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Reliance buys Na-ion battery developer Faradion

Green Car Congress

Patented zero-volt safe transport and storage. Low cost – total cost of ownership already comparable to lead-acid with potential for further reductions in costs. Sodium is the sixth-most abundant element on the planet.

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Edmunds.com: EV and hybrid loyalty falls to all-time low

Green Car Congress

This is an economics trend, since today’s low cost of gas no longer makes it worth paying the price premium of hybrids and EVs. When you’re buying a vehicle that can get over 30 mpg, you can still say you’re doing your part to help the environment. lift during that time. Plug-in hybrids, however, have shown strength.

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Why One LEAF-Driving Cop Can't Drive Straight Home After Work Anymore

Plugs and Cars

He wasn’t in uniform, so I figured he was another of those early adopter techie types buying EVs. A standard 120-volt outlet - Level 1 in EVspeak. He told me about city programs to install EV infrastructure and said the Police Department is competing to get an allocation of 240-volt charging stations (EVspeak: Level 2 EVSE).

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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

Representatives of GM stoked the clamor for the Volt, and a Saturn Vue plug-in hybrid sat on the show floor. Attesting to consumer desire for plug-ins, hundreds of people flooded the Plug-in 2008 auditorium for the low-cost “public” event, which included Plug In America’s Chelsea Sexton participating in a panel discussion.

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Packaging second-life EV batteries into a plug-and-play energy storage system

Charged EVs

Charged: If a car gets totaled, you might buy the battery pack on the salvage market? Currently, more than 90% of vehicles are in the 400-volt class. Because nowadays, battery pack chemistries are moving toward low-cost, low-supply-risk raw materials, such as shifting from NCM to iron phosphate.

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Update: Top 10 Electric Cars

Clean Fleet Report

Technology upgrades like Full Self Driving remain available to buy, but are not delivered via an over-the-air update. First was to introduce the second generation Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car (which gets tossed in with plug-in hybrids even though its system really takes a different approach).

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Profile: Li-ion Provider Compact Power, Inc. Focusing on the Automotive and Vehicle Markets

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CPI) shortly after GM selected CPI and its parent LG Chem as the provider for the Li-ion batteries for the Extended Range Electric Vehicle (E-REV) Chevy Volt. (GM CPI considers the safety of their chemistry as well as the flexibility of their packaging to be key reasons why they GM selected them for the Volt. Prabhakar Patil.

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