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May 17, 2024
Clever: Amazon Doesn't Charge Its Fleet of Rivian Vans During the Day
Rivian has been inspired enough not to enter the electric sedan market. As a young automaker, it had to target the most profitable and popular auto segments – SUVs and pickup trucks. Besides making the right electric vehicles from the get-go, it also decided to create battery-powered vans. That helped it survive its most challenging era: the official beginning of it all. Now, Amazon shows us how the zero-tailpipe emission van is changing the delivery game.
May 3, 2024
Electrify America Steps In After Tesla Gives Up on Adding New DC Chargers on a Whim
Tesla had and arguably still has one major ace up its sleeve – the Supercharger network. We previously said that long journeys with a non-Tesla EV could be unpleasant because replenishing the high-voltage battery remained a challenge. Things might change now. Here's what Electrify America is planning on doing.
May 3, 2024
New Sodium-Ion Battery Could Charge An Electric Vehicle In Seconds, Not Minutes
The electric vehicle revolution has barely gotten under way, and already the goalposts for charging times are moving. New research indicates that sodium-ion EV batteries could charge up in seconds, not minutes. That not only races past the best lithium-ion technology on the market today, it also beats gas and diesel fuels at their own game.
Mar 14, 2024
The Race for The Holy Grail of EV Batteries Heats Up
Solid-state batteries enable faster charging and can withstand wider temperature ranges than lithium-ion batteries.
No one has claimed yet to have found the secret to scaling up solid-state battery manufacturing.
Volkswagen: the next step on the way to series production is now to perfect and scale the manufacturing processes.