Electric heavy trucks are rapidly gaining market share in China, driven by subsidies and the quick rollout of chargers. Reuters reports that this is cutting into diesel usage and denting oil demand from the world’s biggest crude oil importer. EVs aren’t the only factor in the diesel decline—the rise of LNG-powered heavy trucks and recently,… Read more…

Nissan has opened a charging station to serve its electric trucks at its Sunderland Plant in England. The company calls the project part of “an electric, end-to-end supply chain that transports materials into the Nissan plant and delivers finished vehicles out.” The £1.4-million facility has seven charging stations, each with a charging capacity of up… Read more…

General Motors has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Redwood Materials to accelerate deployment of energy storage systems using new US-manufactured batteries from GM and second-life battery packs from GM electric vehicles. The collaboration is a step toward taking GM’s battery technology beyond EVs and builds on the two companies’ existing collaboration. In June,… Read more…

Motor-maker Orbis Electric has introduced a new axial flux motor-generator. HaloDrive is designed around a modular four-part architecture, and features innovations such as an injection-molded plastic stator and a tunable gearset. The system is engineered to fit within a wheel, and is designed to deliver high torque and power density with great thermal stability. HaloDrive… Read more…

Sensata Technologies has launched a High Efficiency Contactor (HEC) designed to simplify the transition from 400 V to 800 V electric vehicle architectures. The HEC enables seamless compatibility with legacy and next-generation charging infrastructure, according to the company, allowing 800 V EVs to charge at 400 V charging stations without the need for costly boost… Read more…

EV Charger location, speed, and pricing are important, but has reliability become the ultimate differentiator? Whether deployed in public spaces, home garages, or fleet depots, every EVSE unit must perform consistently under demanding real-world conditions. For manufacturers, downtime drastically reduces any competitive edge gained in a crowded market. This webinar examines how automated testing with… Read more…

How do Bo make dat dirty rice? We may never know the answer to that question, but now we know where Bo gone charge his EV. Carolina-born Bojangles, which serves “craveable Southern food,” notably fried chicken and biscuits, boasts some 800 company-owned and franchised restaurants. Now the chain has announced plans to install EV charging… Read more…

Uber has announced a partnership with Lucid under which the companies plan to deploy more than 20,000 robotaxis over the next six years. Autonomous vehicle startup Nuro will develop the self-driving technology that Lucid will use in its robotaxis, which will be “purpose-built just for the Uber platform,” as Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told CNBC…. Read more…

Denver’s Ball Arena, home of the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche and Colorado Mammoth, has opened a new EV charging hub with a total of 60 charging ports. Located in Ball Arena’s Camry South Lot, the new charging hub “will be available to fans during games and events.” Ball Arena is located near several major road… Read more…

Sponsored by Honeywell. In the dynamic aluminum heat exchanger sector, EV manufacturers continuously push design complexity to meet the demands of electric vehicle size, space, and cooling requirements. This collaboration between EV and heat exchanger manufacturers results in the latter continuously driving improvements in workflow optimization, business efficiency, and environmental responsibility.   Heat exchanger manufacturers… Read more…

onsemi has expanded its collaboration with Schaeffler to supply silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs from its next-generation EliteSiC product line for a new plug-in hybrid electric vehicle platform. The traction inverter, developed by Schaeffler for a global automaker, uses onsemi’s SiC technology to improve energy efficiency, reliability, and packaging flexibility. According to onsemi, the EliteSiC MOSFETs… Read more…

Intelligent power management company Eaton has agreed to acquire Resilient Power Systems, a North American developer and manufacturer of energy solutions, including solid-state transformer-based technology. Resilient Power Systems is based in Austin, Texas and backed by venture capital firms including Energy Transition Ventures. Its line of ultra-compact EV charging depots connect directly to existing distribution… Read more…

IONNA, a joint venture charging network founded by eight of the world’s biggest automakers, has set a goal of deploying some 30,000 ultra-fast public charging points by 2030. Now the JV has announced a collaboration with convenience store chain Wawa. The “first of many” Rechargeries at Wawa is now open near the International Speedway in… Read more…

Joby Aviation is developing electric air taxis for commercial passenger service. Now the company has announced the expansion of its site in Marina, California, which will double its aircraft production capacity at that location. Joby has also expanded its flight test program, adding a new aircraft to its fleet. Joby designs, builds, and tests its… Read more…

German-Canadian company Rock Tech Lithium, which is developing refining capacity in Europe, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Chinese cathode active materials producer Ronbay Technology aimed at creating an integrated lithium-ion battery materials supply chain in Europe. Rock Tech will provide long-term supply of battery-grade lithium hydroxide to Ronbay’s cathode production facilities in… Read more…

ADS-TEC Energy will deploy over 30 of its ChargePost and ChargeBox battery-buffered fast EV charging stations, with charging capacities of up to 320 kW, at retail group Müller locations throughout Germany. ADS-TEC Energy’s ChargePost systems feature high-resolution 75-inch screens, which will be used for advertising (Digital Out-of-Home, or DOOH). “The roll-out of an efficient charging… Read more…

A flight corridor for testing drones and electric aircraft will soon link the University of Michigan’s autonomy research and proving ground facilities in Ann Arbor to Michigan Central’s urban testbed and innovation district in Detroit. The roughly 40-mile research skyway will be the centerpiece of M-Air, a new public-private partnership U-M is launching to support… Read more…

Solid-state battery (SSB) technology developer ION Storage Systems (ION) has invested in a new pilot production ceramic sintering furnace at its Beltsville, Maryland facility. The new equipment is intended to increase ION’s annual ceramic production capacity by ~1,000 times and unlock the ability to rapidly scale to hundreds of megawatt-hours through future expansion. Sintering is… Read more…

Battery maker LG Energy Solution Michigan and Toyota Tsusho America have established Green Metals Battery Innovations, a joint venture (JV) company focused on battery recycling that will build and operate a preprocessing plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The new plant will handle preprocessing operations to extract black mass, which contains raw metals such as nickel,… Read more…