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January 20, 2021 by Team EAI
This is a part of the EV Innovation Intelligence series Many e-mobility industry watchers would doubtless have come across new articles and TV shows centered around the theme of Lithium scarcity. Estimations show that by 2025, 75% of the world lithium consumption will be for batteries. If Lithium forms the core...
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January 20, 2021 by Team EAI
This is a part of the EV Innovation Intelligence series Until recently, conventional vehicles were dominated mainly by mechanical engineering and petroleum engineering. The former ensured the vehicles were safe and robust. The latter ensured that the vehicles had fuel from any place imaginable, at a reasonable price. Since 2000, even...
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January 20, 2021 by Team EAI
This is a part of the EV Innovation Intelligence series A large car could weigh about 1.5 tons, the largest truck could weigh 25 tons (15-20 times as much as a large car), and could be required to travel much longer distances on a single trip compared to a car. If...
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January 20, 2021 by Team EAI
This is a part of the EV Innovation Intelligence series In its early days, charging an electric vehicle could take 8-10 hours. Surely no one would wait that long for a vehicle to be charged, unless of course it is charged while the owner is doing something else - sleeping,...
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January 20, 2021 by Team EAI
This is a part of the EV Innovation Intelligence series It was said that the stone age did not end because of the lack of stones. It can be similarly argued that the reign of oil as the fuel for transport could end much before scarcity of oil hits the...
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January 20, 2021 by Team EAI
This is a part of the EV Innovation Intelligence series The battery is a fairly old industry, over 100 years old. (The very first lead-acid battery was invented in 1859 by a French physicist, Gaston Planté). Even the relative newcomer, Li-ion battery has been around for over 30 years, as...
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January 20, 2021 by Team EAI
This is a part of the EV Innovation Intelligence series For about a year now, there has been buzz around the concept of million mile battery. Now, I think it was Tesla that started it all, though there are some variants of the million mile battery we keep hearing about...
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January 20, 2021 by Team EAI
This is a part of the EV Innovation Intelligence series Li-ion is the dominant standard for batteries for the e-mobility industry. And most industry experts think that Li-ion chemistry has established a strong foundation that will last at least for a couple of decades. Or will it? While some battery...
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January 20, 2021 by Team EAI
This is a part of the EV Innovation Intelligence series In 2011, I was at a conference on biofuels at Orlando, Florida. During one of the breaks, I caught up with a senior Boeing executive. We got chatting, and out of curiosity, I asked him what Boeing thought about use...
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January 20, 2021 by Team EAI
This is a part of the EV Innovation Intelligence series Micro-mobility refers to very short distance transportation - of the kind almost every one of us to many times a week. It could be running to a grocery store nearby or just taking your bicycle out for a 3 Km fun...
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