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EV Central
FEBRUARY 9, 2025
The NIO Group has chimed in Chinese New Year by performing an incredible 136,748 battery swaps over a 24-hour period, setting a new record for the brand. Set on February 3, the new six-figure record was set by NIO’s 3106 battery swap stations dotted throughout China, with the car-maker averaging an astonishing 5698 batteries-per-hour.
Teslarati
JUNE 27, 2025
Redwood Materials, the battery recycling firm founded by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, has launched a new venture called Redwood Energy. The business aims to repurpose used electric vehicle batteries into large-scale, low-cost energy storage systems. That figure is expected to grow to 5 GWh in the coming year.
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EV Central
JUNE 19, 2025
GM’s top EV battery guru, Andy Oury, believes we could switch to a hydrogen-based economy in the future, if we could build enough renewable energy to run it. That’s because – as Oury is at pains to point out – the lithium that currently powers electric vehicles, and other batteries, is almost as abundant as hydrogen anyway.
EV Central
APRIL 17, 2025
Sure, you can use an app to lock and unlock, but this isn’t my car (it’s Leapmotor’s), and how do you use an app if your phone runs out of battery? I started my journey with 100 per cent charge and indicated range of 467km. Day 3: Get charging Stuck in traffic today, and the C10 impresses. I need to charge.
EV Central
MARCH 13, 2025
Despite the minor increase in size, Toyota says there’s been a major increase in range by around 30 per cent from 436km on a charge to an estimated 573km based on the WLTP test cycle. In Europe, a base front-drive model with a 126kW e-motor and a smaller 57.7kWh battery is available but it’s already been ruled out for Australia.
EV Central
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
Both share the same 82.56kW battery (and both get Vehicle to Load so you can use it to power your devices) which delivers a driving range of 482kms in the Premium, and 456km in the Performance. The Sealion 7 can draw up to 11kW AC charging, or 150kW DC fast charging. The battery is backed for eight years or 160,000kms.
Clean Fleet Report
MAY 27, 2025
A Major Step to Compete with the Best Toyota re-entered the electric vehicle world in 2023 with the BZ4X small SUV (after two earlier limited edition RAV4 EVs). seconds Battery: XLE: 57.7 seconds Battery: XLE, Limited and Woodland: 74.7 seconds Battery: XLE: 57.7 seconds Battery: XLE, Limited and Woodland: 74.7
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