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Lotus Partners With Bosch and Mobilize To Give Customers Access to >600,000 European Charging Stations

Lotus announced two new pan-European charging partnerships to support the growing number of customers taking delivery of its electric vehicles. The company’s Eletre owners will be able tap into Bosch’s and Mobilize Power Solutions’ charging capabilities, enabling them to charge their hyper-SUV at home or on the move, providing them…

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Nissan Unveils Ariya NISMO Flagship Performance EV in Japan

Nissan unveiled the Ariya NISMO at Tokyo Auto Salon 2024, with launch planned in Japan for this spring. The crossover SUV is NISMO’s flagship EV model; the Ariya is Nissan’s first all-electric crossover. (Earlier post.) Performance that’s extremely dynamic yet smooth and easy to control is produced by the motor’s…

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FreeWire Technologies To Offer Fast and Flexible EV Charging Solutions to GM Energy Commercial Customers

FreeWire Technologies, a developer of ultrafast electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management solutions, (earlier post), announced a collaboration with GM Energy to accelerate the deployment of ultrafast EV charging infrastructure for GM Envolve fleet and commercial customers nationwide. This effort will help support GM Energy by providing a streamlined…

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Volvo Trucks Unveils All-New Volvo VNL in North America; Fuel Efficiency Improved by up to 10%

Volvo Trucks has launched a completely new Volvo VNL in North America. Optimized aerodynamics and new technologies have improved fuel efficiency by up to 10%. The new Volvo VNL is based on an all-new platform for all upcoming technologies, including battery-electric, fuel cell and internal combustion engines running on renewable…

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Hyundai Motor and Kia Unveil Active Air Skirt Technology To Help EVs Go Faster and Farther

Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation unveiled the Active Air Skirt (AAS) technology that minimizes the aerodynamic resistance generated during high-speed driving, effectively improving the driving range and driving stability of electric vehicles (EVs). AAS is a technology that controls the flow of air entering through the lower part of…

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Mitsubishi Electric to Release J3-Series SiC and Si Power Module Samples; Smaller, More Efficient Inverters for xEVs

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced the coming release of six new J3-Series power semiconductor modules for various electric vehicles (xEVs), featuring either a silicon carbide metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (SiC-MOSFET) or a RC-IGBT (Si) (a reverse conducting IGBT with on IGBT and one diode on a single chip) with compact designs…

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US Postal Service Unveils First Postal Electric Vehicle Charging Stations and Electric Delivery Vehicles

The United States Postal Service (USPS) unveiled its first set of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at its South Atlanta Sorting and Delivery Center (S&DC). Charging stations like these will be installed at hundreds of new S&DCs across the country throughout the year and will power what will be the…

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BMW Manufacturing To Bring Figure General Purpose Humanoid Robots Into Spartanburg Plant

Figure, a California-based company developing autonomous humanoid robots, signed a commercial agreement with BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC to deploy general purpose robots in automotive manufacturing environments. Figure’s humanoid robots enable the automation of difficult, unsafe, or tedious tasks throughout the manufacturing process, which in turn allows employees to focus on…

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