An inauguration ceremony for Samsung SDI’s newly completed electric vehicle battery production facility in the Gaoxin Industrial District in Xi’an, in Shaanxi Province, China, was recently held by the Korean company. Worth noting here is that […]
LG Chem has announced that it will be ramping up lithium-ion battery production at its facility in Michigan, according to recent reports. The move follows closely on an announcement that GM will be expanding its business […]
The well respected consumer electronics company Dyson has agreed to acquire the solid-state lithium-ion battery startup Sakti3 for $90 million, according to recent reports. Previous to this announcement, the British company had already agreed to invest […]
The battery technology company Electrovaya, in concert with its wholly owned subsidiary Litarion GmbH, recently announced the release of a new 40 Ah lithium-ion battery cell — dubbed the “Litacell LC-40” — according to recent reports. […]
A crowdfunding campaign for an “instant hybrid” battery technology system was recently launched by the startup Verd2GO. According to an email sent to EV Obsession, the system is based around the idea of being able to […]
The 2015 Energy Storage North America Innovation Award was recently presented jointly to Geli and BMW owing to the two companies’ efforts to integrate second-life electric vehicle batteries into micro-grid systems at the BMW Group Technology […]
NEC Energy Solutions and the lithium-ion battery startup 24M are partnering with the intent of deploying 24M’s semi-solid lithium-ion battery cells as part of NEC Energy Solutions’ integrated storage systems, according to recent reports. The two […]
The German company Bosch is apparently aiming to, over the coming years, create a 50 kilowatt-hour (kWh) battery for use in electric vehicles that only weighs 190 kilograms, based on recent comments made by a company […]
As many of you know, I’m writing up a report based on four electric vehicle surveys we’ve been conducting. I’m getting close to writing up sections on the results, and am thus going to close the […]
A study of Chevy Volt owners with vehicles featuring batteries supplied by LG Chem has found that there’s been nearly no loss of range/performance even after 3 years of ownership, according to the vice president of […]
A new energy buffer system for charging stations utilizing used (second-life) electric vehicle batteries has been developed by the UK-based company Future Transport Systems, according to recent reports. With the use of the new system — […]
All of the drama over the last few years concerning where Tesla would build its first Gigafactory carried with it a lot of potential implications for the states in question, hence the jockeying for position and […]
Work on the interior of the Tesla Gigafactory, and also an onsite data center, is apparently well under way at this point — going by permit records for the project recently uncovered by a local news […]
If you haven’t yet answered the survey below (and available here), please take ~3 minutes to do so! Create your own user feedback survey The survey fills out some remaining questions I had for both electric […]
As many of you know, I’m from Florida but I’ve ended up in Wrocław, Poland. I’ve now lived here for over 7 years. It’s a beautiful city of ~1 million and has several large international employers […]
