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Special Report

Battery and EV charging technology advances

Even as the growth in EV sales has slowed, the auto industry is charging forward developing new battery and charging technologies. This comprehensive report explains how Tesla won the charging game, how battery recycling will develop and what new technologies will increase battery energy density and safety.

How Tesla’s Supercharger network set industry standard

Tesla’s charging connector is slimmer and easier to handle than the competing CCS standard. But what really convinced rival automakers to switch was Tesla’s superior charging network, analysts say.
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“When Tesla announced the North American Charging Standard, most everyone in the industry scoffed and said, ‘Who are they to say this is a standard?’”
Matt Teske, CEO of Chargeway

Solid-state EV batteries just over the horizon

Solid-state batteries promise big jumps in energy density and charging, but they’re still not ready for mass commercialization
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Supply of minerals lags EV policy demands

Despite a lull, EV battery mineral shortages are expected to grow as autos compete with the demand from other industries.
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“If you equate us to a lithium or nickel mine, we are the largest producer to come online in the last few decades.”
Alexis Georgeson, spokesperson for battery recycler Redwood Materials

New EV battery chemistries emerge even as solid-state technology advances

Scientists, battery companies and automakers try to develop safe batteries built with accessible materials that enable long driving range and fast charging.
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“This is the very first out in the very first inning of a massive transition where a lot of EVs are going to reach the end of their lives.”
Freeman Hall, president of B2U Storage Solutions

Recycling can help fill battery materials shortages

Battery manufacturing scrap and spent EV and electronic device batteries provide a ready supply of needed materials
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Surging energy storage demand provides ‘second leg’ for zero-emission vehicle technology

EV batteries and hydrogen fuel cells find a fresh purpose as demand for stationary energy storage swells.
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“There are a bunch of potentially promising alternatives to lithium ion batteries. But all of them have engineering challenges, and potentially some of them have cost challenges.”
Jeremy Michalek, director of the vehicle electrification group at Carnegie Mellon University

Growing U.S. EV charging network to improve with faster systems, updated software

Drivers will start to experience better, more reliable and faster charging, critical factors needed for the transition to EVs, industry experts say.
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Current EV battery chemistry maintains lead as research on improved formulations continues

But variations of a lithium iron phosphate chemistry could make up a third of the market by 2030, surging from less than 10 percent today, according to Boston Consulting Group.
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