Electric cars: China’s battle for the battery market
The headquarters of CATL, China’s fastest growing battery maker, lie on the edge of the city of Ningde, a stone’s throw from ponds where farmers raise carp and a street Continue Reading
The EV Myth – Electric Car Threat To Oil Is Wildly Overstated
At the outset of the 2014 oil collapse, slacking oil demand growth was often cited as a major contributor to the sharp decline in oil prices. In September 2014, the Continue Reading
Battery Pioneer Debuts New Fast-Charging Battery
The co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery has developed the first all-solid-state battery cells that could lead to safer, faster-charging and longer-lasting rechargeable batteries. John Goodenough, professor in the Cockrell School Continue Reading
Goodenough and UT team report new strategy for all-solid-state Na or Li battery suitable for EVs; plating cathodes
A team of engineers led by John Goodenough, professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery, has developed Continue Reading
Driving Hyundai’s electrified Ioniq line-up; cost-effective efficiency and dynamics
The Ioniq Hybrid offers up to the highest fuel economy in the US (up to 58 mpg / 4.05 l/100 km) for a non-plug-in vehicle and the Ioniq Electric is Continue Reading
Royal Dutch Shell places bet on hydrogen cars going mainstream
With the constant din of traffic noise from London’s M25 orbital motorway and the smell of diesel wafting in the air, Cobham service station in Surrey does not feel like Continue Reading
Is Big Oil Underestimating Autonomous Vehicles?
Companies like Tesla, Uber and Google have sparked a lot of interest in the roll out of autonomous vehicles (AVs), or driverless cars, and while it is still early days, Continue Reading
Exclusive: GM plans to build, test thousands of self-driving Bolts in 2018
General Motors Co plans to deploy thousands of self-driving electric cars in test fleets in partnership with ride-sharing affiliate Lyft Inc, beginning in 2018, two sources familiar with the automaker’s Continue Reading
Electric Car Sales Undaunted By Low Gasoline Prices
While oil and gasoline prices have traditionally determined the fate of electrified vehicle sales, plug-in vehicles are seeing other forces shaping global markets. When oil prices plunged in 2014, hybrid Continue Reading
Electric car boom spurs investor scramble for cobalt
Investors are buying up physical cobalt anticipating that shortages of the metal, a key component of lithium-ion batteries used in electrical cars, will spur prices to their highest levels since Continue Reading