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Ilika's Goliath Battery for Electric Vehicles Achieves Scale-up Milestone

Ilika, the UK pioneer in solid state battery technology, confirms superior performance of its Goliath batteries manufactured via an industrially scaled process at The UK Battery Industrialisation Centre. This further underpins confidence that the battery is on track on its route to market, reducing costs, in

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Date:

04/18/2025

Toshiba Introduces new 4-Channel Automotive High-Speed Digital Isolators

Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH (“Toshiba”) has launched its first lineup of ten AEC-Q100 qualified, 4-channel digital isolators. The new DCM34xx0 series has been designed to provide common-mode transient immunity (CMTI) of 100kV/μs (typ.) at data transmission rates up to 50Mbps in applications like on-board cha

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Date:

04/17/2025

Engineering student Chloe Acosta plugs in an EV for charging in snowy weather on the University of Michigan's North Campus. Photo: Marcin Szczepanski, Michigan Engineering

Charging Electric Vehicles 5x Faster in Subfreezing Temps

A modified manufacturing process for electric vehicle batteries, developed by University of Michigan engineers, could enable high ranges and fast charging in cold weather, solving problems that are turning potential EV buyers away. "We envision this approach as something that EV battery manufacturers

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Date:

04/01/2025

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

U.S. Battery Capacity on the Rise

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

In what’ll probably come as no surprise to those tuned in to the market, the U.S. battery capacity saw a huge uptick in 2024. But why, and could recent political developments bump up those numbers even further? According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, cumulative utility-scale battery storage c

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Date:

04/01/2025

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

The EV Battery Competition Heats Up

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

One area of the industry I find particularly fascinating is the search for new battery technology, particularly for electric vehicles. It seems almost every month, a new battery chemistry comes closer to commercialization. Although our current Li-ion batteries are very good at what they do, there is always ro

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Date:

04/01/2025