QuantumScape Will Now Sell Its Solid-State Batteries to a Fourth Carmaker
2 Mar 2022, 17:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The solid-state battery startup informed about the new automaker willing to test its A samples in a Form 8-K to the U.S. SEC
BYD Yuan Plus Gets First Video Review and Leaves a Good Impression
15 Feb 2022, 13:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Called Atto 3 in Australia, where it will be presented on February 19, the Yuan Plus is BYD’s most recent product built over e-platform 3.0
BYD Han Presents Range Upgrade and Goes From 605 Km to 715 Km
8 Feb 2022, 12:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Considering that it still presents an 85.44-kWh Blade Battery, the improvement was probably obtained thanks to energy efficiency gains
NIO Makes Educational Video About How 75-kWh Hybrid Battery Pack Works
26 Jan 2022, 18:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Most of the doubts we had when it was revealed on September 23, 2021, are answered in this interesting video posted on Facebook
This is Why I Want an EV With an LFP Battery Pack – and Battery Swapping Capacity
30 Dec 2021, 21:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Spending a lot of money on a vehicle that may become useless if a single component fails is not the kind of game I am willing to play
Northvolt Shows Us Its First Battery. Is It the Volkswagen Unified Cell?
29 Dec 2021, 09:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Swedish company revealed it produced its first lithium-ion battery on December 28, and it uses a prismatic format, as the future Volkswagen cell will
BYD Expects to Sell 1.2 Million NEVs Next Year, 30,000 Dolphins a Month
16 Dec 2021, 11:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Chinese carmaker is making impressive progress with its e-platform 3.0 and the products that it has already allowed the company to make
Toyota bZ Small Crossover Promises Insane Energy Efficiency: 125 Wh/Km (200 Wh/Mi)
14 Dec 2021, 22:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / According to Akio Toyoda, small vehicles can’t have massive battery packs to provide decent ranges: they have to be highly efficient.
This Is Probably the Electric Corolla Toyota Will Build With BYD
14 Dec 2021, 14:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Referred to solely as bZ SDN, the vehicle is the only sedan among the electric car concepts Toyota presented in its strategy to go electric
Volkswagen Makes Hiring Apple's Global Head of Battery Development Official
13 Dec 2021, 20:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Soonho Ahn will answer to Frank Blome and will help develop Volkswagen’s unified cell under a yet unnamed European company
PepsiCo Getting Tesla Semi This Year Resembles Hertz Buying 100,000 EVs
9 Nov 2021, 08:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / That happens not because PepsiCo does not have a contract – or hasn’t it? – but because the Tesla Semi does not have 4680 cells to work
Fisker Secures More Than 5 GWh/Year in Batteries From CATL for the Ocean SUV
3 Nov 2021, 09:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / According to Fisker, the long-term deal will give the Ocean LFP and NMC battery packs with “very high levels of energy density.”
Stellantis Makes Another Joint Venture for More Li-Ion Cells: Now With Samsung SDI
22 Oct 2021, 08:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we wondered about Stellantis’ deal with LGES, we had no idea the plan was to establish as many joint ventures as possible
Tesla May Have Secured 10 GWh in LFP Cells From BYD
21 Oct 2021, 16:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The rumors were already circulating for quite a while. However, they have been reinforced by Tesla’s decision to sell all entry-level cars with these cells.
Bill Gates Teams Up With UK Government to Promote Clean Energy Tech
20 Oct 2021, 13:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Boris Johnson and the Microsoft founder Bill Gates announced the deal to make green hydrogen and long-term energy storage take off
This Is Why Automakers Should Offer Battery Upgrades to EVs and PHEVs
9 Oct 2021, 09:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Sometimes, you have a perfect car, but its battery pack lacks range. Instead of buying a new vehicle, why can’t we just upgrade the battery pack?
Nail Penetration Test Shows How Different Ternary and LFP Cells Are
8 Oct 2021, 13:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Although they are heavier and present a lower energy density, LFP cells are much cheaper and more robust than NMC or NCA batteries
Elon Musk Says at Shareholders Meeting That There Is No Model 2
8 Oct 2021, 09:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The entry-level Tesla conceived in China will have a different name, not the one people are expecting for the compact electric
NIO Presents a Hybrid 75-kWh Battery Pack With LFP and Ternary Cells
23 Sep 2021, 10:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The new arrangement would mix the advantages of each of these kinds of batteries in a more powerful and still swappable single unit
VW ID.3 Battery Pack Analysis Shows How Peculiar Electric Cars Can Be
22 Sep 2021, 09:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Christian Stadler said he abused his car by charging it 100% more often than he should, which shows that living with an EV requires some learning.