Read past issues of Charged – Electric Vehicles Magazine

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

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