German chipmaker Infineon and Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn are to enter into a long-term partnership in electric vehicles. The two companies also plan to open an application centre in Taiwan before the end of 2023.
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Taiwan’s micro-mobility company Gogoro has partnered with Italy’s Enel X to combine thousands of battery swapping stations into one virtual power plant. The partners claim the VPP already holds 1,300 ‘GoStations’ with another 1,200 scheduled for network deployment shortly.
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Delta Electronics has launched a new DC charger in the EMEA region. The 50kW DC Wallbox is half as wide as standard chargers of this type, making it ideal for on-street installation, according to the global electronics corporation from Taiwan.
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German chip manufacturer Infineon Technologies and Taiwanese energy and power management provider Delta Electronics are expanding their cooperation from industrial to automotive applications.
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Tesla has expanded the offer of their Model Y to Taiwan, but due to import and export restrictions, the vehicles are being imported all the way from Germany, instead of the Giga Shanghai just around the corner.
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Taiwanese electric scooter maker Gogoro is delaying its expansion plans in China due to geopolitical and economic uncertainty and putting more focus on India and Indonesia, its Chief Financial Officer said in an interview.
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Zerova Technologies, founded by Taiwan’s Phihong, made its European at the eMove360° Europe show in Berlin. The company presented a prototype 480-kW charger that promises to charge up to four EVs in ten minutes.
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Following Nancy Pelosi’s controversial visit to Taiwan, Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. (CATL) has decided to postpone a decision on a factory in North America until autumn.
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In Taiwan, the Chung-Shin Bus Group will put 150 all-electric buses into operation in the capital Taipei by the end of this year, equipped with Danfoss Editron drives. Another 100 electric buses with Danfoss drives are scheduled to follow in 2023.
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Xing Mobility, a Taiwanese supplier of EV technologies, has introduced a new battery system with immersion cooling at the Battery Show Europe in Stuttgart. According to Xing, the Immersio XM25 is particularly well suited for heavy duty vehicles.
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The Vietnamese electric car manufacturer VinFast has invested millions in the Taiwanese solid-state battery cell manufacturer ProLogium. In addition, ProLogium is to supply solid-state battery cells to VinFast from 2024.
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The German engineering service provider FEV has teamed up with Taiwan’s Prologium for their solid-state battery expertise. Under the MOU, they will focus on developing customer-specific battery systems, sales and cell/module verification based on Prologium’s SSB technology.
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Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn has started building its first battery factory. The plant, located in Taiwan’s second-largest city Kaohsiung, is scheduled to start producing LFP cells with a planned capacity of 1.27 GWh in the first quarter of 2024.
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The South Korean steel group Posco has entered into a cooperation with the Taiwanese solid-state battery cell manufacturer ProLogium. In addition to an undisclosed investment in ProLogium, the agreement provides for the joint development of components for ProLogium’s solid-state batteries.
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Taiwan has set climate goals that include the country’s ever-present scooter fleet. All new passenger cars and scooters must be zero-emission at the tailpipe by 2040, and there are interim targets.
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Electric scooter manufacturer Gogoro has unveiled a prototype lithium ceramic solid-state battery for two-wheel battery swapping. The prototype, jointly developed by Gogoro and solid-state battery specialist ProLogium Technology, integrates with Gogoro’s existing vehicles and battery swap network.
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In Taiwan, there will soon be more battery exchange stations than petrol stations. Electric scooter manufacturer Gogoro built a total of 2,215 of its battery exchange stations in Taiwan by the end of 2021.
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The Canadian start-up StromVolt Americas has announced its intention to build Canada’s first factory for the production of lithium-ion battery cells for electric vehicles together with the Taiwanese company Delta Electronics. The factory will be located in the province of Quebec.
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Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturer contracted by Apple among many others, is cooperating with the companies Giga Solar Materials, Long Time Technology and China Steel Chemical to develop anode materials for lithium iron phosphate batteries. The new batteries are to be used for the first time in electric buses from 2023.
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Taiwanese electric scooter manufacturer Gogoro and Poema Global Holdings, a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, have announced a definitive agreement resulting in Gogoro becoming a publicly listed company. The proceeds should propel expansion in India, China and Southeast Asia.
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Apple supplier Foxconn and scooter maker Gogoro today announced an MoU to speed up the expansion of Gogoro’s battery swapping system. Gogoro will use Foxconn’s extensive production capacities to scale up, given recent market announcements in India and China.
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According to a media report, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn, which works for Apple, is investing the equivalent of around 36 million US dollars in the company Giga Solar Materials via a subsidiary. Foxconn said in a statement on Tuesday that the two companies will jointly develop electric vehicle battery materials.
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Two-wheeler manufacturer Kymco, Super Soco and Felo Technologies have signed a strategic cooperation agreement. Together, the partners want to develop new electric motorbikes and scooters based on Kymco’s Ionex battery platform.
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Taiwan’s Gogoro and India’s Hero MotoCorp announced a strategic partnership that aims to found a joint venture for bringing battery swaps to India. Hero also wants to use Gogoro technology for new electric two-wheelers for the Indian market.
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Taiwanese contract manufacturer Hon Hai, aka Foxconn, who supplies Apple components, wants to make a major entry into the electric vehicle business. According to CEO Liu Young-way, Foxconn is to be represented with components or services in every tenth electric car worldwide by 2027.
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GKN Automotive and Delta Electronics are launching a strategic cooperation for the development and marketing of electric drives for the 80 to 155 kW power class. The drives from the joint development are to be launched on the market in three years.
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According to a Taiwanese business newspaper, Tesla has asked local suppliers to produce parts for Model Y six months earlier than previously planned, this quarter. This again fuels rumours that serial production of the Model Y could start earlier than originally planned.
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The Taiwanese electric scooter manufacturer Gogoro has introduced a new lighter and cheaper model. Now that the company has a full palette of longer and shorter-range city scooters, Gogoro plans to further expand internationally next year. In Taiwan, the Gogoro Viva will be available from October this year.
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Taiwanese electric scooter manufacturer Gogoro has launched its Gogoro 2 Utility scooter and battery-replacement network built for B2B industries in the city of Seoul with cooperation partner TIC corporation.
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The Taiwanese electric scooter manufacturer Gogoro has created its own sharing platform, GoShare, for renting electric scooters with exchangeable batteries. GoShare will initially start in the Northwestern Taiwanese district of Taoyuan with around 1,000 electric scooters in August.
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