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Kindred Motorworks partners with KORE Power on battery modules for electrified vintage cars and trucks

Green Car Congress

Selecting the VDA modules gives Kindred Motorworks the flexibility to build custom battery enclosures that complement the architecture and design of different classic cars and trucks. KORE Power is constructing its first US-based manufacturing facility outside Phoenix, Arizona.

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Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

Cars That Think

During heat waves in Phoenix, Arizona, while some people fry eggs on sidewalks , Matt Heath, a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) service manager at AC by J , is on the front line, helping maintain air conditioners in people’s homes. Up north there is a tipping point that they’re trying to get to,” Conlan says.

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Cruising San Francisco, With No One Behind the Wheel

Baua Electric

What, where and how to ride Conversations abound on Reddit and X , with visitors seeking advice on how to secure a ride while in San Francisco, or be well positioned to spot a driverless car on the go. In Phoenix, you can hail a Waymo using the Uber app; in all other locations, downloading the Waymo app is required. “For

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Report: EV Electra aims to make Swedish-engineered Emily GT in Italy

Baua Electric

EV Electra had previously discussed plans to build cars in Turkey, as well as the former Saab factory in Trollhättan Sweden, but the startup failed to agree on a deal with the factory’s current owner, according to Autocar. A version of the latter was publicly shown in 2017.

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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

They’ve all been incredibly important to building our chapter in terms of inspiration, organizational effort, and effective visioning.” If you want to have an in-depth discussion about EVs, solar installation, or anything environmental, you don’t need the usual 5-minute pre-conversation.

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Natural EV capitalism

Electric Auto Association

We need to go all out in building charging infrastructure and developing the workforce required to install and maintain it.” EV1 started it off Martinson, who was a satisfied Porsche owner in the early 00s, was on a flight from New York to Phoenix when he found himself sitting next to the CEO of Arizona’s largest utility company. “We

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DOE announces $29M in funding for fusion energy technology development

Green Car Congress

The project will design, test, and qualify individual circuit boards as the building blocks for various short-pulse, long-pulse, and continuous-wave electrical-driver power supplies for fusion-energy systems. Phoenix, LLC. Such scalable, cost-effective fabrication of ODS steels may enable efficient power conversion cycles (?40%)

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