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Charging EVs At Home Overnight May Not Be The Cheapest Option For Much Longer
Researchers at Stanford University say that recharging electric vehicles at home overnight will begin to stress the grid by late this decade unless energy-generation capacity is increased. JAMES LIPMA...
China Adds A New Energy Storage Billionaire
Shenzhen Hello Power went public at the Shenzhen Stock Exchange today. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty … [+] Images) VCG via Getty Images China, home to the world’s largest number of billionaires af...
Rotary Club Collecting E-Waste To Help JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials Make EV Batteries
Redwood Materials employees start the recycling process for an old automotive battery pack. Redwood Materials Redwood Materials, a battery recycling and materials company started by Tesla cofounder JB...
Toyota Is Upping Its EV Game to Catch GM, Ford, and Tesla
Text size An all-electric 2023 BZ4X from Toyota. The company sold only 14,000 all-electric vehicles in 2021. Courtesy of Toyota The automotive giant Toyota Motor is starting to pivot away from hybrid ...
California’s Lithium Rush For EV Batteries Hinges On Taming Toxic, Volcanic Brine
The southeast tip of California’s Salton Sea is home to 11 geothermal power plants that turn hot volcanic brine into clean electricity. Getty Images The Salton Sea region has one of the world’s ...
ChargePoint Earnings Are Today. What to Expect.
Text size ChargePoint has grown sales faster than it expected. Bing Guan/Bloomberg ChargePoint has had a flurry of good news. That raises the bar for the electric-vehicle charging company’s quarterly ...
EV Charging-Station Operators Set to Battle for Ad Dollars
The next battleground in the fight for U.S. marketers’ advertising dollars may be charging stations used by the growing number of Americans who own electric or hybrid plug-in vehicles. ChargePoint Hol...
Toyota Exec Says Lack Of Consumer Demand Makes U.S. Goal Of 50% Electric Vehicles By 2030 A Long Shot
The Toyota bZ4X represents the first of a global series of Battery Electric Vehicles to be … [+] introduced under the global “Toyota bZ” brand umbrella. Photo: Toyota It’s unlikely mass adoption...
Nikola to Buy Battery Maker Romeo Power for $144 Million
Listen to article (2 minutes) Electric-truck startup Nikola said it has agreed to buy battery-technology company Romeo Power in an all-stock deal that values Romeo at roughly $144 million. Nikola said...
Are Software-Limited Features Like BMW Heated Seats Or Tesla Limited Batteries Good For The Customer?
Switch to activate the heater in the car seats. This could also be on a touchscreen getty There’s been some uproar over BMW’s recent offering of heated seats in your car for an $18/month subscription....
Volkswagen-backed Northvolt to develop wood-based batteries for EVs
This image from 2007 shows logs and wood chips outside a Stora Enso paper mill in Finland. The firm says it’s “one of the largest private forest owners in the world.” Suzanne Plunket...
Ford Makes Major Commitment To CATL Lithium Iron Phospate EV Batteries
Ford reinforces plan for 600,000 annual EV run rate by end of 2023 Ford It’s no secret in the auto industry that in order to meet the commitments that manufacturers have for EV production this decade ...
CATL Might Bring Battery Capacity to America With Mexico Plant, Report Says.
Text size Contemporary Amperex Technology is the largest and most valuable battery maker. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg The electric-vehicle battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology might be readying its ...
Hive Batteries From 10 Million Nissan Electric Cars Could Power Whole U.K.
Nissan Leaf photographed at Electric Avenue and Brixton Road in Lambeth, London. (Photo by Charlie … [+] Crowhurst/Getty Images for Nissan) Getty Images for Nissan The proliferation of electric ...
Tesla, Ford, and GM’s Plan to Unlock EV Battery Capacity
Text size Panasonic will put up an EV battery plant in Kansas. It’s the latest of a long list of planned battery plants coming to North America. David Becker/Getty Images Lithium batteries are t...
Tesla’s Long-Time Partner Panasonic Building $4 Billion EV Battery Plant In Kansas
Panasonic’s new Kansas battery plant will be among the largest in the U.S. Panasonic Energy Panasonic, Tesla’s main battery manufacturer and a key investor since the company’s earliest days, say...
NIO conducts own probe into Grizzly short-seller report, retains forensic accounting firm
NIO Inc. said Monday that it has formed a committee to look into recent allegations that the China-based electric vehicle maker is using an affiliate battery maker to boost financial results. Short-se...
Texas cryptocurrency miner to use power from batteries to support grid stability
Cryptocurrency infrastructure provider Lancium has partnered with Houston-based power producer Broad Reach Power, according to a July 7 statement. As part of the deal, Broad Reach will supply power fo...
Toyota Partners With Tesla Cofounder’s Redwood Materials To Recycle Prius, EV Batteries
Redwood Materials cofounder and CEO JB Straubel speaks during the 2022 CERAWeek conference in Houston on March 10, 2022. Aaron M. Sprecher/Bloomberg Redwood Materials, a battery recycler created by Te...
Why QuantumScape investors are still waiting for new EV batteries
A solid-state battery development lab for QuantumScape. QuantumScape The electric vehicle space has seen a handful of impressive stock market debuts in recent years, but battery start-up QuantumScape&...
Tesla Needs Batteries. This Buffett-Backed EV Maker to Supply Them ‘Very Soon.’
Text size BYD launched its Blade battery in 2020. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg BYD shares rose on Wednesday after the Chinese electric vehicle maker said it was preparing to supply batteries to Tesla. “We are...
Vietnam’s Vingroup Teams Up With Intel To Use IoT Technology In Electric Vehicles And Batteries
A VinFast VF 5 electric vehicle is displayed at the VinFast booth at CES 2022 at the Las Vegas … [+] Convention Center on January 5, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Alex Wong/Getty Images Vingroup, t...
Freyr Battery Gains as Analyst Calls It a Top Pick. The Stock Could Quadruple.
Text size Freyr can be a serious battery player in years to come, says Morgan Stanley’s Adam Jonas. FREYR Stock in Norwegian battery start-up Freyr Battery is getting a boost from a new bullish ...