LG Energy Solution will acquire full ownership of NextStar Energy, purchasing Stellantis’ 49% equity stake in the joint venture. NextStar Energy was established in 2022 to build Canada’s first large-scale electric vehicle (EV) battery cell … [Read more...]
Extreme off-road race to evaluate axial flux motor performance
Turntide Technologies plans to enter its Sierra Echo-S electric off-road vehicle in King of the Hammers 2026, a mixed-terrain endurance race combining high-speed desert sections with low-speed, high-load rock crawling. The program is intended to … [Read more...]
Pilot testing yields high-purity nickel sulphate for EV batteries
FPX Nickel Corp. has successfully completed another production run of battery-grade nickel sulphate from its Baptiste Nickel Project in central British Columbia, Canada. This work builds on a prior pilot-scale refining program aimed at converting … [Read more...]
Automotive ESD devices enable safer 48-V EV networking
Nexperia has introduced the industry’s first ESD diodes designed to protect 48-V automotive data communication networks, which are becoming increasingly common in electric and hybrid vehicles. As EV and HEV platforms transition away from … [Read more...]
New partnership sets long-term goal of 10,000 EV battery swap stations
China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), one of China's largest integrated energy and chemical companies, and CATL, a global provider of new energy technologies, signed an industry and capital cooperation framework agreement in … [Read more...]
US battery recycling facility more than doubles production
American Battery Technology Company (ABTC), an integrated critical battery materials company commercializing its technologies for primary battery minerals manufacturing and secondary minerals lithium-ion battery recycling, has achieved a significant … [Read more...]