Teslarati
MAY 10, 2021
Mark Twidell stood in for Tesla Chairman Robyn Denholm at the Southstart entrepreneurs conference in Adelaide recently. “Australia has the raw materials in abundance like no other nation on Earth,” Twidell said at the conference. Tesla’s shift to LFP cells for Megapack batteries heralds an energy storage revolution.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
For several years, the automobile industry has grappled with a straightforward question: Is it possible to produce a powerful, efficient, and mass-producible synchronous motor that contains no rare-earth elements at all? Part of that preparation has focused on rare-earth elements.
Electric Auto Association
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Within a few years, outreach efforts by these chapter members at local electric vehicle (EV) events had grown to include presentations at conferences around the country, and eventually around the world. I took some surplus parts and motorcycle batteries… it was definitely Rube Goldberg style,” Smith explained.
Teslarati
SEPTEMBER 26, 2021
Elon Musk briefly appeared during the opening ceremony of the 2021 World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China recently. The conference’s theme was a move “towards a new era of digital civilization” and “working together to build a community within a shared future in cyberspace.”
Green Car Congress
JUNE 12, 2015
Unlike the others, however, Audi over the past few years has embarked on a comprehensive approach to developing a range of new CO₂-neutral fuels as part of its overall strategy for sustainable, carbon-neutral mobility: Audi e-fuels. The pilot plant is also demonstrating that industrialization of liquid Audi e‑fuels is also possible.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. This is unusual.
Cars That Think
JUNE 21, 2022
The two project leaders— Masato Sagawa of Sumitomo and John Croat of GM—surprised each other by announcing their results at the same conference in Pittsburgh in 1983. Masato Sagawa of Sumitomo (left) announced the invention of a revolutionary neodymium-iron-boron permanent magnet at a conference in Pittsburgh, Penn., in November, 1983.
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