Hacker News with Generative AI: Battery Technology

How BYD's battery breakthrough is about to bury Elon Musk's Tesla (independent.co.uk)
The Chinese automaker has overtaken its US rival to become the world’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer, writes Anthony Cuthbertson. A new charging technology could now prove catastrophic for Elon Musk’s car company

Electric Vehicles, China, Tesla, Battery Technology, Competition

16 points by DocFeind 5 days ago | 4 comments

Nearly 100% of Lithium Recycled in Latest EV Battery Breakthrough (insideevs.com)
Chinese battery scientists developed a special technique to make battery recycling cheaper and way more efficient.

Battery Technology, Lithium, Recycling, Electric Vehicles

9 points by toomuchtodo 10 days ago | 0 comments

BYD's New 'Megawatt' EV Charging Is So Fast It Makes Gas Irrelevant (insideevs.com)
BYD's New 'Megawatt' EV Charging Is So Fast It Makes Gas Irrelevant

Electric Vehicles, Charging Technology, Automotive Industry, Renewable Energy, Battery Technology

24 points by 01-_- 14 days ago | 28 comments

BYD's 5-minute charge: is time running out for electric-vehicle rivals? (ft.com)
BYD’s 5-minute charge: is time running out for electric-vehicle rivals?

Electric Vehicles, Battery Technology, Competition, Business, China

11 points by madog 14 days ago | 1 comments

Bloomberg: BYD's Five-Minute Charges Compare with Competitors (Gift Article) (bloomberg.com)
Chinese automaker BYD Co. is turning heads with claims that it’s developed an electric-vehicle platform it says will enable drivers to charge an EV in roughly the same time it takes to refuel a gasoline car.

Electric Vehicles, China, Battery Technology, Automotive Industry

9 points by ZeroCool2u 14 days ago | 4 comments

BYD Unveils Battery System That Charges an EV in Five Minutes (bloomberg.com)
BYD Co. shares jumped to a record after the Chinese automaker unveiled a line-up of electric vehicles that it says can charge almost as fast as it takes to refuel a regular car.

Electric Vehicles, Battery Technology, China, Automobiles

7 points by helsinkiandrew 16 days ago | 1 comments

BYD confirms new 1000V Super E-Platform capable of fast charging 400 km in 5 min (electrek.co)
We EV enthusiasts have heard it all from the haters before. “What are you gonna do with all those batteries?” “There’s just not enough range,” and, of course, “Charging takes so much longer than a gas station visit.” As previously teased, Chinese auto conglomerate BYD has introduced a new 1,000-volt EV platform that can enable charging rates as fast (or perhaps faster) than a trip to the gas station. We’re talking five minutes.

Electric Vehicles, Battery Technology, Fast Charging, China, Automotive Industry

23 points by divbzero 16 days ago | 5 comments

Battery breakthrough as 99.99% of lithium extracted from old cells (the-independent.com)
Scientists have discovered a way to recycle nearly 100 per cent of the materials within lithium-ion batteries.

Battery Technology, Recycling, Sustainability

8 points by tambourine_man 20 days ago | 0 comments

Swedish Battery Maker Northvolt Collapses, a Blow to Europe (nytimes.com)
Northvolt, Europe’s biggest hope for producing batteries in the region to power the transition to electric vehicles, will be split up and sold after it filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday in its home country, Sweden.

Electric Vehicles, Battery Technology, Business, Europe, Sweden

12 points by donohoe 21 days ago | 0 comments

Battery Maker Northvolt Files for Bankruptcy in Sweden (bloomberg.com)
Northvolt ran out of money after a series of operational blunders.

Battery Technology, Business, Bankruptcy, Sweden

16 points by JumpCrisscross 22 days ago | 2 comments

Rechargeable paper battery is cheaper, safer and as powerful as lithium (newatlas.com)
A battery that's safer and cheaper than lithium-ion while offering comparable energy density? That sounds like a pipe dream. But such a battery is in fact in the works, using a chemistry of renewables to store over 220 Wh/kg. Singaporean startup Flint believes it has the formula for the most sustainable battery the world has ever seen, capable of replacing lithium for applications like EV power and grid storage. Maybe that is a dream.

Battery Technology, Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Alternative Energy

12 points by simonebrunozzi 24 days ago | 2 comments

Building an Open-Source Battery (lwn.net)
FOSDEM 2025 featured the usual talks about open-source software, but, as always, the conference also offered the opportunity to discover some more exotic and less software-centric topics.

Open Source, Hardware, Battery Technology, FOSDEM

4 points by pabs3 35 days ago | 0 comments

Eco-friendly aluminum battery lasts 10k cycles with minimal loss (techxplore.com)
Large batteries for long-term storage of solar and wind power are key to integrating abundant and renewable energy sources into the U.S. power grid. However, there is a lack of safe and reliable battery technologies to support the push toward sustainable, clean energy. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Central Science have designed a cost-effective and environment-friendly aluminum-ion (Al-ion) battery that could fit the bill.

Battery Technology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Environment

30 points by Brajeshwar 67 days ago | 11 comments

Redwood Materials recycled a record 20 GWh of batteries in 2024 (twitter.com)

Recycling, Battery Technology, Sustainability, Environmentalism, Business

3 points by peterisza 90 days ago | 1 comments

Tesla Is Recalling Cybertruck Batteries (cleantechnica.com)
Tesla has been quietly replacing their battery packs, seemingly a lot of them.

Tesla, Electric Vehicles, Battery Technology, Recalls

17 points by taimurkazmi 91 days ago | 6 comments

CATL wants to phase out gas stations with EV battery swap plans, 10 new EVs (electrek.co)
The world’s leading EV battery maker wants to make gas stations a thing of the past.

