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Tesla Showroom Miami Design District December 2023. Photo / Phillip Pessar

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Rough Ride for Tesla as Deliveries Tank

Above: A Cybertruck in a Tesla Showroom in the Miami Design District. Photo / Phillip Pessar / CC Elon Musk’s Tesla witnessed a dramatic nosedive in deliveries throughout the opening salvo of the year, wrestling with the aftermath of a…

An early-1900s electric automobile with a mercury arc rectifier, once used to charge EVs. Photo / Museum of Innovation and Science

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You are watching the death of the electric car (again)

It's like déjà vu in the world of wheels. The electric vehicle market, is hitting the skids.

Above: The first Apple laptop to feature a lithium-ion battery was the PowerBook 1400, introduced in 1996. This was a significant move as lithium-ion batteries offered better energy density and a longer lifespan compared to the nickel-cadmium and nickel-metal hydride batteries used in earlier laptop models. Decades later, lithium-ion still dominates most of our battery-powered devices, even as other areas of technology have taken giant leaps forward, as Will Trafford explains. Photo / Derek K. Miller

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Why Do We Still Rely on Decades-Old Battery Technology?

Lithium-ion still dominates most of our battery-powered devices, even as other areas of technology have taken giant leaps forward, as Will Trafford explains.