Sep 10, 2020 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles
General Motors announced its second major electric vehicle partnership in less than a week on Tuesday, this time a $2 billion deal with startup Nikola. GM will take an 11% ownership stake in the Phoenix company and will engineer and build Nikola’s Badger hydrogen fuel...
Sep 10, 2020 | Electric Vehicles
General Motors will be the among the first automakers to employ a wireless battery management system, or wBMS, in its production electric vehicles. This wireless system was developed with Analog Devices, Inc., and will allow GM to power many different types of...
Aug 27, 2020 | Electric Vehicles
The Taycan is here and is a pretty worthy competitor to the Tesla Model S and an electric Macan that’d battle the Model X is also in the works. While all of the Tesla competitors getting a little more serious about, you know, actually competing with Tesla...
Aug 27, 2020 | Electric Vehicles
The Honda e, released in Europe earlier this month, is a compact model meant solely for city driving. That contrasts with Tesla Inc , whose Model 3 sedan dominates the battery EV market, and others such as Audi AG and Hyundai Motor Co that have focused...
Jul 23, 2020 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles
A French company has developed a thin-film solar cell that uses semi conductor compounds based on organic polymers printed on flexible films. The practical upshot of this is that it can be mounted on curved surfaces, something traditional solar panels cannot do....
Jul 16, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Climate, Detroit, Electric Vehicles
CARS HAVE NOT been good for the environment, to put it lightly. Transportation accounts for 28 percent of US greenhouse gas emissions, and light-duty vehicles for more than half of those. Someday, self-driving cars will appear widely in the US....
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