Lucid Motors Says Lucid Air To Be The Fastest Charging EV Yet
Lucid Motors announced the Lucid Air will be the fastest charging electric vehicle yet offered with the capability to charge at rates of up to 20 miles per minute. For owners charging their Lucid Air in real-world conditions on the…
Xos Trucks Raises $20 Million, Partners With Tier 1 Automotive Supplier Metalsa
Xos Trucks, Inc., a leading manufacturer of fully electric commercial vehicles, today announced it has raised $20 million from a group of investors including Proeza Ventures, a mobility-focused VC firm backed by Metalsa’s holding company, and BUILD Capital Group. The…
Volkswagen Chattanooga Growing High-Voltage Lab To Test Electric Vehicle Cells, Battery Packs
Volkswagen Chattanooga is growing its Engineering and Planning Center where it will have a high-voltage laboratory designed to develop and test electric vehicle cells and battery packs. Plans are to break ground soon for the lab aimed at supporting upcoming…
Petrobras Ready To Launch Renewable Diesel Production Upon Regulatory Approval
The head of Petrobras’ refining, Anelise Lara, announced that the company is ready to begin production of renewable diesel from soy or other edible oils at commercial scale. Petrobras will expand investments in the segment as soon as it is…
HOMER Grid Software Now Models Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
HOMER Energy by UL, global leader in the development of standard-setting energy modeling software, has announced that HOMER Grid, software for designing grid-tied distributed energy projects, can now model how hybrid systems power electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. The new…
Ashok Leyland Subsidiary Optare Delivers First Metrodecker EV
Ashok Leyland UK subsidiary Optare PLC launched the first of 21 battery-electric Optare Metrodecker EV double-deckers. Metrodecker EVs have been developed from the prototype by Optare in a partnership with First York and the York City Council which began three…
GM And EVgo To Triple Nationwide EV Charging Infrastructure
As Cadillac prepares to unveil its new Lyriq battery-electric sport/utility vehicle August 6 and GMC plans a fall unveil of its Hummer EV a year ahead of production, the two brands’ parent company General Motors has partnered with EVgo to…
INL, UCSD Researchers Find Slow, Low-Energy Charging Of Li Batteries Creates Glassy Lithium; High-Performance Li-Metal Batteries
Scientists from Idaho National Laboratory and the University of California San Diego have shown that slow, low-energy charging causes lithium atoms to deposit on electrodes in a disorganized way that improves charging behavior. This noncrystalline, amorphous, “glassy” lithium had never…
alpha-Encorp’s Pre-Lithiated Anode Boosts Battery Performance
alpha-Encorp, with its patented technology of electroplating lithium metal films, announced that it has demonstrated the application of its core technology to pre-lithiate composite graphite anode laminates in the laboratory scale, which led to considerably improved performance of existing lithium…
Kandi Brings America’s Most Affordable Electric Vehicles To Market
Kandi America, the U.S. subsidiary of Kandi Technologies Group, Inc., an international automotive manufacturer, announced today its formal launch of the most affordable electric vehicles (EVs) on the U.S. market, with an initial focus on the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. In…
