Batteries Made From Recycled Materials “Better Than New”
Battery Materials says its recycled cathodes are better than new.
Electric Vehicles
Tracing The Ancestry of Today’s Electric Vehicles (Part 2)
This article is part of a short series on the history of EVs. You can find Part 1 here. The Tesla Roadster Both the compliance cars and the serious cars since 2010 have one big thing in common: they were forced into existence by pressure from the Tesla Roadster. Like … [continued]
Merchants Fleet Pivots To Help Fleet Managers Electrify Their Fleets
Fleet managers live and die by total cost of ownership calculations and are struggling to wrap their heads around the risks and opportunities that come with electrifying their fleets. Sales charts paint rosy pictures of typically higher up front vehicle prices offset by a long tail of savings in fuel … [continued]
Don’t Buy Another Gas Car!
If there are 50 different electric car models available this year, in two years, there will be 100 different models available.
Tracing The Ancestry of Today’s Electric Vehicles
Why I’m Writing This Ancestry, genealogy, pedigree, “tracing one’s roots” — whatever you want to call it, it’s a big hobby these days, and more than a hobby for others. Companies are charging anywhere from $50 to $200 to test a sample of your DNA and tell you where your … [continued]
The Road to Solid-State EVs — Part Two
By Jim Ringold “Solid state” is a very popular buzzword these days. Our topic in this series is solid-state electronics, electronic circuits built out of solid materials. In physics, it refers to the electromagnetic, structural, or thermodynamic properties of a solid. Electronic vehicle (EV) discussions also brings us to solid-state batteries … [continued]
Foxconn Intends To Become A Global EV Manufacturer
Foxconn wants to become a global manufacturer of electric vehicles. Is it being realistic?
Tesla Reports Record Q3 Earnings — RIP, Burning Shorts
Tesla announced its third-quarter 2021 earnings, and at the risk of sounding like a broken record, another record was broken. Tesla had $1.3 billion of operating cash flow for Q3. Tesla also paid its debts, as Elon Musk recently replied in response to one of our articles. That amount was … [continued]
The Invention of the Processing/Switching Power that Controls a Modern Computer-Managed Electric Vehicle
Three things. First this is an effort to describe Solid State EV’s in layman’s terms, no abbreviations that are not initially spelled out. The descriptions are simplistic and may not be technically perfect down in the weeds. Finishing this first segment is “solid state” 101. We are going to go back in solid state history and explain why an EV is even electronically possible.
Tesla Road Trips — When Charging Gets Weird
Originally posted on EVANNEX. By Charles Morris The Tesla road trip story has become a popular literary genre. You can find a couple dozen examples here in this column, and there are hundreds more videos and articles out there — new ones appear every week. Plugging a Tesla into a 50 AMP RV … [continued]
