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• AISIN brings its eAxle and hybrid transmissions to The Battery Show – AISIN cites more than 20 years of hybrid development behind the transmissions it brings to The Battery Show (Image courtesy of AISIN) AISIN will put its eAxle and e-Motor on the same stand as front and rear-wheel-drive hybrid transmissions at The Battery Show North America in Detroit next week. Booth 1201 marks the Tier One […]
• BASF Ultradur RC1 puts recycled PET into structural car parts – Post-consumer packaging waste is shredded into recycled PET flakes and then compounded into black granulate for engineering applications (Image courtesy of BASF) BASF Ultradur RC1 joins the company’s engineering plastics portfolio as a family of glass fibre-reinforced PBT/PET compounds containing up to 30 percent post-consumer recycled PET (PCR-PET). Structural automotive parts such as brackets, housings […]
• BMW’s new battery plant builds the i3’s structural pack – Each pack goes through laser welding, foaming, sealing and a 100 percent end-of-line inspection before it ships to a vehicle plant (Image courtesy of BMW Group) BMW Group has opened its Irlbach-Straßkirchen plant in Bavaria and started series production of sixth-generation high-voltage batteries, with the first packs going to Munich for the new BMW i3. […]
• Scania Core 800 powers Prinoth’s move into large electric snow groomers – Very low temperatures, steep terrain and heavy snow loads set the brief for the batteries in an electric snow groomer (Image courtesy of Scania) A long-term agreement now puts the Scania Core 800 battery pack into Prinoth‘s electric snow groomers, extending a collaboration that began with the Husky E-Motion in 2022. The deal also covers […]
• CATL Debrecen starts trial cell production on two lines – CATL Debrecen trial production covers two lines for now, while CATL presents 100 GWh as the capacity of the finished site (Image courtesy of CATL) CATL Debrecen began trial production on the first two cell lines of its Hungarian plant on September 22, 2026, after clearing the preconditions attached to its IPPC permit. The move […]
• Closed-loop battery recycling reaches GM’s assembly lines – Recycled-content cells become packs at Factory ZERO in GM’s closed-loop battery recycling pilot (Image courtesy of General Motors) GM has built its first EVs with battery cells whose cathode active material contains 100% recycled nickel, cobalt and manganese. That metal includes material recovered from GM’s own retired packs. The closed-loop battery recycling pilot ran through […]
• onsemi’s new power platform cuts EV inverter losses by 15% – Subaru is among the first automakers evaluating the platform for future EVs (Image courtesy of onsemi) onsemi has introduced the Embedded Power Platform, a wafer-level packaging architecture that embeds power semiconductors directly into silicon rather than mounting them on a separate substrate. Subaru is among the first automakers evaluating it for future electrified vehicle architectures. […]
• ROHM silicon carbide powers BMW’s award-winning Neue Klasse – The iX3 was the first Neue Klasse model to bring BMW’s 800V, silicon-carbide-equipped powertrain into series production (Image courtesy of ROHM Semiconductor) ROHM Semiconductor says its silicon carbide MOSFETs now sit inside the power electronics of BMW’s Neue Klasse Gen6 electric vehicles, a supplier relationship the company confirmed in September 2026. Neue Klasse is BMW’s […]
• Porsche produces battery cells with 100% recycled cathode material – Black mass recovered from shredded batteries carries the copper and metal fragments that battery recycling processes separate into reusable raw materials (Image courtesy of Porsche) Porsche has produced battery cells whose cathode active material comes entirely from recycled lithium, nickel, cobalt and manganese, recovered from its own end-of-life high-voltage batteries. The cells are now in […]
• Mitsui Kinzoku brings sulfide electrolyte expertise to Factorial’s all-solid-state Solstice battery – The agreement pairs Factorial’s fabless cell development with Mitsui Kinzoku’s sulfide electrolyte expertise in all-solid-state batteries (Image courtesy of Factorial Energy) Mitsui Kinzoku and Factorial Energy have signed a joint development agreement to support industrialisation of Factorial’s Solstice all-solid-state battery platform. Factorial stays fabless, leading cell design, process development, supply chain qualification, line integration and […]