Feb 10, 2025 | Batteries, BEV, Electric Vehicles
The car-shopping sites Autotrader and KBB.com have begun publishing scores for the battery health of thousands of used electric vehicles. The information comes straight from the vehicles’ onboard diagnostic systems. The sites’ information is months...
Feb 6, 2025 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles
Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina (TBMNC), Toyota’s first in-house battery manufacturing plant outside Japan, is ready to begin production and will start shipping batteries for North American electrified vehicles in April. The nearly $14 billion...
Jan 30, 2025 | Batteries, Robots
Cornell University researchers are building soft robots with “robot blood” that is both hydraulic fluid that provides motive force and at the same time a battery that stores and delivers energy required to power the robots. The resulting body configurations are ideal...
Jan 30, 2025 | Batteries, Featured
Earlier this week, scientists from both institutions announced the creation of a diamond battery that leverages the decaying power of isotope carbon-14—the same isotope used in carbon dating. This isotope is useful for archaeologists because its half-life...
Jan 23, 2025 | Batteries, Sustainability
California sells more electric cars than any other state, many of which in Southern California have turned into rubble during the recent Los Angeles wildfires. And while lithium-ion batteries present in EVs do not burst into flames often, when they do they produce...
Jan 16, 2025 | Batteries, Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
General Motors Co. has signed a multibillion-dollar deal with Norway-based graphite manufacturer Vianode for materials for electric-vehicle batteries. The deal comes as GM looks to boost EV profitability. The agreement “covers development of large-scale manufacturing...
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