Baua Electric
MARCH 8, 2024
Concentration and price collapse For now, global economic weakness has depressed buying of new vehicles and led lithium prices to dive. “They have done good work, they have done good extractions of sodium, magnesium, and traces of lithium.
Electric Vehicles India
JANUARY 23, 2023
Reliance – EV Reliance New Energy Solar has acquired Faradion, a UK start-up that develops sodium-ion batteries. The company claims sodium-ion technology is safer and cheaper. Mahindra also launched the country’s first lithium-ion battery-powered auto-rickshaw/Mahindra Treo, an e-rickshaw and cargo version.
Baua Electric
APRIL 1, 2024
Steve Cotton: If you buy a new lead-acid battery today, I’d say 80 to 90% of the lead that’s in that battery came out of old batteries, probably dating back to multiple uses. If you buy a new lithium battery today, almost none of the minerals came from a prior battery. But right now, used lead-acid batteries are a commodity.
Charged EVs
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
The company Graphex occupies a middle position in the supply chain—it buys raw graphite from mining companies, puts it through several purification and processing steps, then sells it to battery manufacturers. Solid-state, lithium-sulfur, sodium batteries—would all of these still be using graphite in the anode?
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
The plant will process current NMC (nickel, manganese, cobalt and lithium) battery technologies, but will also be equipped to process mid-term high-manganese (HLM) as well as longer-term solid-state battery technologies and future sodium-ion. LFP is popular in China due to strong local government incentives and the domestic LFP ecosystem.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 28, 2009
The electric car features three different battery options, two different Lithium-based (LI) systems – A123Systems and Enerdel as well as a Sodium-Nickel battery Zebra (Mes-Dea). Duh, heres our $40K volt, buy it please? The first law of technology: "Never buy anything with a low serial number."
Electric Auto Association
OCTOBER 6, 2021
It’s getting cleaner and prospects are improving BY TIM BENFORD: PRESIDENT OF DRIVE ELECTRIC DAYTON, PAST VICE-PRESIDENT OF ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION. EVs are still more expensive to buy at the outset, but they quickly pay for themselves over time in terms of financial value and reduced carbon emission when compared to ICE vehicles.
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