electric vehicle battery
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A Michigan Startup Retrofitted A Tesla Model S With A Battery That More Than Doubles Its Range
While Tesla is busy shouting about how awesome its new Model S is with 604 km of range, and then under-delivering in real world testing, Our Next Energy, a startup in Southeast Michigan is retrofitting its own batteries into and older Model S and doing a road trip more than double that without charging. While…
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Cobalt Is the New Oil
The U.S. and China may be on a collision course over scarce resources, the fallout of which could have a massive impact on developing countries.
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The Best New Electric Car Is A Tiny Little Beast That Can Swap Batteries In 3 Minutes
Almost all the mainstream EVs on the market are sleek, fast, high-tech-looking things with operating ranges of about 322 km or more. And while all of those are desirable traits, they don’t really do you a hell of a lot of good when you’re crawling through city traffic at 43 km/h or stuck at a…
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Solid State Batteries Could Deliver The EVs We Imagine But Carmakers Ought To Be Realistic
We’re going to need an offshoot of Moore’s Law that applies to EV batteries soon, because progress is on the verge of rapidly accelerating thanks to solid state batteries.