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The Potential Effects of a Cryptocurrency Market Collapse on Bitcoin

An Analysis of Bitcoin’s Resilience and its Future Outlook Bitcoin, the world’s first decentralized digital currency, has been on a rollercoaster ride since its inception. Its price has seen massive fluctuations, from a few cents to its all-time high of almost $65,000. While its volatility is well-known, Bitcoin’s resilience in the face of market crashes […]

Tesla Taps Asian Partners to Address 4680 Battery Concerns

It’s crunch time at Tesla Inc, where Elon Musk is looking to crack the code for making better, cheaper batteries. The electric-vehicle maker is recruiting Chinese and Korean materials suppliers to help lower the cost and boost the energy of its newest battery cells, even as the company struggles with battery-related performance and production issues […]

Tesla 4680 Battery’s Secret Sauce: Dry Electrode Coating

Tesla Inc is pioneering a new battery manufacturing process called dry electrode coating that it is applying to its new 4680 battery cells. The dry process, which Tesla obtained via its 2019 acquisition of California startup Maxwell Technologies, replaces a traditional, complicated step of battery manufacturing that involves coating the electrode foil with a wet, […]

The World This Week

1. Lithium Price Slide Deepens as China Battery Giant Bets on Cheaper Inputs By now, it is out in the open that the COVID-19 pandemic played a remarkable role in hastening the global reliance on lithium for EV batteries as the world pushes to reduce carbon emissions as it marches on a path towards an […]

Elon Musk’s Challenge: Stay Ahead of the Competition

Elon Musk will confront a critical challenge during Tesla’s Investor Day on March 1: Convincing investors that even though rivals are catching up, the electric-vehicle pioneer can make another leap forward to widen its lead. Tesla Inc was the No. 1 EV maker worldwide in 2022, but China’s BYD and others are closing the gap […]

China's CATL Offers EV Battery Discounts in China - Sources

China’s CATL, the world’s largest battery maker, has offered discounts to some Chinese automakers it supplies, reflecting a downturn in the price of lithium and a bid to win more orders, three people with knowledge of the offers said. Battery costs are the most expensive component in electric vehicles (EV) and a move toward lower […]