Issue 69: July-September 2024
Featuring:
- A closer look at Li-ion dry electrode coating technology
- 2024 Honda Prologue: Japan’s most American brand gets serious about EVs
- Paired Power’s EV chargers let customers mix and match solar, storage and grid power
- Electronic fuses and the evolution of overcurrent protection
- No garage, no driveway, no problem: itselectric is bringing curbside EV charging to the US
Issue 68: April-June 2024
Featuring:
- Ram Promaster EV brings Detroit’s third maker into electric vans
- EcoG helps EVSE manufacturers streamline the process of bringing new products to market
- How HummingbirdEV uses modular platforms and micro-factories to lower the cost of commercial EVs
- Making EV charging part of the smart home
- Practical aspects of off-grid EV charging
Issue 67: January-March 2024
Featuring:
- Ram Promaster EV brings Detroit’s third maker into electric vans
- EcoG helps EVSE manufacturers streamline the process of bringing new products to market
- How HummingbirdEV uses modular platforms and micro-factories to lower the cost of commercial EVs
- Making EV charging part of the smart home
- Practical aspects of off-grid EV charging
Issue 66: October-December 2023
Featuring:
- Voltage surge and transient suppression in EV chargers
- Battery cell qualification for EVs
- Kia EV9 and Volvo EX30
- Lessons learned after 7,800 charging station installations
- Battery-integrated chargers
Issue 65: July-Sep 2023
Featuring:
- How to improve EV traction motor efficiency
- The lowly refuse truck offers the perfect use case for electrification
- Packaging second-life EV batteries into a plug-and-play energy storage system
- An inside look at how utilities view EVs: expanding electricity sales without adding new customers
- EV charging is changing:
- Part 1: How automakers’ disappointment in Electrify America drove them into Tesla’s arms
- Part 2: No, NACS is not today’s Tesla connector
- Part 3: Why Tesla’s NACS is unlikely to kill CCS
- Part 4: Behind the scenes as seven automakers counter Tesla’s Superchargers
Issue 64: April-June 2023
Featuring:
- A primer on wireless EV charging technology
- Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks
- As the off-road vehicle market rushes to electrify, standards are lagging behind
- 2023 Hyundai Ioniq 6: Korean Model 3 clone, or something else altogether?
- Westwater Resources is building a facility in Alabama to process one of the largest graphite deposits in the US
Issue 63: January-March 2023
Featuring:
- Thermal runaway in EV battery packs: designing a mitigation strategy
- Alternatives to permanent magnet motors in EV traction applications
- How NI plans to innovate in the EV test and measurement industry and unlock the power of data
- How ridesharing can help solve the challenge of urban EV ownership
- How charge management can reduce OpEx and CapEx for EV fleet projects
Issue 62: October-December 2022
Featuring:
- Inside Exro’s all-in-one EV powertrain technology
- 6 tips for creating high-throughput battery production in record time
- A closer look at high-power interconnects and disconnects
- How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice
- Solar-powered off-grid EV charging stations offer surprisingly attractive cost advantages
Issue 61: July-September 2022
Featuring:
- Cadillac’s ambitious move to an all-electric luxury brand by 2030
- Power electronics thermal limits and how to not exceed them
- TWAICE battery analytics platform promises enormously valuable insights at every point in a battery’s lifecycle
- The redesigned federal EV tax credit and other EV-related measures
- ConnectDER and Siemens Partner to offer a simple and clever solution for Level 2 charging installations
Issue 60: April-June 2022
Featuring:
- A closer look at brushed AC motors in EVs
- ONE’s hybrid battery pack combines the best aspects of two chemistries to deliver 600 miles of EV range
- The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations
- The EV raw materials crunch: How bad, how long, how to solve it?
