There has been a lot of progress in the electric vehicle industry over the past ten years. Ten years ago, the Nissan Leaf was one of the few mass production fully electric vehicles on the market. It had a 24 kWh battery pack that was good for about 140 km … [continued]
It’s the end of another month, and thus another opportunity to look back at the most popular CleanTechnica stories of the month — as well as the most popular stories of the past week. Let’s start with the past week, which saw an intellectual bombing of the “hydrogen economy” scam, … [continued]
Originally published on Transport & Environment. By Sam Hargreaves An electric vehicle (EV) battery uses up just 30kg of raw materials with recycling compared to the 17,000 litres of petrol burned by the average car. That’s according to a new study that shows Europe’s current crude oil dependency far outweighs its … [continued]
One of India’s leading renewable energy companies has secured approval to set up production facilities for solar cells and modules and lithium-ion batteries. ReNew Power had submitted proposals to set up a solar cell and module production facility with 2–4 gigawatts per annum capacity and another facility to produce lithium-ion … [continued]
Welcome to China × Cleantech — January 2021 edition. Our China x Cleantech series covers top cleantech stories in China each month. Happy 牛 Year! I hope your Spring festival went well, Happy 牛 (NIU) Year. EV Sales China — 9.4% Plugin Vehicle Share In Another Record Month On the 28th of … [continued]
One of the biggest issues EV naysayers and fossil fuel shills bring up is the future of each and every EV. “What are we going to do with all of those batteries?” they ask. The more informed shills know that they’re asking a disingenuous question, but many other people buy … [continued]
The 300 MW/450 MWh Victoria Big Battery will use Tesla Megapack energy storage system.
Perhaps Tesla was smart to get rid of its press people. When Tesla builds a new factory, people go out with their drones and post pictures on Twitter. Everyone spreads them around, and the EV writers (like me) all go on the EV news sites (like this one you’re looking … [continued]
Hyundai says it will replace the batteries in its Kona EV due to a risk of fire and is switching to SKI to supply batteries for its Ioniq 5.
Hyundai recently announced that it will be replacing the battery packs in around 76,000 Kona EVs. The problem? Batteries from LG Chem are catching fire. People worried that GM would have to do the same thing to solve Bolt EV battery fires, but it turns out that the batteries are … [continued]
