Sentences with phrase «for electric car batteries»

The resulting structure, pictured above, had some interesting physical properties that could make it useful not only for solar energy production, but also for electric car batteries.

Tenke is one of Africa's largest copper mines, and importantly also has cobalt reserves, another key material for electric car batteries.

Elon Musk sent a thrilling chill through the electric car, energy storage, and investment sectors when he announced Tesla would be building a Gigafactory for electric car battery production.

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Without widespread adoption of this zero - emission technology, the electric - car industry will remain a niche business and the demand for Tesla's batteries will never be large enough for the company to scale in a significant way.

As electric cars become more and more common, and as their batteries can hold more and more energy to allow for a range comparable to that of a gasoline car, the main obstacle remains: how to charge the batteries as fast as you can fill in your gas tank.

For starters, the cost of an electric car battery — the most expensive component — dropped 35 % last year alone.

Eight years ago Buffett invested $ 232 million for a nearly 10 % stake in BYD (Build Your Dreams), a Chinese company that makes lithium - ion batteries and electric cars.

The car can run for up to 31 miles on electric power alone, which is powered by a 13 kWh lithium - ion battery.

This would make the cars lighter — important because of the weight of electric batteries — but also allowing for more inventive designs.

That's still a little pricey for the average buyer, but it's way cheaper than most electric cars because the purchase doesn't include the vehicle's most expensive part: the battery.

Panasonic is prepared to move up its investment plans for Tesla Motors» battery plant if needed to meet strong demand for the electric car maker's upcoming Model 3 sedan, an executive at the Japanese electronics group said.

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors (and of rocket maker SpaceX), announced that his company would supply battery packs to for Daimler's cute - as - a-button all - electric Smart car.

Up next: Toyota is developing solid - state batteries, an elusive holy grail that could radically improve range and safety for electric cars.

More than a decade before he started Tesla, Musk was studying physics at the University of Pennsylvania and then battery technology at Stanford, both key fields for learning how to build an electric car.

In 2008, MidAmerican bought 10 % of Chinese electric - car and battery maker BYD for $ 230 million.

Green Charge is even experimenting with a new business that reuses batteries from Nissan's LEAF electric car to store energy for commercial and industrial buildings.

The tech giant is accused by A123 Systems of poaching top engineers as part of a plan to start making lithium - ion batteries for electric cars.

As we at Tesla reach for our goal of producing a mass market electric car in approximately three years, we have an opportunity to leverage our projected demand for lithium ion batteries to reduce their cost faster than previously thought possible.

The electric car company Tesla has announced its entry into the energy market, unveiling a suite of low - cost solar batteries for homes, businesses and utilities, «the missing piece», it said, in the transition to a sustainable energy world.

On the bright side, the acquisition will allow Tesla to streamline its production of electric cars and batteries alongside the manufacture of solar panels, thereby creating a one - stop shop for customers.

When electric - car maker Tesla touched off a multistate bidding war for its Gigafactory battery plant last year, most of the attention focused on the tax breaks and other incentives states were offering.

If all the cars sold in the U.S. this year were electric, their battery capacity would be sufficient to power the country for an hour (17 million vehicles x 60 kWh).

Since lithium - ion batteries represent a large percentage of the cost of today's electric vehicle, we believe Apple should be well positioned to leverage its existing knowledge domain and more robust R&D spending in this area, and in turn apply any energy density / battery life improvements for a car across all the other products in its ecosystem that will share the benefit from such battery innovation (iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, MacBook, Beats).

Then, credibility restored, Tesla will easily raise cash to build the Model Y. For all the triumphant bear fuss lately, Tesla went public at $ 17 a share and remains a 17 - bagger at $ 295 — and, as Moody's notes, fundamentals like battery cost, public acceptance of electric cars and regulatory support are stable or improving.

Earlier this year, central and provincial governments extended subsidies to 50,000 yuan ($ 7,953) for electric cars that can go longer distances and have higher - energy - density batteries.

The electric car will actually have a 75 kWh battery pack, so customers who want more range can pay for a software update that will unlock more power in the battery pack.

Chinese electric cars are not known for providing the best driving experience and battery life, so having a standard like Tesla could help encourage the domestic market and drive up competition.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk described how the California - based electric car and energy firm is currently utilizing a semi-automatic battery production line for...

In the coming years, an electric car battery array might serve as a reserve for home power needs, but the technology is not trivial and does not yet exist commercially.

Formula E isn't the easiest series to get to grips with for a rookie, what with all the challenges of driving an electric car and managing the battery usage.

Car charger or battery charger for the double electric pump.

It cleverly covers all the bases for power sources — for mains electric, batteries and there's even a car adapter available (as an optional, but brilliant, extra).

Consider getting a car adapter and / or a battery pack for your electric pump.

Today we continue to be pioneers in this sector, funding new battery technologies for electric cars and renewable energy.

Lobbyists for environmental groups and the planet's biggest automobile manufacturers are pushing the governor and legislative leaders to give tax breaks or taxpayer - funded rebates to consumers who buy zero - emissions vehicles, such as battery electric or hydrogen cell fuel cars.

For example, the Model S electric car designed by Tesla Motors, a company owned by serial entrepreneur Elon Musk, is powered by thousands of small lithium - ion batteries arrayed between the car's axles.

But despite much interest, so far Bolivia has not opened up to any foreign mining companies, insisting instead that any lithium extracted there be used to make products — batteries and electric cars — within its borders for export.

By 2020, the company plans to produce as many lithium - ion batteries annually as the entire world produced in 2013 — enough for a fleet of 500,000 electric cars — and with a 30 per cent reduction in production cost per battery.

Before electric cars started gaining traction five years ago, lithium - ion batteries were good primarily for powering laptops and cell phones for a few hours.

The goal is to turn scientific advances into deployable technology, like better batteries for the electric cars that could further reduce U.S. demand for oil and cheaper photovoltaics to produce the electricity that would go into those batteries.

Thanks to a redesign, Edison's battery can now store almost as much energy, gram for gram, as the lithium - ion battery in Nissan's all - electric car, the Leaf.

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This high - risk research also includes developing better batteries for electric cars, cheaper photovoltaics and power electronics (superefficient electrical converters).

The lithium needed for the batteries that power everything from our laptops to future electric cars may come more than ever from South America's vast salt flats

These batteries are a mature technology, and last week Elon Musk announced plans to spend $ 2 billion on a «Gigafactory» to develop huge quantities of them for his electric car firm Tesla Motors.

ORNL's technology could have a much greater impact on purely electric vehicles such as the upcoming Nissan Leaf or Ford Focus RV, which do not have a combustion engine to rely on, meaning depleted batteries need to be charged quickly for the car to be practical.

But while they are great for electric sports cars, the batteries aren't cheap and aren't flexible enough to cope with wildly different loads for power grid storage.

A plug - in hybrid electric uses a traction - drive power electronics system to propel the car forward by providing force to the car's wheels and has a charger for recharging the high - voltage battery when it is plugged into the power grid.

This is starting to happen already: all - electric cars or plug - in hybrids are beginning to hit the mass market, and will be particularly appropriate for urban or suburban drivers where the limited range of current battery technology is less of a concern.

Yet in order for electric cars to travel greater distances or mobile phones to stay charged for longer, we will need better batteries and more of them.