- 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning First Drive: Ford’s most valued model is now electric
Issue 59: January-March 2022
Featuring:
- How a motor’s operating speed, torque and control strategy affect its efficiency
- BrightDrop: GM’s silent push into electric commercial vehicles
- Britishvolt wants to build battery gigafactories around the world
- WattEV aims to operate 12,000 electric trucks-as-a-service and a charging network to support them by 2030
- Emporia’s energy management system prepares for the bidirectional EV charging future
Issue 58 – November/December 2021
Featuring:
- 2022 Lucid Air: The makers of the first 500-mile EV should be taken seriously
- A closer look at minimizing charging losses: The charger (Part 2)
- Infinitum Electric brings its PCB stator technology to EV motors
- 2021 EV Charging Infrastructure Benchmark
Issue 57 – September/October 2021
Featuring:
- 2022 Rivian R1T: A real pickup truck makes an impressive debut
- A closer look at minimizing AC charging losses: From the breaker to EV (Part 1)
- Rocsys robots help to make EV fleet charging more reliable
- Q&A with CharIN North America President: It’s all about interoperability
Issue 56 – July/August 2021
Featuring:
- A closer look at why heat pumps are dominating EV HVAC systems
- Terawatt Infrastructure aims to address the massive energy capacity needs of EV fleet charging depots
- 2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe: the legendary SUV brand’s first plug-in hybrid
- Refining the circular economy for battery materials
- ABB charges into the future with Formula E
Issue 55 – May/June 2021
Featuring:
- AMPLY Power offers EV fleets guaranteed uptime and zero charging challenges
- 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5: First of an aggressive wave of new EVs
- A closer look at humidity control methods for EV electronics
- HBK’s digital algorithm can map EV motor efficiency 10 times faster than analog systems
- Study: Four of five new-car buyers can charge EVs at home
Issue 54 – March/April 2021
Featuring:
- BoostEV is an on-demand mobile EV charging network, like UberEats for hungry EVs
- What’s next for US emissions standards?
- Extreme E tackles tough terrain, promotes sustainable racing
- 2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV
- Wildcat ramps up its focus on EV Supercell breakthroughs
- Knowles develops next-generation safety capacitors to meet the growing demand for 800-volt EV systems
- A closer look at axial flux motors
Issue 53 – January/February 2021
Featuring:
- High-voltage EV battery packs: benefits and challenges. More voltage, more better?
- Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”
- Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?
- Daimler and PGE develop the electric truck stop of the future
Issue 52 – November/December 2020
Featuring:
- Isolation technologies for EV power electronics
- 2020 EV charging infrastructure Best-in-Test, rating the DC fast charging user experience
- 2022 GMC Hummer EV. The biggest, baddest, butchest EV to hit the market?
- Setting a new standard for battery leak testing
- An ENERGY STAR charger specification program update
Issue 51 – September/October 2020
Featuring:
- A closer look at the DC Link
- Tesla’s success is “a combination of thousands of heroic feats that no one knows about” (book excerpt)
- Proterra beefs up its battery expertise: Q&A CTO Dustin Grace
- NeoCharge’s Smart Splitter reduces barriers to Level 2 EV charging at home
- Volkswagen ID.4 and Nissan Ariya bring EV drive to compact crossovers … chasing Tesla Model Y
- Shoppers buy more EVs if they understand charging—and now there’s proof (exclusive first look)
Issue 50 – July/August 2020
Featuring:
- The technical challenges of bidirectional chargers
- Li-Cycle recovers usable battery-grade materials from shredded Li-ion batteries
- Turnkey transit bus electrification: Enel X offers full service EV-fleet installations for city and school buses
- BMW X3 PHEV—finally worth plugging in
- EPA issues draft performance requirements for ENERGY STAR DC fast charger specification
Issue 49 – May/June 2020
Featuring:
- Model Y: Tesla’s latest model is its most refined—and it continues to improve
- Specialized motor materials and constructions (Part 2)
- Scale up micro-solid-state batteries to large EV cells? It’s not so simple.
- How to ensure EV traction motor magnets aren’t pushed beyond their operating limits
- The emerging “non-utilities”—EVs are helping new players in the energy marketplace.
