If you’ve tried to drive between the LA metro area and Las Vegas in the last couple of days, you probably didn’t have a very good time. A truck carrying a 75,000 lb container with lithium-ion battery cells inside got into an accident and the cells went into thermal runaway. … [continued]
1,200 GWh per year of battery cells would be enough cells for at least 12 million new EVs annually. Argonne National Laboratory projects that battery cell production in North America will exceed 1,200 GWh of capacity by 2030. That is enough to supply 12 to 15 million new EVs annually … [continued]
BMW has increased its orders for electric car batteries and unveiled a concept it says is 100% recyclable.
Institutional investors Baillie Gifford, Baron Capital Group, Bridford Investments Limited, Norrsken VC & PCS Holding participate in a $600 million private placement together with private investors Cristina Stenbeck and Daniel Ek.
We get a lot of flack here at CleanTechnica for being Tesla fanboys, but in reality, we are just a bunch of clean technology nuts that love the things Tesla has done, is doing, and is expected to do out into the future.
Tesla will be holding a Battery Investor Day sometime soon. What sort of news can we expect?
Of course, we could just wait and see instead of idly speculating, but what fun would that be?
Munro & Associates in Auburn Hills, Michigan, is in the business of taking cars apart. The company’s teardown reports reveal the juicy details of every single component — how they work, where they came from, and how much they cost. Automakers pay sizable sums for these reports, in order to figure out what their competitors are up to. Sandy Munro’s 2018 teardown of a Tesla Model 3 delivered some important insights into the California carmaker’s strengths and weaknesses. What about other electric cars?
