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[ad_1] Hyundai Motor’s high-performance N sub-brand revealed the RN22e and N Vision 74 “rolling lab” concepts to demonstrate Hyundai Motor’s ambition to become a leader in the zero-emissions future. Hyundai Motor’s rolling labs are vehicles in which the company tests and verifies advanced technologies to apply them to future production models. N Vison 74 (left), […]

[ad_1] UK order books are now open for the new, fully-electric Volkswagen ID. Buzz, with prices starting from £57,115. The ID. Buzz is Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles’ first pure-electric vehicle and features a 77kWh lithium-ion battery, supplying 150kW to a rear-mounted electric motor that develops 310Nm of torque and is capable of an all-electric driving range

[ad_1] Sodium-ion batteries have great promise. They’re energy dense, nonflammable, and operate well in colder temperatures, and sodium is cheap and abundant. Plus, sodium-based batteries will be more environmentally friendly and even less expensive than lithium-ion batteries are becoming now. Sodium-ion battery performance has been limited because of poor durability, but this is about to

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[ad_1] The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the finalists in the $4-million American-Made Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize, a competition supporting innovations that help lower the costs and reduce the environmental impacts of extracting lithium from geothermal brines. Demand for lithium—a critical material used in batteries for electric vehicles, grid-scale electricity storage, phones, and laptops—has