US-based advanced lithium-ion battery manufacturer EGI Battery has established its first US battery manufacturing campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Ann Arbor facility positions EGI to deliver high-performance, lithium-ion pouch cell batteries in line with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that will power drones, electric aviation, aerospace, and emerging technologies such as humanoid robotics. The… Read more…

Korian Belgium, a provider of elderly care services, is working with Blink Charging on a nationwide EV charging project. Blink plans to deploy over 200 Blink-owned chargers across 90 Korian locations in Belgium. A similar roll-out for Korian Netherlands is planned. Blink’s fully financed investment model will enable Korian to quickly add EV charging to… Read more…

Researchers from the College of Chemistry at China’s Nankai University have announced a battery breakthrough using a new type of electrolyte. In “Hydrofluorocarbon electrolytes for energy-dense and low-temperature batteries,” published in the journal Nature, the team explains how they designed and synthesized a series of new fluorinated hydrocarbon solvent molecules with fluorine coordination. Based on… Read more…

BidItUp Auctions Worldwide is set to auction equipment from a former lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility in Midland, Michigan, in a six-day live virtual sale running March 31, April 1-3 and April 7-8. According to BidItUp, the equipment comes from a 400,000-square-foot battery plant that had been used for EV and energy storage applications. The company… Read more…

Revolution Concrete Mixers and London Machinery have developed a hybrid drum drive system that’s designed to power cement mixer operation without engine idling. The new e-HYDRIVE system addresses “one of the ready-mix industry’s most persistent operational challenges”—unnecessary idling during loading, waiting and pouring—and also reduces fuel consumption and emissions. The e-HYDRIVE is designed to deliver… Read more…

Commercial EV builder Xos has announced V2G (Vehicle-to-Grid) production beginning in April 2026 on a major electric school bus platform in North America, and plans to add bidirectional capability to its entire product portfolio, including step vans, powertrains and energy storage solutions. Xos will begin production this April with bidirectional charging on a school bus… Read more…

Last week, Chinese EV-maker BYD introduced its Blade Battery 2.0, which it says will deliver a range of over 1,000 km (that’s according to China’s CLTC rating system—using the US EPA’s testing system, it probably amounts to a still-impressive 725 km, or 450 miles), and can be charged in just 10 minutes. Of course, charging… Read more…

Carrar says testing at its R&D lab showed its Two-Phase Immersion Architecture can prevent thermal propagation between high-energy NMC pouch cells even under extreme failure conditions. In the test, a 72 Ah pouch cell was driven into thermal failure with a temperature rise exceeding 15 °C per second, and the triggered cell rose above 800… Read more…

Taseko Mines says it has harvested the first copper cathodes from the newly completed commercial production facility at its Florence Copper operation in Arizona, marking what the company calls the first new US greenfield copper production since 2008. The company had announced startup of Florence Copper’s electrowinning plant in late February. Now it says the… Read more…

CamMotive has opened a new battery testing lab in Cambridge, UK, with more than 800 high-current cell-cycling channels and the ability to deliver up to 800 A per cell. The company says the facility is aimed at speeding development and validation of next-generation batteries for automotive and other high-power applications. According to CamMotive, the lab… Read more…

Sponsored by Avery Dennison Performance Tapes. Tapes can simplify complex processes, support robotic assembly, reduce scrap, and more. By Max VanRaaphorst Globally, more than 60 million EVs are now on the road. It’s a number that might have seemed unimaginable just a few years ago. It underscores how EV OEMs have moved beyond needing only… Read more…

Wieland Electric will showcase its new podis power bus system for EV infrastructure at the upcoming EV Charging Summit and Expo 2026 in Las Vegas. Wieland’s podis is designed to simplify, accelerate and future-proof EV charging installations. The podis decentralized power distribution system offers a modular, plug-and-play alternative to traditional hard-wired installations. It’s aimed at… Read more…

Cary, North Carolina has deployed a Pierce Volterra plug-in hybrid fire truck. The city adopted its first light-duty electrified vehicles a decade ago, and chose to electrify this heavy-duty truck in order to improve public health and air quality, firefighter working conditions, and long-term fleet resilience. The Pierce Volterra features an Oshkosh parallel-hybrid drivetrain. Both… Read more…

Hoenle Adhesives has introduced Vitralit CIPG 60200, a UV-curable cured-in-place gasket material for automotive and e-mobility electronics housings. The company is positioning the blue fluorescent polyacrylate as an alternative to conventional solid gaskets and FIPG silicone systems for complex 3D sealing geometries. Hoenle says the material can be dispensed precisely with adhesive valves and programmable… Read more…

Aptera Motors (NASDAQ: SEV) was originally founded in 2006. However, while other EV startups from that area endeavored (and mostly failed) to follow a three-step iteration from a low-volume luxury vehicle to an affordable mass-market EV, Aptera took an entirely different approach. The goal was simply to build the most efficient EV possible with available… Read more…

Components borrowed from other GM EVs, a LFP battery, and up-to-date new software gives the classic Bolt a brief new life. The Bolt is back! The new 2027 Chevrolet Bolt has been available at some Chevy dealers since last month, and now we’ve driven it. GM’s lowest-priced EV remains what it always was: a practical… Read more…

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…