One of the biggest roadblocks to greater EV adoption is a lack of electric offerings in the form factors that are most popular with buyers: namely, SUVs and pickup trucks. The Mach-E could turn out to be a good first step towards filling those gaps in the market. Ford invested $500 million in Rivian last… Read more »
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Nidec launches 50 kW and 200 kW motor systems for EVs
Nidec has launched two new models of traction motor systems: a 200 kW model for the D and E segments and a 50 kW model for the A segment. Both models are based on Nidec’s 150 kW E-Axle. Targeting luxury EVs for the European and Chinese markets, the 200 kW model features a motor and… Read more »
Motiv opens new California facility to service electric trucks and buses
Motiv Power Systems, maker of the EPIC all-electric chassis for buses and trucks, has opened a new facility in Stockton, California. The new location will serve as a pre-delivery inspection and service center for EVs built on its platform. Medium-duty trucks and buses are electrified by Motiv’s operating software and power electronics on popular Ford… Read more »
Yamaha develops an electric motor prototype for EVs
Yamaha Motor has begun accepting orders for a high-performance electric motor prototype capable of producing high power density for EVs. The company says the compact unit generates up to 200 kW thanks to a high-efficiency segment conductor and advanced casting and processing technologies. Yamaha says the goal of the project is to deepen its knowledge… Read more »
ROHM’s new shunt resistors feature novel high heat dissipation structure
Semiconductor manufacturer ROHM has announced new shunt resistors ideal for current detection in motors and power supply circuits used in EVs and industrial equipment. The GMR50 series of resistors deliver 4 W rated power (at electrode temperature TK=90° C) in the compact 5.0 mm × 2.5 mm (2010 type package) size. Shunt resistors are widely… Read more »
Whitepaper: Demagnetization in the simulations of electric motors
Sponsored by Mentor, a Siemens BusinessDownload the free whitepaper below How Electromagnetics Engineering Surrounds Us By Prof David Lowther, McGill University, Canada; and Mentor, a Siemens Business Have you ever asked yourself what happens to the sensors on your car when it rains? Probably not often, if ever. Yet this is just one of the… Read more »
New Cadillac EV to be based on flexible battery architecture
Speaking at a recent event for investors, GM President Mark Reuss confirmed that the company will unveil a new Cadillac EV in April, and predicted that Cadillac will offer “mostly electric vehicles by the end of this decade.” The e-Caddy will be the first model built on GM’s next-generation electric architecture, which Reuss described as… Read more »
UPS orders 10,000 electric vans from UK startup Arrival
The days of small-scale pilots in the commercial fleet market would seem to be over, and good riddance to them. It was Amazon that started the betting with its order of 100,000 vans from Michigan startup Rivian, but now the venerable Big Brown has joined game with an order of its own from UK startup… Read more »
Tesla on a roll, shorts in the hole as record earnings and Model Y news send stock soaring
Should we pity the poor short sellers, who just lost a cool billion bucks in one day, and over 5 billion so far this year, according to S3 Analytics (via CNBC)? Nah – they should have heeded the old adage about repeatedly doing the same thing and expecting different results. Tesla announced a second straight… Read more »
Is IONITY’s prodigious price increase designed to steer customers to “mobility services?”
EV advocates cheered the advent of IONITY, a European charging network owned by a joint venture of BMW, Daimler, Ford, and the Volkswagen Group. The network currently includes 205 DC fast charging stations in 18 European countries, and aims to have 400 in service by the end of 2020. However, the applause has recently been… Read more »