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Watch The Kia EV2 Take On A Brutal Winter Range Test And Win
1+ hour, 27+ min ago (532+ words) The Kia EV2 is the latest and smallest model to join the Korean automaker's electric lineup. Even if it's small, it still promises to deliver across all key areas where EVs are expected to perform well today, including maintaining as much…...
China’s Next Safety Target May Be Yoke Steering Wheels
2+ day, 48+ min ago (347+ words) The days of the steering yoke in cars could be numbered in China after the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) published a draft for a new safety standard. It makes validating a yoke in a passenger car…...
How Does This Chinese EV Offer 620 Miles Of Range? The Secret Is A New Battery Chemistry
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (381+ words) Even though traditional lithium-ion batteries are firmly in the lead as the default power source for electric vehicles, alternative chemistries are rapidly advancing to make EVs drive further, charge faster and last longer. And the pace of that progress is…...
People Were Already Mad About The Ferrari EV. Then We Saw The Interior
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (143+ words) Ferrari still hasn't revealed the full design of the Luce, though. The company said last year that it will have a three-phase launch of the car, though, and this appears to be phase two. Phase three should be the full…...
A California Company Just Kicked Off Solid-State Battery Pilot Production. Now Comes The Hard Part
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (943+ words) Now comes the next big challenge: proving that its batteries can be cranked out at scale." On Wednesday, QuantumScape took a significant step toward commercializing its tech by kicking off pilot battery production at its San Jose offices.This is…...
The World’s First Sodium-Ion Battery EV Is A Winter Range Monster
1+ week, 2+ day ago (226+ words) The launch represents a major step in the industry's transition toward a dual-chemistry ecosystem, where sodium-ion and lithium-ion batteries complement each other to meet diverse customer needs," CATL said in a press release. CATL Sodium Ion Battery It's a meaningful…...
Is The World's First Solid-State Battery EV Already Delayed?
1+ week, 3+ day ago (117+ words) Estonian manufacturer Verge Motorcycles and Finnish start-up Donut Lab shocked the automotive industry'at the Consumer Electronics Show this year, announcing what they claimed was the world's first production-ready all-solid-state battery. Verge Motorcycles TS Pro General Motors' Strategy For Building Cheaper…...
A Tesla Model 3 Sat Overnight At -33°F. Charging And Efficiency Took A Huge Hit
1+ week, 4+ day ago (514+ words) Modern EVs can handle extreme temperatures just as well as any other type of car. In fact, electric cars have the upper hand simply because you can easily precondition the interior to make it warm or cold before you get…...
CATL Says Ultra Fast Charging Won’t Kill Its New Battery
1+ week, 6+ day ago (339+ words) CATL says its new 5C batteries will retain 80% of their capacity after 1,400 charge-discharge cycles at 140F (60C). With a theoretical range of 372 miles (600 km) per cycle, that works out to a total of 522,000 miles (840,000 km) in what CATL describes as "Dubai summer heat....
Americans Are Warming Up To Robotaxis, But Only When They Show Up In Their Cities
2+ week, 17+ hour ago (186+ words) Several U.S. cities are bracing for a wave of robotaxi deployments in the months and years ahead. Alphabet-owned Waymo plans to enter 11 new cities this year, while Tesla said in its earnings report this week that it is preparing to launch…...