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24 May 2021 1:42 pm / 0 comments Ford and South Korea’s SK Innovation announced last week that they have signed an MoU to create a joint venture to produce approximately 60 GWh annually in traction battery cells and array modules. The plan for the JV – to be called BlueOvalSK – is to start production mid-decade, with potential to expand. “Through the JV, Ford and SKI will jointly develop and industrialise battery cells at scale that are tailored to deliver optimum performance and va...

Solid Power Goes Beyond Solid-State Cells: It’s An SSB Platform May 24, 2021 at 10:20am ET ++ This platform promises to cut cathode active material costs by 90 percent. We have always written about Solid Power as if it was developing a solid-state battery. If we knew back then what we know now, we would have told our readers it goes beyond that. Thankfully, Solid Power allowed us to correct that today by saying what it really is about: a solid-stat...

Can We Trust That Estrema Fulminea Will Have Solid-State Cells? May 19, 2021 at 5:44pm ET ++ Abee, the supplier, told us more about how they plan to fulfill its promise. It is not easy to be the new kid on the block, especially in the automotive industry. People tend not to believe you, especially when you make bold claims. After Automobili Estrema announced it would probably be the first company to sell an EV with solid-state batteries, we tried to ...

Ford and SK Innovation announce battery manufacturing joint venture BlueOvalSK Ford Motor Company and Seoul, South Korea-based SK Innovation signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a joint venture to domestically manufacture batteries for electric vehicles, the two companies said Thursday. The new venture, dubbed BlueOvalSK, will produce around 60 GWh annually starting mid-decade. The MOU is the latest sign that Ford intends to vertically develop its battery capabilities. “Initiall...

Message : Required fields Ford and SK Innovation today announce they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a joint venture – to be called BlueOvalSK – to manufacture battery cells and arrays in the U.S. BlueOvalSK to produce approximately 60 gigawatt hours (GWh) annually with potential to expand, starting mid-decade By 2030, Ford expects annual energy demand for its vehicles will be up to 140 GWh annually in North America and up to 240 GWh globally; the company has invested in...

Here’s a crypto-meets-transportation story for you before we move onto the rest of the news. Just weeks after Tesla CEO Elon Musk and CFO Zach Kirkhorn said they believe in the longevity of bitcoin, the company has changed its stance. Musk, who has dubbed himself Technoking, tweeted that Tesla has suspended purchases of its electric vehicles with the cryptocurrency because of its concern about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal. The twe...

Solid Power Fast forward to the 1950s and some systems were employed using silver ions, but it wasnt until Oak Ridge National Laboratory created a new class of solid-state electrolytes in the 1990s that people and industry really started to take notice. Ford and BMW arent the only automakers looking into this technology. In 2012, Toyota began conducting research for automotive applications and now holds the most SSB-related patents through its long partnership with electronics maker Panason...

[co-author: Oretha A. Manu] Hydrostor Receives Funding for Utility-Scale A-CAES Facility On 15 April, Hydrostor announced receipt of nearly US$4 million in funding from Natural Resources Canada’s Energy Innovation Program and Sustainable Development Technology to develop a 300-500 megawatt (MW) Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage (A-CAES) facility. An A-CAES facility uses renewable energy or excess grid energy to compress air that is then funneled into underground caverns, displacing water...

QuantumScape CEO Talks About Competitors, Short Sellers And SSBs May 14, 2021 at 2:06pm ET ++ He did that in an interview with Sandy Munro. QuantumScape was attacked by Scorpion Capital with a report that said that the company was a “pump-and-dump SPAC scam.” Jagdeep Singh’s first interview after that would be one worth watching, and it was Sandy Munro who did it. If that is not enough for you to spend a little more than one hour with this vide...

DEARBORN (dpa-AFX) - Solid Power, a producer of all-solid-state batteries for electric vehicles, announced the appointment of Ted Miller and Rainer Feurer to its Board. Ted Miller was appointed