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Faraday Future will have 'highest energy density' with LG Chem battery

Partnership announcement shows Faraday getting more and more serious.

Will 'LG Chem inside' be the calling card of this early EV era?

GM will likely build PHEV batteries in China soon

More details about the Cadillac CT6 PHEV come out at battery plant tour.

If you want to know about how GM will build plug-in cars in China, pay a visit to Michigan.

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Updated VW e-Golf will have maybe 124 miles of real-world range

A battery improvement of 50 percent should help things, right?

Thanks to better battery cells, the facelifted VW e-Golf should have a real-world range of around 124 miles when it arrives this fall.

Tesla Model S Radio Flyer kids EV is too cute

New, lithium-ion powered electric kart for children starts at $499.

Radio Flyer has worked with Tesla to create a kids version of the Model S: it's got the same colors and different battery sized, but can't go quite as fast.

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2016 Toyota Prius tech improves here, there, all over

Less Friction, Less Weight, More Thermal Efficiency

Toyota finally shares some technical details about the 2016 Prius, including that the new hybrid will have, "impressive driving dynamics."

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Elon Musk says Model 3 needs 'fully operational' Gigafactory

'Smaller And Lower Cost Sedan' Still Two Years Away

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says that in order to make the lower-cost Model 3 electric sedan it needs a "fully operational" Gigafactory.

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Affordable li-ion batteries could be here without big chemistry advances

A paper by a couple of Swedish researchers figures that the price-per-kWh for lithium-ion battery packs is now $410, down from more than $1,000 in 2007. Economies-of-scale, not chemistry advances, will do the most to get that down to $230 by 2018.

Battery price skeptic says Tesla's $35,000 EV won't happen [UPDATE]

UPDATE: The story's been updated to include a response from Tesla.

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Nissan not shuttering Leaf EV battery plants, at least not yet

But A Switch To LG Chem May Be Under Discussion

The big news on the electric vehicle front today is that Nissan is considering slowing down EV battery production in the US and UK and source all of Nissan's big packs come from Japan. Nissan may also buy some batteries from the Korean company LG Chem. This is apparently causing dissent within Nissan, but it follows what Alliance partner

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Take a close look at the guts of the Chevy Volt battery, powertrain

Just how intimate would you like to get with the powertrain in a Chevy Volt? If you're anything like YouTube user d55guy, then spending a half hour filming yourself taking apart the battery pack, motor, inverter and more for a look inside sounds like your idea of fun. After all, this way you get to see the cooling system, the heavy safety kill switch and count up the individual cells in the battery modules. Fun!

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Tesla, Panasonic officially partner up for Gigafactory

The first of perhaps 'hundreds' of gigafactories is now one step closer to reality: Tesla and Panasonic have announced their official agreement to work together on the gigafactory. The two companies have worked together Sebastian Blanco

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Have battery researchers been using the wrong formula for 80 years?

There's a near endless list of things in automotive drivetrain technology that have changed since 1930. Oddly, the way scientists think about at how lithium-ion movement affects the performance of batteries is not one of them. Of course, not a lot of people were thinking about battery-electric drivetrains 80 years ago (the original battery-electric car era was long gone and gas-powered vehicles were the standard), but there is a lesson here.

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VW decides against active-cooling system for e-Golf lithium battery

When the 2015 VW e-Golf was introduced at the LA Auto Show last year, VW said it would come with a water-cooled battery. During the Detroit Auto Show, when the car was trotted out again, VW released a new press rele

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Panasonic not sure about Tesla Gigafactory commitment; Texas dealers wary, too

Just about the entire US southwest is ready to jump into the financial bed with Tesla Motors as the electric-vehicle maker looks for a place to put its massive "gigafactory." But lithium-ion battery maker Panasonic? Not so much, says Bloomberg News.

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Tesla Gigafactory will be capable of supplying packs for 500,000 EVs a year

We made our gigafactory predictions the other day and, it turns out, we were pretty much on target. Today, Tesla Motors released the first official details on its upcoming massive battery plant and we see sun and wind power feeding energy into a plant that will employ around 6,500 people and make enough packs for around a half-million Tesla EVs a

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Chevy Volt replacement battery cost varies wildly, up to $34,000

There's a growing hubbub in the plug-in vehicle community over what looks like some ridiculously cheap replacement batteries for the Sebastian Blanco

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Lawrence Berkeley lab working on lithium sulfur battery that will outlast the car

Oh man, there's another one of these studies on electric vehicle batteries that sounds too good to be true. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers are working on a breakthrough in lithium sulfur EV battery technology that could increase energy density to four times that of current lithium cells. The demonstrable discharge/charge cycle is estimated to last through 1,500 cycles, which means that a car usi

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Tesla expands li-ion battery deal with Panasonic, Supercharger network

Tesla Motors is on the move today, announcing an expanded deal with Panasonic for more and better lithium-ion automotive batteries as well as progress on the US Supercharger network. To go along with the Supercharger news – which is all about the West Coast – Tesla is taking a specially marked #DriveFree Model S (compl

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