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Roundtables – How China Got Ahead on EVs

Roundtables – How China Got Ahead on EVs

How China Got Ahead on EVs Speakers: Zeyi Yang, China reporter, Amanda Silverman, Features & investigations editor, and Abby Ivory-Ganja, Sr engagement editor In the race to produce and sell more electric vehicles, China has emerged as the unexpected winner. If you visit Shanghai or Shenzhen today, it feels like half of the cars running […]

Roundtables – Building a Cleaner Future: Better Batteries and Their Materials

Roundtables – Building a Cleaner Future: Better Batteries and Their Materials

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How new batteries could help your EV charge faster

How new batteries could help your EV charge faster

To increase a battery’s total capacity, these anodes can be made with thicker layers of material, meaning there will be lots of space for ions to slot into. However, in batteries with thicker anodes, some of the storage space will be deep within the layers, so ions will have to travel farther to get there, […]

How 5-minute battery swaps could get more EVs on the road

How 5-minute battery swaps could get more EVs on the road

The specter of Better Place hangs over battery-swap efforts today, but de Souza says Ample’s approach addresses issues that sank previous iterations of the technology. For a third-party company like Better Place or Ample to gain ground, it must find a way to be compatible with vehicles hitting the road. But getting automakers to converge […]

China is betting big on another gas engine alternative: methanol cars

China is betting big on another gas engine alternative: methanol cars

Today, the leading company making methanol from carbon dioxide is Carbon Recycling International, an Icelandic company. Geely invested in CRI in 2015, and they have partnered to build the world’s largest CO2-to-fuel factory in China. When it’s running, it could recycle 160,000 tons of CO2 emissions from steel plants every year.  The potential for clean […]

Why the grid is ready for fleets of electric trucks

However, the researchers weren’t sure if the grid could handle many electric trucks simultaneously charging in one place. Unlike electric cars, which have relatively low power requirements and would be distributed through neighborhoods, fleets of electric trucks might strain electricity distribution systems. Electricity distribution relies on substations that serve small areas, usually around a few […]