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Month: October 2024

Onsite EV Charging For Renters Is Finally Coming, & So Is Yet Another Headache For Fossil Fuels

For all the hand-wringing over an unexpected slowdown in EV sales in recent months, the solutions are staring automakers right in the face. The first item on my checklist: Do a better job appealing to females. Failing that, how about…

Delta Selected to Provide Ultra-fast 200kW DC EV Chargers for IZIVIA FAST’s Charging Network at McDonald’s France

Delta, a global leader in power management and a provider of IoT-based smart green solutions, announced today its 200kW DC ultra-fast EV charger UFC 200 series has been selected to support IZIVIA FAST*, a company currently deploying ultra-fast chargers across…

Monolith and NIO Europe Collaborate on AI-driven Anomaly Detection for EV Batteries

NIO, a leading company in the premium smart electric vehicle market, has selected Monolith, an AI software provider, to collaborate on AI-driven anomaly detection for EV batteries. The partnership aims to leverage NIO’s battery swap technology to gain insights into…

StoreDot’s EV Battery Customization Takes Off: 5 Major Automakers On Board

StoreDot, the pioneer in extreme fast charging (XFC) silicon battery technology for electric vehicles (EVs), enters Q4 of 2024 with a string of key milestones and strategic partnerships highlighting the company’s commercialization journey. With five of the top ten OEMs…

Biloxi Public Schools to Launch Mississippi’s Largest Electric School Bus Fleet

Biloxi Public Schools (BPS) has announced a significant initiative to install the largest fleet of electric vehicle (EV) school buses in Mississippi. Funded via a $11,455,000 grant from the EPA’s Clean Bus program, BPS will acquire 29 new EV school…

GM Rebranding EV Battery Technology

General Motors is remaining bullish on its electrification efforts despite weakening electric vehicle demand, but the automaker is rebranding its Ultium battery cell technology. Two GM-LG Energy Solution joint-venture plants manufacturing the lithium-ion battery packs that are assembled into fuel…

Vance Calls $500 Million Federal Grant for Michigan Electric Vehicle Plant ‘table scraps’

Republican vice-presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) on Tuesday called $500 million the Biden administration provided as a grant to convert a Michigan plant to one that produces electric vehicles “table scraps.” Vance went on to suggest that the half-billion…

Hyundai & Waymo Enter Multi-Year, Strategic Partnership

Today, Hyundai Motor Company and Waymo announced they have entered into a multi-year, strategic partnership. In the first phase of this partnership, the companies will integrate Waymo’s sixth-generation fully autonomous technology — the Waymo Driver — into Hyundai’s all-electric IONIQ…

Toyota Delays US EV Production Start

Toyota is to delay the start of production of its first electric vehicle in North America until 2026 as demand for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in the US fails to meet earlier expectations. The Nikkei newspaper reported that Toyota has…

EU Tariffs on Chinese EVs are Part of an ‘economic cold war,’ Hungary’s Orbán says

The European Union risks entering an “economic cold war” with China, Hungary’s prime minister said on Friday, pledging to vote against an EU plan to impose higher tariffs on the import of Chinese electric vehicles. EU countries are set to…