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May 8, 2023

Emulation: The Future of EV Design

by Keysight in Engineering, Engineering News

Automakers face pressure to develop energy-efficient and powerful electric vehicle (EV) batteries, electric drivetrains, and charging infrastructure as the global automotive market ramps up EV production to meet net zero emission goals. Emulation technology is emerging as a vital tool that reduces design verification time and cost across this e-mobility ecosystem. Designers fine-tune prototypes for […]

April 29, 2023

This AI Hunts for Hidden Hoards of Battery Metals

by Josh Goldman in Engineering, Engineering News

In June 2022, six Boeing 737s—fully loaded with tents, food, satellite Internet equipment, drones, geophysical survey gear, drilling equipment, and a team of experienced geologists—flew to a remote airstrip in northern Quebec. The geologists were hunting for major deposits of the minerals needed to power a clean-energy future. Given the mix of cutting-edge scientific computing […]

April 7, 2023

Oxygen-Ion Battery Unlocks Green-Grid Promise

by prachi patel in Energy, Engineering, Engineering News

Sodium, magnesium, and potassium have all been vying for lithium’s place in rechargeable batteries of the future. Now researchers in Austria have added an unusual contender to the mix: oxygen. The team has made a new oxygen-ion battery that can store about a third of the energy by weight compared to lithium ion but could […]

March 31, 2023

Aviation, the Unlikely Road to Long-Range EVs

by prachi patel in Energy, Engineering, Engineering News

Of all the elements in the periodic table, silicon has the highest capacity for combining with lithium. It can hold ten times more lithium ions than the graphite anodes common in today’s lithium-ion batteries. Several carmakers and battery startups are looking at silicon anodes for the next generation of long-range, lightweight EV batteries. And now […]

March 28, 2023

The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks

by joanna goodrich in Engineering, Engineering News

Volvo Cars CEO Jim Rowan boldly proclaims that electric vehicles will reach price parity with internal-combustion-engine (ICE) vehicles by 2025. Not likely, counter Mercedes-Benz’s chief technology officer Markus Schäfer and Renault Group CEO Luca de Meo. The International Energy Agency predicts that EVs will make up more than 60 percent of vehicles sold globally by […]

March 12, 2023

The EV Battery Wish List

by lawrence ulrich in Engineering, Engineering News

Electric cars barely existed in 2010, when the Tesla Model S was still a glint in Elon Musk’s eye. Now more than 20 million EVs girdle the globe, according to BloombergNEF—and that count is expected to nearly quadruple to 77 million by 2025. A battery will be the high-voltage heart of each of those 77 […]

January 29, 2023

Water Heaters Have Battery Potential

by michelle hampson in Energy, Engineering, Engineering News

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Water heaters are, according to new research, sizing up to be more than just water heaters in the modern, renewably-powered home. They could, in fact, be something closer to a battery. The concept is simple but effective—when energy supply […]

January 20, 2023

EVs Are Essential Grid-Scale Storage

by charles q. choi in Energy, Engineering, Engineering News

Electric-vehicle batteries may help store renewable energy to help make it a practical reality for power grids, potentially meeting grid demands for energy storage by as early as 2030, a new study finds. Solar and wind power are the fastest growing sources of electricity, according to climate think tank Ember. However, the variable nature of […]

January 14, 2023

Refining Automotive Battery Management Systems With Lumped-Approach Thermal Modeling

by Eric Schlaepfer in Engineering, Engineering News

This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. India is a fast-growing market for electric vehicles (EVs), with one study predicting that over 30 percent of the vehicles sold in India will be electric by 2030 (Ref. 1). The battery packs that power EVs are one of the main drivers of the electric mobility […]

December 20, 2022

Electric Drivetrain Evolution: From Past to Future

by kathy pretz in Engineering, Engineering News

Electric drivetrain developers must adopt new technologies such as fast-switching semiconductors and higher battery voltages to improve the efficiency and range of electric vehicles. Register now to download this poster. By 2035 most industrial countries will ban the sales of new combustion engine vehicles, necessitating the development of electric vehicles from today’s status to become […]

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