Category: "Batteries"
New Energy Narrative posts about lithium-ion batteries, vanadium redox flow batteries, etc.
- German EV battery maker, Akasol, is seeking to set up shop in Detroit, Michigan, where it hopes to benefit from being in close proximity to the United States’ “Big Three” automakers
- NYSE-listed Chinese EV maker NIO is recalling almost 5,000 of its flagship ES8 all-electric SUVs due to its batteries made by China’s CATL overheating and spontaneously combusting
- Chinese EV startup NIO has begun deliveries of its new ES6, complete with NCM 811 batteries, despite multiple instances of its earlier ES8 model spontaneously combusting
- Chinese EV battery giant CATL to invest 1.8 billion euros (US$2.05 billion) into a lithium-ion battery production base in Thuringia, Germany, with productiion slated for 2021
- Unlike Tesla, BMW doesn’t seem too keen on making its own batteries, at least not yet, and this is apparently rubbing German government officials the wrong way
- In a move that could open the Chinese EV market up to Korean and Japanese battery makers, China has scrapped its list of “recommended auto battery suppliers,” which had favored domestic firms
- In major blow to the battery industry’s plans to mass-produce unsafe low-cobalt batteries, 4,803 EVs that use CATL’s NMC 811 batteries are being recalled over fire risk
- Following a very public fallout of sorts with its primary battery provider, Panasonic, Tesla appears to be planning to produce its own EV batteries in-house
