While ICE manufacturers keep harping on “range anxiety” and “lengthy charging times” to scare off potential EV buyers, it appears you may soon be charging your car in the same amount of time it takes to fill-up with gas. At this month’s Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, GBatteries demonstrated that it could charge a 60-kwh battery pack, made up…
A few years ago, there was a power outage in my neighborhood. Every house on the street was dark — except one. While the rest of us struggled to figure out how to cook dinner, Manfred Wissemann, proud owner of a Nissan Leaf sat in a well-lit room playing his piano as his daughter got the evening meal ready. A…
The minute many people hear the term “Lithium-ion Battery”, what comes to mind are those rechargeable Double A’s their kids interminably waited on to power their toys. And as soon as they see both the size of an EV battery and the attached components appearing freshly harvested from a desktop computer, they conclude that paying for years of gasoline purchases…
The Tesla Team, tesla.com/blog July 6, 2017 Last September, a 50-year storm damaged critical infrastructure in the state of South Australia, causing a state-wide blackout and leaving 1.7 million residents without electricity. Further blackouts occurred in the heat of the Australian summer in early 2017. In response, the South Australian Government as a leader in renewable energy,…
Fred Lambert, Electrek.co, June 9, 2017 Hyundai is having a lot of success with the all-electric version of the Ioniq EV, as we anticipated in our review. So much, that it now has production constraints, which it plans to solve within the next few months. The problem is reportedly related to the LG Chem battery pack supply and the Korean automaker now…
A massive 50 GWh battery factory project planned in Asia for next year Electrek.co, May 25, 2017 Tesla has the most ambitious plan with Gigafactory 1 having the same capacity as the entire industry at a single location, but the world will need 100 of those to transition to electric transport and renewable energy. A few other companies have now announced…
March 11, 2017 Tesla co-founder and Chief Technical Officer J.B. Straubel will be speaking at the sold-out BC Tech Summit taking place March 13-14, 2017 in Vancouver, BC. He is scheduled for Tuesday morning to present “Electric Vehicles and the Sustainable Energy Revolution.” From Wikipedia: Jeffrey Brian “JB” Straubel (born December 20, 1975) is part of the founding team and…
Rapidly falling prices of renewable energy are not just transforming the energy markets but disrupting them. Frank Rijsberman, Director-General, Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), Huffington Post In 2016, solar power became the cheapest form of energy in 58 lower income countries, including China India and Brazil. In Europe, in 2016, 86% of the newly installed energy capacity was from…
Fred Lambert, Electrek.co, February 8, 2017 Tesla confirmed in a statement to Electrek today that it plans to “pause” production for a week this month at the Fremont factory in order to install equipment for Model 3 production. The company doesn’t expect that it will affect its production for the first quarter 2017 since it “added production days to compensate.” There…
Fred Lambert, January 30, 2017 Profitable production of electric vehicles is highly important. Our capitalist society revolves around profitability and therefore, if electric vehicles are to prevail over gas-powered cars, they need to be profitable to manufacture in mass. A new study published this month by McKinsey & Company and embedded below looks into how automakers can move past producing EVs…
