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South Korea Approves Samsung’s Self-Driving Vehicle Pilot
Samsung has been given the go-ahead by the government of South Korea to begin testing its self-driving vehicle tech on public roads, according to recent reports South Korea Approves Samsung’s...
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Dragon’s Guide To A 100% Renewable Home — Part 6 (Cooking)
In Part 5, we covered solar panel installation. In this chapter, we'll discuss using that solar system to power your cooking. I was also going to cover clothes washing here, but the article got too...
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Musk & 116 Others Tell UN To Ban Weapons Controlled By Artificial Intelligence
I you are the National Rifle Association, you are all in favor of weapons like drones, tanks, machine guns, and submarines controlled by artificial intelligence. After all, the Founding Fathers clearly...
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Dragon’s Guide To A 100% Renewable Home — Part 7 (Laundry)
Welcome back to our series of guides covering how to power your life with renewable electricity. If you're new to this series, check out the introduction in Part Dragon’s Guide To A 100% Renewable Home...
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It’s The Batteries, Baby!
In so many conversations about electric cars and the transition to electric transport, certain commenters throw around the claim that conventional automakers can jump on the electric bandwagon as soon...
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Samsung Given Approval To Test Self-Driving Cars In California
Samsung has been given approval from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to begin testing self-driving vehicle tech on public roads in the state, according to recent reports Samsung Given...
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Samsung Electric Car Batteries Get A Boost … (But Few New Details)
In the world of electric vehicles, batteries are gold. In the world of electric vehicle batteries, there are a handful of dynasties you must court if you want a competitive electric car. The most well...
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$300 Million Fund Bolsters Samsung’s Commitment To Self-Driving Cars
Samsung has made a strong declaration of its commitment to the self-driving car market with the announcement of a new $300 million fund for automotive technology $300 Million Fund Bolsters Samsung’s...
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Tesla Using Samsung SDI Battery Cells In 129 MWh South Australia Facility
Despite its close relationship with Panasonic, Tesla will actually be utilizing Samsung SDI lithium-ion battery cells at the facility in South Australia that's now under construction, the company has...
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Fairphone & Apple Lead, Samsung, Huawei & Amazon Fail Greenpeace Greener...
Fairphone and Apple lead the way on Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics which is published this week, with big-name companies like Amazon, Samsung, and Huawei receiving failing grades. Fairphone...
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World’s 1st Floating Wind Farm Powers Up, Renewable Energy Units In New...
Technica Communications shares their monthly roundup in our Cleantech in Action series: read more to see 5 cool renewable projects around the world!
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Has Samsung SDI Cracked The Graphene Battery Puzzle? New Study Raises Questions
Has Samsung SDI finally cracked the puzzle of how to commercialize graphene batteries? A new study published in the journal Nature raises some interesting questions on that count
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The Death Of Oil: Scientists Eyeball 2X EV Battery Range
Scientists deal a killer blow to gasmobiles with new energy storage research showing how to squeeze double the capacity into EV batteries
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Timeline For Electric Vehicle Revolution (via Lower Battery Prices,...
Everyone knows that electric vehicles (EVs) are going to replace internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) in the long run. Many of us are excited about this key transition away from fossil fuels and...
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Volkswagen e-Golf Production Capacity To Double Next Year
Volkswagen will begin increasing the production capacity of the e-Golf at its facilities in Europe starting in March 2018, company spokespersons recently revealed. The plan is reportedly for the daily...
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Electric Vehicle Battery Factory Race Heats Up In Europe
Battery sources are critical for any companies trying to to keep up in the race to field compelling long-range electric vehicles, and the competitors are already jostling for position
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European Lithium-Ion Battery Dilemma — Build Or Buy?
Europeans are in a quandary about whether to build battery factories now or wait for the next generation of solid state batteries to arrive. The decision is not an easy one to make.
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Samsung Commits To 100% Renewable Energy By 2020 In US, Europe, & China
After months of global protests and campaigning, global electronics manufacturing giant Samsung has announced this week that it intends to transition by 2020 to source 100% of its electricity needs...
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Record-Low Solar Power, Electric Car Startups, & The Mercedes EQ Brand...
In this episode, we cover a number of clean power stories before jumping into our EV bread & butter
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China X Cleantech — End of Q2, 2018
The second half of Q2 2018 has been notable and the flood of news from around the world continues. In China, the flood of developments is so massive that we can only show you a keyhole insight into...
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Audi To Officially Unveil Its Fully Electric e-tron SUV On September 17th In...
Audi will officially unveil its highly anticipated fully-electric e-tron SUV in San Francisco on September 17th, according to a new report by Green Car Congress
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China × Cleantech — November
Welcome to the next issue of China x Cleantech, our November 2018 edition. As the year starts to close, we are still getting interesting developments from China, but we have to cover the numerous...
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China × Cleantech — December 2018
Welcome to the next issue of China x Cleantech, our December 2018 edition. The year has closed, but let us review the final interesting cleantech developments from China last year
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Volkswagen Boosts Electric Car Investment & Sales Goals — 22 Million Electric...
Volkswagen keeps upping its electric car projections. It now says the new MEB platform could form the basis for 70 models and projects its sales of electric cars will reach 22 million vehicles by 2028.
