Despite what you may hear on Fox News, which recently aired an anti-EV rant (the latest of many) that was riddled with misleading statements, by no means all conservatives are opposed to electric vehicles. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has been taking flak from both left and right since his administration approved a new rule… Read more »
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United Auto Workers union comes calling at Tesla factory
Tesla, the classic auto industry outsider, may soon be dealing with an issue that has defined Detroit for decades. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the United Auto Workers has set up an organizing committee at Tesla’s Fremont factory. UAW President Bob King also said in August that union representatives had met with CEO Elon… Read more »
European Union official says chargers are the chicken for the EV egg
European Union Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard has come out in strong support of a pending plan to deploy 795,000 charging points in the EU by 2020, the Copenhagen Post reported. The proposal must be approved by the European Parliament and all 27 member states before it goes into effect. “We can finally end the discussion… Read more »
Union of Concerned Scientists releases comprehensive study of EVs’ impact on climate change and charging costs
The UCS's report is titled State of Charge: Electric Vehicles’ Global Warming Emissions and Fuel-Cost Savings Across the US.
Consumer’s Union: EVs cost a lot less per mile
Consumer Reports published an article on Thursday that confirms what most of us already know: EVs are cheaper to run than ICE vehicles. A lot cheaper.
MathWorks adds Renesas hardware support packages for direct Simulink deployment to automotive and industrial MCUs
MathWorks has released hardware support packages for Renesas’ RH850/U2A automotive microcontroller and RA6T2 industrial microcontroller, letting engineers deploy MATLAB and Simulink models directly to the target hardware without manually assembling toolchains, writing initialization code, or building custom flash scripts. The practical change: an engineer models a control algorithm in Simulink, triggers an automated build, and… Read more »
For electric trucks, “the math is simple,” says Chinese heavy machinery OEM
Electric trucks have passed an inflection point—in many cases, their total cost of ownership is lower than that of legacy trucks. But for a fleet operator, evaluating the economic case for electrification involves some complex calculations involving fuel costs, projected maintenance costs, duty cycles, CapEx vs Opex, etc. Or does it? Michael Yue, General Manager… Read more »
Hanyang University pins minimum LNO coating at 2.5 nm for sulfide solid-state battery cathodes
Researchers at Hanyang University have identified 2.5 nanometers as the minimum coating thickness required to effectively protect cathode materials in sulfide-based all-solid-state batteries—giving the field a quantitative lower bound it has been missing. The study focused on lithium niobium oxide (LNO) coatings applied to NCM811 cathode powders via rotary powder atomic layer deposition. Sulfide-based solid… Read more »
Trinseo’s new lithium-ion anode binder reduces DCIR and surface resistivity with uniform electrode distribution
Trinseo has launched VOLTABOND 211, a water-based styrene-butadiene (SBR) binder for graphite- and silicon-based lithium-ion battery anodes. Compared to the company’s second-generation VOLTABOND 029, the new material delivers a 5% reduction in electrode surface resistivity and up to 18% lower direct current internal resistance (DCIR) across a full cell—validated in a 4 Ah pouch cell… Read more »
How government helped build America’s EV charging market
The US charging network 2.0—The evolution of a revolution: Part 2» Read part 1 here: How the biggest US EV charging networks got their starts The US public charging market did not emerge from private capital alone. From ARRA to IIJA, IRA and rural grant programs, federal policy repeatedly stepped in to create baseline charger… Read more »