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Electrical Vehicle Batteries Could have a Second Life as Backup Storage for Solar Farms

As electric vehicles rapidly grow in popularity worldwide, there will soon be a wave of used batteries whose performance is no longer sufficient for vehicles that need reliable acceleration and range.

22 May 2020

Volvo Buses Receives Order for 60 High-Capacity Electric Buses from Malmö

Volvo Buses has signed yet another large order for electrified buses. Nobina has placed an order for 60 high-capacity electric buses which will enter service in Malmö next year.

1 Feb 2020

Device Makes Electric Vehicle Charging a Two-Way Street

A new device turns electric vehicles into chargers for houses and stranded cars.

17 Dec 2019

'Magic Crystals' to Enable Our Electric Car Future

CSIRO and Monash University’s Matthew Hill will receive the Solomon Award tonight for developing ‘magic crystals’ with dozens of applications from cleaning gases and liquids to mining and drug production.

29 Nov 2019

Battery Electric Vehicles on the Fast Track to Reach an Installed Base of Over 100 Million by 2029

After decades as a high-cost, low-volume rounding error of global vehicle sales, electric powertrains are now in the ascendancy.

27 Nov 2019

PV for Your EV: Solar Tech Powers Electric Cars Through Summer

New technology from Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, will link rooftop solar and batteries to support electric vehicle (EV) charging, even in the height of summer.

14 Oct 2019

Spark Partners with Hyundai, Wayra and the Connected Places Catapult to Drive Greater Electric Vehicle Adoption

Spark EV Technology today announced that it has completed extensive trials of its electric vehicle (EV) range prediction technology with Hyundai.

From Spark EV Technology Ltd 12 Sep 2019

Lightweight Gas-Powered Cars Could Help Better Reduce Emissions than Electric Vehicles

Study finds that in some locations, lightweight gas-powered cars could have a bigger emissions-reducing impact than electric ones.

27 Aug 2019

Researchers Find a Way to Recycle Used Batteries as Energy Storage Systems

As the number of electric vehicles increases phenomenally, it becomes equally important to identify the most optimized way to reuse and recycle vehicle batteries. This observation was made as part of a Circular Economy for electric vehicle battery systems.

14 Aug 2019

Study Finds Shared E-Scooters are Not as Green as Other Modes of Transport

People believe that electric scooters (e-scooters) are eco-friendly means to travel around town. However, a recent study from North Carolina State University states that it is not that simple: shared e-scooters may be greener than the majority of cars, but they can be less green than numerous other options.

5 Aug 2019