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Polestar 4 has the lowest carbon impact of all Polestar vehicles at launch

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The Polestar 4, unveiled back in April for the Chinese market, is the vehicle with the lowest carbon impact at launch from the entire Polestar lineup. The brand just published its Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for it, and the results are great. The Polestar 4 is made at Geely’s SEA factory in Hangzhou Bay, China. This plant combines green electricity that carries the I-REC hydro power certificate with photovoltaic electricity from its roof. The climate impact is further reduced during production by employing low-carbon aluminum from smelters using hydropower electricity, as the data… More…

Indian firm EAM to invest $650 million in North Carolina EV battery manufacturing facility


Epsilon Advanced Materials (EAM), an Indian battery materials company and a subsidiary of Epsilon Carbon, plans to build a $650-million graphite anode manufacturing facility in Brunswick County, North Carolina. The company plans to break ground in 2024 and begin manufacturing in 2026, reaching full capacity by 2031. EAM is already in discussions with local raw… Read more…

Facility services specialist ABM rolls out its own EV charging network


ABM, a provider of facility services, infrastructure solutions and parking management, has extensive experience deploying charging stations—it has installed over 30,000 chargers to date. Now the company has rolled out its own proprietary EV charging network. ABM’s EV Charging Network, which is powered by its cloud-based ABM EV OS software in collaboration with Noodoe, will… Read more…

Peugeot E-408 and E-5008 confirmed for 2024 launch as E-3008 makes an official premiere

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Peugeot will use the Zurich Motor Show to show its EV, the Peugeot E-3008, to the general public. From today to 5, 2023, visitors will get the chance to see the E-3008 in the flesh for the first time. In an arguably more exciting development the company confirmed that in August 2024 we’ll see the E-5008 join its smaller sibling. Sharing the same dedicated EV STLA Medium platform, the E-5008 will be larger and feature a more traditional roofline, which is to say it will have far more trunk space. The 98 kWh battery will also carry over to the larger model, although it will likely come… More…

Nissan hopes its solid-state EV batteries won’t need cooling at all

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Nissan is one of several automakers that see solid-state battery technology as a potential game-changer for EVs going into the next decade. In-house, it plans to both perfect development of all-solid-state battery (ASSB) cells and establish how to make them, with the tech due to make it into a production EV by 2028. If all goes well, Nissan wants… More…

Material selection for EV battery pack assembly and thermal management


Sponsored by Dupont. DuPont Supports You from Concept to Commercialization You have many choices when it comes to suppliers and material selection when considering electric vehicle battery pack assembly and thermal management. DuPont sets itself apart by offering a wide portfolio of solutions along with R&D, application development expertise, in-house capabilities and technical service that… Read more…