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Magna to supply battery enclosures for Silverado EV

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Magna has secured new business from General Motors (GM) to supply battery enclosures on the all-new 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV. Clair, Michigan, where it already produces the battery enclosure for the GMC HUMMER EV. Magna is also making battery enclosures for the Ford F-150 Lightning. F150 Lightning battery enclosure.

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Tesla Cybertruck has a ‘wade mode’ that pressurizes battery to ‘drive through water’

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Tesla Cybertruck has something called “Wade Mode” that the automaker claims “pressurizes the battery pack” to “drive through water”. it looks like Tesla is actually delivering, at least to some degree, on its promise that the pickup truck will drive through water.

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Rosenbauer introduces extinguishing system for emergency responders for EV battery fires

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With the increase in battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs, HEVs and PHEVs) on the road, statistically the risk potential for an accident or technical defect of the inherently safe battery systems also increases. The Achilles’ heel of a battery is the separator, Rosenbauer notes; the separator has only limited temperature resistance.

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Torqueedo introduces 80 kWh cell-to-pack LFP option for marine batteries; doubles range

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Torqeedo GmbH announced a new battery option for its Deep Blue series of marine electric drives: Deep Blue Battery 80. The new battery leverages lithium iron phosphate (LFP) chemistry and delivers 80 kWh of energy storage, twice the capacity of the previous generation of Deep Blue batteries.

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Lithium-ion battery recycler ABTC expands operations and capacity with newly purchased facility

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The demand for domestically produced and sustainably sourced battery metals has grown at a near insatiable rate over recent years, as the domestic manufacturing capacity of lithium-ion batteries has grown exponentially from less than 50 GWh/year to now more than 700 GWh/year of operational and announced capacity.

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I yeeted an electric bicycle battery into a tub of water to see what happens

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That’s right, I chucked an e-bike battery from the new Velotric Discover 2 into a tub full of water just for the hell of it. Yet here’s the thing: most of my e-bike testing involves just riding around on e-bikes to see how well they perform. This time though, I got the chance to try something entirely different.

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Scientists have found major storage capacity in water-based batteries

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Texas A&M University scientists have been working with metal-free, water-based battery electrodes, and they’re finding that the difference in energy storage capacity is as much as 1,000%. more… The post Scientists have found major storage capacity in water-based batteries appeared first on Electrek.

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