TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

One of the key target resources is lithium, a critical component for smartphones, electric vehicle batteries and nearly every other electric tool of modern convenience and industrial import. That’s one reason why DuPont is making a push to prove out its extraction technologies.

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TechSpot

MARCH 25, 2021

Consumers often lament that battery technology hasn't improved at the same rate as others, like computing power which has gone up dramatically over the last few decades while batteries have only improved in relatively smaller steps. However, the biggest issue we face today is that with the proliferation of mobile.

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TechNode

JANUARY 23, 2025

Why it matters: Despite this, CATL warned it might end the year with a revenue decline for the first time since it started releasing its financial figures in 2015, due to the lithium price squeeze that has been shaking up the industry since hitting its peak in late 2022. CATL is set to report its full-year results on Mar.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The Chinese company started out making batteries and has been refining its battery and energy storage technology while building an auto empire that is expanding outside China. BYD, which stands for build your dreams, began presales of its Han L and Tang L models, which are upgraded versions of earlier models.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The result is EV technology that makes the erstwhile novelty car more powerful, more affordable, and more ubiquitous. Waymo also unveiled its Generation 6 automated driving system, an enhanced-technology suite designed handle tougher weather conditions. In October, the Waymo One taxi fleet reached 1 million autonomous miles driven.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 7, 2024

According to the Department of Energy's Vehicle Technologies Office, lithium-ion battery pack costs for EVs have plummeted by an astounding 90% from 2008 to 2023, when adjusted for inflation. In 2023, the estimated cost stood at $139 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for large-scale production, a dramatic decrease from $1,415 per kWh in 2008.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Most EV companies use “wet” lithium-ion batteries, which use liquid electrolytes to move energy around. QuantumScape says its solid-state batteries will represent a significant improvement over conventional lithium-ion batteries, enabling electric vehicles that can travel 80 percent further than an electric vehicle with a traditional battery.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A team of Chinese researchers is proposing a novel design for calcium-oxygen (Ca-O2) batteries with higher efficiency, a technology that could one day replace lithium-ion batteries, bringing significant improvements for the environment. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

“We are proud to support Francesco Volpe and his team in the emergence and industrialization in France and in Europe of a disruptive solution in energy production and distribution technologies. We have a technology that is pretty unique,” Renaissance Fusion founder Francesco Volpe told me. It wouldn’t operate power plants directly.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

EVs are a relatively small part of the overall market for cars and trucks, but they make up nearly 80% of the demand for lithium-ion batteries, far outpacing devices like laptops and phones. For one, they can prevent the growth of dendrites, stalactite-like spikes of lithium that can form on a battery’s electrodes.

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2021

General Motors announced a new joint venture with SolidEnergy Systems, a spinoff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that is focused on improving the energy density in lithium-ion batteries. Anode-free” lithium metal battery. Is our advanced team also looking at solid state type technology?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

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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TechNode

JANUARY 8, 2025

Beijing is planning to revise its rules controlling global access to battery manufacturing technologies in a tit-for-tat move after major Western economies including the European Union and the United States decided to impose punitive tariffs on China-made electric vehicles. The proposed measures are open to public review until Feb.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

According to the official statement, Gotion plans to produce 10 GWh of lithium-ion battery packs and 40 GWh of lithium-ion battery cells once the facility is completed.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

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. The technology itself – nickel-hydrogen batteries – isn’t actually new. I had essentially given up.” Image Credits: EnerVenue.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

StoreDot , the Israeli next-generation battery technology startup touting an “extreme fast charging” (XFC) battery for electric vehicles, has secured the first close of its latest funding round led by Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturer VinFast. The Series D round is due to close at up to $80 million.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Wallace Center is being set up to develop future versions that will be completely different from the current lithium-ion composition. Technology like lithium metal or pure silicon anodes, even solid-state batteries.”. GM grew to be the largest automaker in North America on the back of combustion engines.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Soelect, a battery technology startup based in North Carolina, has closed an $11 million Series A round. It plans to use the fresh capital to scale its fast charge-capable anode technologies that might enable the next generation of batteries for electric vehicles.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

The battery — which has been colloquially called a “million mile” battery in reference to how long it can last in a car before breaking down — is being co-developed with Chinese battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. The company held a similar event focused on self-driving technology in April 2019.

