Tag: battery
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‘Truly revolutionary’: Elon Musk hails Tesla battery breakthrough
Billionaire offers glimpse of EV firm’s attempts to develop more economical, more efficient battery cells at Tesla’s AGM Elon Musk claims Tesla engineers have achieved a”major breakthrough” in battery technologies, which he forecasts could dramatically cut manufacturing costs, boost the selection of vehicles and hasten the shift towards renewable energy. Among a raft of announcement…
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Tesla confirms its annual meeting and highly anticipated ‘battery day’ will be held in-person on September 22 at its Fremont factory (TSLA)
Tesla on Friday confirmed its delayed annual investor meeting will happen with an in-person event on September 22, but it doesn’t anticipate any “formal stockholder business” to occur. The company’s much awaited “battery day,” where it intends to show off its latest in electric powertrain prowess, will also happen the same day, it said in…
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GM Says It’s Developing EV Battery To Last 1 Million Miles
Not long after it had been shown that Tesla is edging nearer to making a million-mile electric automobile battery, General Motors has said it is on the verge of doing exactly the same. While speaking at a new online investor seminar, GM executive vice president Doug Parks disclosed that the automobile manufacturer is working on…
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Total and Opel Consider Gigafactory-Sized Battery Plants in France and Germany
French oil giant Total and European automaker Opel will collaborate having a maximum capacity of 48 gigawatt-hours, on electrical vehicle cell manufacturing. Complete, via its energy storage firm Saft, and Opel, part of France's Groupe PSA, will kick off the structure having an exploratory study and development pilot plant opening next season. Based on the…
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WoodMac: Volkswagen Will Be World’s Biggest Electric Car Maker by 2030
German automotive giant Volkswagen will grow to be the biggest manufacturer of EVs earlier 2030, according to new analysis from Wood Mackenzie. WoodMac anticipates Volkswagen to produce 14 million battery powered electric vehicles (BEVs) cumulatively by 2028, and climb out of its 2018 standing since the 10th biggest manufacturer to the very top of this worldwide…
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What a Year! 10 Stories That Propelled Energy Storage in 2019
For too long, the rhetoric around what storage can do for the grid vastly outweighed the actual doing. This year, the industry closed that gap more than ever before. Exceedingly few batteries actually live up to the vision of “storing clean power for when the sun isn’t shining.” Batteries perform miniscule adjustments to grid frequency,…
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California Seeks to Shift Major Battery Incentive Toward Fire, Blackout Resiliency
Within its background, California’s Self-Generation Incentive Program has been the state’s primary driver for distributed solar energy systems. And, over the last half-decade or thus, behind-the-meter batteries. Today California regulators are proposing a role for SGIP: giving backup methods that are battery-solar to those at risk of blackouts and wildfires. On Wednesday, the California Public…
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3 Trends That Shaped the Grid Edge in 2019
It isn&; rsquo;t simple to transform rsquo & into a century;s value of electricity infrastructure in the ground up, particularly in the face of firestorms. In return in 2019’s most important developments about the grid border — GTM's term for the port of the traditional utility enterprise with rooftop solar panels, behind-the-meter batteries, plug-in electric…
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Ford Mustang Mach-E all-electric SUV makes official debut
Ford has revealed the Mustang Mach-E, that’s the provider’s first bespoke powered SUV. This Tesla Model Y-competition is claimed to produce 337 PS in its existing range topping variant, though a complete GT version churning out 465 PS has been slated to make an official introduction in 2020. The Ford Mustang Mach-E relies on a…
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Watt It Takes: Form Energy’s Mateo Jaramillo on His Mission to Build Long-Duration Batteries
This week on Watt It Takes: Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch sits with Mateo Jaramillo, both the CEO and co-founder of Form Energy. Form is working on a new sort of battery that is long-duration life. And Mateo has among those longer-duration professions in the storage market. From the early 2000she set the first systems in…