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The Economist Announces The Death Of The ICE (Finally)
The most recent cover story in The Economist announces, "The death of the internal combustion engine... it had a good run. But the end is in sight." In a remarkable account, The Economist reports that...
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Electric Vehicles, Batteries, & Chargers Seeing Rapid Growth
Once considered an inconsequential niche in the automotive market, electric vehicles are becoming more widespread. And it's not just all the new plug-in options available today — EV batteries and...
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Xpeng P7 Completes Durability Test Good For “10 Round-The-World Trips”
While the Xpeng G3 electric vehicle (EV) continues its stellar sales climb, the stunning P7 EV has finished a round of tests equal to traveling 10 times around the globe. The company also secured a...
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EV Companies Raise $10+ Billion In 2019, & Fortune 500 Companies Are Now...
Companies like Tencent, Baidu, Amazon, Samsung, Google, IKEA, Goldman Sachs, Citi, Renault-Nissan, and many more are investing heavily in the field of electric mobility, according to The Global...
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The Vehicle Classes, Range, & Features in High Demand with EV Drivers — New...
For years, we have asked respondents what vehicle body type they prefer for an EV. The answers may surprise you. Despite the crossover and SUV craze, our respondents in North America indicated they...
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Responsible Battery Coalition Applauds University of Michigan Research on...
The Responsible Battery Coalition (RBC) — a leading coalition of companies, academics and organizations dedicated to the responsible management and environmental sustainability of batteries — applauded...
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Samsung Reveals New Solid State Lithium Metal Battery With 900Wh/L Density
Global battery powerhouse Samsung's Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) and the Samsung R&D Institute Japan (SRJ) just published a new study highlighting its next generation solid state...
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10 Bonus EV Battery Stories
There is much EV battery news out there. Some of it is hard to decipher, some is misleading, and some is just downright cool. Here are 10 recent stories that couldn’t quite catch their own headline...
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Why Is Samsung Still In Coal When Everyone Else Is Moving Towards Clean Energy?
2020 has been called a defining moment to fight the climate crisis, and many tech companies are amping up their efforts to do so. This year, Apple announced that it would cut its emissions by 75...
View ArticleCATL & LG Chem Are World’s Biggest EV Battery Producers
Let's take a quick look at the current world leaders in EV battery production
View ArticleRivian To Be Powered By Samsung
Just on the trail of other big battery news in the US (and globally), we’ve got news today from Rivian that it will be getting its batteries from Samsung SDI. Naturally, the news doesn’t come out of...
View ArticleNearly 76 Gigawatt-Hours of Battery Cells Produced in U.S.A 2010–2020
Nearly 76 Gigawatt-hours of Battery Cell Capacity Was Produced for U.S. Plug-in Vehicle Market from 2010 to 2020 Five companies (AESC, LG Chem, Panasonic, Samsung, and SK Innovation) produced almost...
View ArticleReport: Tesla & Samsung Sign $436 Million Deal For Cybertruck Cameras
Samsung Electro-Mechanics and Tesla have reportedly signed a $436 million deal for cameras for the Tesla Cybertruck, according to SamMobile, a popular platform for Samsung mobile users. Future...
View ArticleSouth Korea Has $41 Billion EV Battery Plan
South Korea has a 40.6 trillion won ($41.2 billion) plan to become an even bigger EV battery giant by the end of the decade, The Business Times has reported. The nation unveiled the plan and noted that...
View ArticleReport: Multiple Battery Suppliers Are Courting Tesla, Hoping To Make 4680...
It seems that battery makers are hoping that Tesla will choose them to produce its 4680 tabless battery cells. The Korea Herald has reported that Samsung SDI and LG Energy Solution have completed the...
View ArticleTop 15 U.S. Retailers Created More Pollution From Shipping Than 1.5 Million...
The top 15 U.S. retailers were responsible for as much climate pollution in 2019, from their shipping alone, as the energy used to power 1.5 million American homes, a report released Monday by Pacific...
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Impressions Of The Tesla Model Y With 4680 Battery Cells
The 4680 batteries have 5 times more energy with 6 times the power and enable a 16% range increase. At the battery-pack level, the form-factor improvements alone result in a 14% reduction in cost per kWh.
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The 10 Biggest EV Battery Manufacturers In The World (2022)
The EV battery world has changed a lot in the past few years. Let’s start with the 10 largest EV battery manufacturers through most of 2022, but then also look at how this list is different from a few...
View ArticleBMW Neue Klasse Concept Appears At IAA Show
BMW will feature the Neue Klasse concept at this year's IAA show in Munich. Is it a hint of what an electric 3 Series sedan might look like?
View ArticleTop 10 Battery Producers In The World
While there are regular reports about sales performances of the best selling EVs, as one can see here, here, and here, reports on the deployment of the all-essential batteries for these EVs are much...
View ArticleLucid & Samsung Partner To Speed Up EV Design With “The Wall”— A Huge, High...
Sometimes, it just doesn’t feel like you’ve got enough screen real estate. This is very common for smartphones, but the convenience of having them on hand everywhere generally makes up for this. Even...
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