Month: May 2023

On Monday’s Capital Markets Day, Ford detailed its second-generation electric vehicles, including a new full-size pickup and three-row SUV EVs. The new models will help the automaker deliver on its EV targets going forward. Ford previews its next-generation electric vehicles Ford is sticking with its strategy of introducing EVs in segments the brand is known
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Flash Drive: 2023 Lucid Air Touring AWD Exceptional All-Electric Luxury Sedan Lucid Motors invited the automotive media to California drive the all-new 2023 Air Touring, one of the sedan offerings from Lucid. It slots below the top-end Sapphire, Air Dream launch edition and Air Grand Touring (more on that model at the end of this
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Temperature control is a critical factor during stress and load testing in the development of batteries, materials and other vehicle components. The heat transfer fluid (HTF) used in testing is often a water-ethylene glycol mixture. To address these applications, thermoregulation specialist Huber has expanded its portfolio to include temperature control systems designed and tested specifically
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By William Johnson Posted on May 20, 2023 Twitter has begun hiring for positions related to its upcoming “everything app” offering. Since Elon Musk started the process of acquiring Twitter late last year, his intentions have been clear; make an “everything app” that could rival the incredibly successful WeChat offering in China. From this app,
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Florida lawmakers have produced a bill that would have the state pave its roads with radioactive waste. Now on the desk of Gov. Ron DeSantis, HB 1191 could compel the Florida Department of Transportation to study the use of phosphogypsum—a radioactive byproduct of fertilizer production—as a paving material, according to an NPR report. The bill,
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ADS-TEC Energy, an international manufacturer of battery storage-based solutions, and Munich-based charge point operator JOLT Energy will collaborate to deploy fast EV charging stations in major cities in Europe and the US. JOLT has already ordered “a high double-digit number of systems” for 2023, and more orders are expected. ADS-TEC’s battery-buffered charging solutions are designed
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In a €4-million HEFT research project directed by Mondragan University, eight EU partners including GKN Automotive will create a “lower-cost, more efficient and power-dense” permanent magnet motor for EVs. HEFT is an EU Horizon 2020 project focused on designing and manufacturing EV motors with reused and recycled permanent magnets. HEFT recommends energy-efficient rare earth synchronous
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E-magy, a Dutch advanced material firm, has secured €20.5 million to prepare for industrial-scale production of its silicon anode material in response to rising demand for high-energy batteries. Replacing graphite with silicon in the anode has several benefits, but current silicon-dominant EV batteries swell and crack when charged and discharged often. E-magy has developed a
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Toyota has revealed a new generation of its mid-size Tacoma pickup truck that, at last, improves pretty much everything about the lineup—and adds a hybrid—while remaining in a package that everyone will instantly identify as a Tacoma.  The new Tacoma won’t quite satisfy everyone. Although with much more tech inside and more versions than ever—especially
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