Cars That Think

DECEMBER 31, 2023

NASA Battery Tech to Deliver for the Grid EnerVenue’s nickel-hydrogen battery cells are 1.8 EnerVenue If you don’t discharge and then recharge them all the way, lithium-ion batteries can last for thousands of charge-discharge cycles. Now imagine a battery that can last through tens of thousands of charge-discharge cycles.

Fusion 76

Fusion Energy Lithium Ion Grid 76

Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

Starting this year, thousands of battery-powered electric drive Volkswagen vehicles capable of both loading and offloading current—bidirectional charging, as industry calls it—have been rolling off production lines in eastern Germany. A side benefit could be plugging in appliances to the car while camping rough.

GM 86

GM Ford Power Powered 86

Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

Scientists and engineers have extended the range of EVs by cramming ever more energy into their batteries, and vehicle charging networks have expanded in many countries. For EVs, much of the environmental burden centers on the production of batteries, the most energy- and resource-intensive component of the vehicle. AFP/Getty Images.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles West Virginia Electrical 97

EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

Some numbers and percentages in Europe may look different from what you see elsewhere, because I’ve added light-commercial vehicle sales to numerator and denominator, to make the comparison with other regions equitable. If Norway also had an auto or EV-battery industry, no country could catch it in the charts. E-buses were deployed.

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