Three new products will supercharge EVs, all spotted at CES 2025.

1️⃣ 𝗢𝗻𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀

In the show’s opening keynote, NVIDIA’s CEO, Jensen Huang, announced a deal with Toyota to put a specialized supercomputer into future vehicles, for autonomous driving capabilities.

While he didn’t provide details on that specific computer, he did unveil a “personal AI supercomputer,” called Project DIGITS. Available in a few months, that device is the size of an Apple Mac Mini, with 128GB of memory and the capability to perform one quadrillion operations per second.

To put that in perspective, you would need 417,000 Apple Power Mac G5 workstations (a top choice in the mid 2000’s), for a comparable level of compute.

2️⃣ 𝗜𝗻-𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀

A Slovenian company, Elaphe Propulsion Technologies Ltd. displayed their electric Sonic.1 motor. It fits entirely inside a 21-inch wheel. If you only consider the space savings within the cabin, this is brilliant engineering.

But then I spoke with an Elaphe engineer. These motors also dramatically improve traction control. --And they can generate a total of 1,388 hp across all 4 wheels.

With a lean total weight of 573 lbs, those 4 motors could deliver 0-60 acceleration times a few tenths of a second faster than the top vehicles today.  That’s twice as fast as the supercars from the mid 2000’s.

3️⃣ 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱-𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀

Range anxiety is a real barrier to EV consideration today. Too many EV’s have just 200 miles of real world range.

While there are many emerging technologies to improve energy density, a Taiwanese-owned brand called ProLogium Technology 輝能科技 stood out at CES. The company displayed its Fourth-Generation Lithium-Ceramic Battery. It boasts an energy density of 380 Watt hours per kilogram, with a typical charge time of 6 minutes to 80%.

Today’s typical EVs have around 200-250 Wh/Kg.  So, an 85% improvement in the new 2025 Tesla Model Y Long Range’s energy density would deliver an additional 300 miles of range, taking it up to 650 miles total.

No wonder there was so much optimism at CES.

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