Electric vehicle advocates say the cars ultimately have a smaller carbon footprint than their fossil-fuelled counterparts and could resolve our energy concerns for good. Well, fair enough, but questions arise when we dig into the inner layers of electrical vehicles and see how sustainable their components are. In fact, the batteries that power electric vehicles ...
Chinese electric car battery maker CATL has signed a US$4.7 billion deal with German car manufacturer BMW to build an electric car battery manufacturing plant in the European nation to service its next generation of electric cars. The move also underlines China’s growing ambitions to dominate Europe’s electric car industry. CATL’s electric car battery manufacturing ...
As Tesla stock prices breached US$500 for the first time in history this month, market analysts have become quite bullish on the company’s prospects. One money manager even predicts that Tesla is going to hit US$6000 per share. Bullish view Colin Rusch of Oppenheimer raised his Tesla price target to US$612 and gave the stock ...
By 2040, almost 50 percent of cars on the road are projected to be electric. At present, China controls the global market in electric vehicles by monopolizing the manufacture and supply of batteries. Battery dominance in electric vehicles “In early 2019, there were 316 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of global lithium cell manufacturing capacity. China is home ...
Scientists have discovered a novel chemical state of the element manganese. This chemical state, first proposed about 90 years ago, enables a high-performance, low-cost sodium-ion battery that could quickly and efficiently store and distribute energy produced by solar panels and wind turbines across the electrical grid. This direct proof of a previously unconfirmed charge state ...
Lithium-ion batteries could be under threat after the development of polymer materials by the universities of Surrey and Bristol, along with Superdielectrics Ltd., that could challenge the dominance of these traditional batteries. Only one year ago, the partners announced scientific results for novel polymer materials that have dielectric properties 1,000 to 10,000 times greater than ...
As lawsuits mount over apple’s deliberate slow-down of old handsets, the company plans to replace all batteries in iPhone 6 devices and later. Some angry customers believe that the company purposefully degraded their product to drive customer upgrades — forcing people to buy newer models, as the older ones became unreasonably slower. Apple issued an unprecedented ...
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