Q&A with Frank Menchaca, President of SAE International’s Sustainable Mobility Solutions The reliability—or rather, the unreliability—of public EV charging stations is nothing less than a scandal, and it’s holding back EV adoption. This tragedy involves a cast of many players—automakers, charger manufacturers, network operators, electric utilities, and often a lot more—and all need to start… Read more »
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Chinese automakers are forging ahead with sodium-ion batteries
Sodium-ion batteries, which could offer significant cost and raw material procurement advantages over the lithium-ion kind, have been much discussed in the press of late. Chinese battery behemoth CATL unveiled its first-generation sodium-ion battery in July 2021. At the time, analysts predicted that Na-ion cells, which are expected to offer only modest energy density, would… Read more »
bp pulse and APCOA Parking collaborate to build European EV charging hubs
bp pulse and APCOA Parking Group have partnered to open more than 100 EV fast charging hubs across Europe.Under the agreement, bp pulse plans to install ultra-fast charging at APCOA car parks in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland and the UK over the next three years to help expand its charging network in… Read more »
Lucid’s cell specialist, battery immersion cooling and more (Today’s webinar schedule)
Today, Charged is hosting a virtual conference on EV engineering that’s free to attend. The conference includes live webinar sessions with interactive Q&As and on-demand webinars. View the daily session schedule online here. All live sessions will be recorded and available to view after the broadcasts. You can access the recorded videos on each session’s… Read more »
EV Powertrain Optimization Using The All-Cloud Software Stack
Engineers are moving rapidly towards an all-cloud engineering software stack, from CAD and simulation to optimization and post-processing. With cloud-native simulation tools, the entire simulation workflow is shortened from days and weeks to hours, enabling engineers to explore the full design space and reduce the need for costly physical prototyping and testing. In this session,… Read more »
Advantages Of Automation In HIL Testing. What Is The Right Mix For You?
HIL Automation can accelerate your turnaround time for decisive information about your software feature changes. It can also be a long uphill climb that may take years to achieve and can be a secondary concern until the floor drops out. This presentation will help define what HIL means and provide perspective of 2 fictional companies… Read more »
Data-Driven Decision Making To Reduce Downtime And Risk While Improving Productivity In Your Automotive Plant
As the electric vehicle industry continues to expand exponentially, established players and newcomers alike are looking for easy-to-use and effective solutions for maintenance and quality. This means manufacturers are exploring opportunities to digitize areas like maintenance by using computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) to track and predict asset lifecycles. And as we work to bring… Read more »
Using Artificial Intelligence To Inspect Batteries With 3D X-ray Microscopy And Computed Tomography
This presentation shows how to use artificial intelligence technologies to inspect batteries with 3D X-ray microscopy (XRM) and computed tomography (CT). More specifically, it illustrates how deep learning-based algorithms for CT reconstruction can be integrated into 3D X-ray inspection workflows for batteries. In addition, artificial intelligence (AI) provides a wide range of tools for automated… Read more »
Thermal runaway in EV battery packs: designing a mitigation strategy
Aspen Aerogels’ cutting-edge materials protect against thermal runaway Thermal runaway occurs inside a battery cell through a fault, a crash scenario or some other defect that causes the cell to release thermal energy through chemical reactions. That thermal energy increases the temperature of the cell, the increased temperature drives faster kinetics, and more heat is… Read more »
Alternatives to permanent magnet motors in EV traction applications
In my very first article for Charged over 10 years ago, I opined that the Switched Reluctance Motor, or SRM, would eventually come to dominate the EV traction market, if for no other reason than the fact that it is almost as cheap as dirt to manufacture. I won’t sprain my shoulder patting myself on… Read more »