Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Opportunities in batteries, powertrains, and electronics but industry must ramp up capacity 10-fold, report warns. In the next few years the APC expects to be funding projects developing technologies in everything from magnet manufacturing to semiconductors and electric steel to battery components.".

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Charged

JULY 21, 2020

The newly qualified device family targets EV applications such as traction inverters, OBC (on-board chargers), EMS (energy management DC/DC bus converters) and BMS (battery management systems). The ICs are packaged in a surface-mount InSOP with 11 mm primary-to-secondary creepage. Devices are available with prices starting at $2.75

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

This concept goes by various names — virtual power plants, flexible loads, behind-the-meter networks — and encompasses tools like rooftop solar, batteries, smart thermostats, smart appliances and electric vehicle chargers. PG&E signs up for major commercial battery fleet. Confused about this jargon?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

However, production of battery electric vehicles (EVs) continued to buck the downward trend with output up 16.6 Year-to-date, UK car factories have turned out a record 52,888 Battery EVs, up almost a fifth (19.3 Year-to-date, UK car factories have turned out a record 52,888 Battery EVs, up almost a fifth (19.3

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Major new report urges policy-makers to embrace demand- and supply-side incentives to drive EV innovation and manufacturing in the UK, or risk trade frictions driving economic and environmental opportunities overseas. Ultimately, bringing big actors to the UK will require incentives to be developed across the board, Unsworth concludes. "We

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Charged

MAY 26, 2020

France has announced an auto industry bailout package worth some 8 billion euros ($8.8 Speaking at a factory owned by French automotive supplier Valeo, President Emmanuel Macron said he wants France to become the leading producer of clean cars in Europe. billion), and it includes substantial support for electrification.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

UK electric vehicle (EV) sales have surged in the wake of Covid-19, with the latest industry figures for September 2020 showing battery cars continuing their forward march, despite a sharp downward trend for the wider auto market marked by waning demand for new petrol and diesel cars. New car sales fell 4.4

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

SMMT revises car market expectations for 2021, despite reporting growing demand for battery cars in latest April sales figures. per cent last month, although demand for plug-in hybrids fell by a almost third, the trade body's figures show. Battery EVs alone should account for a sixth of new cars hitting UK roads this year.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 24, 2022

From production to packaging and distribution, each stage of the supply chain needs robust climatetech innovation. More specifically, Go Make 2022 is interested in solutions across supply chain management; packaging products and materials; alternative foods and ingredients; and green fleets and battery management.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

It said that the plans had been possible thanks to an undisclosed amount of financial support from the UK government's Automotive Transformation Fund. This summer, Nissan unveiled ambitious plans to raise £1bn from various financial backers, including the government, to build a battery gigafactory at its site in Sunderland.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2020

With governments across the globe currently formulating packages for rescuing airlines, these agreements have widely been seen as a chance to bring the aviation industry to heel and agree to measures that can help net zero goals be met. per cent of worldwide jet fuel demand.

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Charged

JUNE 19, 2023

The increase in demand for EV Batteries has already permanently transformed the car manufacturing landscape, with almost all major automotive companies now operating electric vehicle production lines. But the heart of an EV is its battery , and this is where machine vision solutions have become essential to market success.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

The future of Vauxhall's car manufacturing plant in Ellesmere Port has been secured by the accelerating market shift towards electric vehicles (EVs), with the company's owner today unveiling a £100m investment package to shift production at the Cheshire site to electric vans and passenger cars.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2021

But the celebrations were tempered somewhat by the news auto industry trade body the SMMT has revised its expectations for sales of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) this year downwards in light of the government's decision to slash the plug-in car grant. per cent of new UK car registrations by year-end, a reduction on its 9.3

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

Batteries topped the charts for mega deals Mega rounds were mega investment drivers.   The largest deals of 2023 were dominated by transport, in particular, batteries.   Marquee battery companies are diversified across major global markets. The 10 largest deals made up 24% of total climate investment in 2023. 

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Charged

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Battery management systems (BMS)—the electronic brains that monitors and maintains lithium ion battery packs—are essential for the safe and efficient operation of the batteries powering a variety of applications, including electric vehicles. Battery packs utilize three main wiring architectures. Temperature monitoring.