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Association TV

MARCH 16, 2022

A feature is your car’s new engine sprockets that are made with lithium ion and have a.42 They could have opened up by talking all about their proprietary API that uses the latest SQL technology to make algorithmic choices based on email addresses you like or don’t like (I’m making this up, please don’t sue us). 42 Newton ratio.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Apple has spent the last half-decade toying with an entry into the worlds of electric and self-driving cars, but up until this week was thought to be focused on developing software and other technologies that could be sold to other companies.

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The Verge

JULY 27, 2021

We’ve achieved something that many thought impossible with today’s battery technology,” JoeBen Bevirt, founder and CEO of Joby, said in a statement. “By billion in cash, which it will use to continue to tinker and perfect its technology. To weigh it out: jet fuel gives us about 43 times more energy than a battery that’s just as heavy.

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The Verge

MARCH 30, 2021

Others include Volkswagen boss Herbert Diess joining Twitter and letting a bit loose , a la Elon Musk, and the company’s recent “battery day” event, where it showed off the technology it’s developing. We’re still waiting on the news that Ford is changing its name to the atomic symbol for Lithium.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2021

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.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2021

To be sure, the Countach’s hybrid system isn’t anything new; it’s based on the supercapacitor technology used in Lamborghini’s Sián. Lamborghini claims this provides three-times the power of a lithium-ion battery with the same weight. That produces a 0–100km/h time of 2.8 seconds, a 0–200km/h time of 8.6 Photo: Lamborghini.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

kWh lithium-ion battery pack. At the car’s production launch, Volkswagen will announce final driving range data of the production version, which it expects to be “significantly improved” with the battery technology to be used in the future. On average, 45.8% drive less than 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) and 16.2%

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TechNode

AUGUST 14, 2024

Chinese electric vehicle maker Zeekr on Tuesday unveiled its refreshed 001 hatchbacks and 007 sedans with a major upgrade for its driving assist technology, or Navigation Zeekr Pilot (NZP). Zeekr said its second generation of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery needs only 10.5 minutes to go from 10% to 80% at a 5.5C charge rate.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

At the same time, existing lithium-ion battery technology is improving, just not fast enough. ONE grabbed headlines earlier this year after driving a Tesla 752 miles on a single charge but not much was known about its technology. Many of those are years away from commercial use, though. The right chemistries.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2022

All-solid-state batteries could, in theory, charge more quickly, hold more power, and last longer than lithium-ion batteries that most EVs use now. Nissan aims to bring its first EV with all-solid-state batteries to market in 2028. Nissan said it expects to eventually use the batteries across its vehicle lineup, including its pickup trucks.

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TechNode

DECEMBER 17, 2024

CATL has pledged to offset part of the development costs for its suppliers and make advance payments for their technology innovation, a move made with the hope of accelerating the application of new battery materials and equipment, according to a letter seen by Reuters.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

“We look for real step-change, game-changing technologies that are going to benefit everyone and we think that will drive a huge [total addressable market],” said Milo Werner, a general partner at The Engine.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Now, a team of researchers at Northwestern University and Delft University of Technology have developed a new take on the classic console , replacing its array of four AA batteries with a set of five rows of solar panels and buttons that harvest power as you play.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

From lithium battery chemical recycling to smart media, blockchain infrastructure to student-centric educational software, and Sub-Saharan African fintech to cultured-meat production, this batch of companies is sure to wow the investors and the audience. Verdi , EyeGage , Animal Alternative Technologies , RoboDeck , Adventr.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

That’s roughly four to five times longer than conventional lithium-ion battery packs, which would be good for both your wallet and the environment. The Elecjet Apollo Ultra is a lithium-polymer battery that’s been enhanced with Real Graphene USA’s proprietary battery technology. Charges from zero to full in 27 minutes.

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The Verge

MAY 18, 2021

Gogoro CEO Horace Luke tells The Verge the deals with DCJ and Yadea have been in the works for around two years and that the Chinese companies dug deep into Gogoro’s technology before deciding to partner up. When they use lithium battery, you [have to] carry the lithium ion battery back home to charge, it’s unsafe.”.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Core technologies in these areas are connected to our existing businesses”. But unlike most startups that are building lightweight, multi-prop vehicles that run on lithium-ion batteries, Honda says it will pursue a hybrid solution “as a means to realize the range desired by our customers,” Frommer said.

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