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Vanadium ion battery startup Standard Energy raises $8.9M Series C from SoftBank Ventures Asia

TechCrunch

The South Korea-based company says its batteries’ advantages over lithium ion include less risk of ignition and the ease of sourcing vanadium. The latter is an important selling point, as electric vehicle makers face a potential shortage of lithium ion batteries. VIB cannot be as compact as lithium ion.

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Battery chemistry company Sila’s founder Gene Berdichevsky on the science of scaling up

TechCrunch

As principal engineer on the Roadster battery, Berdichevsky was one of the first people crazy enough to experiment with shoving a lithium-ion battery pack into a combustion engine vehicle. The anode stores lithium when the batteries charge. So it takes six carbon atoms to store one lithium atom. The result?

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There’s a battery bigger than in most BEVs inside the Ramcharger hybrid

Ars Technica

The Ramcharger will be a range-extended EV, albeit one with more lithium-ion on board than most BEVs have. Honestly, pickup trucks are a poor candidate for electrification, at least while we're still firmly in early adopter territory.

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One company’s quest to eliminate battery fires

TechCrunch

Every lithium-ion battery is an IoT device,” Accure co-founder and CEO Kai-Philipp Kairies told TechCrunch+. The potential for fires could increase as adoption grows, but it doesn’t have to. While fires caused by EVs are a relative rarity compared with fossil fuel vehicles, that doesn’t mean they’re not dangerous.

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The most innovative companies in automotive for 2025

Fast Company Tech

The Warren Buffett-backed Chinese company shifted to building cars nearly two decades ago, applying its expertise in producing lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries to develop reliable, sub-$35,000 EVs. But the mid-2023 launch of BYDs most affordable modelthe four-figure Seagull compact carignited BYDs exponential sales run.

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Gogoro is joining the battery swapping revolution in China

The Verge

The three companies are announcing the deals just as the Chinese government has begun to embrace battery swapping in a big way, like adopting a national standard for the tech in larger passenger vehicles. When they use lithium battery, you [have to] carry the lithium ion battery back home to charge, it’s unsafe.”.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Find your valuation, international visas, hiring for growth

TechCrunch

To boost early-stage growth, adopt a jobs-to-be-done approach to marketing. However, by adopting a “jobs-to-be-done” framework, early-stage startups can define, categorize, capture and organize all their customers’ needs, writes Michael Popchuk, co-founder and CEO of Saldo Apps. .