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LG Magna e-Powertrain to open new facility in Hungary

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LG Magna e-Powertrain, the joint venture (JV) between LG Electronics and Magna, is opening a new facility in Miskolc, Hungary. The 284,000-square-foot plant will be in Miskolc’s industrial sector, which has well-developed infrastructure and is close to OEM customers and Magna operations. Scheduled for completion in 2025, the new facility will start production with e-motors… Read more…

Download the guide to using regenerative, bidirectional power supplies for battery testing

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Sponsored by Kikusui. The testing and validation of batteries and fuel cells can be a large endeavor with a sizeable infrastructure including (but not limited to) environmental chambers (e.g., temperature or explosion-proof chambers), temperature sensors, racks of programmable DC power supplies, electronics loads, and measurement racks with the supporting I/O for the automated control and… Read more…

Toyota’s FT-Se sports car concept sets pulses racing

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Toyota’s Gazoo Racing division unveiled the FT-Se concept car at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo. And if this is what the future electric Toyota MR2 is going to look like – sign us up! The GR sub-brand’s first electric sports car concept promises a driving sensation that, according to Toyota’s top man, Koji Sato, stands apart from anything else out there. The production version will be “small, low, light, and fun”, he adds. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard murmurs of such a concept. In late 2021, there was a reveal of an unnamed Toyota MR2-sized concept which seems to be the… More…

Pebble Flow electric travel trailer features self-propulsion, off-grid renewable energy

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Pebble, a California-based startup, has unveiled a new 100% electric travel trailer. The Pebble Flow is designed to eliminate the range reduction caused by towing a trailer—it’s self-propelled, and includes its own battery, which can be recharged by regenerative braking and several charging options. The Pebble Flow is 25 feet long, and requires a towing… Read more…

Honda cancels plan to develop affordable EVs with GM

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Back in April of last year, Honda and GM announced plans to develop a series of affordable EVs by 2027, which would use a new architecture based on GM’s Ultium batteries. They spoke about putting together production capacity for millions of such vehicles even. Today, Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe revealed that the entire aforementioned plan has been canceled. “After studying this for a year, we decided that this would be difficult as a business, so at the moment we are ending development of an affordable EV. GM and Honda will search for a solution separately. This project itself has been… More…

Factorial Energy opens solid-state battery factory in Massachusetts

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Factorial Energy, a developer of solid-state battery technology for EV applications, has opened a new battery manufacturing facility in the Boston suburb of Methuen, Massachusetts. The new plant represents a significant step in scaling up the production of Factorial’s solid-state battery technology for EVs. Factorial says its proprietary FEST (Factorial Electrolyte System Technology) quasi-solid-state batteries… Read more…

Toyota unveils the FT-3e AI-designed electric SUV concept

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Toyota’s unveiled its FT-3e concept vehicle at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo. The sharp lines of the 4×4 five-seat SUV make it look like a far more refined Toyota bZ4x. According to Toyota AI was employed in designing the vehicle, helping achieve what the company says is a simple yet aero-optimized body. We get a full width rear light bar, squared-off panels, and alloy wheels colored to match the bodywork. There are digital displays running from the wheel arch up towards the door mirror, showing the battery charge, cabin temperature, and air quality. And, in a little flair the… More…