EV Central
JANUARY 22, 2024
The global auto giant Stellantis has done a deal with a French battery-maker to secure fresh sodium-ion battery technology for its future EVs that could see electric cars finally undercut petrol cars on purchase price. Not that sodium-ion batteries are perfect, not just yet at least. READ MORE: Range anxiety solved?
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
China dominates BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking in 2020, having quickly surpassed Japan and Korea that were leaders for the majority of the previous decade. While both countries are leaders in battery and components manufacturing, they do not have the same influence in raw materials refining and mining as China.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 20, 2021
The third essential element of any e-bike is, of course, the battery. Here I took advantage of already owning an electric lawnmower, figuring that the 40-volt, 4-ampere-hour battery I had for it would serve well. Being an open-source design no doubt keeps the price of this hardware down: The controller I bought set me back a mere $85.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 20, 2021
The third essential element of any e-bike is, of course, the battery. Here I took advantage of already owning an electric lawnmower, figuring that the 40-volt, 4-ampere-hour battery I had for it would serve well. Being an open-source design no doubt keeps the price of this hardware down: The controller I bought set me back a mere $85.
Green Car Reports
MARCH 14, 2013
Until now, if you'd wanted to drive a Bollore Bluecar electric vehicle, all you'd have required as a few Euros per hour to take one of the little vehicles around the crowded roads of Paris, France. Bollore has now put the Bluecar on sale to the French public, at a starting price of 12,000 Euros--only $15,500.
Green Car Congress
JULY 31, 2019
The total demand for batteries from the stationary storage and electric transport sectors is forecast to be 4,584GWh combined by 2040, providing a major opportunity for battery makers and miners of component metals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel. Batteries will increasingly be chosen to manage this dynamic supply and demand mix.
Green Car Congress
JULY 19, 2021
Lyon, France; Tampa, FL, USA), a mere 0.5 % increase of these would imply the loss of 1.5 Impacts would be particularly bad in North American cities, where increases in artificial land area of 1% or more would be almost inevitable if BEV use became widespread, and still probable if their diffusion were moderate and electricity cheap.
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