Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2016

Previous announcements of billion-dollar investments in battery factories by Volkswagen were largely brushed off by investors as deflections from their “Dieselgate” scandal. Grid-scale storage battery demand can easily eclipse the need for automotive batteries. Demand Response: A Wild Ride.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2014

While LNG is expected to be an early success, the picture becomes more diversified over time, as more than 20% of shipping could adopt hybrid propulsion solutions featuring batteries or other energy storage technologies, according to the paper. Ship electrification and renewables.

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

And the percentage of clean energy is growing every year as coal and gas plants are being replaced by renewable energy sources. So what about the lithium used in EV batteries? Lithium is a metal that is mined in the deserts of Australia, China, Argentina, and Chile. So what about the batteries? What can you do?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

We’re thinking about what this means for the world of batteries and all sorts of other components that are really mission critical for our company and our capability,” Ford CEO Jim Farley said last year. The company shut down orders after reaching 200,000 units, citing a shortage of lithium-ion batteries. The issue [now] is batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2013

For example, improvements in battery technology, coupled with increasing divergence between oil and electricity prices, could lead to a situation where small electric “city” vehicles become more convenient, cheaper, quieter, and generally more desirable for significant portions of the world’s rapidly urbanizing population.

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Drive Electric

APRIL 12, 2023

Lithium is commonly used for rechargeable batteries, particularly in Electric Vehicles (EVs). According to data from the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory , a single EV’s lithium-ion battery pack contains approximately 8 kgs of lithium. Some companies have also seen success in using cobalt-free batteries.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Thanks to the long battery life and high safety features of BYD pure electric buses, the pure electric buses delivered this time will be used for the operation of intercity buses, which is the first operation case in Sweden to use urban electric buses for intercity buses.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2022

The war over global dominance of the electric vehicle battery industry seems like it ended before it really got started. As reported by Barron’s last month, the firm released an analysis of China’s stranglehold on the industry that supplies lithium-ion batteries for millions of electric vehicles around the world.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2021

An editorial in the journal Nature calls on policy makers, industry leaders and researchers to mitigate quickly the environmental and human costs of Li-ion batteries. The market for Li-ion batteries is projected to grow from $30 billion in 2017 to some $100 billion in 2025. . … As batteries improve, they will last longer.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

A battery electric vehicle (BEV) uses an electric motor instead of an internal combustion engine. These vehicles use large traction battery packs to power the motor. So, are electric vehicles are still as eco-friendly when the manufacturing process of the car and battery are taken into consideration?

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

A battery electric vehicle (BEV) uses an electric motor instead of an internal combustion engine. These vehicles use large traction battery packs to power the motor. What’s less clear, is whether electric vehicles are still as eco-friendly when the manufacturing process of the car and battery are taken into consideration.

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Teslarati

MAY 6, 2022

Efforts are also underway to focus more on battery production as well, with Tesla representatives visiting the Democratic Republic of Congo and Argentina to complete social and environmental risk assessments. Tesla has also made a lot of strides when it comes to reusing the raw materials that are used for its battery packs.

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