General Motors is adding to its Ultium battery-pack building capacity with supplier ATS’ new assembly plant going up in Ohio. The highly automated facility will house seven lines building and testing ...

Founded in 2015, British-American EV manufacturer Arrival has a bold plan to replace all polluting cars with electric vehicles produced in local, rapidly scalable micro-factories. To serve that goal, ...

You can't produce electric cars without battery packs, and getting the cells and packs isn't necessarily easy across the industry. There's not enough mining or refining, and most cells and packs are ...

BMW, as promised in 2018, launched battery module and battery pack production in Thailand, in partnership with the DRÄXLMAIER Group, one of its long-term automotive suppliers. Complete batteries will ...

German manufacturer Solarwatt today announced the opening of a new 300 MW module production facility, as well as new battery pack assembly lines, located on the outskirts of Dresden. The company ...

Arrival, the electric vehicle manufacturer that aims to break up the assembly line in favor of multiple microfactories, is investing $11.5 million to build a high-voltage battery module assembly plant ...

Ford has started the mass assembly of vehicle drive battery packs in three different sizes for exclusive use in Ford’s new generation of electric vehicles, the Ford Explorer and Ford Capri, with both ...

Cost remains one of the biggest challenges of electric vehicles and the single most expensive piece in an EV is the battery, followed by the power electronics module (PEM) and drive units. Electricity ...

Building a battery pack from 18650 cells traditionally requires patience, a spot welder, and a supply of nickel strip. But what if there was another way? [Ben] is here with Cell-Lock, a modular ...

Design and build a battery pack with an integrated heating and cooling system that will be dimensionally precise and stable at a wide range of operating temperatures, yet rugged enough to withstand ...