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BYD Constructing Sodium-Ion Battery Gigafactory (30 GWh)

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For all the hype around non-lithium-ion battery chemistries in the past decade, nothing has really been competitive with the king. continued] The post BYD Constructing Sodium-Ion Battery Gigafactory (30 GWh) appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Three Washington state utilities receive total of $14.3M in matching state grants for grid energy storage projects

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million in matching grants from the state’s new Clean Energy Fund to lead energy storage projects with ties to federally funded research at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Puget Sound Energy of Bellevue, Wash., Its project includes installing a BYD 2 MW/4.4

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BYD Says Inflation Reduction Act Keeping Out Cheap EVs — Does That Make Sense?

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Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD thinks the USA’s Inflation Reduction Act is preventing the sale of cheap electric cars in the United States. We asked BYD’s CEO whether or not the company would bring its popular electric vehicles (EVs) to the US a couple of times in the past decade. Does this make sense?

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BYD Battery News — $1 Billion Factory In India, Sodium-Ion Batteries In China

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BYD is expanding its operations worldwide beginning with a new factory in India. How much longer before it targets the US market?

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RUMOR: Chinese Made Tesla “Model 2” Will Use BYD Blade Battery

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The internet is buzzing with rumors that Tesla is working on a smaller car that will use LFP blade batteries from BYD.

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BYD Targets Low- & Middle-Income Drivers, Goes All In On LFP Battery Technology

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BYD has introduced two new electric car models for the Chinese market and announced it will use only LFP batteries from now on.

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Tesla Adds Model Y Variant With BYD Blade Batteries In Germany

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Tesla will begin manufacturing a new version of the Model Y in Germany with a structural battery pack from BYD.

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