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This E-Bike Is Powered By Discarded Single-Use Vape Batteries

November 21, 2024 admin batteries, bicycles, clean transport, electric bikes, electric micromobility, Energy Storage, lithium-ion batteries, micromobility, recycling, repurpose

Credit to Author: Derek Markham| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 22:00:22 +0000

And now for something completely different… A creative YouTuber recently picked up a whole bunch of discarded single-use (disposable) vapes at a music festival, disassembled them, and then used their battery cells to build a functional e-bike battery pack. As lithium-ion batteries get smaller and cheaper, their inclusion into more … [continued]

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Core Battery Fundamentals

November 20, 2024 admin batteries, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, lithium-ion batteries

Credit to Author: Christopher Arcus| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:50:41 +0000

Modern electric vehicle batteries began with lithium-ion batteries, originally applied to portable electronics and other portable applications. Batteries based on sodium have now been developed. These batteries have something in common. They all use intercalation. Intercalation simply means that charged compounds are physically stuffed in between the gaps in materials. … [continued]

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Lithium Brine Breakthrough Or Not, Thacker Pass Is Happening

November 19, 2024 admin batteries, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, energy innovation, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev battery research, geothermal, geothermal brine, geothermal brine lithium, green economy, lithium, lithium brine extraction, lithium-ion batteries, nevada, thacker pass, us department of energy (doe), usa

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:05:45 +0000

New lithium mines will plug a gaping hole in the US EV battery supply chain until more sustainable, alternative sources emerge.

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Hot Deal: Save Up To 52% On BLUETTI Portable Power Stations

November 19, 2024 admin batteries, bluetti, consumer technology, Energy Storage, portable power stations

Credit to Author: GearTechnica| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:50:30 +0000

From now until November 28th, you can save up to 52% on BLUETTI’s portable power stations during the company’s Black Friday Sale, so whether you want to prepare for home power outages, provide clean and quiet electricity for your off-grid adventures, or add some resiliency and capacity to your RV, … [continued]

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CATL Founder’s Comments Tell Us Something About Tesla–CATL Relationship & Tesla–China Relationship

November 17, 2024 admin batteries, catl, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, Energy Storage, lithium-ion batteries, tesla

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:25:08 +0000

I have to admit — I wrote the article about CATL founder Robin Zeng’s comments on Elon Musk and Tesla batteries quite late last night, and I did not fully tease out what those comments meant. One of our readers, “Pitounet,” did a much better job of that in this … [continued]

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CATL Founder Burns Elon Musk

November 17, 2024 admin batteries, catl, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, Energy Storage, INTERVIEWS, lithium-ion batteries, tesla

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 04:51:31 +0000

I was reading through Steve’s article on CATL’s fascinating new move into producing EV platforms and CATL founder Robin Zeng’s take on solid-state batteries. Then, way down at the bottom, I got to Zeng’s comments about discussions with Elon Musk. Holy cow — there were some jaw droppers there! I’m … [continued]

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CATL Prepares To Add Grid Storage & EV Platforms To Its Portfolio

November 16, 2024 admin batteries, catl, clean power, clean transport, Electric vehicles, elon musk, Energy Storage, green economy, lithium-ion batteries, Solar energy, tesla, vehicle to grid

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 23:28:17 +0000

Robin Zeng,. the founder and CEO of CATL, explained recently that he plans to take the company in important new directions.

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BYD Leadership Shining, EV Sales Booming, Toyota Nonsense — 10 Top Cleantech Stories

November 16, 2024 admin batteries, byd, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica top 10, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev sales, green economy, green jobs, grid, Joe Biden, Manufacturing, policy & politics, Smart Grid, Solar energy, toyota

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:15:14 +0000

Quite a lot has happened in the past 10 days. Aside from the demented elephant getting back into the china shop, there are various big stories you may have missed, or (like me) would just benefit from being reminded of. Scroll down below for the stories and some commentary. Note … [continued]

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The Domestic EV Supply Chain Is Getting A Big Dose Of Synthetic Graphite

November 14, 2024 admin artificial graphite, batteries, bipartisan infrastructure law, China, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev supply chain, graphite, Joe Biden, lithium-ion batteries, panasonic energy storage, startups, stellantis, synthetic graphite

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 03:00:44 +0000

Stellantis is the latest US electric vehicle stakeholder to firm up its EV supply chain with synthetic graphite produced in Tennessee.

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Solar Leader Enphase Energy Cutting 500 Jobs

November 12, 2024 admin bankruptcy, batteries, Business, California, charging, distributed energy, Electric vehicles, enphase energy, evs, job cuts, layoffs, news, renewable energy, Renewables, Solar, sunpower, vpps, workforce

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:02:58 +0000

California-based Enphase Energy, a company known for its solar power and electric vehicle (EV) charging technology, announced it is laying off about 500 workers. The company in a Nov. 8 […]

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