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On this week s Drilling Deep podcast, James Frith of Bloomberg NEF brings his expertise in battery technology to the show and discusses some significant technological developments in battery technology just in the past few months. How rapidly are we moving toward cost-competitive batteries?
Also on Drilling Deep, host John Kingston talks about the record set just a few days ago: 16 consecutive weeks of increases in the weekly DOE/EIA retail diesel price, used as the basis for fuel surcharges. With refineries in Texas still struggling after the cold snap, will this tighten diesel further?
The ID.4, VW’s answer to Tesla’s popular Model Y. Photo: Jens Schlueter/Getty
This is a story of cutthroat technological war, unfathomable corporate animus, a new kind of economic nationalism, and great power competition between the two most powerful leaders in the world. The likelihood is that the rare drama will end in a settlement that could lay low one of South Korea’s most powerful companies. But before then, it is a nerve-wracking spectacle that reflects the newfound tension rife in international batteries and electric cars.
In a case involving two relatively unknown South Korean companies, the International Trade Commission (ITC) , on Wednesday, barred the import of batteries meant to power the new electric Ford F-150 pickup, the most popular line of vehicles in the country for four straight decades. The batteries, made by South Korean giant SK innovation (SKI), were also intended for VW’s new crossover SUV, called the ID.4, which the German carmaker has planned to m
President Joe Biden pledged to make electric vehicles a cornerstone of his climate change plan.
The U.S. International Trade Commission on Wednesday banned one of the worldâs biggest electric vehicle battery manufacturers from selling its cells in the United States, striking  a blow to the Biden administrationâs ambitious plan to electrify the nationâs auto fleet.Â
The decision bars South Korean giant SK Innovation from importing its batteries or the components to make them for 10 years, ruling that the company stole trade secrets from its cross-town rival, LG Energy Solution.Â
The ruling gave the automakers Ford and Volkswagen, which had designed key electric models around the SK Innovation battery, a few years to switch suppliers. But the decision casts a shadow over the future of SK Innovationâs $2.6 billion pair of battery facilities in Jackson County, Georgia, which already started hiring some of the nearly 3,000 workers the Seoul-based firm expec
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EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE WEIGHS IN: The utility trade group Edison Electric Institute is skeptical about one of
President Biden’s defining pledges: making the power grid 100% carbon-free by 2035.
“The 2035 date would be an incredibly difficult situation to handle for most companies of the industry,”
Tom Kuhn, the president of the institute, said yesterday during the group’s annual state of the utility industry briefing to Wall Street.
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How A Trade Dispute Between 2 Korean Firms Could Jam Bidenâs Electric Car Plans
Trade lawyers call it âthe nuclear option.â South Koreaâs prime minister called it âembarrassing.â The question now is whether Biden will call it unacceptable.
By Alexander C. Kaufman
Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
President Joe Biden will have the final say after the U.S. International Trade Commission makes its ruling on Wednesday. It could be the first big test of how serious he is about electric vehicles.
President Joe Biden has vowed to convert the federal governmentâs entire fleet of motor vehicles â some 645,047 at last count â to electric. That includes thousands of Ford F-150 pickups, the countryâs perennial best-selling automobile since 1981 and a popular ride for everyone from federal police to national park rangers.