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Clean Logistics is taking over truck manufacturer GINAF Nederland

The truck and bus retrofitter Clean Logistics has completely taken over the Dutch truck manufacturer GINAF Nederland. With this acquisition, Clean Logistics intends to expand its activities far beyond the current conversion business. GINAF is itself active in the conversion and production of trucks in various application areas such as construction, road cleaning and waste […] More…

Northvolt subsidiary Cuberg achieves 672 cycles with lithium metal cells

Northvolt’s Advanced Technology Group, i.e. the acquired company Cuberg, has achieved a breakthrough in the next generation of lithium metal cells, according to external tests. These are to be used primarily in electric aviation. With the round of performance tests now complete, Cuberg has shown that it has made a breakthrough in overcoming the long-standing […] More…

Everrati launches engineering business unit

British conversion company Everrati, which specialises in electric conversions of automotive icons, has launched a new business unit: The service unit will help B2B customers develop their own specialist and luxury electric cars. Everrati’s first project together with the Californian company Superformance is, as reported last summer, an electrified version of the legendary Ford GT40. […] More…

Series production of the Mercedes-Benz eEconic starts in Germany

Daimler Truck has started series production of the Mercedes-Benz eEconic. The electric special truck for inner-city municipal use is being produced at the Wörth site in the southern Rhineland-Palatinate. The first vehicle from series production will be delivered to the waste management company Urbaser A/S in Denmark before the end of the year. The eEconic […] More…

Global recall for the Porsche Taycan

Porsche is recalling 40,421 units of the Taycan electric model worldwide. There is a possibility that the wiring harness of the driver’s and passenger’s seat could be damaged during the longitudinal adjustment of the seat. In such a case, airbags and seatbelt tensioners could be deactivated. The recall with the internal code “ANA5” applies to […] More…

Wax works well for conducting heat


Researchers in the US and China have developed an economic but efficient battery thermal management strategy using paraffin wax (writes Nick Flaherty). The 3D, interconnected, thermally conductive boron nitride network greatly improves thermal conductivity compared to random distribution. “We designed a 3D network of boron nitride, and systematically studied its effect on the thermal management […] More…