Gold rush for soft-technology assets in Mobile telephony, Drone Airspace and potentially renewable energy?
The first mobile telephone services which linked moving cars, started in the United States in 1946. However, the technology languished for decades all around the world, as national regulators meted and doled out minor amounts of spectrum to glacial industry supplicants via multi-year rationing commercial activities. In 1980, McKinsey was consulting with AT&T, their client, […]
Harman/Kardon, Clicking batteries, and lack of chargers causing lack of 4W EV adoption.
VoltQ’s heroes: Sidney Harman and Kardon. Sidney Harman and his boss Kardon started the company in 1953 with a 5000USD investment each. They made some of the worlds first hi-fi systems with integrated power amplifiers, tuners and pre-amplifiers. The company has done outstanding work in the field of acoustics and electronics related to the same. […]
The Atlantic on Battery Recycling: The ReCell center
From The Atlantic: “But electrification has its own environmental impacts. In particular, batteries in cellphones and electric cars require minerals that have to be mined. There is a real tension emerging between environmentalists who are very concerned about the problems associated with the renewable-energy transition and those who see those issues as minor and tractable […]
Its prudent to use EV 2Wheelers for shared mobility with battery swapping. For personal use and for last mile delivery use point charging.
The Total Cost of Ownership of EV’s in India is lowest when commercial vehicles which are 2Wheelers and 3,4 wheelers are used. The higher the utilization of the fleet the better the Total Cost of Ownership of the vehicles. This implies that shared mobility (e-rickshaws, 2W rides, 3W rides with EV’s) and food and package’s […]
Volkswagen opens a battery manufacturing division – ArenaEV
From ArenaEV writing on Volkswagen’s new battery company “Volkswagen is getting into the global cell manufacturing business with its new factory that will be built in Salzgitter, Germany. The company has officially broken ground on the new facility which is the first out of six it plans to build across Europe. The new chapter in […]
Sumant Sinha of Renew Power on energy storage in the HinduBusinessLine
Sumant Sinha in The Hindu BusinessLine Battery storage has a key role in India’s green push Sumant Sinha | “The momentum driving India’s transition to clean energy is accelerating. From Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s commitment at COP26 to achieve 500 GW of non-fossil fuel installed electricity capacity by 2030 to the green push in the […]
Ars Technica , EE Times on battery lifecycles
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/07/heres-one-way-we-know-that-an-evs-battery-will-last-the-cars-lifetime/?comments=1&sort=insightful#comments It’s an understandable concern; many of us are used to using consumer electronic devices powered by rechargable batteries that develop what’s known as “memory.” The effect is caused by repeatedly charging a cell before it has been fully depleted, resulting in the cell “forgetting” that it can deplete itself further. The lithium-ion cells used […]
Battery materials demand and supply – 2025-2030-2035 – IESA – Indian Energy storage Alliance
SIX metals are key to a low-carbon future – Carbon Brief
From CARBONbrief.org carbonbrief.org Explainer: These six metals are key to a low-carbon future – Carbon Brief 27-35 minutes The deployment of renewables and electric vehicles is expected to skyrocket as the world strives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These low-carbon technologies currently rely on a handful of key metals, some of which have been little-used […]
From Reuters: Customers want smaller, faster charging batteries and lower driving range in their EVs
From Reuters: Reuters reports that smaller batteries are being made since customers want 5 minute charging times and not necessarily very large ranges of commutes. Most drivers in North America drive 30 miles daily and in the EU, less than 15 miles daily. “In the race to go electric, carmakers have focused on range to […]