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GM Back in the EV Spotlight

Green Car Congress

by Brent Wilson, CEO of Galvanic Energy Following the introduction of the EV1 in the mid-1990s, GM dabbled with electric hybrids but didn’t introduce its next fully electric car, the Chevy Bolt, until 2016.

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Verifying the origin of EV battery materials at the source: Traceability challenges, Part Two

Charged EVs

I joined BV in 2016. Progressively, maybe the source of origin will be raised from 20% to 30% US-made, but my perception is, for EVs, it will be very complicated to have 100% of battery components coming from the US with the current technology, meaning with the current chemistry based on nickel, lithium, cobalt, manganese, graphite.

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