Charged Magazine

In California, a controversial plan to require credit card
readers on all public charging stations has generated
a lot of pushback from the industry. Charging network operators, hardware
manufacturers and other stakeholders say that installing and maintaining the
readers would impose excessive costs on what is already a very low-margin
business, and point out that, …read more

Japanese electric motor company Nidec has developed two smaller versions of its fully-integrated traction motor system, E-Axle. It has also announced a new short-range radar that doubles as a proximity sensor for automatic parking systems.

Nidec first introduced the E-Axle system in April 2018 as a 150 kW system, composed of …read more

SF Motors is now SERES. The rechristened EV-maker began taking pre-orders for its crossover EV, the SF5, in April.

The crossover will be available in two variants. The SF5 EV will feature 510 kW of maximum power, 1,040 Nm of torque, a top speed of 155 mph, and a 3.5-second zero-to-60 …read more

After Tesla and Panasonic announced that they were freezing expansion plans for the Nevada Gigafactory, several news outlets reported that the partners had postponed expansion because of shrinking demand for Tesla’s vehicles, but to the best of our knowledge, none presented any evidence that this was the reason for the …read more

America’s largest metropolitan areas could save an average of 37 percent on fuel costs by electrifying buses and light-duty fleet vehicles, according to a report by EV charging company AMPLY Power. The report also found that charging regimes focused on off-peak hours can save up to 60 percent compared to …read more

Korean energy company SK Innovation will invest nearly $376 million to build a Li-ion battery separator (LiBS) plant in Województwo Śląskie, Poland. The plant will contain four LiBS units and three ceramic coated separator (CCS) units.
The plant will break ground in the third quarter of this year and is scheduled …read more

AxleTech is exhibiting a new line of electric powertrain systems for off-highway applications at the Bauma construction machinery trade show in Munich.
AxleTech’s new AFE Series eAxle integrates interchangeable water-glycol cooled motors and a single-, 2-, or 4-speed gearbox. The eAxle also includes the company’s new modular eCarrier system.
The AFE Series …read more

UpScale, an EU project aimed at using AI for more efficient EV production, has received a €4 million ($4.5 million) grant from the European Commission to develop computer simulations to aid in the development of EVs.

UpScale (Upscaling Product development Simulation Capabilities exploiting Artificial intelligence for Electrified vehicles) consists of 11 …read more

What does a PHEV become when it grows up? And do we need yet
another electrified-vehicle acronym? Technically, a hybrid with a plug is a
PHEV, but some argue that a vehicle with a substantial electric range is a
different animal. Chevy called its Volt an EREV, and Seattle-based startup
Maxwell Vehicles is calling …read more

Jaguar
Land Rover has installed 166 EV charging stations at its engineering
facility in Gaydon, UK, for use by employees. The automaker claims the charging
installation is the largest of its kind in the UK, and also plans to install charging
stations in the visitor parking lot.

The 7 kW AC charging stations were supplied …read more