Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, led by Prof. S batteries, without intricate synthesis or application of a high charging cut-off voltage that deteriorates the electrolyte stability and safety. The ability to use commercially available bulk particles could significantly decrease the manufacturing cost of Li?S

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2022

General Motors and POSCO Chemical are working with the governments of Canada and Québec to build a new $400-million facility in Bécancour, Québec, to produce cathode active material (CAM) for GM’s Ultium batteries, which will power electric vehicles such as the Chevrolet Silverado EV, GMC HUMMER EV and Cadillac LYRIQ.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Lithium, a critical material used in high-charge-density batteries for electric vehicles and grid-scale electricity storage, is a crucial element in the clean energy supply chain. As domestic demand increases rapidly, there is an urgent need to develop safe, secure, domestic, and cost-competitive sources of lithium.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2024

A startup called Revoy offers an interesting transitional solution—the Revoy EV is basically a small trailer full of batteries that attaches to a diesel semi-truck to effectively turn it into a hybrid. At Revoy’s swapping station in Dallas, the Revoy EV, with a pre-charged battery, is attached between a tractor and a semi-trailer.

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Teslarati

JULY 13, 2021

Last week, Elon Musk announced Tesla’s first involvement in a major housing development project in Austin, Texas. SunHouse at Easton Park will be a small part of the community featuring homes equipped with Tesla Solar and Powerwall, the company’s home battery storage system. and Darca on the project. In a letter, Gov.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Via a post on its website, Tesla Motors outlined its plan for its future battery “Gigafactory”, projected to require between $4-5 billion in investment from Tesla and its partners by 2020, with a resulting cell capacity of up to 35 GWh/year and pack capacity of up to 50 GWh/y to service a projected 500,000 Tesla electric vehicles per year.

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2023

Fifty years after the birth of the rechargeable lithium-ion battery, it’s easy to see its value. It was manufactured in small volumes by Exxon, appeared at an electric vehicle show in Chicago in 1977, and served briefly as a coin cell battery. Did Exxon invent the rechargeable lithium battery? But then Exxon dropped it.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2013

John Goodenough at the University of Texas at Austin and colleague Kyu-Sung Park have written a perspective paper on Li-ion batteries (LIBs), published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. More recently, at the University of Texas, Austin, Dr. Goodenough patented a new class of iron phosphate materials.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2015

A University of Texas at Arlington engineering researcher is working to determine how oversized a battery has to be while operating safely and efficiently during its lifetime of use by the US Navy. A $320,000 ONR grant to understand the challenges faced when implementing a 1000 volts-direct-current lithium-ion battery.

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Teslarati

APRIL 7, 2023

It took some time, but it appears that Tesla is finally at a point where its 4680 battery cell production is at a level where it can support the orders and production of a Model Y variant. Tesla’s 4680 cells are a critical part of the company’s strategy to improve battery efficiency and reduce its vehicles’ production costs.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2021

Critical materials are used in many products important to the US economy and energy technologies, such as rare-earth elements used to manufacture high-strength magnets for offshore wind-turbine generators and lithium and cobalt in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. Partners: Harper International, Phillips66.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Tesla lists the cost of the project as $200,000. Additionally, the company has started building a new battery manufacturing equipment line on the second floor of the Fremont plant. There were talks several years ago of Tesla leaving the California plant in favor of Texas. I’d love to hear from you!

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2021

Commercial heavy-duty trucking operations are motivated to reduce operating costs. A 2020 BloombergNEF report shows that fuel costs for trucks make up more than half their total cost of ownership. With slower managed charging, that number goes up to 90%.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

million civil penalty, as well as $200,000 to the counties as a reimbursement for the costs of investigating the issue. After 25 California counties filed lawsuits against Tesla for the alleged mishandling of the waste materials on Tuesday, the automaker on Thursday agreed to pay a $1.3

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EV Central

MARCH 1, 2023

The long-hyped circa-$40,000 Tesla Model 2 didn’t break cover at the company’s investor day held at the Texas Gigafactory this morning. The new platform will also enable a radically different manufacturing process designed to dramatically reduce the cost of production.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Crucially, the union expects that the concessions could put pressure on Ford and Stellantis to follow suit after GM allowed workers at its future battery plants to be covered by new contracts with the union. “Our strike is working, but we’re not there yet,” UAW President Shawn Fain said during a live stream update.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

I think, at the point in which it is autonomous, the cost of transport drops by, I don’t know, a factor of four or five,” the CEO added. Tesla Model Y vehicles spotted leaving Giga Texas site in car carriers. Car carriers with Model Ys have already been spotted leaving Giga Texas. auto market.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Tesla already produces its own battery cells, and with an upcoming lithium refining facility in Corpus Christi , Texas, raw lithium from Sigma’s operation in Brazil could help the automaker continue to tame battery costs. It remains unclear if other automakers will follow in Tesla’s footsteps.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

GM last week announced details regarding its vehicle-to-home (V2H) system, set to launch with the Chevrolet Silverado EV RST , that will help EV owners back up their home without the help of a storage battery like a Tesla Powerwall or a backup generator. That brings the total component cost to $7,299. It’s good for charging at 19.2

