The first IBIS prototype and Ample show that the carmaker knows battery packs will need maintenance and replacement sooner ...

Electric mobility may sound simple, but it is pretty far from it. A big battery pack offers more range, but most people will not use it most of the time. In road trips, it may allow them to travel ...

Some of the main points of consumer resistance against hybrid vehicles include perceptions that the costly high-voltage battery packs in these vehicles are unreliable and prone to frequent or ...

The past few months have seen announcements of prototype electric vehicles that don’t use inverters to produce three-phase ...

Advanced technologies and greater engineering and design complexity can also mean more potential failure points and costly ...

About three times a day, Rich Benoit gets a call to his auto shop, The Electrified Garage, from the owner of an older Tesla Model S whose car battery has begun to fail. The battery, which used to ...

Chery iCar 03T used in trial, though automaker denies any involvement.

The cell-to-pack battery design is interesting because of what it eliminates, rather than adds. Current EV battery packs are composed of a number of individual modules ganged together to form the full ...

The decline in EV sales and hasty expansion has led to "involution" within Chinese battery cell makers, impacting the notebook battery module supply chain. Raymond Sung, GM of notebook battery module ...

A battery charge controller is an essential part of a power system that charges a battery because it can keep the battery safe for a long term. A charge controller, in principle, is an electronic ...

Electric vehicles have their own terminology — some colloquial, some technical — that can be mysterious and confusing to the uninitiated. Knowing what these terms mean is key to deciding not only ...

Thinking about getting a home battery? There are other options besides the Tesla Powerwall. A home battery can help keep the lights on during an outage and offset your electricity usage, which can be ...