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Electric Vehicles, Batteries, & Chargers Seeing Rapid Growth

May 10, 20188 years Matt Pressman 0 Comments

Once considered an inconsequential niche in the automotive market, electric vehicles are becoming more widespread. And it’s not just all the new plug-in options available today — EV batteries and charging stations are also proliferating around the globe. To that end, some tell-tale charts (recently published via Statista) demonstrate the trajectory of the electric vehicle movement and who might be best positioned to win the EV race in the coming years.

Tesla #1, BYD #2, Nissan #3 In EV Battery Sales (Within Cars)

August 20, 201610 years James Ayre 0 Comments

Originally published on EV Obsession. The electric vehicle battery market remained more or less recognizable during June 2016. The most recent figures from Jose Pontes show that Tesla/Panasonic has maintained a huge lead in the #1 spot, as one would expect; that BYD has maintained a comfortable 2nd place position; and that Nissan … [continued]

Panasonic Dominates EV Battery Cell Production Rankings … With Gigafactory On Horizon

July 31, 201610 years Zachary Shahan 0 Comments

José Pontes — founder of EV Sales, cofounder of EV Volumes, regular contributor to CleanTechnica and EV Obsession, and regular speaker on our Cleantech Revolution Tour circuit — has just rounded up some global EV battery cell production numbers for the first half of 2016. The thing about looking at electric car sales … [continued]

Electric Car Prices, Specs, & Other Details In One Spot

December 20, 201510 years Zachary Shahan 26 Comments

On numerous occasions, I have wanted to know and share some specs or other info regarding production electric cars and EV batteries but had a hard time finding what I was looking for — either because it was buried on the manufacturer’s site, not on there at all and hard to find in … [continued]

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Bosch + GS Yuasa “On Target” To Offer Lithium-Ion Batteries With Twice The Energy Density…

July 15, 201511 years James Ayre 18 Comments

Originally published on EV Obsession. With Tesla’s Gigafactory apparently now set to end up far larger than was originally reported, others in the race towards dominance of the lithium-ion battery industry are apparently unwilling to keep silent either, based on recent comments from the head of Bosch Japan. Bosch and … [continued]

10 Biggest Electric Car Battery Manufacturers Are…

May 6, 201511 years James Ayre 12 Comments

Originally published on EV Obsession. Those interested in tracking the state of the electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing market will likely be interested in taking a look at the chart and table below — which provide a fair amount of data on the market as pertaining to consumer electric car batteries (not … [continued]

Electric Vehicle Battery Makers — Full 2014 Sales Figures

February 22, 201511 years James Ayre 17 Comments

Editor’s Note: To someone who doesn’t follow electric vehicles and renewable energy closely, I imagine the battery storage market is one of the most boring things around. To anyone who is into these cleantech industries, however, battery storage is probably the hottest topic out there. It is for me. This … [continued]

Top Electric Car & Clean Transport Stories Of The Week

June 29, 201313 years Zachary Shahan 9 Comments

Naturally, we spent the week covering the top electric car stories of the week — check out those 24 stories here. In addition to those stories, here are 6 more top electric car stories, a bike story, an electric bus story, and a rail story worth a read: Electric Cars … [continued]

Lithium-Ion Battery Market to Grow 700% by 2017, New Report Finds

March 14, 201214 years Zachary Shahan 3 Comments

Pike Research has just come out with a new market research report, “Electric Vehicle Batteries.” The report, which ranks what it thinks are the top 10 Lithium-ion battery companies, finds that market revenue for Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries for transportation (EVs and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles) “will grow over 700%, from $2.0 billion annually in … [continued]