Charged is hosting a virtual conference on EV engineering that’s free to attend and it starts today. The conference includes live webinar sessions with interactive Q&As and on-demand webinars. View the daily session schedule online here. All of the live sessions will be recorded and available to view after the broadcasts. You can access the… Read more »
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Safer Interconnection Methods For Battery Cells
In this session, we will discuss how wire bonding, ribbon bonding, smart welding, and laser-assist smart welding are safer approaches to battery cell interconnections. Presented by: Mike McKeown, Business Development Manager, HESSE MECHATRONICS
Over 50 free EV engineering sessions confirmed: Charged Virtual Conference starts in two weeks
The Spring 2021 sessions list for the Charged Virtual Conference on EV Engineering is out now. Just like the content Charged brings you every day, conference topics will span the entire EV engineering supply chain and ecosystem including motor and power electronics design and manufacturing, cell development, battery systems, testing, powertrains, thermal management, circuit protection,… Read more »
Interconnecting Li-ion Cells Options: Wire Bonding, Ribbon Bonding, Smart Welding, And Thermosonic Smart Welding
There are many techniques to interconnect cylindrical lithium-ion cells. Wire bonding is one method that has been gaining a lot of attention the past few years, but there is also ribbon bonding, smart welding and thermo-sonic smart welding. In this session we will review the technical, material and manufacturing challenges when adopting each of these… Read more »
Design guidelines for wire or ribbon bonding of cylindrical cells in battery packs
Sponsored by Hesse Mechatronics By Mike McKeown and Dr. Dirk Siepe, Hesse Mechatronics Wire bonding cylindrical battery packs is becoming more mainstream in the alternative energy market these days. This article will review the design guidelines for how to successfully implement a wire or ribbon bonding process for battery packs using cylindrical lithium-ion cells. It… Read more »
The evolution of cell interconnect technologies for battery pack manufacturing
Sponsored by Hesse GmbH By Sebastian Holtkämper, Product Manager, Hesse GmbH Looking back a decade ago on a tough worldwide EV market, hundreds of thousands of hybrid electrical vehicles (HEV), but only a few thousand battery vehicles (BEV) were yearly sold. Compared to the total car market, electric driving was a true niche experience at… Read more »
Amsterdam airport taxis switch from Tesla Model S to Model X
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport is famous among travelling EV enthusiasts for its fleet of 167 Model S taxis. Now fleet operator BIOS-groep plans to trade the S for an X, replacing all of its Model S sedans with roomy Model X crossovers. BIOS-groep collaborated with Tesla to install its own on-site charging solution. Level 2 AC… Read more »
FlixBus tests electric buses on long-distance European routes
FlixBus, which operates a network of long-distance buses in Europe, plans to test electric buses on some of its routes. Beginning in April, the first Flix-E-Bus will begin test operations on the route between Paris and Amiens, France. A second Flix-E-Bus will hit the road between Hessen and Baden-Württemberg, Germany, this summer. Long-distance buses are… Read more »
AKASOL opens European production facility for commercial EV batteries
German battery manufacturer AKASOL has announced the opening of a new semi-automated production facility for commercial vehicle batteries. The company has invested €10 million in the new commercial plant at Langen, in the Hesse region of Germany. The facility has a capacity of 600 MWh of battery systems per year, enough to equip up to… Read more »
A closer look at wire bonding
Wire bonding technology – widely utilized in the microelectronics and power electronics industries since the 1970s – is finding its way into interesting new applications in the growing EV industry – in particular, battery connections. We’re quite certain that a few EVs are using wire-bonding technology for production battery pack connections, but Charged was unable… Read more »