The eAMT (electrified Automated Manual Transmission) system by the automobile supplier ZF was developed as a concept to electrify small and compact vehicles with front wheel drive and a transverse engine. To do this, ZF combined their electric axle drive system (eVD) and the automated manual transmission (AMT).
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Voltabox will be beginning direct sales of their battery systems for intra-logistic purposes. The first success of the sales unit is the delivery of lithium-ion batteries to a “high-profile, large-scale German industrial company ” by an authorized industrial truck distributor.
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Magna is en route to make it big in China as the supplier is preparing the launch of two joint ventures with BAIC. Together they want to develop new energy vehicles and Magna stands ready to take over an existing BAIC facility that builds 180,000 EVs a year.
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BASF has announced their plan to improve cathode material efficiency, in order to help drive e-mobility forward. The focus will lie on the chemical makeup, form and structure, as well as the manufacturing process.
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Audi and Ballard Power Systems have announced their decision to extend their fuel cell cooperation, that is the existing Hymotion programme, for another 3.5 years until August 2022. The extension is valued between 62 and 100 million dollars.
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General Motors and Honda have announced a battery cooperation for future electric vehicles. Both manufacturers want to work on the development of next generation battery components and technology.
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The Chinese battery manufacturer has decided to start producing battery components in Germany. According to electrive.net, CATL is looking to Erfurt to set up a manufacturing facility for battery cells.
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Webasto is acquiring the electric car charging and testing business of AeroVironment, grouped under the Efficient Energy Systems (EES) division. The acquisition will cost the German supplier 35 million dollars and is still subject to approval.
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The Belgian recycling and material company Umicore will be opening their announced first European cathode material factory in the Polish city of Nysa. The cathode materials will be used for EV batteries.
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The US manufacturer Cummins has presented their battery portfolio at the Battery Show Europe, which includes lithium-ion battery packs with 35 and 74 kWh capacity and modules with up to 4.4 kWh capacity.
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Voith has released details to their previously announced new system to power electric buses. The 260 kW permanent magnet motor was designed as a prototype for the Solaris Urbino, but is easily adaptable for buses from other manufacturers.
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French PSA Group and Japan’s Nidec have finalised their planned joint venture. Together they will develop and sell motors for all-electric as well as hybrid vehicles. The new company called Nidec PSA emotors that both own 50 percent of is based at Carrières-sous-Poissy close to Paris.
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Supplier Webasto has announced its strategy for the next few years and electric transport solutions, namely batteries and charging equipment are to play a prominent role. The company wants to invest 600,000 million euros over the next three years.
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China’s battery specialist Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) is advancing to become not only Europe’s battery supplier No. 1 but also Japan’s. A new report says CATL will be taking over the battery cell supply for Nissan and Renault EVs in the near future.
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German startup Sono Motors has selected ElringKlinger to develop and produce the entire battery systems for their Sion solar EV. The contract entails several hundred million euros over a period of eight years.
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Volkswagen has ordered batteries worth 40 billion euros or almost 50 billion dollars, which is what Tesla is worth at the stock market to date. For VW, this means they have doubled the order volume in just a month and are now ready for the Roadmap E.
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Manz has received a major order in the double digit million euro range by an unnamed global electric company. The order is to produce the central contacting system for battery cells in electric vehicles is based on the modular LightAssembly platform.
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The US transport operator Dayton RTA has selected Voltabox as a battery supplier following the closing of their pilot phase for electric trolleybuses. The contract entails the delivery of a total of 75 battery systems.
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The Swedish company Northvolt has found a lithium supplier for their planned battery factory in Skellefteå – Nemaska Lithium from the Canadian Quebec.
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The Silicon Saxony or Saxony Valley welcomes a new player in town as Bosch starts construction of its chip factory in Dresden as planned. It will mainly produce processors to serve e-mobility and is the largest investment in the company’s history.
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The automobile supplier ZF has presented a fully networked forklift at the Hannover trade fair with an electric propulsion system and highly automated driving functions, which scans its environment via camera and radar systems.
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The Dutch startup which emerged from TU Eindhovens solar team, Lightyear, will be cooperating to develop long-distance solar vehicles with the German development partner EDAG.
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French Renault wants to establish a manufacturing hub for EV parts in India in order to export to its other markets. A first manufacturing deal exists already as local Rico Auto Industries is to make EV components and transmissions.
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The Japanese electric motor manufacturer Nidec has announced the successful development of a new electric axle motor system, which consists of an electric motor, transmission and converter. This new system was developed to deal with the rising demand from the e-mobility sector.
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Daimler is currently evaluating cooperation options with the Chinese Geely. They are analyzing potentially releasing an EV platform, among other things, which could be sold to other manufacturers.
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The car manufacturer FAW, which is owned by the Chinese government, is investing a “significant amount of money” into the EV startup Byton, which is run by former BMW-i manager Carsten Breitfeld. The news was broken by Breitfeld himself.
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At the 11th Schaeffler colloquium the newly created e-mobility unit presented solutions for future electric and hybrid drive systems. Particularly hybrid transmissions and electric axle drives. The components for the different drive systems are based on a unified development platform, which was also first presented to the public.
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Schaeffler has presented a new urban mobility concept called Mover. The autonomous system could be used as a basis in future for urban mobility concepts such as robot taxis and the next generation of personal and goods transportation.
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Eberspaecher has opened a new factory for electric vehicle heaters in China. The main focus of the factory near Tianjin is the production of high voltage heaters for electric and hybrid vehicles.
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Austrian supplier Magna has signed a cooperation agreement with China’s BAIC. Their first joint project will be the development of an intelligent electric vehicle architecture for the Chinese market in order to support BAIC’s electrification strategy.
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