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Tesla Plans To Build Most Advanced Factory In Shanghai

Arsenij Percov — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 20:46:11 +0000

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk landed a deal with Chinese authorities on Tuesday to open a massive factory in Shanghai, China’s primary commercial city. It will be their first overseas production and assembly plant. The plant, named Gigafactory 3, will be located in Lingang near Shangai’s free trade zone. It is expected to […]

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Volkswagen to Invest $11 Billion in Electric Car Battery Factory

Courtney Lepping — Tue, 31 May 2016 18:38:07 +0000

Volkswagen wishes to make an electric car comeback by investing $11 billion in a battery factory. After suffering through the backlash of consumers who discovered the company’s diesel emissions scandal, Volkswagen plans to produce 1 million electric and plug-in hybrid cars per year by 2025. In the past Volkswagen relied on turbodiesel engines. Now, Volkswagen […]

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Tesla Looking to Build Second Gigafactory in Japan

Sarah Higman — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 03:44:06 +0000

Hot-giggaty! According to a Bloomberg report, Tesla executives are in talks with their Japanese partners about potentially building a second Gigafactory on their shores. Kurt Kelty, Tesla’s director of battery technology has been in Osaka praising Japan’s view towards technology. ‘Tesla looks to Japan for the world’s most advanced technology,’ Kelty said at an event […]

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BYD’s New Gigafactory Could Lower Lithium-Ion Battery Prices

Benji Jerew — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:25:22 +0000

As discussed, one of the things that keeps electric vehicles expensive, particularly with regard to their range per charge, is the price of lithium-ion battery packs. Chinese automaker BYD already produced a number of electric vehicles, even electric buses, and says it will triple its capacity in the next three years, putting it just about […]

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Building a Better Battery – Elon Musk

Benji Jerew — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 20:13:41 +0000

Over the years, rechargeable battery technology has grown only by short spurts, intervening time typified by stagnation, but that has not stopped innovators, such as Elon Musk, from making other improvements to the technology. We cover many new battery technologies on this site, such as Sakti3 solid-state lithium-ion cells and Envia Systems’ 400 Wh/kg cells, […]

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SolarCity and Tesla Batteries, Together Forever

Benji Jerew — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 17:21:26 +0000

We know that renewable energy, such as that provided by SolarCity solar panel installations, is only useful as long as the sun is shining, which is where Tesla batteries come in. In fact, Tesla batteries are already being offered with some SolarCity residential solar power installations in California, hopefully nationwide next year, but the plan […]

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