Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 04:05:51 +0000
CATL has begun manufacturing its second generation sodium ion batteries with full production expected in 2027.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 03:29:49 +0000
Globally, there are almost 700,000 battery electric buses in operation and perhaps 6,000 hydrogen buses. In Europe in 2023, about 6,400 new battery electric buses were registered vs. about 140 hydrogen buses. As I noted recently, there have are more hydrogen bus trials that have been abandoned than operational hydrogen … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 03:07:07 +0000
This is the fifth of a five-part series of articles (you can check the others here: part one: A segment/city cars, part two: B segment/subcompacts, part three: C segment/compacts, and part four: D segment/midsizers), where I look at the best affordable EVs in each size category. See the background for this … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 01:41:09 +0000
Xiaomi has just stormed into the electric vehicle arena, or “smart electric vehicle” arena, as several high-tech EV companies in China like to say. Yes, Xiaomi is mostly known for its smartphones — it’s second only to Samsung in annual production of smartphones. But as we’ve argued for years, giant … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:29:12 +0000
Electric air taxis are not going to take over transportation. In my humble opinion, our skies are not going to be full of small aircraft that look like giant bugs. We won’t have swarms of aircraft risking collision and devastating crashes into buildings. However, I do believe that electric air … [continued]
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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 14:24:42 +0000
Sales of the Honda Prologue, the company’s first battery electric SUV, have been brisk. What makes it so appealing to buyers?
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 12:20:03 +0000
A recent video from the Electric Cycle Rider channel on YouTube gives us a look at a really cool bike that you can get from Can-Am. Yes, that Can-Am! Normally, the name Can-Am makes people think of three-wheeled vehicles (two in the front, one in the back for stability), but … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Christopher Arcus| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 04:55:05 +0000
Recently, CleanTechnica has featured articles about the COSCO Greenwater 01, the world’s largest electric ship, a container ship now operating in China along the coast and on rivers. It uses containerized energy storage to swap batteries. China has also electrified rail, more electric buses than anywhere else in the world, and … [continued]
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Read moreCredit 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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