Electric vehicle charging station manufacturers face a number of challenges, including connectivity issues, component problems, and incompatibility. How do you know if your DC charger can handle the boundary cases it may face in the field? Well, you test. However, testing has its own challenges. Along with testing the charging process and safety mechanisms, one… Read more »
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Electrification Beyond The Car: 48-Volt Systems And Cutting-Edge Interconnects
Have you caught wind of the latest trends in vehicle electrification, where increased electronic content is driving interest in 48-volt systems as the standard for primary power delivery in both automotive and non-automotive applications? This trend carries through into other transportation markets, such as off-road, marine and construction vehicles. Moreover, the shift towards 48-volt systems… Read more »
Greenlane wins $15-million grant to deploy commercial EV charging infrastructure in California
Greenlane, an EV charging joint venture owned by Daimler Truck, NextEra Energy Resources and investment firm BlackRock, has secured a $15-million grant from the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD). The grant will allow Greenlane to accelerate the development of its first commercial EV charging corridor along Interstate 15. SCAQMD’s funding will be used… Read more »
Porsche powers plant in Germany with second-life EV batteries
The new stationary energy storage system (ESS) that supplies power to the Porsche plant in Leipzig covers an area nearly as big as two basketball courts and is made up of 4,400 end-of-service-life Taycan batteries salvaged from pre-series and works vehicles. The system has a total energy capacity of 10 MWh, and can deliver up… Read more »
Automotive connector space reduction strategies and solutions: Download the new guide
Sponsored by TE Connectivity. Component miniaturization is a key enabler of automotive innovation, particularly in relation to connector technology that transports electrical power, signaling and data within the harnesses to these new electronic components themselves. Download this paper to examine how manufacturers can achieve strategic space-saving goals by using miniaturized connectors that provide true automotive-grade… Read more »
SwRI finds cybersecurity risks in EV fast charging equipment
Engineers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have identified cybersecurity vulnerabilities in DC fast charging EVSE. In a laboratory, the SwRI team exploited vulnerabilities in the power line communication (PLC) layer that transmits smart-grid data between vehicles and charging equipment, gaining access to network keys and digital addresses on both the charger and the vehicle. The… Read more »
BMW to expand localized production network for next-gen EV batteries
For production of its sixth-generation high-voltage batteries, BMW is setting up five new assembly sites around the world: in Irlbach-Straßkirchen, Germany; Debrecen, Hungary; Shenyang, China; San Luis Potosí, Mexico; and Spartanburg, South Carolina. The cylindrical cells will first be used for the production of BMW’s Neue Klasse line of EVs, set to launch in 2025. … Read more »
Boundary testing EV charging stations (Webinar)
Electric vehicle charging station manufacturers face a number of challenges, including connectivity issues, component problems, and incompatibility. How do you know if your DC charger can handle the boundary cases it may face in the field? Well, you test. However, testing has its own challenges. Along with testing the charging process and safety mechanisms, one… Read more »
CASE’s new 580EV electric backhoe loader delivers instant torque and silent, emission-free operation
Yellow machines are going electric. CASE Construction Equipment debuted its Project Zeus electric backhoe concept at CONEXPO in 2020. Since then, the company has used customer feedback to guide the development of a production electric model: the 580EV electric backhoe loader. CASE’s next-generation EV offers a zero-emission, low-noise solution suitable for work in urban centers… Read more »
Renewable energy sources for off-grid EV charging
In the previous article on off-grid EV charging, the focus was on the energy storage battery and the DC-AC inverter that supplies the EV charger (and all of the other AC loads). This time the focus will be on the renewable energy sources themselves. For reasons of practicality (and availability) the emphasis will be on… Read more »