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The Chinese electric car manufacturer BYD is further expanding its activities in Hungary and plans to establish its European headquarters in the capital Budapest. A new European research and development centre is also to be built there. The new headquarters will be built in the 11th district of the Hungarian capital and, according to the company, will create “thousands of highly qualified jobs,” with media reports referring to an initial 2,000 jobs. There are also plans to work closely with at least three Hungarian universities to strengthen training and further education programmes and promote young talent. BYD is thus consolidating…
The California-based air taxi company Archer has been selected as the official air taxi provider for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Under the partnership, Archer’s Midnight eVTOLs will be used throughout the LA28 games for a variety of applications. The eVTOL in question, the Midnight, is a piloted electric air taxi capable of carrying up to four passengers at once. It can reportedly reach aerial speeds of up to 241km/h (150mph) and is powered by six battery packs, each of which support one pair of a total twelve onboard engines. Archer claims its eVTOLs can be charged…
President Donald Trump wants to revive the struggling coal industry in the U.S. by deploying plants to power the data centers that the Big Tech companies are building to train artificial intelligence.Trump issued an executive order in April that directed his Cabinet to find areas of the U.S. where coal-powered infrastructure is available to support AI data centers and determine whether the infrastructure can be expanded to meet the growing electricity demand from the nation’s tech sector.Trump has repeatedly promoted coal as power source for data centers. The president told the World Economic Forum in January that he would approve…
President Donald Trump’s administration is deepening its review of more than $15 billion in grants and other support awarded by its predecessor for upgrading power grids and manufacturing energy technology. Energy Secretary Chris Wright is ordering the stepped-up scrutiny, with a plan for case-by-case reviews to ensure projects that won funding under former President Joe Biden are financially sound, aligned with US economic and security interests and consistent with the Trump administration’s policies, according to documents seen by Bloomberg News. The reviews will cover projects for modernizing the power grid, making batteries in the US and building other energy technology…
Electronic components manufacturer TDK Corp is accelerating the launch of its next-generation silicon anode batteries, with preparations running ahead of schedule and demand from smartphone makers.Apple-supplier TDK was due to start shipping the third generation of its batteries this summer but will begin “very soon,” CEO Noboru Saito told Reuters.Silicon anode batteries offer higher energy density than conventional batteries although they remain a small part of the business at TDK, the leading producer of smartphone batteries.The company aims to introduce its fourth-generation battery “sometime next year,” Saito said.TDK said last month more than half its capital…
The SAIC brand Maxus has successfully tested bidirectional DC charging for the battery-electric eDeliver 5 and eDeliver 7 vans, and the eTerron 9 electric pickup in collaboration with power electronics specialist Ambibox. A customer release with a ‘certified charger’ is said to be in preparation. Electric cars should not only absorb electricity, but also be able to supply it to buildings (V2H) or even to the public power grid (V2G) as required. For this to be possible, it is not enough for the respective electric vehicle to technically support this function. A suitable charging station is also required. Ambibox already…
Researchers at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) have developed a new approach to make solid-state batteries more powerful and suitable for everyday use. A liquid alkali metal anode plays a key role here. Researchers agree that conventional lithium-ion batteries will soon reach their limits. This is because their anode, usually made of graphite, can only store ions to a limited extent. Anodes made of pure lithium or the more sustainable and cheaper sodium offer an alternative; “However, in order to operate them safely, a solid electrolyte is required instead of a liquid one. A key problem…
The facility, known as the ‘Europe Advanced Battery Testing Laboratory’, tests batteries for electric vehicles and large energy storage systems. The company is thus expanding its testing capacities in the field of battery technology and its presence in Europe. UL Solutions is an applied safety science company from the U.S. state of Illinois that provides testing, inspection and certification services. With the increasing demand for reliable battery testing, the new facility in Aachen is designed to evaluate electric vehicle and industrial batteries in the research and development phase of battery manufacturing. The facility will also offer comprehensive assessments of finished…
BYD has partnered with Pakistan’s Mega Motor Company (MMC) and Hub Power Company (HUBCO) to launch the country’s largest EV charging network. The partnership will see around 128 DC chargers installed across Pakistan over the next three years, with 50 installations planned by December 2025. Despite ambitious government targets, EVs have so far made minimal inroads into Pakistan – with ICE vehicles and two or three-wheeled petrol vehicles still dominating the market. Part of the problem has to do with lack of infrastructure, with much of this being concentrated in urban areas. This announcement by BYD therefore marks a major…
Nvidia products are at the heart of the boom in artificial intelligence.Despite starting in gaming and designing semiconductors that touch many diverse industries, the products Nvidia designs to go inside high-powered data centers are the most important to the company today, and to the future of AI.Graphics processing units, designed to be clustered together in dozens of racks inside massive temperature-controlled warehouses, made Nvidia a household name. They also got Nvidia into the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and put it in the position to control the flow of a crucial but finite resource: artificial intelligence.Nvidia’s first generation of chips for…