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GM taps LG for Volt Battery

Revenge of the Electric Car

Here is the full text of the entire article (in case the link goes bad). The Volt contract is important because the batteries are the most important element of the car and their reliability will make or break GM’s gamble to be the first company to put a plug-in — or grid-rechargeable — hybrid into the market.

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As EV Sales Stall, Plug-In Hybrids Get a Reboot

Cars That Think

This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2025. In China, which accounts for about two-thirds of global electrified sales , buyers are flocking to plug-in hybrids, or PHEVs, which combine a gas engine with a rechargeable battery pack. But even in the worlds largest market, almost half of electrified vehicle sales are hybrids.

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2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe: The legendary SUV brand’s first plug-in hybrid

Charged EVs

The e-motor also provides regenerative braking to recharge the battery, and there’s an integrated 33 kW (44 hp) starter-generator as well. The e-Save button also toggles to invoke Battery Charge, which recharges the pack using engine power. This article appeared in Charged Issue 56 – July/Aug 2021 – Subscribe now.

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An e-scooter, a PHEV and an angry man

EV Central

And there are zero emissions if you recharge a scooter’s batteries from a sustainable source. Or, more likely, if your ‘last mile’ commutes are short, you may need only recharge once a week. It’s actually a massive bloody shame. E-scooters should be a force for good.

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AI Plays Key Role in EV Charger Deployment and More

Blink Charging

For a much more detailed look at exactly how artificial intelligence is created and used in this capacity, you can check out this article in Towards Data Science by Obed Sims, which discusses the development of a computer model that indicates optimal locations for EV charging stations in Manchester. Planning tools.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

Photo-illustration: Max-o-matic; photo source: M&N/Alamy Some operators of early direct-current power plants at the turn of the 20th century solved the problem of uneven power output from their generators by employing large banks of rechargeable lead-acid batteries, which served as a kind of buffer to balance the flow of electrons.

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5+1 Ways to Eliminate Range Anxiety

Get Electric Vehicle

After a day’s drive, you can plug your into your home charger and the car will be fully juiced up to tackle the next day. Instead of waiting for the battery to completely discharge before charging, you may recharge your electric car whenever it is parked in your driveway or near an EV charging station.

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