Charged Magazine

Engine builder Cummins has acquired Johnson Matthey’s UK automotive battery systems business, a subsidiary that specializes in high-voltage battery systems for electric and hybrid vehicles. Cummins and Johnson Matthey also agreed to collaborate on the development of battery materials for commercial heavy-duty applications.
Last October, Cummins acquired Brammo, which is known …read more

Graphite has long been the default choice of material for anodes, but researchers dream of replacing graphite with silicon, which has ten times the gravimetric energy density. Unfortunately, silicon has several issues that limit its commercial use – it expands during lithiation, causing particles to agglomerate in ways that impede …read more

The NC Clean Energy Technology Center (NCCETC) has launched a new series of reports, The 50 States of Electric Vehicles, with a special 2017 Review issue. The new series, which will take the form of quarterly reports, provides insights on state regulatory and legislative discussions and actions that relate to …read more

Automakers and policymakers around the world are preparing for the transition to EVs. Toyota, Volvo, VW, BMW, Mercedes and other brands are setting ambitious sales goals and investing substantial sums. Norway, the Netherlands, France, the UK and China are talking about phasing out sales of legacy ICE vehicles.
There’s just one …read more

Sponsored by Keysight Technologies
The DC-DC converter is a key component in hybrid and EV architectures, converting the higher voltage bus (MH – 48 V or EV/HEV – 100s of V) to the traditional 12 V power bus, from where most electrical loads are powered.
There is extreme downward cost pressure on …read more

Volta Charging, which operates a free EV charging network, has announced a partnership with LOOM Media to bring Volta to nationwide scale.
Funded through sponsored content, the Volta network is provided to hosts as a free turnkey service, and offers charging at high-traffic locations, at no cost to drivers.
LOOM will provide …read more

What’s going to happen to all those lithium-ion batteries after they die? What’s the best way to recycle them? A new model developed at the DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory allows industry insiders to assess the money and energy savings from recycling EV batteries.
ReCell, a closed-loop battery recycling model, offers preliminary …read more

Bite Squad, the Minneapolis-based restaurant delivery service that now operates in 30 markets around the country, hopes to swap out its current fleet of several hundred Toyota Priuses for Tesla Model 3s. It plans to test a handful of 3s on the road in its home base of Minneapolis this …read more

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Bolloré subsidiary BlueSG have launched a 22-seat electric shuttle that will be able to recharge in 20 seconds at stations while passengers board.
The NTU-Blue Solutions Flash Shuttle is based on Bolloré’s Bluetram vehicle. Equipped with supercapacitors and an LMP battery developed by Blue Solutions, it …read more

Scania, a member of the Volkswagen Group, and Northvolt, a 2016 startup that is building what it calls a European gigafactory for Li-ion batteries (with a planned 32 GWh annual capacity), have agreed to work together to develop and commercialize battery cell technology for heavy commercial vehicles.
Scania will invest €10 …read more