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Chinese EV Revolution, Best Electric Cars for Your Money, Solid-State Battery News — Top 13 Cleantech Stories
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! It’s the end of another week already, and I’m ready to share some of the top cleantech stories of the past week or so. This is the most heavily themed “Cleantech Stories of the ... [continued]
Mercedes Wants EV Battery Packs With Both NMC And LFP Cells
This was made possible by an innovative new power converter that can be integrated into the battery pack at a cell level.
Mercedes Reinvents Brakes For EVs, Puts Them Inside The Drive Unit
The manufacturer says in-drive brakes could provide a lifetime braking solution for electric vehicles with multiple advantages.
Mercedes tech may enable EV batteries with mixed cell types
Mercedes-Benz has its eyes on solid-state batteries with its partnership with Factorial for battery cells, but the automaker's already thinking one step beyond that. In the future, Mercedes envisions mixed battery packs with different types of cells all wired in parallel rather than today's series arrangement. The enabling factor to this is a new...
Mercedes developing solar paint for EVs
Mercedes-Benz is developing a solar coating for EVs In ideal conditions it could provide many miles of additional EV range per day Mercedes wouldn't say how the solar paint would be applied to a car Mercedes-Benz is trying to come up with any and all new ways to increase efficiency, which it believes is the new currency as it enters the EV era. In...
Earthquake And Remembrance: The Tsunami Of 2004
A new National Geographic documentary depicts the human struggle following the killer earthquake and tsunami of 2004.
The Great Grid-Scale Battery Boom Comes To The US
Grid-scale energy storage is increasing rapidly in the US as the benefits more than offset the cost of large installations.
As New Solar Design Frameworks Emerge, More Women Professionals Are Needed In The Industry
The rising job opportunities in trades like solar design and installation are pointing to a growing labor shortage of women workers.
EVTOLs Remain Grounded As Dreams Of Jetsons Lifestyle Doppler Into Future
Urban air mobility EVTOL firms are starting to reach the end of the funding and entering bankruptcy, administration, and dissolution. About time.