One year ago, the BMW Group announced plans to build a new battery testing center at the Wackersdorf location. Now, the initial phase has come on-stream as planned. Scheduled for completion in late 2025, the site, which spans more than 8,000 square meters, will rigorously test individual battery cells, complete... Read more →

Piedmont Lithium, a North American supplier of lithium products, and Sayona Mining signed a definitive agreement to combine the two companies to create a leading lithium business, resulting in Sayona being the ultimate parent entity. The transaction will result in an approximate 50% / 50% equity holding of shareholders of... Read more →

Yamaha Motor Europe unveiled the latest version of its pioneering HARMO electric outboard, now featuring a series of upgrades designed to deliver a more versatile, more intuitive boating experience. The revolutionary integrated electric propulsion and steering control system, now offers enhanced capabilities and refined control features that build on the... Read more →

Germany’s Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) and the federal states of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate approved funding totaling €226 million for the development, small-series production and customer deployment (operation and maintenance) of 100 fuel cell trucks. The application had been subject to extensive review, also by the European Commission.... Read more →

Since the presentation of the first eCitaro, Daimler Buses has consistently fulfilled this promise with the switch from the NMC1 battery type to the second-generation NMC2, right up to the latest NMC3 battery type. The next step is now the switch to the fourth generation of lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt batteries. The new... Read more →

Daimler Buses is expanding the range of applications for the Mercedes‑Benz eCitaro fuel cell. In future, an electric bus equipped with a fuel cell as a range extender can be run on hydrogen as the sole energy source in certain usage scenarios, thanks to a new, additional operating strategy. When... Read more →

Daimler Buses is presenting a near-production prototype of the all-electric Mercedes‑Benz eIntouro interurban bus for the first time at the 2024 eMobility Days in Berlin. The high-floor bus is based on the familiar diesel-powered Intouro, but is equipped with a battery-electric drive instead. As a result, Daimler Buses is now... Read more →

Commercial vehicle manufacturer MAN Truck & Bus has commissioned MAHLE to supply components for the hydrogen engine of its MAN hTGX truck. The vehicle was recently crowned winner of the Truck Innovation Award 2025. The direct-injection engine with 6 cylinders has 16.8 L displacement and produces 383 kW power output.... Read more →

Microporous LLC, a leading manufacturer of battery separators, will invest $1.35 billion to establish a new manufacturing facility in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. The company will develop two phases of the project on Lot 1 of the Southern Virginia Megasite, each facility phase being approximately 500,000 square feet. Lot 2 of... Read more →

Abraxas Power, an energy transition developer, and EDF Group entered into strategic development agreements jointly to develop the Exploits Valley Renewable Energy Corporation (EVREC) green hydrogen and ammonia project in Central Newfoundland. EVREC is a Power-to-X (P2X) project that is expected to include up to 3+ gigawatts (GW) of onshore... Read more →

As the first large vessel in the industry, the container ship Maersk Halifax has been converted into a dual-fuel vessel able to operate on methanol. The retrofit operation was conducted at the Zhoushan Xinya Shipyard in China over 88 days with completion at the end of October 2024. Following the... Read more →

Researchers in China have developed a simple, highly efficient, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly processfor the sustainable recycling of depleted lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). No chemicals beyond citric acid need to be added to leach out and separate more than 99% of the lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese metals contained in NCM... Read more →

The 2025 Lexus RZ brings more options to consumers in the BEV marketplace, adding the entry-level grade to its RZ 300e and RZ 450e AWD lineup. With this addition, the RZ now offers three grades. The 2025 RZ is built at the Motomachi Plant in Toyota City, Japan, and goes... Read more →

Mercedes-Benz customers in the future will have the option to choose between two innovative powertrains in the upcoming vehicle architecture. The forthcoming CLA will be offered as a highly efficient electric vehicle and as an economical hybrid. Mercedes-Benz has set new standards for efficiency with the VISION EQXX technology platform.... Read more →

The Audi Q6L e-tron was presented at the FAW stand at Auto Guangzhou (15-18 Nov) in southern China shortly before its market launch as the first locally produced vehicle based on the Premium Platform Electric (PPE). Starting at the end of December it will be produced exclusively for the Chinese... Read more →

The US Department of Energy (DOE), in partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), announced a call for commercialization partners to accelerate market-facing research, development, and deployment of hydrogen fuel cell technologies. The objective of this call is to leverage DOE’s Lab Innovator 2.0 Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (L’Innovator... Read more →

Toyota Motor will enter the ENEOS Super Taikyu Series 2024 Empowered by BRIDGESTONE Round 7 Super Taikyu Final Fuji, to be held from 16 to 17 November, with the #32 ORC ROOKIE GR Corolla H2 Concept, a hydrogen-powered GR Corolla running on liquid hydrogen. Toyota will also be exhibiting a... Read more →

