Startup Statevolt, a sister company of Britishvolt and Italvolt, plans to invest $4 billion to construct a new battery factory in California’s Imperial Valley. The new company’s team will take advantage of “previous learnings in gigafactory design and engineering,” as well as “an ecosystem of established project development partners.” Statevolt is currently searching for the… Read more »
Circuit protection manufacturer Littelfuse has launched a new high-voltage cartridge fuse for the on-board chargers and power distribution units (PDUs) of EVs. The new 828 series High-Voltage Cartridge Fuses are AEC-Q200 compliant, and are available in a tray package of 500 for the through-hole version, and 300 for the bolt-down version. The company says “the… Read more »
Fleet charging specialist AMPLY Power will support the deployment of two Volvo VNR Electric Trucks operated by Producers Dairy in Fresno. AMPLY managed the design and installation of charging infrastructure at the company’s processing facility, which includes two 150 kW DC fast chargers. AMPLY will also provide ongoing managed charging services through its OMEGA platform…. Read more »
For some time Lexus has positioned itself as an active opponent of battery EVs (while offering a range of hybrid models). However, times change, and so do corporate strategies. Now Toyota’s premium brand says it will offer a full lineup of BEVs in all categories by 2030, and hopes to be selling only EVs by… Read more »
Sponsored by Rockwell Automation Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the major North American vehicle manufacturers had been slowly embracing the move to electric vehicles and had been selective in embracing Industry 4.0/smart manufacturing. The impact of the pandemic on supply chains, as well as consumers’ rapidly shifting expectations around sustainability, has resulted in a global… Read more »
Penske Truck Leasing has ordered 750 Ford E-Transit electric cargo vans. The company conducted a successful pilot of the E-Transit late last year, and plans to take delivery of the first several vehicles in the next several weeks. Penske Truck Leasing operates more than 372,000 vehicles from more than 1,300 locations on 5 continents. Penske… Read more »
Sponsored by HBK Extended monitoring of electrical power needs to be done for power grids and inverter-driven electric machines to characterize their long-term behavior. This is often quite difficult to do and can contain data that is overwhelming and hard to understand. This whitepaper will showcase a real-life example of a monitoring test done over… Read more »
EV Charge Solutions, a division of Moser Services Group, has opened its second location, a new manufacturing facility at the Genesee Valley Regional Market Complex in Chili, New York. The company produces EV charging equipment for several major EVSE manufacturers, as well as its own PowerCharge brand. The newly constructed 10,000-square-foot facility provides four times… Read more »
A new company has joined the growing North American battery material industry. Anovion has been launched with “key assets contributed by affiliates of Amsted Graphite Materials,” and the acquisition of the battery materials division of Pyrotek, a manufacturer of synthetic graphite anode material. The company boasts a capacity for anode powder graphitization of 5,000 tpa… Read more »
Measurement technology manufacturer CSM has introduced a new measurement product composed of three modules for the high-frequency measurement of current, voltage and power in high-voltage power cables. The High-Voltage Breakout Module Split (HV BM Split) is comprised of an HV SBM I open module for measuring busbars, an HV SBM I for measuring the power… Read more »
