Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2009

GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt shows a sodium-metal halide battery cell at the press conference announcing the battery plant. GE says the planned facility will produce approximately 10 million sodium-metal halide cells each year—equivalent to 900 MWh of energy storage, or enough to support 1,000 GE hybrid locomotives.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 8, 2024

Lithium prices have fallen by about 80% since touching a peak in November 2022 as a slowdown in EV sales exacerbated a supply glut. Leading carmakers, however, are among those looking for new lithium supplies in anticipation of future demand.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

However, the use of silicon is limited by its tendency to expand significantly during charge and discharge, so graphite is expected to remain the main anode material for the foreseeable future. So all the workable batteries that are out there now use graphite on the anode side, and they will for—as we see it—the foreseeable future.

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