AD #3879 - GAC Sets 30,000 RPM Benchmark for EV Motors; Ford Beefs Up Bronco Sport; LFP Batteries Degrade Faster at High Charges

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The performance division of Chinese automaker GAC claims it has developed the fastest spinning electric motor for EV's. Hype Tech

recently started production of what it calls the Quark Electric Drive that can spin up to thirty thousand rpm, which beats out other top EV makers. Lucid has a motor

that can go up to twenty thousand rpm, and it looks like Tesla has a carbon sleeved motor that's capable of over twenty three thousand rpm. Hype Tech is also

using a material called a morphous soft magnet to improve the efficiency of the motor. It says it's over ninety

eight percent efficion and makes thirteen kilowatts per kilogram. That

means it could add fifty kilometers or thirty one miles of range to an evor or one hundred and fifty kilometers or ninety three miles of range to an e REV.

The motor will first be used in hype Tech's own models.

It currently has three cars on sale, but it did not say which of those models would be the first to get it. Not only is CTL the largest producer

of batteries for evs NOW, it's supplying the entire electric car chassis. Chinese automaker Nita is the first to use

Catl's integrated Intelligent chassis for its upcoming Nita S wagon.

The eight hundred volt architecture features sell to chassis technology as well as the battery, drive train, suspension brakes, and steering.

CATL claims the skateboard can provide up to one thousand kilometers or over six hundred and twenty miles of range, and with only five minutes of charging, it can add three hundred kilometers or one hundred and eighty six miles of range. Battery maker also has deals to use the

same chassis with BAIC and then Fast. Many automakers are

turning to LFP or lethium iron phosphate batteries, mainly because they're cheaper, but they actually degrade faster than other batteries.

According to a study in the Journal of Electrochemical Society, LFP cells are harmed by repeated charging cycles. At a

higher state of charge, We're talking seventy five to one hundred percent. It says at those levels, the charging voltage

is higher, which causes negative reactions to occur in the pack that deposit harmful compounds on the electrode and consume lithium.

The conclusion is it's better not to repeatedly charged to a higher level, and that if you leave your EVS sitting for a long time, you should keep it at a lower state of charge to help extend the life of the battery.

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tires with a fifty thousand mile limited warranty.

Speaker 1: German automakers lobbied the EU to go easy on tariffs on Chinese evs, and now automakers in the American market are asking the US government to back off a bit too. Ford,

for example, wants lower tariffs on artificial graph height that's needed to make battery anodes. A lobbying group called Auto's

Drive America, whose members include every foreign automaker assembling vehicles in the US, want to prevent tariffs from going up on battery modules, battery cells, and critical materials that are imported from China. It's all about controlling costs. Legacy automakers

are losing money on every EV they make, and they need to bring down the cost to making them. And

right now, wow, China has the lowest cost available. Even so,

Canada is slapping higher tariffs on Chinese evs as well as Chinese aluminum steel. Bloomberg reports Canada will put a

one hundred percent tariff on Chinese electrics and twenty five percent tariffs on aluminum and steel. Canada's Finance Minister, Christia

Freeland says Canada's auto industry is and I'm quoting here, facing unfair competition from China's intentional, state directed policy of over capacity. China, of course, has not taken this sitting down.

It's threatening retaliation, starting with a twenty five percent tariff on imported ice cars with engines larger than two and a half leaders that would directly threaten the premium German autumn akers, who exported over a billion dollars worth of ice vehicles to China last year. But China's not only

threatening autos. It's also talking about raising tariffs on European cheese, milk,

and cream, which would directly hit farmers, and farmers tend to have outsized political clout in almost every country in the world. A fire broke out in a parking lot

where Rivian stores vehicles outside of its assembly plant in Illinois.

The fire damaged many of Rivian's evs, though it did not say how many. And this is just a reminder

that problems with battery fires are far from being resolved.

So South Korea is going to implement a battery certification program in October, which is sooner than automakers were expecting.

Earlier this month, a fire in an electric Mercedes Benz in an underground parking lot in South Korea took eight hours to put out. It destroyed or damaged one hundred

and forty other cars, and it forced people in the apartment building above the parking lot to have evacuate the building.

The new REGs will force automakers to reveal who made the batteries in their evs, as well as require sprinklers near charging stations and expand the use of chargers that prevent overcharging. Ford's cashing in on the off road craze

in the American market by expanding the model range of the Broncos Sport. It's adding the Sasquatch off road package

to the bad Lands and Outer Banks models. This includes

a steel skin plate, a brush guard, twenty nine inch good Year All Terrain tires, a twin clutch rear drive unit and locking differential, billsteam shocks, and different springs that provide more suspension travel for hardcore off roading. It has

what Ford calls its goat or go over any terrain mode that holds gears longer, provide sharper throttle response and more feedback through the steering wheel, and it also offers one pedal driving where the brakes engage as you back off the throttle to help drivers see where they're going.

There's a three hundred and sixty degree camera view on the center screen that shows the tire overlays, and you can choose a split screen view that uses cameras mounted on the mirrors to see exactly how the front tires are positioned. The center screen is now thirteen point two inches,

complemented by a twelve point three inch gauge cluster. The

overhead console features toggle switches, and there's a list of accessories that will be available, including bumper mounts for sand dune flags. The only thing we don't know about the

Broncos Sports Sasquatch right now is how much it's going to cost. That info will not be available until the

first quarter of next year, which is one it goes on sale, and that brings us to the end of today's show. If you haven't done so well already, please

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