFP that collect extra energy into smaller programs have helped popularize the era, which is normally inexpensive to build. Gotion Prime-Tech Co. to Tesla Inc.

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Batteries Battery BYD China 52

Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

China currently dominates the midstream processing of lithium. By focusing on localizing the midstream processing of lithium and partnering with Australia, Chile, and Argentina, India can build an alternate supply chain for herself. 9,10,11,12] LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate) and Sodium-Ion battery packs will not use Cobalt and Nickel.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 30, 2024

Sodium-ion batteries offer benefits over their lithium-ion counterparts. But as dominant as they’ve become, there are other ways to build a battery. will unveil what it bills as the first full-scale plant in the US for making sodium-ion batteries on Monday. Sodium-ion batteries offer benefits over their lithium-ion counterparts.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2010

The latest reactor designs, now under construction around the world, build on more than 50 years of technology development. China, CPR-1000, based on AREVA Gen II design, 1,000MW. Sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR). GE Hitachi ESWBR, 1600 MW. Mitsubishi Heavy APWR, 1,500MW. Rosatom VVER-1200, PWR, 1,100MW.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MARCH 31, 2021

Along with sodium-based alternatives, could soon supplant the seemingly obsolete lithium-ion battery. #2. Last year, Volvo and Baidu announced a collaboration to build large-scale autonomous driving in China. #4. There are some interesting advances in the works for other lithium-ion alternatives. Solar cars.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

LFP chemistries are popular in China for several reasons, but in other regions, LFP’s value proposition can be very different. Umicore sees the market trending toward multiple cell chemistries, and believes that its new high-manganese HLM battery technology is a strong alternative to LFP in markets outside of China.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This crystalline carbon allotrope is good for more than just pencils—it’s found in every EV battery anode, and producing graphite in the forms needed to build high-performance battery cells is a complex and exacting process. Solid-state, lithium-sulfur, sodium batteries—would all of these still be using graphite in the anode?

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Future Batteries Battery Li-ion 112

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To help California mitigate its ever-growing wildfires, this year CalSEED has included companies that are innovating in technologies that will build wildfire resiliency into the grid. EV Life, LLC is building the first online platform that gives drivers everything they need to switch from gas to an electric car.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

LFP chemistries are popular in China for several reasons, but in other regions, LFP’s value proposition can be very different. Umicore sees the market trending toward multiple cell chemistries, and believes that its new high-manganese HLM battery technology is a strong alternative to LFP in markets outside of China.

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North America Batteries Battery Charging 52

Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

Still, progress has been made and many companies around the world, especially in Japan, Korea and China are currently moving into the production feasibility phase. Also on the cards, and often touted as a solution, are sodium-ion batteries. This type could remove the difficult to mine Lithium from the equation.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

EVs require automakers to design new manufacturing processes and build plants to make both EVs and their batteries. For instance, automakers are demanding these suppliers absorb more cost cuts because automakers are finding EVs so expensive to build. Even for the large auto suppliers, the transition to EVs will not be an easy road.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2010

Internationally, customers have purchased 140,000 Chevrolet Cruze in the first six months of 2010 and a total of 270,000 since Cruze launched in the spring of 2009 in Europe, followed by other major markets, such as China in summer of 2009. Sodium-filled exhaust valves are designed for the higher combustion temperatures of the turbo system.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

The electric car features three different battery options, two different Lithium-based (LI) systems – A123Systems and Enerdel as well as a Sodium-Nickel battery Zebra (Mes-Dea). Better Place is building stations in San Francisco, Hawaii, Israel, and Denmark to swap out 1,000 pound batteries in a car wash type set up.

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