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 […]
Product Update! Driven by customer demand, the popular AZX range of high-power switching AC, DC and AC+DC capable power sources, with regenerative capability, has seen a series of enhanced specifications. The new benefits of the enhanced specification AZX Series include: Higher output voltage for AC and DC applications. More AC and DC current available. 400V […]
In modern power systems, analysis often requires the efficiency measurement between two asynchronous, periodic waveforms. For example, a variable-frequency drive with mains input generates a secondary AC output with selectable frequency for controlling the speed of an AC motor. To establish system efficiency, both swiftly and accurately, the input and output waveforms need to be […]
Analogue to Digital Converters (ADC) convert real world signals into binary code. A common misconception with ADCs is that the bit count is a key indicator of accuracy in a digital measurement. This leads to the notion that a higher bit count is the result of a more accurate instrument. There are a number of […]
Car manufacturer Ford has announced today that it is to go “all in” for electric vehicle production in its European operation. Ford of Europe, the subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company based in Cologne, Germany, has committed to make all passenger vehicles “zero-emissions capable” by the middle of 2026. This means that in a little […]
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