US Congressman Juan Ciscomani (AZ-06) celebrated the bipartisan House passage of his legislation to ensure parity between Critical Materials, as defined by the Department of Energy (DOE), and Critical Minerals, as defined by the US Geological Survey (USGS) to eliminate confusion, confer the same benefits to both lists moving forward,... Read more →

GKN Hydrogen, and Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) announced the commissioning of a research demonstration project with the SDepartment of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on an innovative clean renewable hydrogen storage solution. The project, which will be located at NREL’s Flatirons Campus in Arvada, Colorado, uses GKN... Read more →

Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Missouri, and their collaborators at Texas A&M University, have used electrocatalysis of carbon dioxide to create an electro-biodiesel that is 45-times more efficient and uses 45-times less land than soybean-based biodiesel production. Results of their work are published Joule. This... Read more →

Midas Vantage Projects (MVP) Lithium Limited has received a letter of intent (LOI) from Evove Ltd outlining Evove’s commitment to commissioning MVP Lithium’s DLE plant in 2025 subject to processing brine at industrial scale on Evove’s equipment at their testing facility in the UK and on-site demonstration. MVP Lithium’s resource... Read more →

Rio Tinto has entered into definitive agreements with GravitHy, an early-stage industrial company, to help accelerate GravitHy’s steel decarbonization project in France. As part of this collaboration, Rio Tinto will supply high-grade direct reduction iron ore pellets from its Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC) operations to GravitHy’s planned operation,... Read more →

Intelligent power management company Eaton is collaborating with Treehouse to enable high-quality, cost-effective and code-compliant residential electrification projects. The collaboration brings together Eaton’s digitally enabled electrical solutions with Treehouse’s AI-powered software and end-to-end installation capabilities, helping expedite the energy transition and electrification at home with EV charging, energy storage, heat... Read more →

Dongfeng Nissan unveiled the all-new N7 electric sedan at Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition (Auto Guangzhou). The vehicle is set to go on sale in China in the first half of 2025. The N7 is the first model built on Dongfeng Nissan’s new modular architecture, designed exclusively for electrified vehicles. Previewed... Read more →

The Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE) has launched a battery-free Fuel Cell Dominant Proof of Concept project under the FTA-sponsored Transit Vehicle Innovation Deployment Centers (TVIDC) program. This initiative, featuring fuel cell technology patented by Nimbus Power Systems, aims to transform zero-emission public transit by introducing a more... Read more →

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $4 million to projects across 8 states that will harness the processing power of the world’s most powerful supercomputers and the lab experts who operate them to tackle today’s toughest manufacturing challenges. As a part of DOE’s High-Performance Computing for Energy Innovation... Read more →

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced a consent order with Ford Motor Company for failing to comply with federal recall requirements. The consent order includes a civil penalty of $165 million, the second-largest civil penalty in NHTSA’s history. This action follows an investigation that found the company failed to... Read more →

The US Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced $20.2 million in funding for 10 university and industry projects to advance mixed algae development for low-carbon biofuels and bioproducts. Located in seven states, these selected projects will address high-impact research... Read more →

The US Environmental Protection Agency is issuing an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) under Section 6 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to gather information on the potential risks associated with N-(1,3-Dimethylbutyl)-N′-phenyl-p-phenylenediamine (6PPD) and its transformation product, 6PPD-quinone. (Earlier post.) In August 2023, the Yurok Tribe, the Port... Read more →

Solaris has won a tender for 45 double-articulated Urbino 24 electric buses, that will be integrated into the transport network of the Belgian city of Liège. The Urbino 24 electric buses are exceptional not only for their length but also for their MetroStyle design option. This is the largest tender... Read more →

Medenbach Traffic GmbH has taken possession of the first ten of 57 Mercedes-Benz scheduled-service buses with hybrid drive at the Mannheim bus plant. The overall order is made up of 39 Citaro hybrid inter-city buses, 13 Citaro hybrid articulated buses and five Citaro hybrid buses in the short Citaro K... Read more →

Stellantis and Infineon will work jointly on the power architecture for Stellantis’ electric vehicles. To support this, the companies have signed major supply and capacity agreements that will serve as the foundation for the planned collaboration to develop the next generation of power architecture, including: Infineon’s PROFET smart power switches,... Read more →

Johnson Matthey and Honeywell UOP signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to offer an end-to-end solution for businesses developing alternative fuels from a wide range of feedstocks, including municipal solid waste, residual biomass, biogas, and CO₂ (captured and renewable). The partnership brings together JM’s leading syngas solutions and Honeywell UOP’s... Read more →

