Soteria Battery Innovation Group has licensed Q-TRED, a thermal event detection technology developed by defense and security company QinetiQ, adding it to Soteria’s Battery Safety IP Exchange (IPX)—a licensing platform that bundles complementary battery safety technologies under a single framework. Standard battery pack sensing relies on temperature probes at a Read more
Lucid Motors is laying off 18% of its workforce, roughly 1,500 employees, just four months after the EV maker cut 12% of its staff. The company also confirmed Monday that it has eliminated the second production shift at its Casa Grande, Arizona factory. It’s the second mass layoff under a Read more
It’s the company’s second round of layoffs this year.
onsemi has launched the Elite Pairing Studio, a cloud-based design environment that helps engineers find and evaluate matched combinations of SiC MOSFETs and gate drivers before committing to a full system-level simulation. Getting the SiC MOSFET and gate driver pairing right matters more than it might seem. The gate driver’s Read more
Octopus Energy and CATL are bringing a battery-swapping model already used at scale in China to Europe’s growing electric truck market.
Powered trailer concepts aren’t new, but they typically focus on solving a single problem, whether that’s reducing fuel costs or powering a reefer unit or utility. The new PowerSled concept is a bit different, promising construction crews the ability to do both.
The PV5 is turning out to be a smash hit, so much so that Kia is now being forced to ration supply to overseas markets as it juggles demand.
Tesla just trademarked ‘MEGAPOD’ with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), its latest move in what seems to be a hint that the company is incredibly focused on its AI efforts and storage needs as compute increases. The application carries serial number 99893717 and lists the applicant as Read more
A commercial sodium-ion battery from Chinese manufacturer Hina matches Tesla’s lithium-ion cells on manufacturing quality and internal design, according to an independent teardown published in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports Physical Science. Researchers at Germany’s RWTH Aachen University measured cell-to-cell resistance varying by just 5.3% across 120 cells — Read more
Sweden has a problem with FSD breaking the speed limit on demand,