Sound Familiar? KIA Puts EV Production On Hold Until There Are Enough Batteries

It’s been a couple of months since Kia’s South Korean headquarters released “Plan S,” the brand’s EV and mobility plan. That plan set a target of a half-million annual global EV sales by 2026 with a worldwide lineup of at least 11 all-electric models. Electrek checked in with Steve Kosowski, manager of long-range planning and strategy at Kia Motors America, to see where things stand for North America.
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dlin - 2/27/2020 3:34:29 PM

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Ya... just blame the batteries

MDarringer - 2/27/2020 8:05:49 PM

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How can you design a car for production and not have secured batteries?

carloslassiter - 2/28/2020 5:48:40 AM

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Can we admit that Tesla has done a few things right?

MDarringer - 2/28/2020 8:21:04 AM

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Indeed, but Elon is still the shit pile holding them back.

skytop - 2/28/2020 7:31:03 PM

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I am waiting and expected a brand new technological breakthrough with batteries that will make lithium batteries obsolete.

IBM just announced they have developed a successor to lithium batteries.
Lithium ion batteries go bad, charge slowly, are prone to exploding, and are horrible for the environment.
IBM is keeping quiet about how its new battery is made, only saying that it's made of "three new and different proprietary materials, which have never before been recorded as being combined in a battery."

The three components, IBM said, can all be extracted from sea water, meaning the environmental damage from, and humanitarian cost of, mining heavy metals for batteries could be eliminated.

Extracting battery components from sea water also reduces costs, IBM said, making this new battery not only better for the environment and people, but also potentially more affordable.