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

Xcel services customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. If realized, EVs would make up 20% of all vehicles on the road in those areas—more than 30 times the number today.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Now, researchers from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), collaborating with UCLA and UC Berkeley researchers, suggest that the US can retrofit diesel-electric trains with batteries in a way that is cost-competitive with diesel. a) Depiction of the TCO for battery-electric propulsion. (b)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The Electrification Coalition released two case studies outlining how two cities— Houston, Texas and Loveland, Colorado —are saving money by using electric vehicles (EVs) in their vehicle fleets. Between 2009 and 2011, fuel costs for the City of Loveland’s vehicle fleet increased by 29%, according to the case study.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

The second round was focused specifically on three areas of technology representing new approaches for advanced microbial biofuels (electrofuels); much higher capacity and less expensive batteries for electric vehicles; and carbon capture. Better Batteries - Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST).

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

Several next-generation battery-electric trucks, with increased driving range, are coming to the US this year, following their European debuts. California offers an array of incentive programs to help fleets defray the higher upfront costs of electric trucks. However, the picture for 2024 looks brighter.

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Teslarati

MARCH 1, 2023

18:54 CST – A question about Tesla’s dry battery electrode efforts was asked. Drew Baglino noted that Giga Texas already makes dry electrode batteries. 18:48 CST – Barclays asks to what extent the cost strategies outlined today differ by region. 17:47 CST – Tesla Electric is rolling out in Texas too!

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2014

introduced several e-mobility sustainability initiatives to commence with the US launch of the battery-electric e-Golf ( earlier post ). Volkswagen of America chose to include carbon reduction efforts in California and in Texas with projects geared towards forestry conservation and landfill gas capture. Volkswagen of America, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2009

a provider of lithium-ion batteries, modules and packs. Founded in 1989, and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Valence has facilities in Nevada, China and Northern Ireland. Donaghy noted that Valence has shipped some 70 MWh of Li-ion battery capacity since 2005—equivalent to 200,000 batteries, or enough for 1,500 3.5

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2009

Nuvera Fuel Cells has sold 14 PowerEdge fuel cell systems, along with a complete PowerTap Hydrogen Generator and Hydrogen Station, to H-E-B in San Antonio, Texas. H-E-B, with sales of more than $15 billion, operates more than 300 stores in Texas and Mexico. Delivery is scheduled for September, 2009.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 26, 2022

Despite various projects such as the active buildout of Giga Berlin and Gigafactory Texas , as well as the additional expansions of Giga Shanghai and the Fremont Factory, Tesla still ended the fourth quarter with a strong war chest, with quarter-end cash and cash equivalents increasing sequentially by $1.5 billion to $17.6 billion in Q4 2021.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 25, 2023

Both Gigafactory Texas and Giga Berlin were able to achieve a production of 3,000 Model Y per week. The company’s 4680 cell production line was also able to produce enough batteries to make 1,000 battery packs. These could then reduce its costs through the continuous improvements of its vehicles. million forecast.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 15, 2023

However, owning an EV is about more than just zero emissions and torque—it’s about understanding the total cost of ownership. One crucial aspect often overlooked is the insurance cost associated with EVs. As of 2023, the nationwide average for electric vehicle insurance is $206 per month.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2013

EnerG2 , a manufacturer of advanced carbon materials for next-generation energy storage (generally for batteries and ultracapacitors), has leveraged its polymer chemistry technologies to develop materials for adsorbed natural gas (ANG) applications. Low-pressure compressors are a fraction of the cost of high compression systems.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The selected projects include advanced battery systems (including flow batteries), flywheels, and compressed air energy systems. DOE funding $75,161,246, total project value with cost share $150,322,492). (DOE DOE funding $60,280,000, total project value including cost share $120,560,000).

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Cars That Think

JULY 19, 2022

The cost of replacing them adds up. Amon Schumann, a senior at the Robert-Havemann-Gymnasium school, in Berlin, has invented eco-friendly, cost-effective solutions. Amon Schumann’s radiosonde for weather balloons is equipped with a solar-powered battery and GPS. grams—far more compact than current models, which weigh about 96 g.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

“Over the past 15 years, the emphasis has moved toward using [these materials] less as high-temperature superconductors and more as high-field superconductors,” says Venkat Selvamanickam , who directs the Applied Research Hub of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston. tesla magnetic field in 2014.

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Teslarati

JULY 19, 2023

Kirkhorn also clarified that Giga Berlin and Giga Texas are still in their early phases. As the facilities get more optimized, their costs should be improved as well. Musk noted that Tesla does not specify Dojo’s costs for now, though the company will likely be spending well over a billion on the supercomputer the next year.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The vast majority of the funded projects are for battery-electric buses and infrastructure; two projects are receiving a total of $3.2 The funding is for the incremental cost of a battery electric bus over a CNG bus and leverages federal, state, local utilities and local match to purchase the battery electric buses for service expansion.

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