Batteries News Updates

The long-range battery shortage points to the need for automakers such as Stellantis to adjust production plans amid a spike in EV demand caused by the war on Iran.

China has a stranglehold on refining battery minerals, but customers such as Ford have warned that processing is a bigger constraint than mining.

GM is pushing into stationary electricity storage through a partnership with startup Peak Energy Technologies, tapping into a growing market fueled by AI demand.

Proterra’s Onyx battery platform currently uses cylindrical nickel manganese cobalt lithium-ion cells from LG Energy Solutions, manufactured in South Korea.

Ford is the latest old-economy manufacturing company to be swept up in the hype around AI after the automaker’s pivot toward energy storage sent its stock surging. 

Ford stock surged May 13 after Morgan Stanley issued a bullish call that the automaker’s energy storage business could soon make a deal with hyperscalers. 

ABM and Lane Valente Industries will join InCharge Energy and Heliox as turnkey solutions providers supporting Mack’s battery-electric models.

The Appalachian region holds enough lithium — a key ingredient in EV batteries — to curb U.S. reliance on imports for centuries, the U.S. Geological Survey says.

The world’s largest EV battery maker is pushing for its removal from a Pentagon list of companies tied to China’s military that’s cast a pall over its U.S. prospects.

Customer deliveries of Windrose tractors are expected to begin in May, Xos CEO Dakota Semler told Transport Topics in an exclusive interview.