The Faraday Battery Challenge aims to accelerate the development of sustainable and affordable battery technologies in the UK. A total sum of GBP 10 million has been allocated for business-led collaborative feasibility studies and Contract Research and Development (CR&D) projects.

Quantum Fuel Systems’ tanks are made from “Type 4” composite materials with a polymer lining, storing hydrogen at a pressure of 70 MPa, or 700 bar.

Phoenix Motor says it changed the layout of the new e-chassis (based on the Ford E-450) to make more space for its newly designed battery packs towards the front and rear of the frame rails.

Storing hydrogen at 350 bar pressure, the ‘G-Stor Go H2 Hydrogen Cylinder’ is made from lightweight composite materials with a polymer liner (i.e., “Type 4” cylinder technology).

Oliver Makko has been appointed the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), replacing Jörg Dinkat, and Andreas Krist as Chief Product Officer (CPO), replacing Oliver Reichertz.

Hexagon Purus says the 60,000-square-foot facility will have an annual production capacity exceeding 1,000 battery systems and will employ up to 150 engineers and assembly technicians.

The company is set to supply its high-voltage eFan system to a global commercial vehicle OEM for use in both the European and North American markets, which marks the first eFan system business in North America for BorgWarner.

The new Clarksville manufacturing facility will make battery cells for the first time in the USA, as well as battery packs for Microvast's growing portfolio of CV customers in North America.

Wolfgang Kolb will assume responsibility for global sales, leveraging his 20 years of experience at various automotive companies.

The building will be constructed and expanded in phases up to 2030, representing a planned investment of up to EUR4.8bn, or CAD7bn.

Scheduled to go into operation in July 2023, the plant will be able to recycle up to 15,000 metric tons of battery materials a year and is currently undergoing a series of diagnostic tests using old batteries from different manufacturers to develop and refine the operational mechanism to discharge, dismember, recycle and shred the remaining battery material.

Following validation tests, Scania and Northvolt confirmed that the cells have the capacity to propel trucks up to 1.5 million kilometres over their lifetime.