Automakers embrace electric vehicles. But what about buyers?
The world's major automakers have made something abundantly clear: They believe electric vehicles will dominate their industry in the years ahead.
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The world's major automakers have made something abundantly clear: They believe electric vehicles will dominate their industry in the years ahead.
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Israeli company StoreDot recently announced it can now mass produce electric vehicle batteries that can be fully charged in just five minutes. "The bottleneck to extra-fast charging is no longer the battery," claimed the ...
Jan 27, 2021
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There are high hopes for the next generation of high energy-density lithium metal batteries, but before they can be used in our vehicles, there are crucial problems to solve. An international research team led by Chalmers ...
Jan 19, 2021
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Editor's note: MVS Chandrashekhar is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of South Carolina. In this interview, he explains how smoke detectors work and why they sometimes sound an alarm for what seems ...
Jan 8, 2021
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Scientists from Skoltech and Moscow State University (MSU) identified the type of electrochemical reaction associated with charge storage in the anode material for sodium-ion batteries (SIB), a new promising class of electrochemical ...
Jul 21, 2020
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Electric vehicles can help keep the air clean in our cities—as we've seen recently with the reduction of traffic through COVID-19 lockdowns—but they face two obstacles.
Jul 8, 2020
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Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have built a new type of battery that combines the many benefits of existing options while eliminating their key shortcomings and saving ...
Jul 7, 2020
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Commercial fast-charging stations subject electric car batteries to high temperatures and high resistance that can cause them to crack, leak, and lose their storage capacity, write engineers at the University of California, ...
Mar 12, 2020
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The challenge of building an energy future that preserves and improves the planet is a massive undertaking. But it all hinges on the charged particles moving through invisibly small materials.
Nov 21, 2019
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have reported a new mechanism to speed up the charging of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. Simply exposing the cathode to a beam ...
Oct 31, 2019
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