GM & LG Energy Commit To Second Battery Factory In Tennessee
GM has already started reconfiguring its Tennessee factory to build electric cars. Now it has announced a new battery factory in partnership with LG Energy Solution next door.
Batteries
Secretary Granholm Shows The Joe Biden Administration Is Focused On Core Electric Vehicle Matters That…
We cover every angle and every corner of the electric vehicle market. We’ve done so for years. I’ve been calling the 2020s the decade of batteries and the decade of autonomy, because I think these are the two most important portions of the transportation market in the coming years. Tesla … [continued]
Volkswagen Announces ID.4 GTX, Doubles Battery Pack Production
Volkswagen says its performance ID based cars will carry the GTX logo. It is doubling the production of battery packs at its Braunschweig factory.
VW Vehicle-To-Grid Is 15 Years Too Early, Except Maybe In Texas
While I think that of the major vendors, VW is most likely to thrive in the transition to fully electric vehicles, its vehicle-to-grid offerings are so early that they are best thought of as an experimental platform.
Volkswagen’s EV Plans, European EV Sales Trends, & EV Charging in Europe — CleanTech Talk
I recently sat down with Viktor Irle and Jose Pontes of EV Volumes to talk about Volkswagen Power Day, EV batteries, EV charging in Europe, and EV market share in Europe. To listen to our chat and their expert take on those topics, you can click play on the embedded … [continued]
Lithium Demand & Supply Forecasts For The US & China, Tesla & Volkswagen — Listen…
A look at trends in the lithium industry, including forecasts for Tesla and reactions to Volkswagen Power Day.
DeepGreen CEO Gerard Barron Opens Up About DeepGreen’s Open Letter to BMW & Other Brands
Recently, DeepGreen penned an open letter to BMW, Volvo, Google, and other brands about the importance of seafloor minerals and approached extraction cautiously with an exacting commitment to science-based impact analysis and environmental protection. I also interviewed DeepGreen’s CEO, Gerard Barron, via email last year. Yesterday, I had the pleasure … [continued]
Will Tesla Gigafactory 6 Be Giga Shanghai 2?
Giga Shanghai is now producing the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y. But not all the parts that Tesla likes to produce itself are yet produced in Shanghai. Idra Group mentioned in a press release that there are now two giga presses in production. We know of two at work … [continued]
Analysis of My Tesla Financial Model on GitHub
Yesterday, I got some good feedback on my post about releasing a Tesla Financial Model on GitHub*. It occurred to me an analysis of my Tesla financial model would be useful. I can’t expect everyone to download it. I was able to work and create a simple macro that copied … [continued]
3 Years of $0 Charging, “Tesla 2 S-3-X-Y 4 My Shirt” Lineup Proposal, Jackery Explorer…
The most popular CleanTechnica stories of the past two weeks were led by my thoughts on $0 spent charging after nearly 3 years with only electric cars. Next up was, frankly, a joke. But I also sort of wish Elon would make that the Tesla lineup. And then there’s the … [continued]
