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EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think!

Plug In India

Tesla, VW, BYD, Ford and others have plans to build giant gigafactories. So for ultra efficient vehicles like scooters or motorcycles, LFP batteries and Sodium-Ion can work totally fine. The cycle life is crazy, as you can see here they claim more than a lakh cycles on their cell, while LFP cells have around 2000 cycles.

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Udaipur to Himachal : 923 km in an electric car

Plug In India

Nudged them to consider the BYD. I wonder how he can use art to make cycling less infra dig amongst the motorcycle driving community that is India. Was 2000 hrs by then. Chatted up with a few curious cabbies and did the electric math with them. It is a damn good Innova substitute. Was 1900 hrs by the time we left.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Posted by: GSP | Apr 14, 2009 9:07:50 AM Funny, BYD (chinese) already came out with their version of the volt this year. Is it worth it to the American taxpayers to ensure that this particular electric car comes to market? GM cant do it but a 15 year old chinese car company can.now thats funny!

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