• News aggregator on electric cars and electric vehicles (cars, motorcycles, boats, planes).

Vietnamese firm V-Green to invest $380 million to deploy nationwide EV charging network


V-GREEN, an EV charging infrastructure provider that was spun off from Vingroup, plans to invest 10 trillion Vietnamese Dong (around $380 million) to deploy EV charging stations in Vietnam. The Vietnam News Agency reported that the company plans to build 99 EV charging hubs along national and provincial highways across Vietnam by the end of… Read more…

Monta acquires ABB Nordic’s EV charge point management software customer contracts through Vourity deal


Monta says it has acquired the charge point management software customer contracts operated by Vourity, ABB E-mobility’s Nordic subsidiary, in a move that expands the company’s CPMS footprint in Northern Europe. The deal is not an acquisition of ABB E-mobility itself or of Vourity as a whole—it is specifically a transfer of CPMS software customer… Read more…

Kempower and Windrose demonstrate Megawatt Charging System in real-world test at California charging hub


The Megawatt Charging System (MCS) is rapidly making the transition from pilots to real-world commercial operations. A couple of weeks ago, Chinese electric truck OEM Windrose and EVSE manufacturer Autel Europe completed a real-world MCS charging session at a customer site in Holland. Now Windrose has partnered with EVSE manufacturer Kempower to perform a real-world… Read more…

BREYER supplies calendering lines with cell-level traceability for Porsche-VARTA battery venture


BREYER has supplied the calendering technology for V4Smart, the Porsche-VARTA joint venture producing cylindrical lithium-ion cells in Germany for high-performance applications including sports cars and hybrids. Calendering is one of the key steps in electrode manufacturing: after the slurry is coated and dried, the electrode passes through precision rollers that compress it to a controlled… Read more…

Coperion launches RF400 roller feeder for uniform dry-electrode deposition in battery pilot lines


Coperion K-Tron has introduced the RF400 Roller Feeder for battery manufacturing, a feeding system aimed at improving consistency in dry-electrode processing at laboratory and pilot scale. The company says the RF400 is designed to provide uniform deposition of electrode dry blends while reducing waste and production variability. The system uses a grooved feed roller paired… Read more…

PPST broadens AC/DC power test portfolio with EA Elektro-Automatik battery cyclers and regenerative loads


PPST Solutions says it has been named a value-added reseller for EA Elektro-Automatik, expanding its test portfolio to cover both AC and DC power validation for electrification markets. Engineers increasingly need test coverage across the whole power-conversion chain, not just isolated AC or DC boxes. With the new arrangement, PPST now combines Pacific Power Source… Read more…