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Chinese researchers develop new alloy for on-board hydrogen production for fuel cells

Green Car Congress

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua University have used a gallium, indium, tin and bismuth alloy to generate hydrogen, when placed in contact with an aluminum plate immersed in water. In addition, the high cost of hydrogen transport is a key barrier to hydrogen utilization. In 2015, Zhang et al.

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Chinese catch-up: How Hyundai will chase down BYD, MG and GWM with cheaper electric vehicles in Australia

EV Central

While the Korean giant concedes it might not be able to directly price match its Chinese competitors, it says it’s confident its future product will shrink the gap, with the brand then relying on consumers deciding Hyundai and its brand heritage in Australia is worth a small price premium. Are the costs of raw materials dropping?

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Benchmark: lithium prices continue to rise

Green Car Congress

Lithium prices continued to rise in November, with Chinese battery-grade prices surpassing the RMB 200,000/tonne (US$31,395/tonne) mark, according to Benchmark’s Lithium Price Assessment. Source: Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.

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Chinese university develops new material to accelerate solid state battery production

Electrek

A team at University of Science and Technology of China has developed a new material that could potentially help lower the production costs of solid state lithium batteries and accelerate their commercialization into EVs.

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Chinese steel group Tsingshan investing $375M to build lithium plant in Argentina with Eramet

Green Car Congress

The competitiveness of the Eramet DLE process ranks it in the first quartile of the cash cost curve of the lithium industry (cash cost of c.$3,500/t Once filtered again and washed, it achieves the chemical quality of the finished product. 3,500/t LCE EXW), with large-scale drainable resources (nearly 10 Mt LCE).

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NIO to allow Chinese consumers to lock in EC7 orders starting Apr 10

CN EV Post

Their monthly battery rental costs are RMB 980 yuan, 1680 yuan and 1680 yuan respectively. NIO's NAD (NIO Autonomous Driving) feature will also be available for the EC7, and the full feature package will be available on a subscription basis at a cost of RMB 680 yuan per month. However, the software is not yet available.

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Tesla slashes costs of top rate fashions through 45,000 yuan (6,204 USD) in China

Baua Electric

On July 1, Tesla introduced on their Chinese language social media accounts that it short all of the Type S and Type X lineup costs. Type S and X deliveries began on March 27, and on Might 5, Tesla even confirmed some self assurance and raised the costs of each fashions through 19,000 yuan (2,600 USD).

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