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The Auto Industry Does Potentially Have A Sales Crisis Coming With EVs - But It's Not What You Think

12 May 2025 | Synopsis

"...the good news is that EV sales do keep growing, in some regions faster than in others, but almost everywhere...there is potentially a long-term sales demand concern for the auto industry when it comes to EVs...If electric cars are more reliable, which they are, and last longer - or are 'like new' for longer - then automakers could struggle to find as many new car buyers...there may be less demand on the used car market.."

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Polestar Makes Old EVs Less Scary To Buy

12 May 2025 | Synopsis

"On Polestar 2s being sold through Polestar's certified pre-owned program, the dealer will check what the battery's state-of-health is. This will be shown on the certification documents as a percentage of how much maximum capacity remains, compared to when it was new.

"...in addition to the standard 112-point inspection used to get a Polestar 2 certified...program includes a 24-month warranty on top whatever is remaining of the standard 8-year or 100,000-mile warranty on the battery and motors."

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New Study Reveals Incredible Financial Impact Of Making The Switch To An Electric Vehicle - Here's The Breakdown

10 May 2025 | Synopsis

"A new study has revealed that electric vehicles could save money for 80% of drivers, with motorists saving on average close to $8,000.

"...research conducted by New AutoMotive and published by Electric Vehicles UK assessed around 480 scenarios and found that owning an EV can save most people around £5,850 (close to $8,000)...people with home charging stations were likely to save more..."

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Elysian Aircraft CEO On Rethinking Electric Flight At Airline Scale

10 May 2025 | Synopsis

"Most studies simply tried to electrify today's fuel-efficient planes and hit a wall with battery weight."

it follows the traditional tube-and-wing layout, so it fits right in on routes like London to Amsterdam.

"Battery-electric systems are four to six times more energy-efficient than hydrogen or SAF, retaining over 80% of input energy. Hydrogen does address battery weight and range limitations, but it loses much more energy across production, storage, and distribution."

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CATL Unveils 9 MWh TENER Stack Energy Storage System That Can Charge 150 EVs

10 May 2025 | Synopsis

"...the company unveiled a 20-foot-tall energy storage system (ESS) called the TENER Stack...offers breakthroughs in storage capacity, deployment flexibility, safety, and transportation efficiency. It also has the energy storage capabilities to charge 150 EVs.

"The towering energy storage system offers a "world's first" storage capacity of 9 MWh supported by CATL's high-energy-density LFP cells...Due to their massive size and weight less than 36 tons in many countries."

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Could Seattle Transit Include Water-Skipping Electric Vessels? This Irish Company Hopes So

10 May 2025 | Synopsis

"Irish company Artemis Technologies'... high-tech boat...will be built on the banks of the Duwamish River as it enters Puget Sound... hydrofoils...have been around Puget Sound for a long time

"The Marine Division is actively exploring new, high-efficiency vessel designs and no or low-emission propulsion systems for the next generation of its fleet..the county is also looking at diesel-powered vessels, along with many other technological options..."

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BYD's 5-Minute EV Fast Charging: We Tried It. It's A Game-Changer

08 May 2025 | Synopsis

"...InsideEVs...the sole Western outlet invited...can confirm that five-minute fast-charging is very real.

"BYD's breakthrough isn't just a car, or a battery, or the charger itself. It's all three, and how they work in concert with each other...starts with BYD's new Super e-Platform. The automaker claims it's the world's first mass-produced vehicle platform on a 1,000-volt electrical architecture..ultra-high level of voltage...BYD calls a "kilovolt architecture".

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Whisper Unveils Autonomous Aircraft Family For Contested Logistics

08 May 2025 | Synopsis

"Collaborative Logistics Aircraft (CLA) family comprises the clean-sheet Group 3 uncrewed CLA Light, with a 500-lb. payload, and the Group 5 optionally piloted CLA Heavy, a retrofitted nine-passenger aircraft able to carry 3,000 lb. of cargo...The CLA Light has a 40-kW powerplant that drives an array of 12 eQ250s on the wing leading edge...The 10,140 lb. CLA Heavy has a 600-kW powerplant driving 30 ducted fans on the leading edge of a new 50-ft.

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Hackers Manage To Take Control of Nissan Leaf's Steering Remotely

08 May 2025 | Synopsis

Researchers from Budapest-based PCAutomotive traveled to Black Hat Asia 2025 to demonstrate how they managed to hack into a 2020 Nissan Leaf...With some lines of code and used parts sourced from eBay and a junkyard, the hackers could record passenger audio, sound the horn and, yes, yank the wheel...The team identified a list of 10 vulnerabilities that allowed it to access the Leaf's infotainment system and notified Nissan."

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Connected Energy and Forsee Power to Develop Grid-Scale Energy Storage Using Second Life Batteries From Electric Buses

08 May 2025 | Synopsis

Connected Energy and Forsee Power...(a)greement to jointly design and develop a modular, scalable energy storage solution...second life technology with Forsee Power's ZEN 35 and ZEN 42 battery packs, which are deployed in about 1,500 electric buses in Europe

"The first 2.5MWh system will be operational in the UK in the final quarter of 2025. Following this first project, it is anticipated that further projects, each typically exceeding 25MWh

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Fuel-Cell Solution Promises To Solve Power Issues For Dismounted Operations

07 May 2025 | Synopsis

"The fuel-cell solution is aimed at use in battery-powered drones, satellite-based systems, location and identification sensors, and other communication systems...Based on the direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) technology, those products were engineered to be silent, emission-free and signature-free...The best lithium-ion technology these days achieves roughly 200 to maybe 300-watt hours per kilogram. [SFC] fuel cells exceed 1400."

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Indian and Malaysian Researchers Team Up To Create Bio-Based Membranes For Fuel Cells

07 May 2025 | Synopsis

"...team of scientists from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal" ...and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia..."have been exploring the potential of natural materials to replace Nafion...three natural ingredients: sulfonated poly(vinyl alcohol) (SPVA), chitosan (CH), and cellulose nanocrystals (CNC)...The membrane with 3% CNCs had the highest selectivity among all the ones they tested, meaning it did the best job overall at its two main tasks."

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