Goedemorgen iedereen,
we beginnen het nieuwe jaar al direct met positief nieuws over de electrische autos en bij uitbreiding natuurlijk ook voor de oplaadbare batterypacks voor thuisgebruik. Het is misschien nog niet direct voor morgen of volgende week, maar het bewijst nog maar eens dat veel mensen intensief bezig zijn met deze materie. Goed voor AMG want de markt zal hiervoor lithium nodig hebben en het ziet er naar uit dat de timeline voor de productie ervan perfect de noden zal overlappen. Succes iedereen!!!
Times are a changing in race for plug in vehicles
Monday, January 04, 2016
Clean energy company Phinergy Alcoa is claiming a potential range of up to 1,000 miles with a system which creates energy through a reaction of aluminium and water with oxygen.
A team of chemists in Cambridge in the UK says it has cracked the technology of a lithium-air battery with a capacity to take a car from London to Edinburgh on a single charge.
This to mention just two innovators working on batteries there are many more. Goldman Sachs in London is betting that battery costs will fall by 60% over the next five years, driven by economies of scale as much as by technology.
The driving range will increase by 70%.
As for new products Apple, Google and Amazon have thrown their vast resources into the race for plug-in vehicles, and Tesla's Model 3s will be on the market by 2017 for around US$35,000.
Ford has recently announced that it will invest US$4.5bn in electric and hybrid cars, with 13 models for sale by 2020.
Toyota, the world’s largest car manufacturer and pioneer of the Prius hybrid has spent multi-millions of dollars and bet its future on hydrogen fuel cars, starting with the Miral its first mass market product. It has hinted that it will end all production of petrol and diesel cars by 2050.
Goldman Sachs expects ‘grid-connected vehicles’ to capture 22% of the global market within a decade and by then, it says, the car giants might think twice before investing any more money in the internal combustion engine.