Electric Vehicles, Battery Technology, Energy, China

4 points by peutetre 105 days ago | 0 comments

Silicon Anode Batteries for EVs Are Ready for Production (ieee.org)
While the world is waiting—and waiting—for the giant leap to solid-state batteries, a nimble step to silicon anode cells is well underway. That transitional stage includes a key ingredient made in the U.S., not China.

Electric Vehicles, Battery Technology, Silicon, Manufacturing

9 points by rbanffy 110 days ago | 0 comments

Lithium-Ion Battery Pack Prices See Largest Drop Since 2017, Falling to $115kWHr (bnef.com)
New York, December 10, 2024 – Battery prices saw their biggest annual drop since 2017. Lithium-ion battery pack prices dropped 20% from 2023 to a record low of $115 per kilowatt-hour, according to analysis by research provider BloombergNEF (BNEF). Factors driving the decline include cell manufacturing overcapacity, economies of scale, low metal and component prices, adoption of lower-cost lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) batteries, and a slowdown in electric vehicle sales growth.

Battery Technology, Energy Storage, Electric Vehicles, Economics

11 points by gnabgib 112 days ago | 0 comments

Fire risk assessment of battery home storage compared to general house fires (ssrn.com)
Battery storage systems are becoming an integral part of the energy transition, as they offer the possibility of bridging time windows in which self-generated renewable energy is not available and they are able to deliver manifold system services to the grid.

Energy, Fire Safety, Battery Technology, Renewable Energy

185 points by gnabgib 114 days ago | 205 comments

BYD launches sodium-ion grid-scale BESS product (energy-storage.news)
Chinese EV giant BYD has launched what an executive claimed is the ‘world’s first high-performance’ sodium-ion BESS product, using its proprietary form factor Long Blade Battery cell.

Battery Technology, Energy Storage, China, Electric Vehicles

139 points by toomuchtodo 125 days ago | 150 comments

Battery Replacement Costs Are Poised to Plunge: 'Cheaper Than Fixing an Engine' (insideevs.com)
Climate research firms expect the prices of lithium, a key raw material in an EV battery, to plummet in the coming years.

Battery Technology, Electric Vehicles, Lithium, Cost, Climate Research

6 points by bilsbie 129 days ago | 0 comments

Battery unicorn Northvolt files for bankruptcy, co-founder and CEO resigns (techcrunch.com)
Beleaguered Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt announced on Thursday that it was filing for bankruptcy in the U.S., striking a blow to Europe’s ambitions for homegrown lithium-ion batteries.

Battery Technology, Business, Europe, Bankruptcy

15 points by car 131 days ago | 1 comments

Electric car batteries last longer than expected (study) – ecomento.de (ecomento.de)
Die Unternehmensberatung P3 hat Daten von mehr als 7.000 Elektroautos analysiert und Erkenntnisse zur realen Batteriealterung in der Praxis veröffentlicht.

Electric Vehicles, Battery Technology, Research, Germany

39 points by xbmcuser 132 days ago | 19 comments

CATL Founder Burns Elon Musk (cleantechnica.com)
I was reading through Steve’s article on CATL’s fascinating new move into producing EV platforms and CATL founder Robin Zeng’s take on solid-state batteries. Them, way down at the bottom, I got to Zeng’s comments about discussions with Elon Musk. Holy cow — there were some jaw droppers there!

Electric Vehicles, Battery Technology, Business, Competition

10 points by Arnt 140 days ago | 0 comments

Solid-state batteries enter pilot production, costs expected to drastically drop (pv-magazine.com)
The push to commercialize solid-state batteries (SSBs) is underway with industries from automotive to storage betting on the technology. But while the hype around full solid-state batteries has somewhat subsided, with the technology taking longer than expected to take off, semi-solid-state batteries, which use a hybrid design of solid and liquid electrolyte, have been making steady progress toward commercialization.

Solid-State Batteries, Battery Technology, Energy Storage, Automotive

30 points by rustoo 152 days ago | 4 comments

The Battery Revolution Is Finally Here (insideevs.com)
Electric vehicles are advancing at an incredible pace, but we’re very much still in the early days.

Electric Vehicles, Battery Technology, Green Technology

47 points by xbmcuser 156 days ago | 50 comments

How the United States Can Win the Battery Race (foreignpolicy.com)
The United States is squandering its best opportunity to compete in the global battery race.

United States, Battery Technology, Global Competition

14 points by sirpenguin 162 days ago | 3 comments

EV battery prices to fall by nearly 50 pct and near ICE parity by 2026 (thedriven.io)
Global electric vehicle (EV) battery prices could drop by almost another 50 per cent by 2026, according to Goldman Sachs Research, bringing with it the potential of price parity with internal combustion engine (ICE) cars.

Electric Vehicles, Battery Technology, Automotive Industry, Pricing

38 points by doener 168 days ago | 75 comments

Electric vehicle battery prices are expected to fall almost 50% by 2026 (goldmansachs.com)
Technology advances that have allowed electric vehicle battery makers to increase energy density, combined with a drop in green metal prices, will push battery prices lower than previously expected, according to Goldman Sachs Research.

Electric Vehicles, Battery Technology, Green Metals, Market Trends, Price Predictions

45 points by doener 173 days ago | 127 comments

How GM Is Going To Cut EV Prices By $6,000 Per Vehicle (insideevs.com)
The race is on for cheap EVs. Seriously—almost every automaker is hellbent on duking it out to get cheaper EVs on the road, especially to compete with cheaper Chinese vehicles on America's doorstep. It looks like General Motors may have finally found a way to cut costs significantly on the most expensive part of an electric car: the battery.

Electric Vehicles, Automotive Industry, Battery Technology, Cost Reduction

4 points by peutetre 175 days ago | 0 comments