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General Motors increases EV investment by 75% through 2025

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General Motors has increased its electric vehicle investment by 75%, from $20 billion to $35 billion through 2025, the company announced on Wednesday. kWh lead-acid battery in its earliest versions. ” The post General Motors increases EV investment by 75% through 2025 appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Lithium-ion battery recycler ABTC expands operations and capacity with newly purchased facility

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This approximately 137,000 square foot facility is currently vacant and was previously used for the recycling of lead-acid batteries, and as such is already designed and permitted for similar operations.

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General Motors India And REVA Form Partnership To Develop Electric Vehicles for Indian Market

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General Motors India and Reva Electric Car Company (REVA) have entered into a collaboration agreement to develop electric vehicles for the Indian market. The agreement was announced jointly by Karl Slym, president and managing director, General Motors India and Chetan Maini, deputy chairman and chief technology officer, REVA.

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New A123 Systems LLC emerges

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A123 Systems LLC is targeting three core business areas: transportation, electric grid and lead-acid replacement. Lead-Acid Replacement. We’d also like to thank Dave Vieau for his years of dedication and service to A123. —Pin Ni, president of Wanxiang America. Transportation. Electric Grid.

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Revamping an Art Deco Masterpiece

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Even before the introduction of the General Motors EV1 in 1996, it was clear that if we’re ever going to replace cars powered by fossil fuels with electric vehicles, we’ll need batteries that take and deliver charge reliably in both hot and cold climates.

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The influencer

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Early EV1 adopter While at graduate school in electrical engineering at Cornell University in Ithica, New York, Cox heard about the GM Impact , an electric vehicle (EV) program that General Motors had with Hughes Aircraft, a firm it had recently purchased. “I I kept asking GM people when the car was going into production.

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NYSERDA Commits $8M to Develop and Commercialize 19 New York Battery and Energy-Storage Technology Projects

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Advanced separator for valve-regulated lead-acid batteries. General Motors. College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany. Electrolytes to improve the performance of ultra-capacitors. Hollingsworth & Vose, Co. City University of New York. Cornell University. Impact Technologies.