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Charged

MAY 13, 2020

billion in a battery cell assembly plant in the area. Our battery pack is very advanced and we’re really excited about it, but battery packs are kind of a given these days. They’re not rocket science anymore, until the next generation [of solid-state batteries] comes out, and then there will be a new wave of innovation.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

  KoBold Metals discovered a major copper deposit, which could be the start to solving growing supply and demand imbalances brought on by copper’s fundamental role in the energy transition.  Demand The most critical of energy transition minerals.   Demand is on the rise.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2023

Assurances on the health of second-hand EV batteries – the number one barrier to purchasing a used EV – were identified as the single most effective solution to encourage drivers to make the switch to electric vehicles, significantly accelerating the transition to net zero in road transport.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 25, 2020

It also is tackling ambitious innovations with its Ultium battery and propulsion system that could enable a GM-estimated range up to 400 miles or more on a full charge with 0 to 60 mile-per-hour acceleration as low as three seconds. Battery changes Of course, not every company can be GM and create its own battery system.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 25, 2020

It also is tackling ambitious innovations with its Ultium battery and propulsion system that could enable a GM-estimated range up to 400 miles or more on a full charge with 0 to 60 mile-per-hour acceleration as low as three seconds. Battery changes Of course, not every company can be GM and create its own battery system.

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Clean Energy Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

I’ll Wait For You, Climate Bill There is an outline for the budget package which contains climate provisions, but it’s not quite a done deal yet. More North American Battery Materials Supply Chain News As we discussed last month , there has been a surge in activity lately in the North American battery materials supply chain. “As

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

Her comments were echoed by Ben Nelmes, CEO of green motoring consultancy New AutoMotive, who said: "The government's latest electric vehicle proposals are a further step toward a net zero Britain, targeting the car and van emissions that account for almost 20% of the country's total emissions output.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

The opposition is set to step up its critique of the government's green plans today, as Labour unveils a sweeping package of new measures designed to turbocharge the development of the UK's nascent electric vehicle (EV) sector.

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Charged

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The demand for higher efficiency of electrical drive systems in e-mobility, meaning longer travel distance or higher speed per battery loading, requires high power density packaging solutions, perfectly matched material combinations providing high temperature stability and maximum reliability of drivetrain inverters in electric vehicles.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

With increased demand for such solutions, we look forward to continuing to make meaningful impact by deploying the technology with our current and future partners.". "This can support large scale reduction of CO2 emissions and help facilitate the energy transition," said CRI's CEO Björk Kristjánsdóttir.

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

Looking back just 10 or 15 years, there wasn’t much of a need for these products in the automotive market. But EVs are changing things quickly, and automotive needs have started moving to higher and higher voltages. Knowles recently launched a new line of automotive-grade certified safety capacitors. Hopwood: Yes.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

A pair of industrial coating specialists, Dürr and Techno Smart, have reached an agreement to provide technologies for coating lithium-ion battery electrodes. The Japanese company’s coating systems are in high demand among battery manufacturers for electric cars. Dürr CEO Ralf W.

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Charged

JULY 18, 2022

Panasonic plans to build a new battery plant in De Soto, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City. The new facility will primarily supply batteries to Tesla, but will also have a research department focused on next-generation battery tech. billion in annual economic activity. billion this year in US plants.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 26, 2021

As our largest trading partners rapidly reimagine their economies, one thing is clear: Batteries will be the literal engines of the modern world—powering our cars, our trucks, our ferries, our commutes to work, and the delivery of our next FedEx package. The second reason to act? The benefits to Canada span the economy. Both the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 23, 2022

Sparkz, a cobalt-free lithium-ion battery manufacturing startup, wants to hire displaced coal miners to staff a gigafactory it plans to build in West Virginia. The startup aims to reduce demand for battery components produced in China, which controls much of the world’s mine production for lithium-ion batteries.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This means that even the production of a demanding part such as a stator can be fully covered – with maximum certainty and productivity. For this reason, automotive manufacturers are also increasingly using hairpin technology, i.e. plug-in coils, instead of winding wire coils for their stators. Complete scan with ZEISS ScanBox.

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Charged

MAY 17, 2021

Power Integrations , a maker of high-voltage power conversion ICs, has announced that its automotive-qualified InnoSwitch3-AQ flyback switcher IC family is now available. One version is rated to 900 V, providing headroom for 400 V and 800 V EV inverter, battery management and climate control applications.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

It’s got a battery in it.” How are you protecting the batteries? How are you sourcing the batteries? The shock loads that a tractor sees on a day-to-day basis would set off the alarms on your car, set off the airbags, and would turn off your battery system right away for safety. How durable is this battery?

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 25, 2021

Are they motivated by an above-market salary or benefits package? Or maybe you are presenting a new lithium-ion battery anode chemistry. Their needs will be drastically different from, say, automotive manufacturers that you plan on selling to down the road. Did they have close friends at the company who encouraged them to apply?

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

Most weeks see fresh news on how the government is supporting innovations in areas as varied as hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuels, green shipping, battery technology, nuclear, and regenerative agriculture.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

When UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls for a ‘quantum leap in ambition' to tackle the ever-worsening climate emergency, we needed a bold and visionary package to meet the scale of the climate emergency we face - yet the Government barely moves an inch. The targets broadly track what EV sales are expected to do anyway.

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