CATL is using condensed battery (500 Watt hours per kg) is developing electric aircraft started with smaller planes, ranging from 1-ton to 8.8-ton, Zeng said at the BEYOND International Science and Technology Innovation Expo on May 22 in Macau. CATL was already test-flying 4-ton aircraft, but reaching a commercial level will require success with aircraft …
Tesla 4680s have had slower ramping because of problems with the Cathode needing a wet process and cathodes made by other companies. Auto experts Munro Associates have taken apart a cybertruck and they think a dry process was used for both the cathode and the anode. This may not be for all 4680 batteries and …
Tesla’s 4680 cell ramp speed continues to improve, which will be faster, as they continue to work on more improvements. If Tesla 4680 battery production triples again over the next 6 months that would be enough batteries for 70,000 Cybertrucks in the second half of 2024. If Tesla 4680 battery production quadruples over the next …
Would everyone switch to electric cars if good cars with good range could be made for much less than $10,000? What technology could enable those prices? Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It …
Argonne National labs has a new cathode material for sodium-ion batteries. Johnson’s team invented a layered oxide cathode tailored for sodium-ion batteries. This variation on the NMC cathode is a sodium nickel-manganese-iron (NMF) oxide with a layered structure for efficient insertion and extraction of sodium. The absence of cobalt in the cathode formula mitigates cost, …
CNEVPost says CATL is in the process of developing and validating its M3P batteries with Tesla. Detailed analysis indicates that M3P brings better range that Iron LFP batteries for similar cost and 15% lower cost than nickel batteries. M3P batteries are CATL’s batteries based on a new material system with higher energy density than lithium …
Panasonic and LG energy will each start making 4680 batteries in different factories for Tesla starting around August 2024. The LG Ochang plant should have a combined 35 gigawatt-hour battery production capacity by 2025. LG Energy Solution had planned to secure a 200 gigawatt-hour production capacity in North America, Europe and Asia combined by the …
In 2023, BYD is expected to become one of the top three energy storage system integrators in China and may even compete for the top spot with CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive. In 2022, BYD was not even in the top ten in terms of domestic energy storage system shipments. In 2023, BYDs total capacity of vehicle …
The top ten EV battery makers in 2023 were again CATL, BYD from China and LG from South Korea. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including …
Supply Chain expert, Jeff Lutz, expects Tesla to continue 8-10% annual cost reductions from $36300 for the Model Y at the end of Q4 2023. This could range from 6-12% or more if there are external global issues. If we project 9% annual cost reductions for each of the next three years then this would …
At the end of October 2023, China’s NEA (National Energy Administration) reported China’s installed renewable energy capacity had exceeded 1.4 Terawatts. This capacity includes 420 GW of hydropower, 404 GW of wind power, 536 GW of solar, and 44 GW of biomass. China added 216.9 GW of solar capacity in 2023, marking a 148 % …