Rivian wants police departments and first responders to use its upcoming electric trucks and it is planning to make them comfortable with seats designed for people who are carrying a gun. Over the last few years, we have seen several police departments test electric vehicles as part of their fleet and even some have started […]
Lithium News
US-Based XNRGI Opens Lithium-Ion Battery Factory in Gurugram
United States-based XNRGI has announced that the company has opened a high temperature (HT) lithium-ion battery factory in Gurugram in India that can produce 240 MWh of battery production capacity. The factory will be spread across 45,000 square feet of land. According to the company statement, “The factory has begun production of its HT Mobility […]
Li-Cycle delivers first batch of recycled battery materials
Canada’s Li-Cycle recycling company announces that it has completed its first commercial shipment of recycled battery materials. The firm says it can recover over 80 per cent of the elements found in lithium-ion batteries. The first batch of recycled materials has been extracted at Li-Cycle’s facility in Ontario, Canada, and prepared for re-delivery. The materials […]
The Atom Switch Enables Intelligent EV Charging Without The EVSE
Atom Power’s solid state Atom Switches offer the functionality of a circuit breaker on the surface, but their real potential stretches far beyond the breaker panel. One exciting application of the Atom Switch is to replace the electric vehicle service equipment, commonly called an electric vehicle charger. An electric vehicle charger is essentially just an […]
The Electric Car Cost Tipping Point
One of the most interesting and most challenging things in my career in cleantech media in the past decade has been communicating technology transitions. It is simply so difficult for us humans to deeply comprehend (or “digest”) the arc of the trends as they are occurring. Even a rapid market transition seems like it is […]
Electric trucks deliver engineering and production jobs to Detroit
The next electric vehicle you come in contact with may not be an exotic gull-winged Tesla X, sleek Mustang Mach-E or flashy 1,000-horsepower GMC Hummer. Odds are increasing it’ll be a boxy delivery van or a school bus, and that it was engineered or built in Detroit. There’s a gold rush going on to produce […]
To go electric in Europe, Ford needs Volkswagen’s affordable MEB EV platform
Ford’s electrification strategy to meet European CO2 standards is mostly about hybrids. The list includes a plug-in hybrid Kuga crossover, conventional hybrid sedans, and mild hybrids for popular small cars, like the Fiesta, Focus, and Puma. But this doesn’t mean Ford doesn’t have EVs in the works. The UK’s Business Car website reported today that […]
New Filtering Process Could Speed Up Lithium Production
Lithium is fairly abundant in nature, but getting large quantities suitable for use in battery cells is a slow and expensive process. Researchers at Monash University, CSIRO, the University of Melbourne, and the University of Texas at Austin say they have devised a new way of filtering lithium brine that speeds up the process dramatically […]
Cleveland Cyclewerks’ US-built 85 mph Falcon electric motorcycle, unveiled
For months now, we’ve been following the leaks and teasers around Cleveland Cyclewerks’ upcoming new Falcon electric motorcycle. And today we’re finally getting the full scoop as the Ohio-based motorcycle company pulls the sheet off their first electric motorcycle. The Cleveland Falcon is actually available as two different models: The pared-back Falcon 01 and the […]
How Much Does Climate Control Affect EV Range?
In Michigan, winter hasn’t quite loosened its grip yet, holding on to the cold and cloudy skies like a curmudgeonly old man. Naturally, our first instinct when we climb into a cold car is to crank up the heat. However, in electric vehicles, such as our long-term Model 3 Long Range, turning on the heat […]
