California IDEA Lithium Ion Tech 
Cars That Think
MARCH 11, 2023
It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. A Test of Vehicle-to-Grid Tech By the turn of the millennium, however, selling EV propulsion systems had become a hard way to make a living.
Baua Electric
JANUARY 22, 2024
To give you an idea of what I was working with, I’ll detail the specs of the EV9 GT-Line – the fully-loaded SUV option from Kia that each of us media got to drive in Napa, California. kWh lithium-ion battery pack, which weighs nearly 1,250 pounds by itself. They’ve definitely got Tesla beat though! And that’s fine.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 25, 2021
And while the scoffing tends to center around the "purity" of cycling—the idea that e-bike riders are somehow lazy cheaters—that electric assist is actually luring people off the couch for healthy exercise. Hidden inside frames, they're making some e-bikes look so stealthy that onlookers have no idea it's electric.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
The Circuit is similar to the Tesla Roadster, a $109,000 sports car produced by a small California company. The carmaker recently announced a deal with battery maker A123 Systems to manufacture lithium-ion battery packs for the full line of electric-powered cars Chrysler hopes to make. 5.90 / 0.07% Nasdaq 1,673.07
Clean Fleet Report
MAY 11, 2022
Ford early-on knew the wrong way to develop their first-ever electric pickup truck was to do it with preconceived ideas on what consumers wanted, or would buy. So off they went to Texas (which is truck crazy) and California (which is EV crazy) to ask truck owners a wide range of questions about trucks. Big screen; big tech.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Lithium-ion battery recycling took a big step forward this week, as a Hawaiian utility announced it is undertaking one of the biggest examples of grid-storage recycling in North America to date. However, its compliment of lithium-ion batteries is one of the largest to be recycled thus far.
Charged EVs
AUGUST 16, 2022
Cell prices on a dollar per kilowatt-hour basis are set to rise this year—the first year in the trend of the modern lithium-ion battery that we will see cell prices reverse, and that’s solely—well, primarily, let’s say—due to raw material prices increasing. “In governments) need to become much more proactive.
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