At first, different countries themselves appointed separate milestones in the transition to electric vehicles, but recently targeted programs have been adopted by entire macroregions, and in many European countries, sales of new cars with internal...
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General Motors has announced that it will build a new cathode plant in North America that will produce battery components for electric vehicles. The plant, which is being built as part of a joint venture with South Korea’s Posco Chemical, will...
Many participants in the automotive market have recognized the price level of $ 100 per 1 kWh of battery capacity as a threshold, after which the spread of electric vehicles will grow at a higher pace. The current increase in prices for materials...
South Korean company LG Energy Solution has ambitious plans to expand into the global market for traction batteries for electric vehicles. Already occupying the second place, the company is actively expanding cooperation with car manufacturers. In...
After restyling this spring, Tesla Model S electric cars tried on a new entertainment system based on AMD processors, which the automaker itself has compared in performance to the latest generation of Sony’s gaming console. Now AMD Ryzen...
Tesla, Ford, GM and Volkswagen are to one degree or another involved in the production of traction batteries, as well as the development of their promising types. The South Korean concern Hyundai Motor makes it clear that it is not going to...
The UK has one of the most aggressive positions in the Old World over the timing of the phasing out of internal combustion engine vehicles: they will end in pure form by 2030, and hybrids have another five years of market presence. The...
It wasn’t until 2020 that GAC began experimenting with spongy graphene in lithium batteries, and this month the Chinese manufacturer announced that it would begin sales of the Aion LX Plus crossover in January next year, using this know-how to...
The world’s largest automaker, Toyota Motor Corporation, while showing a rather cool attitude towards battery electric vehicles, promises to present at least 15 new models of corresponding vehicles by 2025. Without its own battery production...
Soon, it will be difficult to find an electric vehicle manufacturer that does not cooperate with the Chinese traction battery manufacturer CATL, which has become the largest player in the global market over the years. In addition to Tesla and...
Nikola is preparing to offer its customers electric trucks with two types of power plant to choose from: both pure battery and equipped with hydrogen fuel cells. There are not so many categorical supporters of one type of drive or another among...
The upcoming transition to electric vehicles has forced researchers to work more actively on the creation of new types of traction batteries, and if someone succeeds in reporting an increase in charge storage density, others are focusing on...
Many of the world’s leading car manufacturers have already committed to converting a significant portion of their vehicles sold in 2030 to electric traction. For most of them, such a migration will cost a round sum – the costs for the...
A year ago, it became known about the intentions of the Chinese automaker GAC to begin testing electric vehicles based on batteries using graphene, which not only allow to increase the range, but also to speed up the charging process. It seems that...
The Nikola brand is best known for its hydrogen fuel cell truck tractor initiatives that require hydrogen to refill their range, but battery-powered electric trucks are also part of the company’s production plans. LG Energy Solution will...
The Republic of the Congo was still considered a major supplier of cobalt, but the production methods used confused many Western consumers. China has become the market leader for traction batteries also due to the rich local element base. Electra...
Chinese companies CATL and BYD are the largest manufacturers of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries, the first of which makes it the world leader in the production of traction batteries of all types. Korea’s SK On also expects to start...
As the third largest supplier of lithium batteries, Panasonic Corporation remains Tesla’s top partner. Together, they produce traction batteries at a plant in Nevada, Japanese specialists have almost completed preparations for the mass...
British startup ZipCharge has unveiled an innovative product for mobile charging of electric vehicles called ZipCharge Go, which is essentially a huge power bank. The novelty will allow users of cars on electric traction to always carry with them a...
Currently, the Korean company SK innovation is content with the fifth place in the global traction battery market with a share of just over 5%. In fact, this means that it is capable of producing batteries with an aggregate capacity of no more than...
