Mumbai, the most populous city in India, plans to begin a mammoth move to sea-based transit using Candela electric hydrofoil ferries. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region has a population of over 23 million, making it the seventh-most populous metropolitan region in the world. It also has the most billionaires of any city in Asia, along with… Read more »
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US Department of Defense increases funding for Ucore’s Louisiana rare earth processing plant
Ucore Rare Metals has reached a firm fixed price agreement for an $18.4-million increase to its current $4-million funding from the US Department of Defense to launch its RapidSX rare earth element separation technology toward full-scale operation. The funding through the US Army Contracting Command-Orlando will facilitate the construction of a production-ready commercial RapidSX machine… Read more »
Vehicle‑to‑Grid-enabled car‑sharing service goes live in Netherlands city
Renault Group, MyWheels and We Drive Solar have partnered to create a V2G-enabled car‑sharing service in the Dutch city of Utrecht. The Utrecht Energized project is now live with 50 Renault 5 E‑Tech electric cars, and will eventually include a total of 500 V2G-capable EVs. Thanks to Vehicle‑to‑Grid (V2G) technology, the EVs can store energy… Read more »
Barnet Council rolls out 1,000 on-street EV charge points in partnership with char.gy
The Council for the London Borough of Barnet has partnered with local charging provider char.gy to install up to 1,000 new on-street public chargers. The first 500 will be installed over the next three months, and the remaining 500 will be installed within three years, bringing the total number of EV charge points in Barnet… Read more »
Talga executes binding Vittangi anode offtake agreement with Nyobolt
Battery materials company Talga has executed a binding offtake agreement with high-power battery charging technology developer Nyobolt for the long-term supply of Talnode-C graphite anode from its Vittangi Anode Project in Sweden. Nyobolt has validated Talnode-C as a feedstock for its fast-charging battery technology. The offtake agreement follows Talga’s vertically integrated natural graphite mine and… Read more »
Livium expands battery recycling with BYD Australia and Sell & Parker
Livium, previously known as Lithium Australia, has signed agreements with EV supplier BYD Australia and national metal recycling business Sell & Parker to expand battery recycling. Through its subsidiary Envirostream Australia, Livium has entered into a new expanded recycling agreement with BYD Australia to better address the growing requirements of the broader BYD business in… Read more »
Candela’s C-8 electric boat “flies” across the Strait of Gibraltar
Candela, the company that designs and builds electric hydrofoil ferries, including the P-12, has announced that a crew from the company broke new ground by piloting an electric hydrofoiling Candela C-8 between Europe and North Africa. The voyage marked the first-ever intercontinental journey by an electric vessel, the company said. “This week, we flew across… Read more »
Daimler Buses to build a new electric bus depot for German transit agency
Daimler Buses has won a contract to plan and construct a complete electric bus depot and associated charging infrastructure as a general contractor. The client is the newly founded transit agency MOIN (Mobilitätsinfrastruktur und -betriebs Landkreis Lüneburg) in Lüneburg, Germany. The depot will be built on a greenfield site in the industrial area at the… Read more »
Komatsu and Dimaag unveil mobile MCS charger for remote construction and mining operations
Komatsu, a century-old global manufacturer of heavy equipment, has unveiled its partner Dimaag’s Mobile Megawatt Charging System, a mobile power supply designed to be deployed at a point of use and scalable up to 6 MW. Dimaag is a relatively new design and technology company. The Mobile Megawatt Charging System—developed by Tesla co-founder Ian Wright,… Read more »
Nexperia earns automotive qualification for 1,200 V silicon carbide MOSFETs in D2PAK-7 packaging
Netherlands-based semiconductor company Nexperia has received automotive certification for its range of silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs suitable for applications like onboard chargers (OBC) and traction inverters, as well as DC-DC converters, heating ventilation and air-conditioning systems (HVAC). These devices (NSF030120D7A0-Q, NSF040120D7A1-Q, NSF060120D7A0-Q), which deliver RDS(on) values of 30, 40 and 60 mΩ and leading figures-of-merit… Read more »