Articles Tagged with ''electric vehicles''

DETROIT—Detroit Manufacturing Systems and Kinetyc, its advanced manufacturing division, are building a 24-foot-long electric boat for Voltaic Marine.

PARIS—Safran Electrical & Power and Saft have developed a high-voltage lithium-ion battery for use in next-generation electric aviation applications.

SEOUL—Engineers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology have developed an electric motor that does not use traditional copper coils.

DETROIT—General Motors expects to invest $4 billion over the next two years at U.S. assembly plants in Kansas, Michigan and Tennessee that will produce both gas- and battery-powered vehicles.

DETROIT—Kurt Kelty, GM vice president of battery, propulsion and sustainability, recently tried his hand at assembling EV battery packs.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden—Engineers at Volvo Cars have developed a next-generation seat belt system that will be used on the automaker’s EX60 electric vehicle.

FRANKFURT—Continental Automotive has developed a sensor that measures the temperature inside permanently excited synchronous motors in electric vehicles.

CAMBRIDGE, MA—Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a fuel cell that generates three times as much energy per pound as today’s best EV batteries.

STOCKHOLM—Engineers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology recently discovered that companies can shave 15 percent off their expenses by remanufacturing and reusing components.

MOUNTAN VIEW, CA—NASA is launching a five-year project with Wisk Aero LLC to develop traffic management systems for air taxis and other types of advanced air mobility applications.