Even the oil giants (European-oriented ones at least) are getting into EV charging these days. bp pulse continues to expand its US network of public DC fast chargers. The company recently opened its first site in Louisiana, as well as two additional sites in Virginia and Texas. Each of the three new sites has 12… Read more »
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DC-America’s prefab charging platforms offer flexibility as well as savings
A modular approach to solving EV charging’s installation bottleneck. At the moment, the big bad bottleneck for commercial EV deployment is charging infrastructure. However, the problems don’t generally have to do with the hardware or software—EVSE manufacturers offer a wide selection of AC and DC chargers, functionality and reliability are steadily improving, and sophisticated software tools… Read more »
EAS Batteries commercializes LFP cell using Asahi Kasei’s acetonitrile electrolyte Acetolyte
German battery manufacturer EAS Batteries has begun selling the UHP-601300-LFP-22, a 22 Ah large-format cylindrical LFP cell that uses Asahi Kasei’s Acetolyte electrolyte—an acetonitrile-based formulation that raises the cell’s continuous discharge power to 2,550 W/kg at 880 A (40 C), a 60% improvement over the same cell running conventional electrolyte at 1,550 W/kg and 550… Read more »
Horizon Motor shows a new Class 8 electric truck
Is there room in the market for another Class 8 electric truck? Well, legacy OEMs such as Volvo, Daimler Truck and Traton all make electric trucks, but they seem more interested in lobbying and litigating to stall the EV transition than competing in the electric truck market, while upstarts such as Tesla and Windrose are… Read more »
Scania’s new under-cab battery module helps electric truck operators balance range and payload
Scania has begun the global sales rollout of its new under-cab battery module, which is designed to enable fleet operators to optimize battery capacity for a wide range of transport needs. The positioning of the battery module under the cab of the Scania electric truck frees up more space for bodywork and addresses a key… Read more »
California bill aims to enforce electric truck pricing transparency
A common criticism of subsidy programs is that sellers may simply raise their prices by part or all of the subsidy amount, capturing taxpayer money as additional profit instead of passing on savings to buyers. In California, which is expanding its already substantial support for electric commercial vehicles, a bill before the Senate would require… Read more »
Blink Charging to deploy Kempower’s distributed EV charging systems at 14 new sites
EV charging provider Blink Charging has announced an expansion of its EV charging empire. This round of installations includes 14 sites in total. Two locations—Vasa Fitness in Colorado and Idaho Falls in Idaho—have already opened. Additional sites are set to roll out across multiple states along the US East Coast throughout 2026. The new sites… Read more »
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 »