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No doubt you’ve waited in a queue to fill up at a gas station. Well, imagine that scenario at a charging station for electric vehicles, where each “fill” can last 20 minutes or more. Audi understands this and has developed a concept for its own premium charging station where slots can be reserved ahead of

Italy’s industrial capital, Milan, plans to replace its 1,200 diesel buses with electric vehicles by 2030. Public transport agency ATM (Azienda Trasporti Milanesi) chose electronics giant ABB to deliver a turnkey charging solution for its San Donato depot, the first of four fully electrical depots planned for the city and a pilot site for new

Massachusetts-based ePropelled has raised $15 million in Series A financing from individual investors. It will use the new funding to further develop its products and boost its sales and marketing efforts. ePropelled builds motors, generators and power management systems. Products include eAxles and the Dynamic Torque Switching (eDTS) powertrain system for EVs, as well as

Microchip Technology is collaborating with Mersen on a new 150 kVA 3-phase silicon carbide power stack reference design. Mersen’s current offering provides designers with a compact, high-power silicon carbide system without the need for individual device sourcing, testing and qualification. The reference design includes Microchip’s SiC power modules and digital gate drivers and Mersen’s busbar,

Hyundai’s new compact EV crossover is good enough to sell every unit the company imports; the question may be how high that number will be The 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 is the Korean brand’s first dedicated electric vehicle, positioned at the heart of the fastest-growing part of the market: compact crossover utilities. The premium electric

Toyota held a presentation this week where it announced plans to launch 30 electric vehicles across the Toyota and Lexus brands by 2030. We got a first look at more than a dozen of the new EVs, one of which was a Lexus supercar with styling inspired by the LFA. Toyota Sports EV A Toyota

Bosch has started volume production of SiC semiconductors, and plans to expand its production capacity to a unit volume running into the hundreds of millions. The company is also working on a second generation of more efficient SiC chips.  To meet steadily increasing demand for these semiconductors, Bosch added 1,000 square meters to the clean-room

Toyota has decided to locate a new automotive battery plant at the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite in North Carolina’s Randolph County. Toyota chose the site based on the availability of renewable energy, local support, on-site rail, and proximity to highways, four airports and two seaports. Together with lithium producer Toyota Tsusho, Toyota is planning to spend $1.29

Global battery supplier Octillion Energy has announced that it is now shipping over 1,500 battery packs per day. The company says rising EV sales in Brazil, India and China have contributed to the demand for its battery packs. In addition to electric buses in India and electric trucks produced by Brazilian automaker FNM, Octillion is

Australia-based charger manufacturer Tritium has introduced the PKM150 fast charging system, which is designed to save space and lower costs. It’s part of the new PKM product line, which will be available worldwide. According to Tritium, the PKM150 reduces the amount of equipment needed at a charging site, because the chargers at a site all

Uber wants its drivers worldwide to make the switch to electric vehicles and has set targets of 2025 for the city of London and 2030 for Europe and North America. But rather than have its drivers only rely on established automakers to source their cars, Uber has partnered with British EV startup Arrival to develop

Automakers that are serious about producing EVs understand that they need to build new supply chains, including major battery manufacturing capacity and secure sources of raw materials. The Volkswagen Group has been steadily turning up the voltage, raising its planned investment in EV and self-driving technologies to 73 billion euros ($86 billion) over the next

Rivian Automotive is the brightest rising star in the EV firmament at the moment, and it’s flush with cash following a $11.9 billion stock offering in November. Now the company has announced plans to put some of that nest egg to work at a new $5-billion battery and assembly plant east of Atlanta, which is

Vehicle parts supplier Dana has announced that one of its business partnerships is planning to open an electric motor factory in Åmål, Sweden in late 2022. Called Dana TM4, the partnership joins Dana with Hydro-Québec to make electric motors for EVs. Production is to begin in the first half of 2023. US-based Dana designs and

SEA Electric and Midwest Transit Equipment (MTE), a major US bus dealer, have partnered to update 10,000 school buses with battery-electric power-systems. The deal will cover both Type A and Type C school buses, and deliveries will take place over the next five years. The buses will be powered by SEA Electric’s SEA-Drive power system.

