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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

Green Car Congress

EH Group Technologies Inc will develop an electrolyzer system based on a radical new design and with a transformative manufacturing technique that dramatically reduces costs. Their goal is to test an innovative electrolyzer concept for the cheap production of green (CO 2 -free) hydrogen for a decarbonized future.

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Maybe Tesla Didn't Cancel the Affordable EV After All, Or Did It?

The Truth About Cars

The will they, won’t they themes continue in 2024, as the automaker recently reversed its reported decision to nix affordable EV plans, though the flip appears related to less-than-stellar first-quarter performance. The previously reported cancellation of Tesla’s affordable EV also went out the door, at least on paper.

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Cheap trick: MG’s advanced semi-solid-state batteries it will launch next year will be affordable says boss as Chinese brand gets upper hand on VW and Toyota

EV Central

They will be affordable. The biggest barrier to semi-solid-state and solid-state technology considered the holy grail of unlocking EV potential has always been overcoming manufacturing complexity and upscaling the tech to mass production. But the best bit? Pure solid state is solid alone. 2022 Nio ET5.

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New Company Promises To Speed Up Mini-EV Manufacturing

CleanTechnica EVs

In wealthy countries, that’s cheap enough to be considered affordable in 2023, but we have to remember that not all […] EVs are great, but one very common criticism of them is that they’re expensive. This problem has gotten a lot better over the last few years, but the cheapest new EVs are still around $25,000.

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Report: Ford's EV Skunkworks Team to Create Three Affordable Electric Models

The Truth About Cars

A few weeks ago, Ford announced that it had created an internal skunkworks team to focus on affordable EVs and a new platform to underpin them. However, the threat of China flooding the market with cheap electric models is too frightening to ignore.

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Tesla & CATL deemed the Power Couple to Recharge the US EV Market: Morgan Stanley

Teslarati

In addition, the United States has an under-supply of affordable EVs and cheap batteries for electric vehicles. Meanwhile, China has an oversupply of affordable EVs and cells in the battery market. In leveraging Chinese manufacturing know-how, Tesla can deliver a $25,000 EV (Model 2) and drive EV adoption in the US.

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You can forget a cheap Japanese electric car in Australia: Red-tape ends Mitsubishi’s dream of sub-$30K eK SUV

EV Central

Releasing a scathing press statement, Mitsubishi criticised Australian Design Rules (ADRs) for being “prohibitively” expensive that made it “uneconomic” to introduce its most affordable vehicles in their current form due to the amount of time and money needed to make it ADR-compliant.