0:00 Ford, GM Lay Off UAW Workers
1:27 Fitch Says D3 Have Liquidity to Ride Out Long Strike
2:14 GM Compensation for UAW Workers
4:12 NIO Opens 1,800th Swap Station & Launches New EC6
5:52 Tesla Installed 50,000th Supercharger
6:11 Tesla Cybertruck Hits 2 Million Reservations
6:51 Chevy Equinox EV To Launch Soon in China
7:31 GM Halts Electric Van Production Until Next Spring
8:04 Lambo & Ducati Demonstrate V2V Technology
8:49 Mercedes Museum Helps Color Blind People View Exhibits
0:00 UAW Shuts Down Three D3 Assembly Plants
1:00 OEMs Likely to Retaliate Against the UAW
2:34 Biden Admin Could Prep SBA Loans for Suppliers
3:40 Tesla Makes It Harder for Legacies to Compete
4:53 Bosch Signs Fuel Cell Buy-Back Plan
5:36 Hyundai Takes Elantra to the Nth Degree
6:40 Rivian Outshines Other EV Startups
7:54 Mercedes Faces Defeat Devices Accusation
8:47 Renault Has Electric Van in All Size Segments
Everyone in the US seems to be struggling to ramp up new battery plants. What the US needs to do, says Mark Willey, is put more R&D effort into battery process technology, not just battery chemistry. He says there are good lessons from the semiconductor industry that points the way out of production hell. Mark is the Senior VP of Customer Success at Voltaiq, and he explains how their technology can help improve production yields at battery plants.
EV batteries are heavy. Too heavy. But Factorial Energy says that it’s semi-solid state batteries are so energy dense that automakers can use batteries that are half as big and half as heavy. Better still, they can be made with 80-85% of the existing manufacturing equipment to make today’s lithium batteries. JJ Livingston, VP of sales for Factorial, talks about the progress they’re making and when they’ll be ready for mass production.
What if you could make all the graphite needed for batteries from waste wood products? NanoTerraTech is making battery-grade graphite using raw materials that normally get burned or used for mulch. So not only does it have a cost advantage, it has a zero net carbon process. Scott Farnham, the CTO of the company, talks about why automakers are so interested in their technology.
TOPICS:
- UAW’s strike strategy
- What both sides want
- Does the UAW see the Big Picture?
- How GM, Ford And Stellantis will respond
PANEL: Marick Masters, Professor, Wayne State University Jeff Gilbert, Reporter, WWJ Newsradio 950 Gary Vasilash, on Automotive John McElroy, Autoline.tv
Solid state batteries could be a game changer for EVs. But they’re still several years away from being production ready. What are the roadblocks to overcome? Rashid Farahati, the director of engineering at Schaeffler, explains what’s holding them up, and how they’re overcoming it.
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1:41 Ford Fumes After UAW Rejects Counter Offer
3:12 Tesla Develops Gigacasting Breakthrough
5:23 China Upset Over EU EV Investigation
6:06 U.S. BEV Sales Soar 67% Through July
6:41 GMC Unveils All-New Acadia
7:39 Cadillac Updates CT5 Sedan
8:16 Jeep Gladiator Gets Slight Refresh
8:42 Volvo Adds Video Streaming to Its Cars
Pouch, prismatic or cylindrical? Celanese doesn’t care what kind of battery cell an automaker wants to use. It’s got a family of polymers to make battery packs that can accommodate an kind of cell shape. Better still it has heating and cooling solutions that can be incorporated directly into the pack design. Tom Kelly, the SVP of Engineered Materials at Celanese presents their solutions.
Safety is a big concern with EVs. Automakers want to do anything they can to prevent thermal events in electric vehicles. So Schaltbau came up with a novel way to make high voltage DC to DC bidirectional contactors. Carolyn Sauer, the director of business development, explains how Schaltbau’s bidirectional contactors are different from anyone else’s.
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