The Auto Care Association is forming a new advisory committee that focuses on environmental sustainability in the automotive aftermarket. The new sustainability committee aims to increase awareness of the importance of sustainability, while supporting Auto Care members by encouraging industry best practices in a quest to become more environmentally friendly. The Auto Care Association says…

California Governor Gavin Newsom joined Tesla CEO Elon Musk this week on a tour of Tesla’s new global engineering and AI headquarters in Palo Alto. Since 2009, California has supported Tesla via tax breaks and financial incentives, though despite this, Musk moved the company’s headquarters to Austin, Texas in 2021. Now, California will remain the…

If an EV is charged quickly in a hot climate, its lithium-ion battery can become too hot and become damaged. To be able to test this realistically, Mahle has now equipped its climatic wind tunnel in Stuttgart with a direct current fast charging system. The test engineers there can charge electric vehicles with up to…

Based on new business awards and actions announced to date, BorgWarner says it believes it is on track to achieve approximately $4.3 billion of electric vehicle (EV) sales by 2025. The company also expects its 2023 EV sales to grow to $1.5 billion to $1.8 billion, up from $870 million in 2022. BorgWarner is building…

StoreDot has partnered with Circulor, a supply chain traceability solution, to track the provenance and CO2 emissions of the raw materials used in its battery cells and its manufacturing cells process. StoreDot says working with Circulor will help to create a more transparent battery supply chain to provide full traceability for global automotive manufacturers and…

Electrify America has announced two leadership changes with Giovanni Palazzo becoming chairman of the board of Electrify America and senior vice president of charging and energy, a global position at Volkswagen Group; and Rob Barrosa becoming Electrify America’s president and CEO. Palazzo will continue to work closely…

General Motors and Lithium Americas will jointly invest to develop the Thacker Pass mine in Nevada, which the companies say is the largest known source of lithium in the United States and the third largest in the world. Under the agreement, GM will make a $650 million…

Form Energy will partner with the State of West Virginia to build its first iron-air battery manufacturing facility on 55 acres of property in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, along the Ohio River, in the city of Weirton. Form Energy expects to start construction of its Weirton factory in 2023 and begin manufacturing iron-air…

Volta Trucks has appointed Claes Nilsson to its board of directors. Nilsson joins the Volta Trucks board following a career in commercial vehicles with AB Volvo, where he held the position of president of Volvo Trucks and member of its executive board. Prior to this, he was responsible for Volvo Trucks regions in Europe, South…

Nikola Corporation is moving its battery manufacturing from Cypress, Calif., to its Coolidge, Ariz., manufacturing facility. The move, which the company expects to complete by early Q3, brings Nikola's truck assembly, fuel cell power module assembly, and battery module and pack production under one roof and includes battery line automation geared toward improving quality and…