BMW’s $700 billion plant to manufacture batteries for electric vehicles cleared environmental concerns and is under construction at a 315-acre tract in Woodruff. The 1 million-square-foot facility will be completed in 2026 and will employ 300 people. BMW is also investing $1 billion to prepare its Spartanburg plant to manufacture fully electric vehicles. The company […]
EVANSVILLE — Police arrested a University of Evansville baseball player Wednesday morning after a victim accused the sophomore pitcher of raping and sexually assaulting her inside an on-campus dorm room in November. Court and police records identified the UE athlete as 20-year-old Willard Peterson, a Wisconsin native who joined the Aces baseball team as a […]
Microsoft announced Tuesday that a team of scientists used artificial intelligence and high-performance computing to plow through 32.6 million possible battery materials ― many not found in nature ― in 80 hours, a task the team estimates previously would have taken 20 years. The results kick off an ambitious effort to create a new generation […]
(Bloomberg) — A meltdown in some of the most-hyped energy-transition metals is wreaking havoc across the mining world, stalling projects, scuppering deals and triggering a scramble for cash that promises to reverberate through the industry for years. Most Read from Bloomberg Lithium — the ultra-light metal used in electric-vehicle batteries — has plunged more than […]
Volkswagen said its battery startup has seen promising results with solid-state cells for electric vehicles, a win for the German carmaker as it pushes to make EVs more efficient and less expensive. A solid-state prototype from VW’s US partner QuantumScape “significantly exceeded” industry targets in recent tests, the carmaker said Wednesday in a statement. During tests […]
This story was first published on the Benzinga India portal. Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) is considering a cost-effective solution for its planned entry-level car, specifically aimed at the price-sensitive Indian market. The company is mulling over the use of smaller, quick-charging batteries, a strategy already implemented in China, to significantly lower the vehicle’s price. According to a report […]
It was a little more than a year ago when a handful of state and local officials, along with several company executives, stood at the edge of De Soto to ceremonially break ground on a new multi-billion dollar manufacturing facility for the Japanese company Panasonic. At that point, earth moving equipment had been leveling ground […]
COLDWATER TWP. — A 100-megawatt industrial battery storage farm is at a standstill until Coldwater and Coldwater Township decide who controls the zoning. Texas-based Jupiter Power requested a January township planning commission site plan review for its proposed 70-acre Tibbits Battery Storage facility on the northeast corner of Michigan Avenue and State Road. Jupiter Power […]
Offshore wind turbines at two commercial-scale sites are now sending power to the U.S. grid. Moments before midnight on Tuesday, a single turbine near Martha’s Vineyard delivered 5 megawatts of renewable energy to the New England grid, developers said. The turbine is one out of 62 planned for Vineyard Wind 1, an offshore site owned […]
A judge dropped three felony charges against Jackson Mahomes, the younger brother of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, at the request of the prosecution on Wednesday, according to Johnson County court records. Mahomes had been facing three counts of aggravated sexual battery and a fourth charge of misdemeanor battery over an incident at a […]
Jan. 3—ANDERSON — An Elwood man has been charged with three felony counts following an attack on his father on New Year’s Eve. Shane W. Street, 44, was arrested by Elwood Police on Monday on felony charges of domestic battery, criminal confinement and serious violent felon in possession of a firearm and a misdemeanor count […]
JAC Motors, a Volkswagen-backed Chinese automaker, is set to launch the first mass-produced electric vehicle (EV) with a sodium-ion battery through its new Yiwei brand. Although sodium-ion battery tech has a lower density (and is less mature) than lithium-ion, its lower costs, more abundant supplies and superior cold-weather performance could help accelerate mass EV adoption. […]