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Revealed: General Motors battery guru explains why lithium – not hydrogen – is central to our EV future

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GM’s top EV battery guru, Andy Oury, believes we could switch to a hydrogen-based economy in the future, if we could build enough renewable energy to run it. You have to separate it, and so where are you going to get the energy to separate the hydrogen? But don’t expect it to happen any time soon. GM battery tech.

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Mercedes introducing EQB compact electric SUV in Shanghai

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The new EQB (length/width/height: 4684/1834/1667 millimeters) is closely related to two models in particular: to the EQA, whose advanced drive technology it shares, and to the GLB compact SUV. A battery guard in the front area of the battery is able to prevent the energy storage unit from being pierced by foreign objects.

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Volvo Cars to work with Northvolt to boost energy density in battery cells up to 50% compared to today in near-term; seeking 1000 Wh/l this decade

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Rapidly moving towards becoming a fully electric car company, Volvo Cars is bringing battery cell technology development and production closer to home and aims to tailor its future batteries to the needs of its customers: a longer range and faster charging times.

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GM reveals new Ultium batteries and flexible global platform for rapid growth of EV lineup

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This allows engineers to optimize battery energy storage and layout for each vehicle design. Flexibility: GM’s all-new global platform is flexible enough to build a wide range of trucks, SUVs, crossovers, cars and commercial vehicles with outstanding design, performance, packaging, range and affordability.

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Hybrid SUVs, Faraday downsizing, Tesla CA energy storage: Today's Car News

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Today, we look at why more SUVs and crossovers don't offer hybrid powertrains, Faraday Future scales back production plans, and three battery energy-storage sites come online in California, including one from Tesla. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Bowing to what seems.

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GE to Open Sodium-Metal Halide Battery Plant in New York

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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. The first application will be GE’s hybrid locomotive, which will be commercialized in 2010. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). We like that.

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Lux Research: battery electric vehicles will be less reliant on lightweighting by 2030

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A new report from Lux Research, Electric Vehicle Lightweighting 2030 , analyzes the future of vehicle lightweighting and necessary BEV success factors over the next decade. The vehicles were separated into two categories: sedans, which also includes hatchbacks and other small cars, and SUVs, which includes vans and utility vehicles.