Cagliari, the capital of the Italian island of Sardinia, has deployed 3 Solaris Urbino 12 Hydrogen buses, part of a batch of 15 vehicles funded and procured through central purchasing body Consip. Transport agency CTM Cagliari now operates 236 electrified vehicles, including 203 battery-electric buses, 30 trolleybuses and the 3 new fuel cell buses. The… Read more »
San Diego battery startup South 8 Technologies has executed a $9.2 million grant agreement under California’s PowerForward Battery Manufacturing program, funding expansion of its LiGas® liquefied gas electrolyte production at its San Diego headquarters. PowerForward is a $67 million California Energy Commission program, administered by CALSTART, aimed at attracting and retaining zero-emission vehicle battery manufacturing… Read more »
Swedish EV charging provider Milepost has acquired a network of AC charging stations from fellow charging provider Mer. The acquisition comprises some 250 charge points across Sweden, from Åre in the north to Malmö in the south. Most offer charging power of 22 kW, but a few support speeds of up to 50 kW. The… Read more »
Electra Battery Materials has restarted full-scale construction on what it describes as North America’s first cobalt sulfate refinery, located near Temiskaming Shores, Ontario. Construction had been paused for roughly two years before the company completed a recapitalization and resumed site work in November 2025. The refinery is designed to produce 6,500 tonnes of battery-grade cobalt… Read more »
The police are plugging in. The City of New York’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS), which is in charge of procurement for municipal fleets, has announced that it now has over 1,000 plug-in vehicles assigned to law enforcement agencies. Not all of these are cop cars. Yes, the NYPD has nearly 500 plug-ins in… Read more »
Electric truck OEM Workhorse Group has received a purchase order for 100 battery-electric step vans from Purolator, a Canadian integrated freight, package and logistics solutions provider. This new order will double the number of Workhorse electric step vans in Purolator’s fleet, including the company’s prior purchases from Motiv, which merged with Workhorse in late 2025…. Read more »
Peak Nano and Advanced Conversion have announced a partnership to co-develop DC-link capacitor solutions engineered specifically for 800 V+ SiC inverter systems in electric vehicles and e-mobility platforms. Advanced Conversion is a wholly owned subsidiary of ETI, based in Clearwater, Florida. The collaboration pairs Peak Nano’s NanoPlex LDF (Low Dissipation Factor) capacitor film with Advanced… Read more »
Global Battery Materials Corp. (GBM) has shipped its first graphite samples to a US customer for qualification and opened a new processing lab in Quebec—two milestones the company says demonstrate its ability to build a North American graphite supply chain outside of Chinese production. The samples came from GBM’s Kearney Mine in Ontario, one of… Read more »
Energy technology company Everged has launched a turnkey solution designed to help EV charging site hosts replace broken, outdated, out-of-warranty or unsupported charging stations with new equipment at zero up-front cost. As is typical in the early years of any new technology, the EV charging industry has seen not only rapid technological change, but also… Read more »
Iskraemeco eMobility, a European provider of EV charging solutions, has released a new-generation modular DC fast charging station. The iFC240 is an all‑in‑one DC fast charger designed for public networks, commercial fleets and high‑demand charging corridors. Configurations range from 120 kW to 240 kW, and the modular structure of the iFC240 is designed to enable… Read more »
