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In the ever-expanding world of Electric Vehicles (EVs), electric cars take the lion’s share of attention. However, Rolls-Royce have recently taken to the skies in their “Spirit of Innovation” all-electric aircraft. On 15th September at 14:56 BST, the innovative electric plane took off from the Ministry of Defence’s Boscombe Down airfield. Powered by a 400kW […]
The Most Advanced EV Battery Management System? (BMS) Electric Vehicle Battery Management Systems (BMS) are expected to take a forward leap as Eatron Technologies and WMG win funding for their COBRA project. Eatron, a software company specialising in electric and autonomous vehicles, has teamed up with WMG, a division of the University of Warwick, based […]
The Government has given the green light to an ambitious £20 million project to start rolling out battery-electric trucks in the UK. Funded by the Department for Transport (DfT), the project will demonstrate how road freight trials can help the UK move towards its net-zero carbon emissions goals by 2050. Fossil-fuel powered road vehicles will […]
The latest Gigafactory plans have been submitted for a site next to Coventry airport as a joint proposal between Coventry Airport Ltd and Coventry City Council. The plan is for a £5.7 million sq ft gigaplant that could create up to 6,000 new jobs and attract as much as £2 billion in private sector investment. […]
Nissan, the Japanese car maker, has announced that it will be expanding production of electric vehicles at its Sunderland plant. To assist the increase in electric vehicle production, Nissan’s partner, Envision AESC, has added that it will be building an accompanying electric vehicle battery plant. The two plants will not actually be separate but will […]
Tucked away in rural Wiltshire, on the edge of a farm field, sits an array of shipping-container sized units. Divided into three adjacent facilities, each of the forty or so containers hold an arrangement of lithium-iron-phosphate (LiFePO4) batteries and associated electrical equipment. Welcome to Minety, an unassuming village of just over 1,400 inhabitants, known for […]
Britishvolt, the UK’s leading battery cell technology specialist, has submitted detailed plans for the UK’s first Gigaplant, producing batteries for the country’s electric vehicle projects. The site in Blyth, Northumberland, was home to the former Blyth Power Station, which was finally decommissioned in 2001 and demolished in 2003. Britishvolt acquired the 235-acre (95 hectare) site […]
With ambitious targets for the UK to ban the sales of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030, the nation faces several challenges including an urgent requirement for more Electric Vehicle (EV) infrastructure. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), a select committee of MPs responsible for overseeing government expenditure, have released a report today saying that […]
The latest report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) has projected that there could be 145 million electric vehicles on global roads by 2030 at the current rate of adoption. Furthermore, if world governments accelerated their efforts to achieve global climate and energy goals, there could be as many as 230 million vehicles in service […]
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