{"id":193525,"date":"2024-07-25T06:23:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T11:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/sustainable-million-mile-battery-bet-pays-off-for-mercedes-benz"},"modified":"2024-07-25T06:23:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T11:23:27","slug":"sustainable-million-mile-battery-bet-pays-off-for-mercedes-benz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/sustainable-million-mile-battery-bet-pays-off-for-mercedes-benz","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Million-Mile Battery Bet Pays Off For Mercedes-Benz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X85IrhfFTaM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe technological focus is on significant increases in range through advances in energy density and the reduction of <a href=\"https:\/\/group.mercedes-benz.com\/innovation\/drive-systems\/electric\/mercedes-benz-and-farasis.html\">charging times<\/a>,\u201d Mercedes explained, noting that the partnership cements a reliable EV battery cell supply chain while providing financial support for Farasis to build a factory in Germany.<\/p>\n<p><b>How Sustainable Is A Million-Mile EV Battery?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>As of 2020, the plan also included constructing another EV battery plant in the US. A map on the company\u2019s website indicates somewhere in the US Southeast along the Gulf of Mexico, which is not a shocker to those following the rise of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/06\/21\/money-talks-the-electric-vehicle-revolution-trumps-red-state-politics\/\">electric vehicle industry<\/a> in politically <a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2023\/06\/05\/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-electric-vehicle-edition\/\">conservative states<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe technological focus is on significant increases in range through advances in energy density and the reduction of charging times,\u201d Mercedes explained, noting that the partnership cements a reliable EV battery cell supply chain while providing financial support for Farasis to build a factory in Germany. How Sustainable Is A Million-Mile EV Battery? As of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,45,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-finance","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}