Electric vehicles

Five years ago this month, Steve Mahan, the retired director of the Santa Clara Valley Blind Center, who lost his sight years before, took the world's first ride in a self-driving car on public roads. Since that first ride Waymo has been hard at work to bring the Waymo Driver to more and more people.

Volvo Trucks Awarded $21.7M from U.S. EPA and South Coast AQMD to Deploy 70 Class 8 VNR Electric Zero-Emission Trucks. This award enables the nation's largest commercial deployment of Class 8 battery-electric trucks

Nikola Corporation, the American Fuel Cell Truck company, have been attracting considerable interest of late.

Octopus Energy announces that four electric vehicle charging firms have joined its Electric Juice Network in a bid to simplify on-street charging.

LG Innotek announced today that it has successfully developed a high-efficiency ferrite with the lowest power loss in the world. This development has contributed to LG Innotek's dominance in the TV and vehicle power markets.

The market for hybrid electric cars is growing but can it sustain this growth going forward?

Ceres Power, a global leader in fuel cell and electrochemical technology, Doosan Fuel Cell, the world's stationary fuel cell market leader, and Doosan Corporation today announce the signing of strategic collaboration and licence agreements worth a minimum of £36m to Ceres with a potential additional £7m subject to performance.

The IDTechEx market for electric vehicles across land, sea and air will be 24 million unit sales this year, which represents a decline of roughly 19% year on year from the impact of COVID-19.

Bollinger Motors has filed a patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for its battery pack design. The scope of the patent includes mechanical, electrical, and systems-engineering innovations.

Arrival, the technology company focused on commercial electric vehicles announced it has raised $118 million from funds managed by BlackRock. The fundraising will be used to support execution of the company's growth plans as it ramps up vehicle production, including the launch of Arrival's first U.S. Microfactory in South Carolina.

Imagine a situation where, given a request, a lab automatically chooses what experiments to do, robotically carries this out, tracks the reaction with integrated sensors, acquires and analyzes the results, and then decides what experiment to do next. This seems like science-fiction, but certain truths may be closer than you think.

General Dynamics Electric Boat, a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE:GD), has been awarded a $327.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification for fiscal year 2020 for lead yard support, development studies and design efforts for Virginia-class submarines.

American company assembling high discharge rate Li-ion battery module, exploiting the high efficient cooling system design, for application in EV fast charging.

Industry leaders BTCPower, EVBox, EVOCHARGE™ join as Premier Partners to ensure better charge experience through tighter integration, broader interoperability, and more uptime.

LG Chem, Korea's leading manufacturer of advanced lithium-ion batteries, has strengthened its partnership with global inverter manufacturer SolarEdge to offer the most advanced home backup solution to date with training for installers.

Hesai Unveils PandarXT, 32-Channel Mid-Range LiDAR with Self-Developed, Proprietary LiDAR ASICs.

SafeRide to contribute AI-based vehicle health management expertise to the SAE Health-Ready Components and Systems (HRCS) Consortium to facilitate industry-wide application of Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM) technology

Mitie has achieved a landmark moment in its electric vehicle strategy, having passed its target of switching 20% of its cars and small vans to electric. Mitie now has over 750 EVs, well above its 20% by 2020 target of 717 zero emission vehicles.

A new report by Nationwide Vehicle Contracts reveals the world's most popular electric cars. The report looks at global electric vehicle sales from EVVolumes.com over the last three years, as well as Google search volume data for electric and hybrid vehicles in 152 different countries to show the world's most desired make and model.

Electric vehicle powertrains are much more materially diverse than the internal-combustion engine vehicles they replace. As a result, they are putting sudden and unprecedented strain on several raw materials industries.