May 23rd, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
General Motors says it is making good progress toward new batteries with higher energy density and lower costs. It will use pouch cells manufactured at a new factory shared with LG Chem in Lordstown, Ohio.
November 25th, 2019 | by Cynthia Shahan
A new Rocky Mountain Institute report released the end of October, Breakthrough Batteries Powering the Era of Clean Electrification, continues to confirm that clean electrification of transport technology is advancing at an impressive rate
May 16th, 2019 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
Tesla today announced the completion of its acquisition of the battery and supercapacitor company Maxwell Technologies. This has been on the cards since early February and is in line with the recent timeline given in Tesla's Q1 investor call. Maxwell's battery dry electrode manufacturing process has already been piloted by Tesla, and will allow significant battery cost reductions and energy density improvements
March 24th, 2019 | by Guest Contributor
Below is an excerpt fromInsane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil by Hamish McKenzie.*
May 30th, 2018 | by James Martin II
Australia has one of the highest rates of rooftop solar penetration in the world. This fact (combined with a few other factors detailed below) has arguably made Australia the biggest hot spot for home battery storage in the world — both in terms of hype as well as actual technology uptake
April 18th, 2018 | by Nicolas Zart
Reading, seeing, watching, or listening to what passes off as news these days can inevitably bring a sense of doom, uncertainty, and fear (FUD) that some politicians love to bathe in to justify their middlemen role and push whatever pet project they have for their business buddies. But there is also good quality news out there if you let independent journalists communicate what they know best, fields they master for the purpose of bringing more light to important matters
December 25th, 2017 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
Everyone knows that electric vehicles (EVs) are going to replace internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) in the long run. Many of us are excited about this key transition away from fossil fuels and hope that it comes sooner rather than later, yet are not sure exactly when the big breakthroughs in market share are going to happen. It is often stated that at battery prices of $100/kWh, EVs will successfully compete with ICEVs, but mainstream predictions about how and when this happens vary widely. In this in-depth article, we are going to look in more detail at the figures relevant to different vehicle segments, estimate the most probable timeline for feature and price parity in these segments, and offer a counterpoint to the more conservative timelines that we see from both incumbents (OPEC) and progressives (BNEF) alike. We know the EV disruption is real, since it is already well underway in the premium sedan segment
December 18th, 2017 | by James Ayre
While some auto manufacturers are apparently banking on the idea that electric vehicle battery prices will continue their recent price-decrease trend for quite some time to come, executives at Hyundai are expecting battery prices to level off around 2020 owing to component supply constraints, reportedly
May 25th, 2017 | by James Ayre
What are the 6 biggest changes that will be occurring in the mobility sector before the year 2030? Self-driving taxis (aka robotaxis)? V2V technology rollout? Wide-scale adoption of plug-in electric vehicles
November 13th, 2016 | by Guest Contributor
The arrival of Tesla Powerwall #1 on the Australian market was a Really Big Deal.
August 11th, 2016 | by Zachary Shahan
There’s a problem in human logic that creeps in on a regular basis, and that I would say always has [&hellip
October 20th, 2014 | by Zachary Shahan
After having it on my desktop for ages, I recently took a look at a Rocky Mountain Institute and Cohn [&hellip
October 13th, 2014 | by Giles Parkinson
RenewEconomy. (Note, all dollars are $US). The flow of analysis about battery storage from big-end investment banks continues apace. Last [&hellip
September 29th, 2014 | by James Ayre
You can expect to see the cost of storing electricity via lithium-ion battery cell systems fall drastically by the year [&hellip
