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…

Sweden’s Holyvolt has completed its $73 million acquisition of Wildcat Discovery Technologies, bringing together Wildcat’s high-throughput battery materials R&D platform and Holyvolt’s screen-printing, water-based manufacturing process. The companies say the combination is meant to bridge a familiar gap in the battery business: promising lab results that never make it efficiently into scalable production. Wildcat has… Read more…

Functional safety requirements are applied across Industrial and Electrical System control and safety systems. In battery standards and certifications, functional safety requirements have become more and more stringent, reducing the reliance on single-fault testing schemes, but often adding confusion and complexity to “legacy” testing and safety certification standards. Join this webinar at our March Virtual… Read more…

Join this webinar at next week’s Virtual Conference on EV Engineering, presented by Infineon, to gain valuable insights on the latest power conversion trend, topologies evolution, application requirements and the latest CoolSiC™ AEC-Q qualified products from Infineon. Additionally, you will understand how new innovative CoolSiC™ power devices will revolutionize the automotive industry by enabling cost-effective… Read more…

Sponsored by Burns Industrial Equipment. Electric vehicles are becoming integrated more and more in a variety of settings, including in neighborhoods with low-speed vehicles. Unlike traditional golf carts, these EVs can be a sustainable way to improve operational efficiency and boost resident satisfaction while offering the same transportational convenience. On top of that, it’s a… Read more…

Honeywell is integrating its AI-powered Battery Manufacturing Excellence Platform (Battery MXP) into the Alabama Mobility and Power (AMP) Center’s battery research lab at the University of Alabama, aiming to improve cell yields and speed up battery factory startups. The AMP Center says the deployment will also support workforce training for battery manufacturing and electrification. Battery… Read more…

Hyundai and Kia have announced a new strategic investment in Qnovo, maker of a software platform that monitors battery health. The investment follows years of collaborative testing between Qnovo and Hyundai/Kia. “By delivering a verifiable digital accounting of battery health via a scalable, hardware-free architecture, Qnovo enables automakers to maximize performance and safety in real-time,… Read more…

A new Chinese electric truck brand is stalking the European market. Electrive reports (in German) that startup SuperPanther plans to start selling electric semi-trucks in Europe this year. SuperPanther will rely on a contract manufacturing arrangement with Steyr Automotive in Austria for European production, Frank Schulz, SuperPanther’s Europe sales chief, told Electrive. Series production is… Read more…

Bringing a Battery Management System (BMS) to market quickly is hard. The same pressures that compress timelines can also introduce quality escapes, safety risks, and costly redesigns. This webinar at our March Virtual Conference on EV Engineering, presented by comemso electronics GmbH, shows how to accelerate development and validation with a structured, compliance-aware approach that… Read more…