JB Straubel was the CTO of Tesla and is now the CEO of Redwood Materials. Redwood Materials had $700 million of funding in July, 2021. In an interview below, JB says he was amazed that legacy automakers did not rapidly follow Tesla after the success of the Model S. This was in 2012. Car companies …
GM old about 447,000 vehicles from July through September, down 32.8% from a year earlier when sales volumes were depressed due to the coronavirus pandemic. This likely means that GM made $23 billion in quarterly revenue instead of $34 billion. The chip shortage has caused GM to shutter plants for weeks, if not months, and …
General Motors will start making battery fixes to over 140,000 recalled Chevrolet Bolts EVs and EUVs beginning in mid-October. Every GM Bolt ever made and every Hyundai electric Kona ever made have been recalled because the battery packs can catch fire. There needs to be a $11000 to 12000 fix for each electric car. There …
By early 2022, Redwood Materials will announce a site for a North American battery materials manufacturing facility, aiming to produce 100 GWh/year of cathode active materials and anode foil for one million electric vehicles by 2025. By 2030, we expect our production output to scale to 500 GWh/year of materials which would enable enough batteries …
New EV tax credits will happen but the House and Senate versions must get reconciled. On Friday, the US House has details in its proposed EV tax credits. The current EV tax is a $7,500 tax credit for the first 200,000 electric vehicles per manufacturer. Tesla has built more than 200,000 EVs. The new EV …
Tesla haters have been saying for years that serious electric car competition was coming. In 2017, Business Insider write “We just drove the all-electric Chevy Bolt — and Tesla is officially in trouble”. General Motors considers itself the Dream Team: the car company that symbolizes US manufacturing might. The Chevy Bolt won the Car and …
Sodium batteries could become much cheaper than lithium-ion batteries but sodium-ion batteries capacity has been too low. “We have added a molecule spacer on one side of the graphene layer. When the layers are stacked together, the molecule creates larger space between graphene sheets and provides an interaction point, which leads to a significantly higher …
CATL us the world largest battery maker and in the first half of 2021 they produce 60.3 gigawatt hours of batteries. They are on track to expand factory capacity to 200 GWh by the end of 2021. It is likely that CATL will produce 130-150 Gigawatt hours of batteries in 2021. #CATL H1 #lithium #battery …
Baidu plans to expand its robotaxi ride-hailing services across 30 cities in China in two to three years to serve a wider range of users. Robin Li, founder of Baidu, said at the 2021 ABC Summit. Currently, there are about 500 test vehicles in the Baidu Apollo self driving program and they are the first …
Consumer Reports compared regular cars versus EVs and different car models. EVs have far lower maintenance and operating costs than other cars. Tesla’s have longer range and less maintenance than other EVs. Tesla have higher resale value. The Tesla Model 3 outsold the Toyota Camry in Australia for the first half of 2021. The Model …
The senate passed a $3.5 trillion blueprint which is the first step in the reconciliation process to pass a larger bill. House leaders will return from summer recess Aug 23 to vote on the fiscal blueprint. The legislation is will have paid family and medical leave, subsidized child care, an extension of an expanded child …
