[freelancer6202]

Our ministers are nothing but loudspeakers. Unless there is a robust charging infrastructure in place , what is the point of EV'S ? Would I buy an expensive electric car just to strut around the city ? I already suffer from anxiety Last thing I need is to worry about range. Until I am forced to buy one, I am remaining electric free.

[dust-n-bones]

Meanwhile, news from another part of the planet which seems to have found a way to mute the prattle of our vishwa-gurus:

CATL — its full name is the Contemporary Amperex Technology Company Ltd. — produces a third of the world’s electric car batteries and supplies 16 of the world’s biggest carmakers, including General Motors and the Shanghai factory of Tesla. Its main rivals for the global market are BYD in Shenzhen, China, which makes about one-sixth of the world’s E.V. batteries, almost entirely for its own cars, and Korean and Japanese battery manufacturers.

CATL, which is based in Ningde, China, also said it had made more progress in the speed of charging main batteries. The company said its new system would allow an electric vehicle to be charged enough in five minutes to drive 520 kilometers, or 320 miles.

CATL also said it would start selling sodium-ion batteries, which can retain over 90 percent of their charge even at a temperature of 40 degrees below zero, for use in cars and trucks with internal combustion engines. The sodium batteries could be used by automakers to replace conventional lead-acid batteries, which go dead in very cold weather, and in some electric cars.

The biggest surprise by CATL was an announcement about auxiliary batteries for electric cars. The batteries would share space in the underbody of cars, where there is currently only one large battery.
The auxiliary battery would be the first commercially available electric vehicle battery that would not use graphite as one of its poles, CATL said.
Removing costly graphite will eventually make the batteries cheaper, after some initial costs, and will allow 60 percent more electricity to be squeezed in each cubic inch of the battery, said Gao Huan, CATL’s chief technology officer for electric cars in China.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/b...ery-china.html