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Lucid & BMW Execs Claim Efficiency More Important Than Range For Electric Cars

14 Feb 2025 | Synopsis

"[Lucid] future model with 180 miles of range would only need a 30 kWh battery - about two thirds less than what many manufacturers install in their electric cars today. “Then we can make a battery pack for about $2,500 - maybe $2,000...

"People are fixated on how fast their EVs can charge, but that is old-fashioned thinking left over from the days of gasoline...The idea that their car can charge while they are off doing other things is an alien concept that takes some getting used to."

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Ford's CEO On Large EVs: Problems are 'Unresolvable'

14 Feb 2025 | Synopsis

"For larger retail, electric utilities, the economics are unresolvable...These vehicles have worse aerodynamics, and they're very heavy, which means very large and expensive batteries.

"Measuring the efficiency of an EV is based on what’s known as miles per kilowatt-hour of electricity. Near 4 miles per kWh is pretty good...a giant Hummer EV... drops to a mere 1.5 miles per kilowatt-hour of electricity.

"Ford now wants to build a midsize

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US Senator Cruz List of "Woke" Science Includes Self-Driving Cars and Solar Eclipses

14 Feb 2025 | Synopsis

"...grant was one of over 3,400 NSF grants labeled by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as 'woke DEI" research that may be advancing 'neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda.'

"The list included projects aimed at finding better ways of synthesizing new medications; studying how to make self-driving vehicles safer...Many of the research proposals that seem wholly unrelated to DEI were likely flagged because they included language about broadening the participation of women and underrepresented groups in science."

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How A Handful of Australians Are Powering Their Homes and the Grid With Their Electric Cars...and Profiting From it

14 Feb 2025 | Synopsis

"...there's another step you could take. If you have a bidirectional charger, you can set it to sell power back to the grid when demand is high.

"Fewer than ten people across Australia actually do this, because the technology - known as Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) - is very new.. announced new Australian standards and communications protocols for bidirectional chargers in a bid to make it mainstream...small profit of about A$1,000 annually..."

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Hyundai Starts Solid-State Battery Production In March

12 Feb 2025 | Synopsis

"The inauguration of the Dream battery pilot plant [in Uiwang, South Korea] is not far away"...it will be able to present an electric prototype using this new battery by the end of 2025.

"...announced an investment of €9 billion over 10 years to establish itself in the market with various technologies...these include solid-state batteries."

Motor1 noted that the Dream batteries will also be used in the Supernal eVTOL pictured."

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Colorado Tesla Dealership Vandalized With "Offensive" Graffiti, Broken Gass In Third Attack In 2 weeks, Police Say

12 Feb 2025 | Synopsis

"Various vehicles and the Tesla building were vandalized with graffiti, some of which were offensive and hateful in nature...Similar incidents occurred at the dealership on Jan. 29 and Feb. 2, 'however, these incidents were of lesser magnitude than today's...The company and individual Tesla owners have seen instances of alleged vandalism in the last few months, with local news outlets reporting incidents of vandalism to Tesla vehicles -- both at dealerships and in public -- in Florida, Oregon, Canada, and Australia."

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The Geopolitics of Lithium in 2025

12 Feb 2025 | Synopsis

"The new U.S. administration must rethink its entire lithium policy vis-a-vis other nations by focusing on the Western Hemisphere...In the lithium sector outside of Australia...the Lithium Triangle is increasingly becoming the focus of attention for major global powers...the United States has largely neglected Latin America from a geopolitical perspective...Marco Rubio is the secretary of state, there will be more interest in Latin America..."

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Battery Storage Powered A Super Bowl, And It Will Fuel The Future

12 Feb 2025 | Synopsis

"...most people are unaware that the green energy community triumphed a year earlier during the historic [2024] game in Las Vegas. At that time, renewable energy powered the entire game using long-term energy storage.

"...200-megawatt solar array and 375-megawatt-hour battery storage project in the Mojave Desert, Nevada - the one that fueled the 2024 Super Bowl. With its 600,000 solar panels, the project powered the big game..."

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Brace Yourself, the First All-Electric Ferrari Will Land This Autumn

11 Feb 2025 | Synopsis

The first all-electric Ferrari will be officially unveiled on Thursday, 9 October 2025...Details surrounding Ferrari's first all-electric car are scarce at this point...leaked photos do appear to show that the electric car will not be a two-seater supercar and could be a four-door GT like the Purosangue (pictured)...Ferrari...will maintain a steady mix of internal combustion, hybrid, and electric models...power figures could be well north of 1000 bhp"

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Why Tomorrow's Breakthroughs Will Come From Polyintelligent Thinking

11 Feb 2025 | Synopsis

"...a third, equally crucial, kind of intelligence is being left out of the discussion: nature’s intelligence.

"...this integrated framework is already beginning to revolutionize biotechnology... polyintelligence is enabling breakthroughs that no single form of intelligence—or even the convergence of two—could achieve on their own.

"Beyond biomedicine, polyintelligent thinking, polyintelligent systems, and polyintelligent solutions will have wider applications..."

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