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Tencent buys 5% stake in Tesla for $1.8 billion

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In 2015, Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd., In January 2016, they formed a joint venture company, Harmony Futeng Internet & Intelligent Electric Vehicle New Energy Company Limited, led by Dr. Carsten Breitfeld, formerly the VP of Engineering and Head of the i8 vehicle program at BMW.

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Solid state: EV giants chase ‘holy grail’ of batteries – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Yet despite decades of research and billions of dollars invested, their future still looks elusive. Here are some of the companies developing these kind of batteries. The company says it could boost an EV’s driving range from 350 miles to 400-500 miles, an increase of 14%-43%.

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Tesla supply chain: Biden team plans $52B funding to address chip shortage among US carmakers

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Companies around the globe have been affected by the global chip shortage, including US automakers like Ford, General Motors, and Tesla. . Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Semiconductor shortages halt BMW and Daimler production lines. Semiconductor shortages halt BMW and Daimler production lines.

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The Chip Shortage, Giant Chips, and the Future of Moore’s Law

Cars That Think

You also found that the future of Moore's Law depends as much on where you put the wires as on how small the transistors are, among many other things. GlobalFoundries has already inked agreements with both Ford and BMW. The real importance is that IBM's process is another endorsement of nanosheet transistors as the future of silicon.

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For EVs, Semi-Solid-State Batteries Offer a Step Forward

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But China’s investment in the future of batteries won’t likely speed up the timetable for mass production and use in production vehicles. To state at this point that any one battery and any one country’s investments in battery R&D will dominate in the future is simply incorrect.” The Road Forward to Solid-State Batteries U.S.

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