JOLIET, IL—Lion Electric Co. recently celebrated the official opening of a 900,000-square-foot facility here that will assemble battery-powered school buses and trucks.
Some 100 six-axis robots weld, bond and package EV batteries at the FAW-Volkswagen Automobile Co. Ltd. assembly plant.
July 25, 2023
FOSHAN, China—Some 100 six-axis robots weld, bond and package EV batteries at the FAW-Volkswagen Automobile Co. Ltd. assembly plant here. The factory produces 300,000 battery packs annually.
CAMBRIDGE, England—A new report from IDTechEx analyzes the three key technologies currently being used: mechanical, pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical recycling.
SEOUL, South Korea—Samsung Electro-Mechanics plans to mass-produce AEC-Q200 compliant power inductors for electric and autonomous vehicle applications.
REDONDO BEACH, CA—Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded a contract by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency to design an autonomous vertical takeoff and landing uncrewed aircraft system capable of operating from a moving U.S. Navy ship at sea.
CAMBRIDGE, England—European engineers typically favor nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) for construction equipment applications, while their counterparts in China tend to prefer lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries.