Lunaz Design has unveiled what it says is the rarest classic car ever to be transformed to fully electric power. Its 1961 Bentley S2 Continental is one of only four examples built. In its original specification, it was powered by a 6.2 litre V8 IC engine, but it is now equipped with Lunaz’s in-house and […] More…
Author: E-Mobility Engineering
The Battery Show North America returns to Novi
The Battery Show is returning to the Suburban Collection Showcase in Novi, Michigan on Sept. 11-14 with more than 775 exhibitors and over 72 hours of education available across the three-day expo. More…
Chroma ATE unveils integrated HIL test bed for battery EVs
Chroma ATE has launched the 8610 battery pack power HIL test bed for testing battery systems and components of new energy vehicles, including the battery module, BMS and cooling/heating system. Various hardware options are available for integration, such as a DC power supply, battery charge-discharge system, digital meter, hi-pot tester, and short-circuit and overvoltage protection devices. More…
Zeiss unveils NDT system for battery and EV builders
Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions has launched its VoluMax 9 titan system for computed tomography (CT) analysis of battery cells and EVs. CT is a non-destructive means of checking that the various steps in the production processes are working as intended, so that sub-components are handled and assembled without errors or damage. More…
Lithium iron phosphate batteries
Developments in LFP technology are making it a serious rival to lithium-ion for e-mobility, as Nick Flaherty explains Lithium-ion batteries have some disadvantages for e-mobility that cannot be ignored, such as lower safety and higher cost than other chemistries. At the same time, improvements in battery pack technology in recent years have seen the energy density of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) packs increase to the point where they have become viable for all kinds of e-mobility applications from vehicles to new types of shipping such as so-called battery tankers. More…
Calcium shows promise for cells
Researchers in Japan have developed a promising rechargeable calcium metal battery with a long lifetime (writes Nick Flaherty). The prototype is capable of 500 cycles of repeated charging-discharging.
As the fifth most abundant element in Earth’s crust, calcium is widely available and inexpensive, and has a higher energy density potential than lithium. More…
Stellantis and Saft unveil storage battery for EVs and stationary power
A team comprising CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research), Stellantis and Saft have unveiled a prototype of an energy storage battery that integrates the inverter and charger functions to create a battery that enhances the range of BEVs. More…
Bentley unveils recreation of the Blower by The Little Car Company
Bentley Motors and The Little Car Company has unveiled a road-legal, 85 per cent scale recreation of the most famous Bentley in the world. ‘Blower Jnr’, a recreation of the 1929 4½-litre Supercharged Team Car No. 2 in Bentley’s Heritage Collection, is the first road-legal car from The Little Car Company and the most sophisticated city car ever built. More…
CATL launches superfast charging battery
CATL launched Shenxing, the world’s first 4C superfast charging LFP battery, capable of delivering 400 km of driving range with a 10-minute charge as well as a range of over 700 km on a single full charge. Shenxing is expected to considerably alleviate fast charging anxiety for EV users, and opens up an era of EV superfast charging. More…
magniX magni350, 650 and magniDrive 100
Rory Jackson looks at how these electric powertrains and their inverter have been designed for crewed aircraft integrators
In every part of aerospace engineering, a race is on to break new ground and claim headline-grabbing milestones in sustainable aviation. While it might seem to some that commercial airliners are moving at a sluggish pace compared with the automotive world in reducing their harmful emissions, it is not out of a lack of interest in decarbonisation. More…
Tool chain for ZEVonUDS standard
Vector Informatik has developed a tool chain for the emerging ZEVonUDS standard for onboard diagnostics (OBD) in EVs (writes Nick Flaherty). More…
Tecman unveils high-volume anti-thermal propagation pad process
Materials engineering firm Tecman says it has developed a process that for the first time enables high-volume continuous manufacture of framed Anti-Thermal Propagation (ATP) pads.
ATP pads are a type of cell barrier that incorporate a physical built-in spacer that surrounds the insulation pad. More…
ViscoTec announces flow monitor for analysing process-related viscosity pressures
In the future, users who operate a stand-alone dispenser can monitor and evaluate their pressures in the dosing process. This is made possible by the flowplus-MONITOR QC analysis unit, which can be used flexibly thanks to its two channels… More…
Fuses and circuit protection
Nick Flaherty reports on how new circuit protection technologies are meeting the challenges posed by increasingly powerful EVs The EV market these days is seeing demand and development towards decreasing charging times, increased range requirements and a wider variety of vehicle models. All of this heightens the challenges on electrical system performance and design, particularly regarding circuit protection. More…
Lab allows customised validation
NI has developed a software-defined battery laboratory to speed up the validation of battery systems (writes Nick Flaherty).
The lab covers a battery’s lifecycle from r&d to validation, production, second life and re-manufacturing by using different software loads. More…
Magna launches modular e-decoupling unit for battery EVs
Magna has announced the start of production of a modular e-decoupling unit to support multiple battery EV programmes for a German premium OEM.
The unit is an electromechanical device that disconnects an EV’s… More…
Head of Bosch Mobility Solutions talks EV trends and techs
Arun Srinivasan, head of Bosch Mobility Solutions in the UK, says that, as a Tier 1 automotive supplier, the company is well-placed to assess which technologies in which sectors are best placed to reduce the environmental impact of road transport, particularly by eliminating tailpipe emissions (writes Peter Donaldson).
“If you focus on air quality, passenger car electrification is perhaps the most important for that, and we in the UK are well on the way with that,” he says. “The charging network has room for improvement, but that aside, I think the path is almost set. More…
Head of Bosch Mobility Solutions talks EV tech
Arun Srinivasan, head of Bosch Mobility Solutions in the UK, says that, as a Tier 1 automotive supplier, the company is well-placed to assess which technologies in which sectors are best placed to reduce the environmental impact of road transport, particularly by eliminating tailpipe emissions (writes Peter Donaldson).
“If you focus on air quality, passenger car electrification is perhaps the most important for that, and we in the UK are well on the way with that,” he says. “The charging network has room for improvement, but that aside, I think the path is almost set. More…
Adhesives
Increasingly important in multiple applications in vehicles of all kinds, adhesives are central to the assembly of batteries, power electronics and motors used in EVs. Current development efforts are focused in areas such as ease of use in volume manufacturing as the EV industry gears up for mass… More…
Solid-state cell is safety-approved
Factorial has become the first company to receive safety certification for a large, 100 Ah solid-state lithium metal battery cell (writes Nick Flaherty).
The large-format automotive solid-state cell has received the United… More…