Horizon Fuel Cell recently unveiled its new VLS-IV 400kW fuel cell, offering material advantages in fuel cell applications, such as high power output, low cost, long lifespan, and high fault tolerance. This product has the potential to reduce hydrogen consumption in fuel cell heavy trucks by up to 20%, in... Read more →

Lyten will acquire Cuberg’s San Leandro lithium-metal battery manufacturing facility and cell making equipment. Lyten intends to convert the facility to lithium-sulfur and expand capacity to enable up to 200 MWh of lithium-sulfur battery production in the Bay Area at full capacity. As part of the agreement, Lyten will take... Read more →

Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH has developed new 1200V silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs with low on-resistance (RDS(ON)) and high levels of reliability. The devices are particularly suited to applications within automotive traction inverters. They are now available and shipping as early test samples in bare die format—allowing customers to customize them... Read more →

Alfa Laval has secured two contracts worth 350 million SEK (US$32 million) to supply HVO pre-treatment technology to Europe’s largest biofuel facility. The facility, a joint venture between Cepsa Bioenergia San Roque S.L. (CSBR), and Bio-Oils Energy, part of the Apical Group, will produce 500,000 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel... Read more →

Topsoe has signed an agreement with Refinaria de Petróleo Riograndense SA (Riograndense), to provide its HydroFlex and H2bridge technologies for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel production at Riograndense’s Rio Grande renewable fuels plant in Brazil. The production addresses the rapidly growing demand for SAF. As cited by the... Read more →

Echion and CBMM, the global leader in the production and commercialization of niobium products, have officially inaugurated the world’s first volume manufacturing facility dedicated to producing Echion’s proprietary ultra-fast charging XNO active anode material technology. The new plant, located in Araxá, Brazil, is the largest niobium-based anode production facility in... Read more →

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects US refinery capacity to be 17.9 million barrels per day at the end of 2025, about 3% less than at the beginning of this year. LyondellBasel Industries plans to close its Houston Refinery in the first quarter of 2025, removing nearly 264,000 barrels... Read more →

Rio Tinto has approved construction of a new 25-megawatt solar plant at its Kennecott copper operation in Utah, bringing the mine’s total solar capacity to 30MW. The new solar plant will be located next to Kennecott’s existing 5MW solar plant, which was completed in 2023. Together, the two solar plants... Read more →

Cadillac is introducing the 2026 Cadillac VISTIQ, a luxury three-row SUV. VISTIQ will be sold globally, including in the US and Canada, with production starting in early 2025 at General Motors’ Spring Hill Manufacturing plant in Tennessee. VISTIQ’s standard dual motor all-wheel drive system delivers a powerful driving experience. Standard... Read more →

BASF will invest in additional production capacity for its X3D technology, a new additive manufacturing technology for catalysts based on 3D printing. The plant will produce catalysts on an industrial scale and is expected to be operational in 2026. The X3D technology represents a transformative leap in catalyst design and... Read more →

Constellium announced a major advancement in aluminum recycling for the automotive industry, by implementing Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) technology at an industrial scale. LIBS is a type of atomic emission spectroscopy which uses a highly energetic laser pulse as the excitation source. This initiative, developed in collaboration with OSR GmbH... Read more →

The United States announced new nuclear energy deployment targets at the UN climate summit (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan. As outlined in the framework, the aim is to deploy 200 GW of net new nuclear energy capacity by 2050, at least tripling current US capacity. The net new capacity gains are... Read more →

EV research-house Rho Motion reported that more than 1.7 million EVs were sold over the month of October—overtaking the previous record, set in September 2023, by 50,000 units. The Chinese EV market has once again set another monthly record with 1.2 million units sold, growing by 6% compared to the... Read more →

Rivian and Volkswagen have finalized their joint venture, Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies. VW will invest up to $5.8 billion by 2027, 16% more than the initial $5 billion first announced. The JV will be headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. The joint venture is intended to create next-generation electrical architecture... Read more →

Arteris, a provider of system IP which accelerates system-on-chip (SoC) creation, and MIPS, a provider of efficient and configurable compute core IP, are partnering to provide a pre-verified reference platform to support mutual customers. The creation of this pre-verified reference platform is designed to shorten development cycles and reduce risk... Read more →

Neste and Air Canada have signed an agreement for the supply of 60,000 metric tons (77.6 million liters) of neat Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel. Neste will deliver the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) blended with conventional jet fuel to the Vancouver marine terminal starting in December 2024, with further shipments... Read more →

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a final rule to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector. The rule facilitates implementation of Congress’s directive in the Inflation Reduction Act to collect a Waste Emissions Charge. Congress established the charge on large emitters of methane if their emissions... Read more →