The growth of the EV is powered by electric rechargeable batteries, the basic structure for using clean and renewable energy.
Matt’s customers are mostly EV nerds and early adopters. They are the folks who are way into EV tech and who track and monitor their own batteries. They have a good sense of when the battery needs to be replaced because they know all about capacity bars and have Leafspy hooked up. A...
Batteries start their life with 100% SOH and over time they deteriorate. For example, a 60 kWh battery with 90% SOH would effectively act like a 54 kWh battery. Do electric car batteries degrade? Yes, like all batteries, EV batteries degrade. However, EV batteries are, on average, ...
The key material for making sodium-ion batteries,sodium carbonate(or soda ash), can either be found in rocks and salt lake brines or it can be made in factories from limestone and salt. Both of these minerals are widely accessible and practically inexhaustible. Shifting from lithium to sodium-...
Many drivers are transitioning towards electric vehicles, and by 2040, EVs are expected to represent more than two-thirds of passenger vehicle sales. Learning about EV batteries is a crucial aspect since this determines you’ll be able to travel and how often you’ll be recharging, among othe...
Geotab research shows that EV batteries could last 20 years or more at observed degradation rates. Read on to learn best practices to maintain EV battery health
14 For NMC truck batteries, however, a company could gain €2,000 from the materials extracted. This difference in value is because the primary revenue drivers in NMC batteries are nickel, cobalt, and lithium, while the sole driver in LFP batteries is lithium....
Amperex Technology Ltd., or CATL. CATL is led by a guy named Zeng Yuqun, who, maybe more than any other single person, has made electric vehicles affordable. Here's Yuqun a few weeks ago, saying that there are more than 5 million new electric vehicles using CATL's batteries. ...
EV batteries are actually battery packs full of groups of individual lithium-ion cells, each of which can store a certain amount of power. As you drive around and use the car's electrical systems, that stored energy is discharged until the battery needs to betopped upagain. ...
After all, range anxiety and charging times are two of the biggest considerations drivers have in going electric, and these can both be attributed in large part to an EV's battery. With this in mind, here are a few essential lesser-known things about EV batteries to help you keep your ...