Chinese Car Maker Faces Hurdle In A Bid For Govt EV Tender
Energy Efficiency Services (EESL), the government’s electric vehicles procurement arm, has said that MG Motor, a subsidiary of China’s Shanghai Automotive (SAIC), will stand disqualified for their upcoming e-vehicles tender in the absence of an official clearance by a panel…
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…
Yamaha Gives An Insight Into Its Electric Motor For Motorcycles
While electric mobility in cars have been taking huge strides, the pace is almost as quick in the two-wheeler space and Yamaha, it would seem, is determined not to be left far behind. Yamaha’s electric motorcycle division recently gave an…
Six-Minute EV Battery Could Be Made At Mooted $3 Billion Australian Gigafactory
An electric vehicle battery that its proponents say could recharge to 85% in just six minutes could be made at a Townsville factory being planned by Australian company Magnis Energy Technologies. Magnis Energy says in a statement that its partner…
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…
Senmiao Technology Signs Strategic Cooperation Agreement With Large Auto Dealer Group To Increase Access To Electric Vehicles
Senmiao Technology Limited (“Senmiao”), a provider of automobile transaction and related services targeting the online ride-hailing industry in China, today announced that it has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Sichuan Hongyu Enterprise Management Co., Ltd. (“Hongyu Auto”) to facilitate…
Ampere Vehicles Partners With OTO Capital To Offer Leasing Plans For Electric Scooters
Ampere Vehicles, a subsidiary of Greaves Cotton has partnered with OTO Capital to offer leasing plans for its electric scooters. The leasing option is available from this month and is available only in Bengaluru for now. The leasing service will…
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…
