electric car
Stellantis will build EVs in Portugal
Stellantis has announced plans to manufacture electric vehicles in Portugal. From early 2025, the production centre ...
Batteries
battery
ZSW uses water instead of solvent in cathode production
Researchers at the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) have been able to replace t ...
policy
Spain opens €2 billion funding pot with PERTE
Spain’s government plans to launch two new tenders worth two billion euros in parallel in July 2023 for the pr ...
solid-state battery
Low-res solid-state batteries from Japan
Researchers from Tohoku University and Tokyo Tech developed solid-state batteries with low resistance at the electro ...
policy
US government publishes detailed funding conditions
The US Treasury Department has released the long-awaited conditions that electric vehicles must meet to qualify for ...
battery
Fortum opens large-scale battery recycling plant in Finland
Fortum has completed its lithium-ion battery recycling factory in Harjavalta, Finland, on time. Announced in 2021, F ...
battery
Skeleton & Martinrea want to build batteries for refuse trucks
Skeleton Technologies and the Canadian automotive supplier Martinrea International are cooperating to equip refuse c ...
solid-state battery
Fraunhofer and EMPA cooperate on solid state batteries
At the beginning of the year, the Fraunhofer Institute ISC and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing ...
battery
International cooperation to push sustainable battery technology
The Norwegian battery company Freyr wants to join forces with Glencore, Caterpillar, Siemens and Nidec to advance th ...
battery
Farasis Energy announces battery upgrade
The Chinese battery manufacturer Farasis Energy has optimised the design of its battery modules to prevent thermal r ...
policy
Germany wants to set up critical resource fund
The German government is planning to set up a sovereign wealth fund worth up to 2.2 billion euros to finance the min ...
battery
KIT to use mechanical over chemical processes for battery recycling
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has developed a recycling process for batteries in which up to 70 per ce ...
solid-state battery
Nio & ProLogium working on solid-state batteries
China’s EV start-up Nio is cooperating with battery cell manufacturer ProLogium of Taiwan to develop solid-sta ...
battery
Amprius achieves battery energy density of 500 Wh/kg
The Californian battery developer Amprius Technologies says it has increased the energy density of its cells to arou ...
electric car
PPES and Nexeon extend partnership to develop high-performance silicon materials for EV batteries
PPES – the joint venture between Panasonic Corporation and Toyota Motor Corporation – and Nexeon, the co ...
electric car
Ford EVs qualify for US tax credit – at least partially
Future Ford customers in the US can rejoice: The US American carmaker says that all three of its EVs as well as its ...
battery
CATL appoints new CEO for Europe
Mathias Hüttenrauch has been CEO of the European business of the Chinese battery cell manufacturer CATL since March. ...
solid-state battery
Hydro-Québec & Mercedes join forces on solid-state batteries
Canada’s Hydro-Québec is cooperating with Mercedes-Benz in the development of technologies for solid-state bat ...
battery
Stena opens new battery recycling plant in Sweden
Swedish company Stena Recycling has opened its new battery recycling facility in Halmstad, Sweden. The company also ...
battery
Tesla and CATL could build LFP plant in the US
Tesla and the Chinese battery manufacturer CATL are considering building an LFP battery plant in the USA. According ...
