Tesla Sales, EV Sales In Europe & China, & Next-Gen Batteries! (Cleantech Talk Today #9)
Tesla had more news, as usual. We also had a lot of fun talking about the Chinese and European EV markets. And then: The Batteries.
QuantumScape
Volkswagen Deepens Ties To QuantumScape With New $100 Million Investment
Volkswagen announced this week it has invested $100 million into secretive solid state battery company QuantumScape. It hopes to have new batteries ready for production by 2025.
EV Battery Prices, Battery Lifetime, & Battery Breakthroughs (Cleantech Talk #7)
This week’s Cleantech Talk news episode is something like a “battery special.” Chris DeMorro and I talk about new research highlighting the fast-dropping price of electric vehicle batteries, the wide variation in the lifetimes of different lithium-ion cells, and VW’s stake in solid-state battery startup QuantumScape. We started off the show chatting about … [continued]
Volkswagen Set To Make Decision On Solid-State Technology From QuantumScape
The Volkswagen Group’s decision on what exactly to do with the solid-state energy storage technology currently under development by the company QuantumScape will be made sometime before July, according to a recent report from Bloomberg. That report — which cited the Chairman of the Board of Management, Professor Martin Winterkorn … [continued]
Watch These Potentially Low-Cost Solar Cells Grow Before Your Eyes
Researchers use perovskite and “hot casting” (no, it’s not what you think) to develop new low cost solar cells that could rival silicon for efficiency.
43 Battery Storage Companies To Watch
As I wrote in my piece on cleantech trends from 2014 and expected cleantech trends in 2015, the battery storage market is really blossoming. There are now quite a number of battery startups and battery departments within big corporations that seem to have promising products arriving on the market or soon to arrive … [continued]
Perovskite Plot Thickens Around VW’s New EV Battery “Stealth Attack” On Tesla
Just guessing, but we’ve uncovered some hints that a solid state EV battery using perovskite-like material is behind VW’s “disruptive” challenge to Tesla.
