China is expected to add 95 to 120 gigawatts (GW) of solar power in 2023. China added 87 GW of new solar power into operation in 2022 making the total installed capacity to 392.6 GW at the end of 2022. China probably already added 30-40 GW in 2023 to bring its total installed solar to …
Tesla has committed over $10 billion for Semi truck factories, megapack factories for megacharging and for the research and development of Semi trucks. Tesla is targeting the production of 50,000 Semi trucks in 2024. Daimler Trucks owns Freightliner and makes over 500,000 large trucks every year. Daimler has about $1 billion in research and development …
CALB, a Chinese battery manufacturer China Aviation Lithium Battery, claims its “U-type” battery structure offers higher energy density and faster charging speeds than regular cylindrical cells like the Tesla 4680. CALB has a 4% global market share for batteries in 2022. This places them seventh among the biggest Li-Ion cell manufacturers. CALB introduced a new …
Tesla announced a new megapack factory in Shanghai. Nextbigfuture has noted that the large electric truck market is about five times bigger in China than in the USA. Megapacks are needed to buffer the grid for megacharging for large electric trucks. I think this is the first step to getting Semi trucks into China and …
Tesla published a 41 page Master Plan Part 3. This gives all of Tesla estimates of how many vehicles and types and energy storage and other costs and materials needed for full electrification of the world. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. …
Amprius Technologies’ batteries deliver up to double the energy density over standard lithium-ion batteries. This means the battery cells provide more energy and power with much less weight and volume. Amprius will have a quarterly investor call at 5 pm EST, 2pm PST today. TODAY, Amprius Technologies, Inc. (“Amprius” or the “Company”) (NYSE: AMPX), a …
Ford has reported its financials for its electric car business. Ford sold 96,000 electric cars in 2022 and made $5.3 billion in revenue. They had a net loss of about $2 billion. Ford wants to catch up to where Tesla is in 2023 in 2027. Ford wants to grow EV sales by 83% each year. …
Zeta Energy makes lithium sulfur batteries. Zeta Energy was interviewed by car teardown analysis expert, Sandy Munro. Zeta Energy is based in Houston, Texas. Zeta Energy was founded in 2014 to develop and commercialize safe rechargeable batteries that are higher performing, lower cost and sustainably manufactured. Zeta has filed more than thirty patents on its …
Adam Jonas of Morgan Stanley has written that he thinks the Tesla Cybertruck could end up being a “Cult” Car with only 50,000 to 100,000 per year production volumes. This is despite over 1.5 million reserved Cybertrucks. Nextbigfuture has calculated that a Tesla Cybertruck will be able to beat the range of a gas-powered Ford …
Limiting Factory Youtuber, Jordan Giesige, analyzes key factors for Tesla Master Plan Part 3 and Investor day. Elon Musk and Tesla have previously described getting to 20 Terawatt hours per year and a total of 300 Terawatt hours of batteries to transition energy and transportation to electricity. This means 14 million tons of lithium carbonate …
The Tesla-PGE Virtual Power plant program pays $2 per kWh. I was paid $426 for my participation in 2022 in the program. My Powerwalls provide PGE with 213 kWh of emergency power. This over 20 hours of support over several power outages. There are over 5000 people signed up for VPP in Northern California. It …