UK-based clean technology group Altilium has launched a new online platform that offers businesses a way to sell spent EV batteries. Altilium’s Recell.store provides an online interface for UK businesses looking to sell used batteries for recycling or second-life applications. Users can register their details in Recell.store’s database and get a quote for their battery… Read more…

US-based battery materials manufacturing technology company Sylvatex (SVX) has received $1.4 million in total project funding from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The original award included $500,000 of funding under the TINA Topic W, or Supporting Entrepreneurial Energy Discoveries (SEED), program. Supplemental funding of $982,000 for an additional two-year project will… Read more…

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have made a thin, flexible, solid-state electrolyte that may double energy storage for EVs. Using a polymer to make a strong yet springy thin film, the scientists are developing flexible, durable sheets of solid-state electrolytes that may allow scalable production of solid-state batteries that… Read more…

In a recent interview with Charged, Jonah Leason, the Electrification Product Manager at Parker Hannifin, described the strategy behind the design of its next-generation Global Vehicle Inverter (GVI). The new GVI is designed to support the electrification needs of heavy-duty vehicles by integrating seamlessly with Parker’s Global Vehicle Motors (GVMs). This inverter model is built… Read more…

The ability to remotely control EV chargers turns EVs into energy assets (like power plants or energy storage facilities) that can participate in energy markets. In addition to energy markets, which allow generation and storage capacity to be traded, some regions also have capacity markets, which facilitate the trading of future generation and storage capacity…. Read more…

Battery materials and technology company NOVONIX and UK-based ICoNiChem Widnes, which produces cobalt and nickel salts, have signed a collaboration agreement to develop nickel-based cathode active materials (CAM). The two-year project, with a total budget of C$515,686 ($373,687) between the two companies, aims to further improve the sustainability of NOVONIX’s technology by incorporating recycled metal… Read more…

South Korea-based LG Energy Solution has signed agreements with Ford Motor to supply battery modules from its Poland facility for Ford’s commercial vans in the UK and EU. Under the contracts, LG Energy Solution is expected to supply a total of 109 GWh of batteries to Ford for its electric commercial vans starting in 2026,… Read more…

Daimler Buses Italia, the Italian Daimler Buses sales company, is in the process of delivering 110 Mercedes-Benz eCitaro buses to Autoservizi Troiani, operator of suburban routes in Rome’s eastern periphery. Ten are already in operation, and delivery is scheduled to be completed by mid-2026. Each of the 12-meter-long, three-door buses can accommodate up to 26… Read more…

Fast-charging network EVgo has entered into an MOU with Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Delta Electronics to jointly develop next-generation EV charging architecture.  The architecture is designed to provide EVgo with more control over the customer experience and to improve reliability, cost savings and energy efficiency. The company aims to lower its gross capital expense per stall… Read more…

A team of Cornell University researchers has published a paper that reports on their work to fuse together a pair of contorted molecular structures, creating a porous crystal that can uptake lithium-ion electrolytes and transport them smoothly via one-dimensional nanochannels—a design that could lead to safer solid-state lithium-ion batteries. The paper, “Supramolecular Assembly of Fused… Read more…

At this year’s Battery Show, Dorner and Garvey Corporation showcased the future of material handling solutions for EV and battery manufacturers. Dave Giffels, Dorner’s Business Development Manager, and Jacob Garvey from Garvey Corporation shared innovative systems poised to boost efficiency and productivity in the growing EV industry. These advanced conveyor and accumulation systems are designed… Read more…

Italian bus manufacturer Iveco Bus, a brand of Iveco Group, has received three new contracts in France for a total of 31 hydrogen fuel cell buses and 20 battery electric buses. Cannes Lérins Urban Community has ordered twelve GX 337 H2 LINIUM BRT hydrogen fuel cell buses, Lorient Agglomération has ordered nineteen GX 337 H2… Read more…

Polish bus manufacturer Solaris Bus & Coach will supply Arriva, a private transportation company operating in the Netherlands, with 26 Urbino 12 electric buses and four articulated Urbino 18 electric buses for service in the West-Brabant region. Equipped with central traction engines, the buses are based on a modular drive system architecture that eliminates the… Read more…

Canada-based Laserax, which manufactures industrial laser machines, has developed a new system that accelerates the laser welding of battery cells using machine vision software from German firm MVTec. The Battery Welding Machine speeds up the process of welding the current collector and busbar to the battery module. The system is suitable for batteries used in… Read more…

The dry electrode process is transforming battery manufacturing by eliminating solvents and streamlining production. Unlike the traditional wet slurry method, the dry electrode coating process relies on the use of special binders that can form an electrode coating without being dissolved in a solvent, such as fluoropolymer binders with Teflon™ from specialty chemical company Chemours…. Read more…

Molabo, a German manufacturer of 48-volt electric motors, has announced that Finnish shipyard Kewatec delivered a 16-meter-long firefighting and rescue boat to the Kiel, Germany, fire department that is equipped with a hybrid waterjet propulsion system using Molabo’s Aries i50 electric motors.  The RESCUE 1500 boat, based on Kewatec’s e-FiFi 1470 design, is powered by… Read more…

Hanon Systems, an automotive parts manufacturing company headquartered in Daejeon, South Korea, has developed a fourth-generation heat pump system for EVs, as well as Thin HVAC, an HVAC system for EVs that is 30% smaller than the typical model in use today.  The company’s new heat pump employs a parallel heat source recovery method that… Read more…

Tokyo-headquartered PowerX, a manufacturer of EV charging infrastructure, will lead the rollout and operation of charging stations for Mercedes-Benz High Power Charging Japan, a soon-to-be-established wholly-owned subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz Group that is developing its EV charging network in Japan. PowerX will manufacture and deliver its Hypercharger units and will also oversee charging station development, from… Read more…

Zeus Electric Chassis, a Minnesota-based electric truck chassis-cab manufacturer, has signed a dealer agreement, its first, with One Stop Truck & Equipment of Sacramento, California, to distribute Class 5 electric work trucks. Zeus offers a Class 5 electric chassis paired with the conventional pickup-style cab that is dominant in the work truck sector. The made-in-the-USA… Read more…

Researchers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a new technology that can diagnose and monitor the state of EV batteries with high precision using only small amounts of current, aiming to maximize long-term stability and efficiency. The research team, led by Professors Kyeongha Kwon and Sang-Gug Lee from the School… Read more…