Rental giant Hertz gave the whole EV industry a boost with last year’s announcement that it would add up to 100,000 Teslas to its fleet. Now the company has announced plans to buy up to 65,000 EVs from Polestar over five years. It expects to make the new EVs available beginning in Spring 2022 in […]
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Wireless charging specialist Electreon, together with the ASPIRE Engineering Research Center, truck-maker Kenworth and project management firm Kiewit, plan to demonstrate a dynamic wireless charging system. Electreon’s in-motion dynamic wireless charging technology will be installed at ASPIRE’s research test track in North Logan, Utah in the summer of 2022. Kenworth supplied a Class 8 T680
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Sponsored by Keysight Technologies Navigating safety, interoperability, and conformance in e-mobility Safety, interoperability, and conformance are important criteria for enabling success in the e-mobility ecosystem. This paper explores: How EV and EVSE manufacturers can cope with a complex regulatory landscape, and deliver high quality products without compromising time-to-market projections. What automotive OEMs and their suppliers
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Belfast-based startup Weev Energy plans to invest £20 million in a new public charging network that will include over 350 locations across Northern Ireland. The company plans to install 1,500 new charging points before the end of 2024. Some of these will be located at 6 “ultra-rapid charging hubs,” and some will be at strategic
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NI (formerly National Instruments) has agreed to purchase the test systems business of Kratzer Automation, and expects the purchase to close in Q2 of 2022. The acquisition will combine NI’s flexible EV hardware and software test platform with Kratzer’s application-specific EV software and integration capabilities. About 200 Kratzer employees will join NI. “The addition of
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It will be produced at a new plant in Tennessee and is expected to enter the market by 2025. Source: InsideEVs – Articles Read More
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Gregor Hembrough, the Head of Polestar NA, talks with InsideEVs to discuss upcoming plans and the future of the brand. Source: InsideEVs – Articles Read More
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The Hornet PHEV is likely based on the Alfa Romeo Tonale hybrid SUV. Source: InsideEVs – Articles Read More
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Ford is making F-150 Lightning electric pickups for customers, and a second electric truck could just be just over a couple years away. Volta has big commercial trucks with no allowance for internal combustion. And Nissan is hoping solid-state cells create even better EVs later in the decade. This and more, here at Green Car
Tesla quietly revealed in its Q1 report that nearly half the vehicles it produced in the first quarter of 2022 were equipped with cobalt-free lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries. The news, however, was overshadowed in the news cycle, particularly by Tesla’s $19 billion revenue and CEO Elon Musk’s acquisition of social media platform Twitter. LFP
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