Q&A with EO Charging’s John Walsh How is providing charging infrastructure for EV fleets like running a web site or a cell phone network? All of these worthy endeavors (among others) depend on a stack, which is a hip way of describing a system of interrelated hardware and software products that function together. Some layers… Read more »
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SCAD students throw out traditional auto design ideas, create two fully functional EV concept cars
To design an automobile, a car designer does not merely just sit at a well-lighted desk, headphones firmly in place, an infinite cup of coffee nearby, sketching next year’s Any Car. No, to become a car designer, one must have a firm grasp of a number of subjects, including the history of the automobile, branding,… Read more »
General Motors to invest $625 million in new Lithium Americas JV
General Motors (GM) has entered into a new investment agreement with Lithium Americas to establish a joint venture (JV) to fund, develop, construct and operate the Thacker Pass lithium carbonate project in Humboldt County, Nevada. GM will provide $430 million of direct cash funding and a $195 million letter of credit facility to support the… Read more »
Piclo facilitates entry of EV chargers into the UK’s Capacity Market
The ability to remotely control EV chargers turns EVs into energy assets (like power plants or energy storage facilities) that can participate in energy markets. In addition to energy markets, which allow generation and storage capacity to be traded, some regions also have capacity markets, which facilitate the trading of future generation and storage capacity…. Read more »
Volkswagen to close three factories in Germany, eliminate jobs and cut worker pay
Hurricane-force winds are blowing through the global auto industry, and we may just have seen the first roof fly off. German carmaker Volkswagen has announced that it plans to close at least three factories in Germany, for the first time in the company’s history. According to the company’s works council, VW is also expected to… Read more »
Video: The benefits and challenges of dry electrode coating technology for EV batteries
The dry electrode process is transforming battery manufacturing by eliminating solvents and streamlining production. Unlike the traditional wet slurry method, the dry electrode coating process relies on the use of special binders that can form an electrode coating without being dissolved in a solvent, such as fluoropolymer binders with Teflon™ from specialty chemical company Chemours…. Read more »
Hanon Systems debuts parallel EV heat source heat pump and space-saving Thin HVAC
Hanon Systems, an automotive parts manufacturing company headquartered in Daejeon, South Korea, has developed a fourth-generation heat pump system for EVs, as well as Thin HVAC, an HVAC system for EVs that is 30% smaller than the typical model in use today. The company’s new heat pump employs a parallel heat source recovery method that… Read more »
Molabo supplies electric drives for hybrid propulsion system for firefighting boat
Molabo, a German manufacturer of 48-volt electric motors, has announced that Finnish shipyard Kewatec delivered a 16-meter-long firefighting and rescue boat to the Kiel, Germany, fire department that is equipped with a hybrid waterjet propulsion system using Molabo’s Aries i50 electric motors. The RESCUE 1500 boat, based on Kewatec’s e-FiFi 1470 design, is powered by… Read more »
Zeus signs first dealer agreement to distribute Class 5 electric trucks
Zeus Electric Chassis, a Minnesota-based electric truck chassis-cab manufacturer, has signed a dealer agreement, its first, with One Stop Truck & Equipment of Sacramento, California, to distribute Class 5 electric work trucks. Zeus offers a Class 5 electric chassis paired with the conventional pickup-style cab that is dominant in the work truck sector. The made-in-the-USA… Read more »
A closer look at Li-ion dry electrode coating technology
The dry electrode coating process has the potential to enable the production of better, greener, more cost-effective batteries. It relies on advanced fluoropolymer binders with Teflon™ For a few years now, Charged has been reporting on how dry electrode coating processes have the potential to revolutionize battery production by eliminating the use of hazardous, environmentally… Read more »
