Electrifying transportation is going to require beaucoup batteries, and for a raft of reasons, those batteries need to be built near the vehicle markets they serve (not shipped halfway around the world, as is often the case today). The Biden Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act includes incentives for automakers to source their batteries here in the… Read more »
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Stellantis to build electric aircraft with Archer, provide strategic funding for growth
Stellantis and Archer Aviation have agreed to expand their existing partnership by joining forces to manufacture Archer’s electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, Midnight. Stellantis has been a strategic partner to Archer since 2020, and an investor since 2021. Now Stellantis will contribute its manufacturing technology and expertise, plus personnel and capital, to help… Read more »
EV charging company EnviroSpark secures $15 million in total funding
Georgia-based EV charging company EnviroSpark has completed a $10-million funding round led by Ultra Capital. The company announced its $5-million Series A funding earlier this year, bringing total outside investment to $15 million. EnviroSpark plans to use the additional funding to expand its services and increase its employee headcount nearly fourfold. EnviroSpark partners with property… Read more »
Siemens selects site for second US EVSE manufacturing hub
Siemens eMobility has announced plans to establish its second US EVSE manufacturing hub in Carrollton, Texas. Siemens is retrofitting the existing 80,000-square-foot plant, which will serve as the manufacturing site for the company’s new VersiCharge Blue, a Buy American-compliant Level 2 AC charger specifically designed for the US market. Siemens expects the plant to be… Read more »
Solvay and Orbia to supply North American market with polyvinylidene fluoride Li-ion binder and separator coating
Solvay and Orbia have teamed up to produce suspension-grade polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) for the North American market. According to Orbia, demand is increasing for PVDF, a thermoplastic fluoropolymer used as a lithium-ion binder and separator coating in batteries. The Solvay-Orbia joint venture aims to fill a supply gap for this critical battery component. Solvay will… Read more »
EnviroSpark to deploy charging stations at 80 Starwood multi-family properties
Atlanta-based charging provider EnviroSpark has partnered with private investment firm Starwood Capital Group in a “multi-million-dollar” deal to deploy over 400 charging stations at some 80 multi-family home properties owned by Starwood across the US. EnviroSpark will deliver and install the charging stations at sites in 12 states over the next six to twelve months…. Read more »
Ascend Elements to invest a billion in Kentucky battery materials facility
Ascend Elements , a vertically integrated battery recycling and engineered materials company, has announced plans to invest $310 million in the first phase, and up to $1 billion total, to build a battery materials facility at the Commerce Industrial Park II in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The new manufacturing facility, Apex 1, will be home to the… Read more »
News flash: EV buyers prefer rebates to tax credits
A new survey has confirmed something that Charged and other EV media have been saying for years: the US federal EV tax credit is about as inefficient a way to encourage EV adoption as could be imagined. Providing a “cash on the hood” rebate instead could have resulted in more EV sales at a lower… Read more »
GE Appliances deploys Einride electric trucks in US Southeast
GE Appliances (GEA), a Haier company, is deploying a fleet of electric freight vehicles on routes between the company’s warehouses and manufacturing facilities in Kentucky, Georgia and Tennessee. The company says the move will increase efficiency and reliability, and lower the cost of moving manufacturing materials and components in a critical segment of its supply… Read more »
Bank of America to offer Electrify America ultra-fast charging stations at 90 locations
Bank of America and Electrify America have announced plans to greatly expand the number of B of A financial centers equipped with charging stations by the end of 2023. Bank of America’s collaboration with Electrify America began in 2019. At last count, B of A has 192 individual chargers at 51 locations in California, Florida,… Read more »