Nortvolt, a Swedish company founded by two former TESLA employees recently secured $1,6 billion to finance the construction of two Gigafactories, battery manufacturing plants. The locations for Northvolt One is Skellefteå, Sweden, and Northvolt Two in Salzgitter, Germany. A consortium of companies, financial institutions, and governments, including Volkswagen, BMW, UniCredit Bank Austria, and the German…
NIO was founded in Shanghai, China in 2014, and focuses on e-mobility. The first car model was revealed in 2016, the EP9, an electric-powered, two-seat sports car. Since then NIO sold over 50,000 cars, primarily in China. Interestingly, they also provide a sophisticated battery-swap infrastructure, offering a fully charged battery within 3 minutes, so far at over…
Berlin: Today, Elon Musk visited the Gigafactory 4, not far from Berlin, in Grünheide, to get the latest on the fast advancing construction progress, which begun in June this year. Elon first met with fans and the media, then took part in a topping out ceremony and toured the site to get a personal account…
Compared to last year, European electric car sales tripled, with taking 7,2% of the market share, compared to last year with 2,4%. This besides the overall trend of declining car sales due to the various impacts from the coronavirus. Between April and June climate heating CO2 emitting car sales halved, while electric car sales grew…
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After World War 2, the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany was under British occupation. The future of the automaker was unclear, the Volkswagen company which was formed during the war years, only built a few hundreds of private cars, and otherwise was focused on delivering military vehicles. Since the factory was originally constructed to built…
Things are pretty dire right now. We know we need to rapidly make some drastic changes – and Stanford researchers have come up with a master plan. Look-up your own country according to the plan https://thesolutionsproject.org/why-clean-energy/#/map/countries Credits Author: Tessa Koumoundouros / ScienceAlert Editor: Chris Machens / Climate State Narration: Cormac Bren Music: Picknick in the Meadows…