- The sun-to-car connection: SolarEdge provides the missing link from solar panels to EV charging
- COVID-19 vs EVs: What happens?
Issue 48 – March/April 2020
Featuring:
- Seven future electric pickup trucks. Maybe.
- Specialized motor materials and constructions (Part 1)
- In-Charge Energy is preparing for the coming tsunami of commercial electric trucks
- EnergyHub gives utilities more flexibility to manage peaks, including direct control of EV charging
- Retooling a shuttered factory to build electric trucks: Q&A with Lordstown Motors CEO Steve Burns
- Solid-state battery tech: What’s close to commercialization, and what’s still years away?
Issue 47 – January/February 2020
Featuring:
- 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E: An electric crossover with “the soul of a Mustang”
- Enevate says its silicon-dominant anode technology is ready for EV production
- Semiconductor packaging considerations in EVs
- A look at BMS validation testing
- ROCSYS automates charging stations with soft robots
- Q&A with Electrify America’s Chief Operating Officer
Issue 46 – November/October 2019
Featuring:
- 2020 Taycan: The Germans respond to Tesla with an excellent new Porsche and a valiant EV effort
- EMC for EVs: Understanding electromagnetic compatibility
- Q&A with Rivian’s VP of Propulsion
- EV motor shaft bearings: One of the few moving parts
- EVmatch: A simple, low-cost way to monetize your charging stations
- Zeal puts workplace and residential MUD chargers on autopilot
Issue 45 – September/October 2019
Featuring:
- 2020 Lincoln Aviator Grand Touring: Review of the brand’s first plug-in hybrid
- EuroGroup’s new gluing technology promises to improve motor efficiency and reshape electric machine design
- A closer look at advances in power PCBs
- Cable sizing and selection for EV systems
- AC Fast Charging: The right fit for medium-duty EVs
- V2G value propositions: Fermata Energy is focused on building financially viable solutions for vehicle-to-grid
Issue 44 – July/August 2019
Featuring:
- A closer look at current sensors in EVs
- Sparkcharge launches a portable and scalable DC fast charging unit
- Pre-Switch promises to add 5-12% more EV range by eliminating switching loses
- 2019 Kia Niro EV: An impressive electric compact suggests good things from future Kia EVs
- Easelink wants to set a new standard for EV charging: Automatic and conductive
- EV outliers: Oslo, San Francisco…and St Petersburg?
Issue 43 – May/June 2019
Featuring:
- Mobile EV chargers deliver power where it’s needed
- Battery testing start-up Novonix has spun off PUREgraphite to manufacture anode material in the US
- 2019 Hyundai Kona Electric: A viable EV competitor for the average car buyer
- SiC vs GaN semiconductors for EV power converters: Tech Opinion
- The Wallbox Copper proves EV chargers can be beautiful too
Issue 42 – March/April 2019
Featuring:
- Battery bonding: Ultrasonic wire bonding vs laser welded bonding
- A closer look at the losses in power semiconductors
- A look at Volkswagen’s MEB architecture
- How local leaders can make their communities more EV-friendly
- Nissan’s $3,500 LEAF rebate gets local utilities involved in increasing EV awareness
- Could new regulations hold back EV charging development?
- The EV industry sees problems with California’s proposal to mandate credit card readers for public chargers
- Determining ENERGY STAR specifications for high-power EV fast chargers proves challenging
- California proposes DC metering standards for fast chargers, companies ask for more time
Issue 41 – January/February 2019
Featuring:
- LORD and Scheugenpflug collaborate to scale up EV thermal designs
- ELANTAS increases electric motor longevity with nanoparticle-infused insulation
- 2019 Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid review: Subaru’s first PHEV offers its loyal customers a taste of zero-emission miles
- A closer look at the losses in EV motors
- Muir Commons: A case study in MUD EV infrastructure
- Koben Systems’ smart breaker panel and battery pack enable large EV charging installations