Author: CleanTechnica

SK Signet has announced that it has signed an agreement with EV charging network Francis Energy to supply it with 1,000 of the company’s 400 kW EV charging dispensers (chargers). Francis Energy may not be as familiar a name as Electrify America, EVgo, or Tesla, but it’s the 4th largest EV fast charging network in […]

It's official. A second-generation of the Chevy Bolt is coming ... soon. Details at this point are nonexistent.

For the next few months, Tesla is offering a $500 rebate on its Powerwall energy storage hardware. Here’s how you can get access to the rebate with the installation of a Powerwall battery system — so long as you install the equipment within a certain timeframe.

As the transition to electric mobility accelerates around the world, several companies are working hard to ensure that the African continent is not left behind. One of the key focus areas in several African countries has been on the electric motorcycle sector.  With millions of internal combustion engine motorcycles already on the road on the […]

Battery recycling company and Tesla partner Redwood Materials is currently in discussion to raise as much as $700 million in funding. If all goes according to plan, the funding would put the company’s valuation at nearly $5 billion ahead of the company’s plans to construct a new factory in Nevada — though it isn’t yet a done […]

As I wrote earlier today, this new electric vehicle era is all about batteries, batteries, batteries. Much of that simply means scaling up the battery supply chain and scaling up battery production, but it also means innovating and improving battery chemistry. While Hyundai is working with SK On and LG Energy Solution on the former, […]

Before you ask, it’s not clear who Panasonic will be producing these batteries for. Rather, the focus is on Panasonic getting this special silicon anode material from the UK company Nexeon, and stated reason is “to boost the performance of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles (EVs).” Panasonic already produces high-quality, high-performance batteries, most notably for […]

We are leaving the oil & gas era and heading into the electric vehicle era, and the base of that new era is batteries, batteries, batteries. Stellantis and Samsung SDI are advancing their tokens in this new era with an announcement of a second US battery gigafactory. Back in May of last year (2022), Stellantis […]

Australia has long been known for being “the lucky country.” Our mineral wealth helped us avoid the worst of the GFC and we are currently avoiding recession because of the high value of our coal and gas exports (sadly, as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine). We are also likely to profit from […]

A little known provision in the Inflation Reduction Act is creating new business opportunities in battery recycling in America.