EV charging management platform AMPECO has raised $16 million in venture capital investment after closing a $13-million Series A funding round led by BMW i Ventures. The round also included LAUNCHub Ventures, Cavalry Ventures and a number of angel investors. The company offers a white-label, hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform that covers public, private and… Read more »
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Tesla to build Semis and expand battery production at Nevada Gigafactory
Tesla’s Nevada Gigafactory is quite a place—since its 2014 opening, the company has invested $6.2 billion in the region, and the 5.4-million-square-foot, 11,000-employee facility has produced some 7.3 billion battery cells, 1.5 million battery packs and 3.6 million drive units. Now Tesla has announced plans to invest an additional $3.6 billion, hire 3,000 more team… Read more »
How Phoenix Contact’s e-mobility infrastructure is shaping charging technology
Sponsored by Phoenix Contact Phoenix Contact Group is made up of 15 German and four international companies, along with 11 manufacturing locations, and has a footprint in more than 100 countries. The 99-year-old company offers creative solutions in the fields of connection technology, electronics and automation and is independent in its entrepreneurial and decision-making freedom…. Read more »
Prairie Lithium commissions Canada pilot plant for direct lithium extraction
Prairie Lithium has commissioned the third iteration of its direct lithium extraction (DLE) pilot plant in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is designed to process deep subsurface brines sourced from the company’s fall 2022 drilling program, from which 600 cubic meters of lithium-rich brine was reserved for ongoing DLE technology testing. The pilot plant uses Plix, Prairie… Read more »
ZF reaches milestone: two million EV motors produced
This year, automotive supplier ZF reached the milestone of two million electric motors produced. To keep pace with the global increase in demand for EVs, the company has been continuously accelerating production at its lead plant in Schweinfurt, Germany. It has also commissioned major production lines in Serbia and China. Another plant in North America… Read more »
Novel current collector is designed to stop battery thermal runaway
Researchers from Renmin and Tsinghua Universities in China have developed a novel shape-memory current collector (SMCC) that they say can stop battery thermal runaway in an overheated battery. Their paper, Early Braking of Overwarmed Lithium-Ion Batteries by Shape-Memorized Current Collectors, is published in the ACS journal Nano Letters. Unlike traditional current collectors made of copper… Read more »
Amping-up EV batteries with a materials mindset
Sponsored by DupontSponsored by Dupont Before this decade is over, even conservative estimates indicate that at least two out of three cars produced in the world will be electrically powered. This figure accounts for both fully battery-powered and hybrid propulsion system vehicles. There are some hard truths involved in engineering mobility for the future. Systems,… Read more »
6 tips for creating high-throughput battery production in record time
Batteries represent nearly one third of the total price of a typical EV, and there’s a push to get that down to 20% or less by the end of this decade. In an effort to lower costs and accelerate production, the EV industry has been searching for ways to make the assembly process more efficient… Read more »
A closer look at high-power interconnects and disconnects
In the electrical/electronic world, the terms interconnect and disconnect both refer to a means of joining two sides of a circuit together. The subtle—and entirely informal—difference is that an interconnect is directly or manually operated (inserting a plug into a jack, for example) while a disconnect is indirectly or automatically operated, for example the moving… Read more »
European Battery Alliance says European battery industry is in “crisis,” calls for billions in “emergency” investments
The US Inflation Reduction Act was intended to boost investment in US battery manufacturing, and it appears to be working—so well, in fact, that European battery producers are becoming alarmed. The European Battery Alliance (EBA), a group of around 800 industry stakeholders that was founded in 2017, has presented what it calls a “crisis proposal”… Read more »