InductEV announced that Tim DeMoss has joined the wireless charging company as its first director of port & intermodal strategies. He joined after 17 years with the Port of Los Angeles, where he most recently served as an environmental affairs officer for the air quality section in the Port’s environmental management division. …

Monolith, an artificial intelligence (AI) software provider, partnered with About:Energy to develop pre-trained AI models in the Monolith platform using battery data from About:Energy. Taking data from numerous batteries, Monolith said these pre-trained models will enable more accurate, valuable predictions for battery degradation and thermal propagation, resulting in fewer tests, reduced testing costs, and improved…

Black Book introduced its electric vehicle (EV) valuations, dubbed Battery Adjusted Values, which incorporate battery condition adjustments based on data from Recurrent, an EV analytics platform. Using battery conditions derived from vehicle-specific information and battery data from thousands of similar vehicles from Recurrent’s database, Black Book said its Battery Adjusted Values will apply an additional…

Elywhere North America (ENA), headquartered in Portland, OR, began its North American operations and will work with Elywhere Norway to bring charging solutions to North America, the company said. Elywhere provides high-power charging stations, designed with integrated batteries, that can deliver up to 200 kW during charging sessions. For high-demand applications such as Heavy-Duty Electric…

Celgard, a subsidiary of Polypore International, allied with Æsir Technology, a manufacturing company that specializes in developing next-generation Nickel-Zinc battery technology. Together, Celgard and Æsir said they will collaborate on joint research projects to further develop high-technology next-generation Nickel-Zinc (Ni-Zn), Zinc-Air (Zn-Air), Lithium-Zinc (Li-Zn) and Sodium-Zinc (Na-Zn) batteries used primarily in aviation, data centers, telecom,…

The Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) said that the Michigan Strategic Fund (MSF) has approved support and incentives for Fortescue, a global green energy, metals and technology company, to establish a U.S. advanced manufacturing center in Detroit, Michigan. As Fortescue first announced in front of world leaders…

In a joint announcement with Intel, SAE International formed the Vehicle Platform Power Management Committee (J3311) at the Consumer’s Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Jan. 9. The new SAE standard committee will adopt advanced power management concepts from the personal computer (PC) industry, helping EVs to become more energy-efficient and sustainable, it said.…

Accelera by Cummins, Daimler Trucks & Buses US Holding and PACCAR selected Marshall County, Mississippi, as the future site of advanced battery cell manufacturing for their planned joint venture. The joint venture will localize battery cell production for commercial electric vehicles and is expected to create more than 2,000 U.S. manufacturing jobs, with the option…

BorgWarner agreed to form a joint venture with Shaanxi Fast Auto Drive Group, a China-based market-leading commercial vehicle (CV) parts supplier specializing in transmission and drivetrain systems. “By jointly working on a high-voltage inverter application for high-efficiency vehicles such as heavy-duty trucks and off-road vehicles, this joint venture will support our business growth for power…

Stellantis Ventures, the corporate venture fund of Stellantis N.V., said it will participate as a strategic investor in Tiamat, a France-based company that is developing and commercializing sodium-ion battery technology. Sodium-ion technology offers a lower cost per kilowatt-hour and is free of lithium and cobalt. Abundantly available sodium offers benefits in increased sustainability and material…