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]
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]
One can analyze the differences between charging cases by examining the smallest unit of charging, the charging transaction, and comparing the cases. The charging transaction is a vehicle entering a station charge depleted and leaving with more charge. It is possible to use this transaction as a unit transaction in … [continued]
The following is a theoretical comparative analysis for vehicle(s) driving between stations. The values for number of packs per vehicle are comparative and not absolute. In the real world, cars are not charged solely at fast charging stations, and the number of fast charging stations per vehicles is much less … [continued]
A little while ago, the great CleanTechnica editor and famous man around what Steve Hanley calls the gold-plated CleanTechnica water cooler, Zach Shahan, mused, “I remember the Tesla fans trashing LFP battery chemistry! I could go on and on about how it was ridiculed and how Tesla fans claimed you … [continued]
Tell the truth. This is not the only autonomous failure. Electrek‘s Lambert has cut ties with Tesla permanently in part because the latest version of FSD is a joke. (And other reasons.) In recent tests, ArsTechnica wrote, “Tesla’s controversial ‘Full Self Driving’ is now capable of some quite advanced driving. … [continued]
A recent article by Zachary Shahan, “Largest Battery-Electric Container Ship Now Operating — You Know Where,” represents an interesting case study for electric shipping. It refers to earlier articles in which Michael Barnard reported on the case of the COSCO Green River 01 electric ship a year ago. The COSCO … [continued]
Continuing on from Part 1 of this series on electric car & truck charging, here is Part 2. More Power Required for Heavy-Duty Electric Truck Charging than for Cars Fast charging heavy electric trucks is a much different proposition than fast charging electric cars. Car charging stations are typically equipped … [continued]
Most of the heavy electric trucks on the road to date are in China. As of 2022, China sold 36,000 electric trucks, 91% of the total. No country other than China ever sold over 1,000 electric trucks in a year. In heavy electric trucks, China is by far the largest … [continued]
In the US, the “duck curve” is a California phenomena. It’s a change to the legacy way of operating generation on the grid. The last time there was a signifiant change, and all of this was predicted long before it happened, there was too much solar during the middle of … [continued]
