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Designing better EV charging cables: insights from Southwire


Southwire is using its decades of electrical engineering experience to support the growing demands of electric vehicle infrastructure. Recently, Charged spoke with Yuhsin Hawig, Vice President of Applications Engineering at Southwire, about the company’s evolving role in the e-mobility space. With over 75 years in the electrical industry and more than 15 years focused on… Read more…

Sany Group introduces electric excavators, crawler cranes, telehandlers and e-rollers


Sany Group has announced four new off-highway electric vehicles including excavators, crawler cranes, telehandlers and e-rollers. The new SCC2000A-EV is Sany’s largest pure electric lattice boom crawler crane. It features a 422 kWh high-capacity CATL battery that will support up to nine hours of operation. The SCC2000A-EV uses a 234 kW Danfoss motor that the… Read more…

Nissan postpones plans to build a battery factory in Japan due to financial woes

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Nissan recently confirmed that it’s scrapping its plans to build a battery factory for its EVs due to ongoing financial hurdles. The company was supposed to build a new LFP battery plant in Japan and even received approval from the government in September last year. However, Nissan’s financial situation looks grim. The company reported a $5.2 billion loss for the… Read more…

Greenworks 80V Venture all-terrain e-bike at new $1,425 low, EGO dual-port mower bundle $550 low, Hiboy, EcoFlow flash sale, more

Where we ended last week with a lead Greenworks deal, we’re kickstarting this week’s Green Deals in a similar fashion. We spotted Greenworks’ 80V Venture 20-inch All-Terrain Utility e-bike on its own dropping to a new $1,425 low, with an option to bundle it from Best Buy with a battery and charger for $1,650. Next, EGO’s 56V 21-inch Cordless Electric Dual-Port Self-Propelled Lawn Mower is coming along with two 5.0Ah batteries at a new $550 low. We also have four e-bikes from Hiboy seeing solid discounts, led by the starter-friendly EX6 Step-Thru Fat Tire e-bike for $900. Lastly, we have EcoFlow’s latest 24-hour flash sale on a DELTA Pro Power Station bundle with a transfer switch for $1,999, or its Smart Home Panel 2 at $1,399. Plus, all the other hangover Green Deals from last week are in the links at the bottom of the page, collected together in our Electrified Weekly roundup, including the preorder bundles on Lectric’s new XP4 e-bikes. Read more…

VEV teams up with Maritime Transport to deploy electric truck charging


VEV, an electric fleet provider backed by oil company Vitol, has partnered with UK-based integrated road and rail freight logistics provider Maritime Transport to install high-powered electric truck chargers at three Maritime sites in Wakefield, Doncaster and Tilbury in the UK. The 17 chargers, which are scheduled to be commissioned by the end of May,… Read more…

i-charging’s new e-flow: a local controller that manages and optimizes fleet EV charging installations


Fleet EV charging installations need smart controllers, and as a handful of industry execs recently told Charged, these processors are increasingly located on-site rather than in the cloud. i-charging’s new e-flow is a local controller designed to seamlessly manage and optimize the operation of EV charging installations, especially those relying on satellite units or installed in… Read more…

Breathe raises $21 million, launches new battery software toolchain products


UK battery software developer Breathe Battery Technologies has raised $21 million in Series B funding and expanded its product portfolio from an embedded software program to a suite of battery simulation software, embedded software and battery services to support the full battery development process. The round brought in Swedish investment company Kinnevik, alongside previous investors… Read more…