Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

So the idea is, buy it once and keep it here.” In California, big grid-storage projects include the Moss Landing facility in Monterey, which offers 400 megawatts of battery storage, and the McCoy Solar Energy project in Riverside County, which has 230 MW of storage. “We have to get the materials from somewhere,” Spangenberger said. “So

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Cars That Think

JUNE 20, 2023

When IEEE Spectrum’s editor in chief, Harry Goldstein, needed to replace his 2008 Honda Fit in October 2020, he thought seriously about buying an electric vehicle. Harry decided to forego buying an EV, but he remains open to purchasing one if both the affordability and charging issues are better addressed. “I One was affordability.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Because of their unique luminescent, electrochemical, and magnetocrystalline properties, rare-earth elements are essential to some of the most important and fastest-growing tech-based industries. That critical importance of rare-earths in so many tech industries is of mounting concern in many Western countries.

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Charged EVs

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Like a certain California EV-maker, Proterra has found it expedient to develop many components in-house. You’re buying components from other suppliers, but you’re working closely with them to customize the stuff to your specifications. To buy a battery pack in that mid-decade era was extremely expensive. Dustin: Yeah.

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