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A vehicle burned at Canoo’s headquarters after a battery test

The Verge

A vehicle at EV startup Canoo burned on August 24th after lithium-ion batteries left inside the car started a fire. Canoo’s fire started in the cabin of the third-party vehicle, according to the report, where lithium-ion batteries were “being transported.”. Image: Canoo. The incident report lists it as a Ford.

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Tesla’s Elon Musk said a $25,000 electric car with next-gen battery in the works

The Verge

Tesla announced that it will dramatically reduce the cost of its battery cells and packs — which means the company’s new goal is a $25,000 electric car. 25,000 car, that’s something we can do,” Musk said in an interview with You Tuber Marques Brownlee. There is more to a battery than just its cells.

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EnerVenue raises $100M to accelerate clean energy using nickel-hydrogen batteries

TechCrunch

While lithium-ion works fine for consumer electronics and even electric vehicles, battery startup EnerVenue says it developed a breakthrough technology to revolutionize stationary energy storage. Heinemann estimates that the tooling cap-ex per megawatt hour should be just 20% that of lithium ion. I had essentially given up.”

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Battery recycling startup Cylib recharges its coffers to go faster

TechCrunch

Lyft, Redwood Materials partner to recycle shared e-bike and e-scooter batteries “The goal of this fundraising was to accelerate the industrialization of our sustainable recycling process, which has been developed over years of research. For this round, 10x Founders also joined. “This will enable true green and circular mobility.”

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Boundary Layer wants to steal air freight’s lunch and transport it by water instead

TechCrunch

Boundary Layer is working on a series of electrically propulsed hydrofoiling vessels and wants to rewrite the book of transportation-focused verse, one stanza at a time, with nimble, fast-to-load, container-ship standard high-speed shipping vessels, with the goal of halving the cost of traditional air freight, at comparable speeds.

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Sequoia heats up early-stage startup investments in India and Southeast Asia

TechCrunch

On a recent winter morning in New Delhi, Rajan Anandan and Pieter Kemps were pacing on the floor of a five-star hotel, quizzing a group of over two dozen young startup founders about their goals. “We have a huge respect for them,” he said in the interview.

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Fisker Inc. has ‘completely dropped’ solid-state batteries

The Verge

founder told The Verge in a recent interview. By early 2019, though, the startup postponed a planned sports car that was based on the solid-state technology and pivoted to the Ocean, which uses a more common lithium-ion battery. This interview has been lightly condensed and edited for clarity. Around that time, Fisker Inc.

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