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Great Wall Motor To Manufacture EV Batteries In Thailand

CleanTechnica EVs

Great Wall Motor, an automobile manufacturer based in the province of Hebei, China, intends to construct electric vehicle batteries in Thailand and may conduct research and development for battery electric pickup trucks.

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Audi testing second-life EV batteries in factory vehicles

Green Car Congress

Like all automobile manufacturers, Audi is obliged by law to take back energy carriers after they have been used in cars. Audi calculates that it would save millions if it converted its entire fleet of factory vehicles to lithium-ion batteries at its 16 production sites worldwide.

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MAHLE to acquire Spanish electronics specialist Nagares to bolster position in vehicle electronics

Green Car Congress

Nagares develops and manufactures a variety of products for the automotive industry, including control units and power electronics for electric auxiliary components and thermal management systems, as well as power converters for e-mobility solutions. Its customers include numerous international automobile manufacturers.

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TDK and Toshiba establish JV for automotive inverters for HEVs, PHEVs, EVs

Green Car Congress

TDK offers a lineup of products, such as DC-DC converters, on board chargers and wireless power transfer systems that are currently being developed. The DC-DC converter in particular utilizes the magnetic material technologies that are the strength of TDK. million units in aggregate.

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Audi and KIT working on recycling for automotive plastics via pyrolysis oil

Green Car Congress

In the medium run, components made from pyrolysis oil can be used again in automobiles. So far, chemical recycling has been the only method that can be used to convert such mixed plastic waste into products equaling the quality of new ones. As a result, a wider range of plastics can be recovered.

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Intersil introduces new 12-cell Li-ion pack monitor for HEV, PHEV and EV applications

Green Car Congress

This combination enables automobile manufacturers to achieve the higher ISO 26262 automotive safety integrity level (ASIL) D rating. The ISL78610 includes a voltage reference, 14-bit analog-to-digital converter and registers for control and data, while connecting directly to a microcontroller through its 2.5Mbps SPI interface.

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BYD to stop making pouch batteries for its hybrid EVs on leakage concerns – sources – ET Auto

Baua Electric

BYD sold 98% of its hybrid cars at home last year, and eight of the 10 top-selling plug-in hybrid cars in China, according to data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. It exported only a small number of the Song, Qin Plus and Destroyer 05 PHEV models, which use the pouch batteries, to markets such as Brazil.

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