battery pack
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With an auxiliary battery charge and sharing between vehicles, the Rivian R1T electric pickup will be more flexible with battery charging than other EVs.
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Tesla Model 3's battery-pack size revealed in EPA documents
The Tesla Model 3 has officially begun rolling off the assembly line, but the car will see a staggered launch. Specifically, the Model 3 in production today is what has been named the "Long Range" variant. Now, we have some additional details on that car. Preliminary EPA documents, discovered by...
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Chinese Firm Buys Fisker Battery Supplier A123 Systems
When lithium-ion battery manufacturer A123 systems declared bankruptcy last October, the move left Fisker Automotive without a battery supplier for its Karma plug-in hybrid luxury sedan. Fisker downplayed the drama, insisting that it had sufficient inventory for the near future, and that the sale...
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FondTech Reveals Electric Formula E Racing Car, The E-11
We all like to think that our cars have been developed using technology bred on the race track. It adds a sense of kudos and the impression of thoroughbred engineering to even the most mundane of vehicles. Ironic then, that with the push towards electric vehicles as road transport, the world of...
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Reduce, Re-use, Recycle: Chevy Volt's Power Pack Planter
Reducing fuel consumption and emissions is only one aspect of automotive sustainability - at the end of a car's life comes the time for its components to be re-used and recycled. We'd hope for Chevrolet's sake that its 2011 Volt models aren't already reaching the end of their life-cycles but it's...
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Porsche's $1,700 Starter Battery Option For Boxster Spyder, 911 GT3
Perhaps only Porsche, with its long legacy of pricey options, could consider charging $1,700 for a starter battery. To be fair, this isn't just any old 12-Volt lead-acid starter battery. It's a lightweight, lithium-ion pack with a similar form factor and the same mounts as a standard battery. It's...
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Driving a 2009 Tesla Roadster most effectively requires unlearning some old habits.
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Katie Holmes Rushed to Acting Class After On-Set Car Fire
Mrs. Tom Cruise runs from evil gnomes in Australia, almost catches fire.
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GM opens advanced battery lab in Michigan
Despite a bankruptcy filing that's barely a week old, General Motors is fighting to preserve its image as a relevant and potent member of the automotive industry. To that end, GM today announced the opening of its Global Battery Systems Lab in Warren, Michigan. The new lab is where GM will do the...
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Better Place shows off its automated EV battery switching station
Shai Agassi's ambitious Better Place project has been rolling out plans for test-market EVs around the world for over a year now, and today the project took a huge leap forward with the demonstration of its first automated battery swapping station. The proof-of-concept facility was demonstrated in...
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Porsche buys a Tesla Roadster for competitive research
Researching the products of competitors, even to the point of purchasing and then carefully analyzing each piece, is a common practice in the auto industry, especially so at the bleeding edges of performance and technology. Porsche's purchase of a Tesla Roadster is therefore unsurprising, except...
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Report: GM picks Volt battery supplier
Just a month or so ago, the automotive world spent a frenzied several weeks feeding over the production Chevrolet Volt, unveiled for General Motors' centennial. This week a major step forward in the car's march to full-scale production was made in the selection of a supplier for the battery, though...
Nelson Ireson