Electric vehicles

Hyundai Motor Group has announced a new global strategy to transform all vehicles to Software Defined Vehicles by 2025. The initiative will give customers the freedom to remotely upgrade the performance and functionality of their vehicles anywhere at any time. The Group also shared plans to transform the customer experience throughout the vehicle's entire lifetime and deliver a new era of mobility via constantly evolving software technology.

A breakthrough in electric vehicle battery design has enabled a 10-minute charge time for a typical EV battery. The record-breaking combination of a shorter charge time and more energy acquired for longer travel range was announced in the journal Nature.

The number of newly registered electric vehicles in Korea surpassed 100,000 units last year alone. Norway is the only other country to match such numbers. The core materials that determine the battery life and charging speed of now commonly seen EVs are anode materials. Korea's domestic battery industry has been committed to finding revolutionary ways to increase the battery capacity by introducing new technologies or other anode materials. But what if we get rid of anode materials altogether?

Michelin is an established supplier of tires. It was founded in 1889 and has been supplying pneumatic tires to the automotive industry for more than 100 years. IDTechEx spoke to Michelin at ITS World Congress where it was exhibiting its new automotive airless tire.

Sono Motors gains new customers in Scania, a subsidiary of Volkswagen, and LLT, a Swedish public transport authority, in a unique project to test the Solar Bus Kit in real-life conditions in the northern hemisphere. The objective of the project is to optimize the efficiency of the solar technology for buses in northern climates.

Zerova is set to unveil the world's fastest electric vehicle charger, with an output of up to 480kw of power. The new solution will be able to charge four cars at the same time and will be able to fully charge a vehicle in 10 minutes, and provide 150km of range in less than five minutes.

Orion Energy Systems Inc announced today expansion into the electric vehicle charging station market through the acquisition of Voltrek, LLC.

On the way to zero-emission marine transportation, EST-Floattech is a part of the innovative FPS Maas retrofit project from Future Proof Shipping and Holland Shipyards Group. Both companies are actively working on sustainable projects, where HSG builds or retrofits the ships, and FPS, as the zero-emissions shipowner, offers sustainable marine transportation services.

Zeta Energy are a US start-up developing lithium-sulphur (Li-S) batteries.

Cars should be able to recharge every 60 km and refuel hydrogen every 100 km, while ships use on-shore power supply at ports, to help the EU become climate neutral by 2050. The Transport and Tourism Committee adopted a draft negotiating mandate on the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure that aims to spur the deployment of recharging or alternative refuelling stations (such as electric or hydrogen) for cars, trucks, trains and planes and support the uptake of sustainable vehicles.

This premium article explores electric vehicle battery cooling methods, including, air, liquid, refrigerant, and immersion cooling. It will look at the methods used by key market players and different cooling strategies in various regions.

Human-centric manufacturing puts a high requirement for safety in production because machines work closely with human operators.

Starting for customers in Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the UK, SIXT will be the first car rental company in Europe to offer BYD's vehicles. The first model to be provided by BYD will be the fully electric, European styled BYD ATTO 3, an electric C-segment SUV.

Enovix are a US battery manufacturer who have developed a cell design that enables 100% silicon anodes.

Thursday 6 October 2022 - This webinar looks at some of the key achievements and milestones in the trucking industry. This is then compared to other heavy-duty autonomous vehicles and a complete holistic view of the industry is forged.

Is Graphene Green? This question comes up an increasing amount. Green drivers and ESG investments are an obvious focus across the supply chain, but where does graphene fit into this discussion? IDTechEx explore the answer in this article.

Green City Ferries is a supplier of battery electric and fuel cell vessels along with charging facilities and financing. Its most recent project is Beluga24, a 25-meter electric high-speed catamaran.

Innovation roadmap for the report 'Fire Protection Materials for Electric Vehicle Batteries 2023-2033'.

Innovation roadmap for the report 'Fire Protection Materials for Electric Vehicle Batteries 2023-2033'.