Electrification

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The battery-electric-vehicle sector is moving from early adopters to the early majority, a senior ChargePoint official says. “They’re not driving electric because they have a purpose in driving it. They’re not willing to suffer” bad charging experiences.

Tesla’s Investor Day presentation left its intended audience disappointed but underscored the constant improvement Tesla manufacturing undergoes and just what’s stopping legacy automakers from doing the same.

The ’23 Volkswagen electric ID.4 SUV gives the one of the best ADAS performances yet in our test drive, handling every highway curve without disengagement and providing a great overall driving experience.

The U.S. faces several challenges before it can create a domestic battery supply chain. Foremost among them, how to increase domestically sourced and produced lithium battery cells from 8% to 90%?

Three new Cadillac BEVs are coming, a new Ram BEV might be coming and VW may be leaning on old names for two future models.

Bob Galyen, currently chairman emeritus of NAATBatt, the largest battery industry association in the U.S.,and chairman of the SAE’s international battery standards steering committee, discusses the future of battery-electric vehicles and batteries.

The battery in an electric vehicle can account for up to 50% of its production costs. Battery chemistry receives most of the cost-reduction attention. But the battery-manufacturing process offers many opportunities for cost savings, too.

Battery chemistry is advancing rapidly, spurred on by the high cost of raw materials and a coming gap in their supply. But the next big thing in batteries won’t be anything exotic or even that new. It’s a revived failure from the first Nissan Leaf.

Reports of Tesla’s decline are greatly exaggerated, per CEO Elon Musk, while Honda and Toyota try to get on track with the rest of the industry.

In pulling together Faurecia and Hella to form Forvia, executives say they have created a Tier 1 supplier with the size and breadth to continue to innovate. A key, they believe, will be developing products consumers really want and can afford.

The company’s DC fast chargers have batteries integrated into the unit, to lessen energy demands at a site. Site preparation for traditional DCFCs can require a megawatt or more of power be brought to a location.