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WEX launches WEX EV Depot, its new EV charging and payment feature

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Payment-processing and fleet-management company WEX, headquartered in Portland, Maine, has introduced WEX EV Depot, a new by-subscription feature of its charging platform designed to simplify charging at private facilities when using the WEX Fleet Card. With the platform’s existing En Route public charging and At-Home capabilities, WEX now offers streamlined EV charging payments at depot,… Read more…

NOVONIX finalizes Chattanooga land deal for second synthetic graphite facility

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Battery materials and technology company NOVONIX has executed a definitive agreement to purchase a 182-acre parcel of land for $5 million in the Enterprise South Industrial Park in Chattanooga, Tennessee for its second facility to produce synthetic graphite. The new facility is expected to reach an initial annual production capacity of 31,500 tonnes. Alongside NOVONIX’s… Read more…

American Battery Solutions signs deal to power TICO’s in-house fleet of terminal trucks

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American Battery Solutions has announced a $132-million contract to provide terminal tractor manufacturer TICO with its Proliance Intelligent Battery Series 700-volt lithium-ion batteries to power TICO’s in-house fleet of Pro-Spotter Electric terminal trucks. TICO, which manufactures the Pro-Spotter Electric terminal trucks, also uses some 2,000 of them in its port equipment rental pools. The use… Read more…

We got a rare opportunity to drive on public roads in China and tested out a bunch of ZEEKR EVs [Video]

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Seth and I recently traveled to China to attend the Shanghai Auto Show and used the opportunity to travel to Hangzhou with ZEEKR and test drive most of the automaker’s EVs. Even better, ZEEKR helped us acquire temporary driver’s permits in China, enabling us to test EVs like the new 007 GT on public roads. Read on and check out my full video belo. Read more…

Vehicle-to-grid specialist Nuvve acquires strategic assets from Fermata Energy

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Vehicle-to-grid pioneer Nuvve has announced the acquisition of substantially all the net assets of Fermata Energy, through Nuvve’s newly formed subsidiary, Fermata 2.0. The purchase price reportedly came to $659,000, consisting of approximately $340,000 in cash and the remainder in assumed liabilities. Fermata 2.0 will be jointly led by Gregory Poilasne as CEO and Hamza… Read more…

Asahi Kasei Microdevices and Silicon Austria Labs integrate current sensor into EV power module

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Japanese electronic components supplier Asahi Kasei Microdevices (AKM) and Austrian research center Silicon Austria Labs (SAL) have completed a joint proof of concept for integrating a current sensor into a power module to be used in automotive applications, such as traction inverters and DC-DC converters. The technology enables energy efficiency, as well as compact and… Read more…

Sandvik sells 22 battery-electric mining machines to South32

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Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions has announced an order from South32 for its greenfield Hermosa critical minerals project in Arizona that is the largest ever placed for the company’s battery-electric vehicles. South32 is a mining and metals company headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. The order includes six Sandvik DS412iE bolters, five Sandvik DD422iE development drills,… Read more…