Sany Group has announced four new off-highway electric vehicles including excavators, crawler cranes, telehandlers and e-rollers. The new SCC2000A-EV is Sany’s largest pure electric lattice boom crawler crane. It features a 422 kWh high-capacity CATL battery that will support up to nine hours of operation. The SCC2000A-EV uses a 234 kW Danfoss motor that the… Read more »
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Evolectric launches Gen3 CircularEV Kit to make electrification practical for work trucks
Evolectric, which builds electric conversion kits for fleets of internal-combustion engine trucks, debuted its Gen3CircularEV Kit. The new kit combines the highest available range and payload with the shortest available wheelbase for work truck electrification, the company said, without having to sacrifice customization options. The kit is compatible with Class 3-5 Isuzu models, supports 12-foot… Read more »
Why are so many Western battery startups failing?
The US and Europe badly need to start manufacturing battery cells, and break the Chinese dominance of the market. But there’s no joy in Batteryville these days—once-promising startups are failing and/or scaling back their plans. Northvolt, a European company that was founded in 2017, and raised over $13 billion, has struggled for two years to… Read more »
After the Northvolt fiasco, is the future of Europe’s EV battery industry bound up with China?
Northvolt, the battery startup founded in 2017 by two Tesla alums, was the Great European Hope that was supposed to free the Continent from dependence on Chinese EV battery production. And for a while, things were really rolling—the company raised billions and formed partnerships with several automakers. It managed to get a couple of facilities… Read more »
Are Chinese electric buses exempt from European EV tariffs?
The EU has joined the US in imposing substantial new tariffs on EVs built in China. In June, the EU announced import tariffs on Chinese EVs ranging from 17.4% to 38.1%. The rationale behind the new tariffs is that the Chinese government has unfairly subsidized its auto industry, enabling Chinese automakers to sell EVs at… Read more »
Ampere plans low-cost LFP and cell-to-pack battery strategy for Renault
French EV and software company Ampere has announced its plan to integrate FP lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) battery technology with Renault’s nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM) technology. Ampere is collaborating with LG Energy Solution and CATL, which will provide LFP batteries for several models of Renault and Alpine brands and cover the company’s LFP battery needs until 2030. Ampere expects… Read more »
Nissan to use solid-state batteries, gigacasting in its next-gen EVs
Nissan, Japan’s third-biggest automaker by volume, plans to begin producing solid-state batteries for EVs at scale by early 2029, and will also use Tesla-style gigacasting machines in order to increase efficiency and drive down costs on its future EV models. Solid-state batteries are expected to deliver faster charging and longer lifespans than current Li-ion designs…. Read more »
Projected EV battery recycling capacity outstrips expected supply
Afraid there won’t be enough recycling plants to recycle EV batteries when they start reaching end of life in large numbers? Well, the opposite might turn out to be the case. Encouraged by generous government incentives, companies have been investing heavily in battery plants. According to new research from technology intelligence firm ABI Research, companies… Read more »
Sunrise New Energy receives approval for two Na-ion anode patents for EV batteries
China-based Sunrise New Energy, a manufacturer of anode material, has announced that its subsidiary, Sunrise (Guizhou) New Energy Materials, has received preliminary approval from the National Intellectual Property Office for two separate patents related to anode materials for sodium-ion batteries. Sodium-ion batteries use hard carbon anodes, but low specific capacity, compactness, and expansion limitations plague… Read more »
China’s CBL to invest $420 million in Indonesian nickel mining and EV battery manufacturing
Chinese EV battery company Ningbo Contemporary Brunp Lygend (CBL) has agreed to invest $420 million in Indonesia’s nickel mining and EV battery manufacturing industries. Coordinating Maritime and Investment Affairs Minister Luhut Binsar Panjaitan said that CBL has partnered with state-owned diversified miner PT Aneka Tambang (Antam) and battery maker PT Industri Baterai Indonesia (IBC). CBL… Read more »