With prototypes powered by solid-state batteries already due for 2021, Toyota could ramp up production of the tech before 2025.

Tesla's Battery Day presentation centered around a complete, vertically integrated rethink of its battery cells, looking years into the future.

It's not for no reason that electric cars are more expensive to buy than their fossil-fueled counterparts. If you wanted to point the finger of blame squarely at one thing, you'd likely be pointing it at batteries. At the moment, a typical lithium-ion battery pack costs around $500-$600 per kilowatt-hour. That means the 24 kWh pack in a 2012 Nissan Leaf may...

It's not for no reason that electric cars are more expensive to buy than their fossil-fueled counterparts. If you wanted to point the finger of blame squarely at one thing, you'd likely be pointing it at batteries. At the moment, a typical lithium-ion battery pack costs around $500-$600 per kilowatt-hour. That means the 24 kWh pack in a 2012 Nissan Leaf may...

Lithium is currently in oversupply and its price is plunging; but other materials needed for lithium-ion battery production remain tight.

Battery prices have been falling faster than anticipated, and that could help the economics of electric cars work a lot sooner for automakers.

Lucid is remixing the Dream Edition of its Air luxury electric car into two versions: Range and Performance.

Lithium-ion battery pack prices have again fallen at a faster rate than might have been anticipated years ago. That will result in more affordable EVs, sooner.

Lithium-ion battery pack prices have again fallen at a faster rate than might have been anticipated years ago. That will result in more affordable EVs, sooner.