For many a year, a certain California carmaker dominated the headlines in the EV press—so much so that I created a keyboard shortcut for the company’s name. Despite a relentless tide of naysaying, the company went from strength to strength for almost two decades. Then, coincidentally (?) around the time of Covid, the innovation engine… Read more…

Renesas has added a new low-end member to its RH850 automotive MCU family with the 28 nm RH850/U2C, aimed at chassis and safety systems, battery management systems, lighting, motor control and other ASIL D applications. The 32-bit MCU combines four RH850 CPU cores running at up to 320 MHz—including two lockstep cores—and up to 8… Read more…

From the sensor-packed ‘tiara’ on the roof to the Nuro software stack providing autonomous driving, the Lucid Gravity met all the qualifications for a self-driving luxury Uber. Lucid’s robotaxi is ready for the road—except for one small detail. It still needs to fit the microsprayers that will clean its various sensors to ensure they work… Read more…

Horse Powertrain has unveiled a new hybrid transmission motor that uses amorphous steel in the stator and, the company says, reaches 98.2% efficiency while delivering 140 kW and 360 Nm. The company says the motor’s stator uses amorphous steel alloy layers just 0.025 mm thick—about one tenth the thickness of steel used in conventional motors…. Read more…

Sweden’s Holyvolt has completed its $73 million acquisition of Wildcat Discovery Technologies, bringing together Wildcat’s high-throughput battery materials R&D platform and Holyvolt’s screen-printing, water-based manufacturing process. The companies say the combination is meant to bridge a familiar gap in the battery business: promising lab results that never make it efficiently into scalable production. Wildcat has… Read more…

Functional safety requirements are applied across Industrial and Electrical System control and safety systems. In battery standards and certifications, functional safety requirements have become more and more stringent, reducing the reliance on single-fault testing schemes, but often adding confusion and complexity to “legacy” testing and safety certification standards. Join this webinar at our March Virtual… Read more…

Join this webinar at next week’s Virtual Conference on EV Engineering, presented by Infineon, to gain valuable insights on the latest power conversion trend, topologies evolution, application requirements and the latest CoolSiC™ AEC-Q qualified products from Infineon. Additionally, you will understand how new innovative CoolSiC™ power devices will revolutionize the automotive industry by enabling cost-effective… Read more…

Sponsored by Burns Industrial Equipment. Electric vehicles are becoming integrated more and more in a variety of settings, including in neighborhoods with low-speed vehicles. Unlike traditional golf carts, these EVs can be a sustainable way to improve operational efficiency and boost resident satisfaction while offering the same transportational convenience. On top of that, it’s a… Read more…

Honeywell is integrating its AI-powered Battery Manufacturing Excellence Platform (Battery MXP) into the Alabama Mobility and Power (AMP) Center’s battery research lab at the University of Alabama, aiming to improve cell yields and speed up battery factory startups. The AMP Center says the deployment will also support workforce training for battery manufacturing and electrification. Battery… Read more…

Hyundai and Kia have announced a new strategic investment in Qnovo, maker of a software platform that monitors battery health. The investment follows years of collaborative testing between Qnovo and Hyundai/Kia. “By delivering a verifiable digital accounting of battery health via a scalable, hardware-free architecture, Qnovo enables automakers to maximize performance and safety in real-time,… Read more…

A new Chinese electric truck brand is stalking the European market. Electrive reports (in German) that startup SuperPanther plans to start selling electric semi-trucks in Europe this year. SuperPanther will rely on a contract manufacturing arrangement with Steyr Automotive in Austria for European production, Frank Schulz, SuperPanther’s Europe sales chief, told Electrive. Series production is… Read more…

Bringing a Battery Management System (BMS) to market quickly is hard. The same pressures that compress timelines can also introduce quality escapes, safety risks, and costly redesigns. This webinar at our March Virtual Conference on EV Engineering, presented by comemso electronics GmbH, shows how to accelerate development and validation with a structured, compliance-aware approach that… Read more…

Alpitronic has introduced the HYC400 Series 2, a new version of its HYC400 all-in-one DC fast charger that keeps the same 400 kW maximum output but puts the emphasis on usability, accessibility, and day-to-day operational clarity at public charging sites. The most visible change is a front-facing, lowered display paired with a redesigned user interface… Read more…

Two things are important for calibrating control units and performing analog measurements in the workplace or laboratory: it should be compact yet have many ports. The VIO system offers exactly that. Depending on the requirements, a rack can be equipped with 12 slots that can be fitted with different measurement cards as required. Join this… Read more…

Sensata Technologies has launched its FaultBreak high-voltage contactor for EV power systems, a passive, resettable fault-protection device that combines the functions of a fuse and a contactor in a single component, simplifying high-voltage fault management for more efficient, higher-voltage EV architectures. Sensata says FaultBreak’s fault-clearing capability has been validated up to 16 kA at 1… Read more…

EV charging becomes an essential corporate service. “Focus on your core business” is a tried-and-true business maxim. Companies large and small rely on service providers to take care of logistical tasks so they can concentrate on whatever it is they do to generate profit. That’s what ABM is all about—it provides a vast array of services for… Read more…

A US-based EV charging station manufacturer cut its development timeline by about 50% after adopting a system-on-module (SoM) platform from Variscite, according to a case study published by the embedded computing vendor. Variscite is pitching its SoMs as a faster path to production hardware for EVSE makers, with pin-compatible module families that let developers upgrade… Read more…

Marine battery maker AYK Energy has won a contract to supply what it calls the largest battery ever installed on an ice-class vessel: a 16 MWh Pisces+ system for Germany’s next-generation Polarstern polar research ship. AYK says the battery system will weigh 131 tonnes, be delivered in 2028, and support a vessel scheduled to enter… Read more…

Toshiba has launched four voltage-driven photorelays in a small S-VSON4T package that are rated for operation up to 135 °C, targeting test and burn-in gear that has to run hot to evaluate automotive-grade semiconductors. The new parts are the TLP3407SRB, TLP3412SRB, TLP3412SRHB and TLP3412SRLB, and Toshiba says volume shipments have started. As electrification and automated… Read more…

Pretty much every product, device or subsystem involved in power conversion, both on- and off-board anw EV, will have to comply with both safety and ElectroMagnetic Compatibility (EMC) regulations. And while most power electronics engineers find the safety regulations to be relatively straightforward, I’d wager that few feel the same about the EMC ones. EMC… Read more…