A prototype for an updated version of the Porsche 911 Turbo has been spotted for the first time. The current 992-generation 911 range has been with us since the 2020 model year, arriving initially in Carrera and Turbo guises. The updated 911 range, referred to internally as the 992.2, should start arriving for the 2024

Could Rivian emerge as “the next Tesla?” On the strength of its debut truck, that’s not an unreasonable question. If you want to attract attention, keeping a company in stealth mode for several years is a good way to do it. The startup carmaker Rivian was founded a decade ago by RJ Scaringe, but it

In Norway, a battery-electric container ship named the Yara Birkeland is gearing up to be tested and certified as an autonomous ship. According to the CEO of international chemical firm Yara, Svein Tore Holsether, the ship is “the world’s first fully electric and self-propelled container ship.” Massterly, a joint venture between Kongsberg and Wilhelmsen, plans

ACEINNA’s new ±65 A MCx1101 Current Sensor is the company’s most accurate and highest-bandwidth current sensor. Designed for WBG (wide-bandgap) applications, and available in 3.3- and 5-volt versions, this AMR-based (Anisotropic Magnetoresistive) current sensor is designed for a wide range of power systems and applications.  The MCx1101’s fast response and high bandwidth is designed for

The European oil comanies bp, Shell and Total have been buying up companies in many charging infrastructure-related fields. Now this trend has spread to the US, as bp announces the acquisition of AMPLY Power, a charging and energy management provider for EV fleets.    Under the terms of the agreement, AMPLY Power will continue to operate

What a race. What a season. It all came down to the final lap of the final race, with Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen able to keep his cool and come out on top of a somewhat controversial Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday, and as a result was named 2021 Formula One world champion.

The Stellantis Group has signed a binding agreement with lithium producer Vulcan Energy to supply battery-grade lithium hydroxide in Europe for the automaker’s electrified vehicles. Vulcan will supply Stellantis with between 81,000 and 99,000 metric tons of lithium hydroxide over the five-year term of the agreement. Shipments are to begin in 2026. The Vulcan supply

Legacy automakers have long insisted that there was no consumer demand for EVs. This doesn’t seem to be the case at the moment, at least if one of the EVs in question is a pickup truck. Ford CEO Jim Farley recently told Automotive News that the demand for its new EVs has turned out to

The battery life of a device is a crucial for the adoption of more electric devices. One of the main drivers for improving battery life is minimizing losses in the power conversion. Power losses happen for a variety of reasons in both the motor and inverter. In this presentation, we will review the basic sources of losses

Sponsored by TLX Technologies The increasing demand for EVs are driving design teams to search out innovative fluid management solutions for EV thermal management applications. Unlike internal combustion engines, which have relatively simple cooling systems, EV cooling systems must be able to manage multiple heat sources and sinks, each with specific optimal operating temperatures and

The nominees for our annual Best Car To Buy 2022 competition were announced, the 2024 Audi A4 was spotted, and new details regarding the Tesla Cybertruck were released. It’s the Week in Reverse, right here at Motor Authority. We announced the final nominees in the fight to be named Motor Authority’s Best Car To Buy

Wireless charger manufacturer Resonant Link has been selected to participate in the Shell GameChanger Accelerator (GCxN), a collaboration between fossil fuel giant Shell and the US DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) that provides early-stage cleantech companies with resources to accelerate product commercialization. By participating in the program, Resonant Link will benefit from NREL’s research

Cornish Lithium has secured an investment package of up to £18 million ($24 million) from metals investment company TechMet. Cornish Lithium seeks to create a domestic supply of lithium and other battery metals for the UK. The company expects to benefit from TechMet’s knowledge of the battery metals supply chain, and its commercial and strategic

Mersen has launched two new families of fuses for protecting battery racks and banks, battery containers and inverters. The GBAT and ABAT product lines were developed specifically for 1,000-1,500 VDC applications. The ABAT15 fuses were developed for 1,500 VDC applications for battery rack and section protection. The fuses can withstand high load changes and low

Indian infrastructure provider EVRE has teamed up with Mad About Wheels (MAW), a provider of retail services such as extended warranties, maintenance contracts and financing, to deploy over 500 chargers at EV dealerships across 100 cities in India. EVRE will manufacture, establish, own and operate the public chargers, and MAW will provide value-added services to