Month: November 2021

LiNa Energy has closed a £3.5-million ($4.78-million) late seed funding round. LiNa is commercializing a cobalt- and lithium-free solid-state sodium battery. The company claims its design has the potential to exceed the performance of both lithium-ion and sodium-ion technologies at a cost of less than $50/kWh.  The funding, along with recently obtained grant money, enables
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The most controversial part of the expanded $12,500 EV tax credit so far hasn’t been the spending itself, but the requirement that vehicles getting the top amount—$4,500 of the $5,000 boost the program is being given—will need to be union-made.  As part of an updated measure spanning climate issues and social spending introduced Wednesday, Democrats
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Tesla bets on a new 4680-type cylindrical cell format, but according to Lucid’s CEO/CTO Peter Rawlinson. it will not be “this huge breakthrough.” In an interesting IEEE Spectrum article, Peter Rawlinson noted that the larger format and new design has some advantages, including reduced internal resistance and higher volumetric energy density, but it’s better packaging rather
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Tesla once again did something that no one expected but this time it’s a huge step for all EVs. Forbes contributor Tom Moloughney is here to explain why, plus other electric car news of the week! Subscribe to Tom Moloughney’s channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdX0BJNon1c6GfOdeS3pyDw OUR SPONSOR: ❤️ MASTERWORKS – Skip the wait list when using this
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Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Holley Performance: Check out the Holley High Voltage Experience, an all EV event taking place at Sonoma Raceway this November 13th and 14th. New episodes of Quick Charge
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By Eric Ralph Posted on November 2, 2021 SpaceX has won a contract to launch Skynet on a Falcon 9 rocket in 2025. Instead of a self-aware, apocalyptic AI, though, “Skynet” refers to the United Kingdom’s planned Skynet 6A spacecraft – part of a family of military communications satellites that far predate their science fiction
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Tesla unexpectedly announced it’ll be designing its next model in China and released a mystery sketch on its Chinese social media account. Could this be the Model 2 I have been hoping for and will this be the real affordable electric car at $25,000? Eli Burton from My Tesla Adventure is here to give his
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