Month: April 2023

Swedish car-battery maker Northvolt is expanding into aviation, as it targets the nascent field of decarbonizing commercial flight. Lower-weight, higher-density lithium metal batteries developed by Northvolt’s Cuberg subsidiary improve upon lithium ion, which is suitable only for test flights and demonstrations, said Richard Wang, the California unit’s CEO. Cuberg has signed up several major customers
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SEOUL — Samsung SDI said it will invest $3 billion or more to build a joint-venture electric-vehicle battery plant with General Motors in the United States. Targeted to start in 2026, the plant is expected to have an annual production capacity of 30 gigawatt hours, Samsung SDI said in a regulatory filing. The company said
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Porsche’s latest 911 GT3 only arrived for the 2022 model year but an updated version has just been spotted testing. The update looks to be a mild one and likely coincides with the planned update for the full 992-generation range. Prototypes for the updated 911 Carrera and 911 Turbo models have already been spotted, including
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As the Biden administration, automakers, local governments and others pledge to install hundreds of thousands of electric vehicle chargers across the U.S., identifying the best locations is critical to expanding EV adoption and charging access. “In the past, deciding where to place charging was kind of just throwing darts at the wall,” said Arcady Sosinov,
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The City of Boulder announced today that it’s purchased a Rosenbauer RTX, the State of Colorado’s first electric fire truck. Austrian-based Rosenbauer’s RTX is equipped with a 360 kW electric powertrain and two Volvo Penta Batteries totaling 132 kWh of power. It has four-stage electronic regenerative braking. It’s a range-extended EV, so it also has
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