Motoring Weekly has written about the plans that Mercedes-Benz has to go electric with their EQ Series of vehicles. They have stated that they would like to get to 25% sales of their fleet being from the EQ range by 2025. They have also said that they want their EQ vehicles to look different from other Mercedes-Benz models which seems to be a strange idea. What is wrong with … [Read more...]
Battery Metals
Modern humans in the developed world today are used to using some form of rechargeable battery, whether it is in a mobile phone, a laptop or an electric vehicle. Most of us don’t think about the contents of the battery other than the amount of charge it holds! However, the internal guts of these batteries may well become the foundation of new wars as the need and therefore … [Read more...]
The Electrification of Europe
I read an interesting article about the electrification of Europe namely how the big manufacturing groups are retooling their factories to produce more electric vehicles. Firstly, there was an announcement by Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), a major battery supplier in China, who are building a factory near Erfurt in Germany to satisfy orders from companies such as … [Read more...]
Mercedes-Benz adds 48-volt Technology to New Vehicles
Last year I wrote an article about 48 volt batteries and that Audi had started to fit them to their SQ7 model. Batteries like other automotive technologies were stuck in a time warp for decades and recent developments have meant that the humble battery has been given some steroids to cope with the ever power-hungry systems on cars. Mercedes-Benz has announced they will use a … [Read more...]
Lithium-Air Batteries
I have written a number of articles over the past year about new developments with batteries. One was about Graphene and the research undertaken to make this material provide more power and one has been about Lithium-ion batteries - the current mainstay of most mobile technology from cars to mobile phones and laptops. It is very difficult to extract more power out of a … [Read more...]