The Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology IPK, a research institute in Berlin, is participating with the Battery Pass Consortium to design and implement the technical standards of the EU’s digital battery passport. The passport will be required by the EU Batteries Act for new traction batteries, two-wheeled-vehicle batteries and industrial batteries with… Read more »
A team at Penn State has reported using cold sintering to reprocess solid-state composite electrolytes. According to research published in an open-access paper in the journal ChemSusChem, the technique was used to reprocess Mg- and Sr-doped Li7La3Zr2O12 with polypropylene carbonate (PPC) and lithium perchlorate (LLZO–PPC–LiClO4). The low sintering temperature allows co-sintering of ceramics, polymers, and… Read more »
The market share of fully electric trucks and buses is growing at an impressive pace in Europe, according to a new report from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). The news comes to us via the Australian EV news site The Driven. Writer Daniel Bleakley laments that his country is so far behind the… Read more »
Next week, Charged is hosting a virtual conference on EV engineering that’s free to attend. The conference includes live webinar sessions with interactive Q&As and on-demand webinars. View the daily session schedule online here. All live sessions will be recorded and available to view after the broadcasts. You can access the recorded videos on each… Read more »
The need to quickly increase EV battery testing capacity is making validation labs harder to manage and forcing engineering teams to explore ways to sustainably scale up their test lab operations. Battery cyclers that are flexible, open, and connected are critical to achieve the scale needed in modern battery validation labs. Join this webinar, presented… Read more »
Electric trucks are proving that they can be more powerful, more reliable, easier to use and more cost-effective than legacy diesels, one grueling job at a time. If there’s one application that requires serious power and reliability, it’s clearing snow from roads in northern Norway. The Norwegian Road Administration recently tested an electric truck in… Read more »
EV charging network operator EVgo has opened its first public EV charging station built using the company’s new prefabrication approach. Located at the Bay Colony Town Center in League City, Texas, this EVgo station is the first of several prefabricated stations slated to open this year. EVgo expects its prefabrication process to reduce station construction… Read more »
Ireland-based ADS-TEC Energy, a developer and producer of battery storage–based platforms, has for the first time installed its ChargeBox ultra-fast EV chargers at a multiunit residential development: the 470-unit Marina Palms Yacht Club and Residences in North Miami Beach, Florida. ADS-TEC says the chargers require no major construction or upgrades to electrical infrastructure. They use… Read more »
Power electronics is a growing field with the push for electric vehicles and advancing grid technologies. Developing power electronics controllers requires in depth testing to improve performance, efficiency, and reliability. Development requires trying different active and passive components with different topologies and extensive testing. Traditionally, pure software testing of controller code and circuit simulation tools… Read more »
Sweden-based truck maker Scania will expand its BEV truck offerings with the introduction of additional models, cab alternatives and power takeoff (PTO) solutions, as well as 6×4 bogie axle configurations for extra traction. The EM C1-2 truck model, designed for construction-oriented operations, now comes in both 210 kW and 240 kW versions that respectively provide… Read more »
