Thailand has the biggest automotive industry in Southeast Asia and the 12th largest in the world. Most of those coming out of Thai factories, well just about all really, are standard internal combustion engines with a few ‘hybrid’ models sprinkled in there as well. The hybrids include electric motors and charging systems which saves fuel […]
Maxeon Aims to ‘Outgrow the Market’ After Splitting From SunPower
Separated from U.S.-based SunPower, Maxeon may have a freer hand to seek its lowest-cost manufacturing options in China. Last week, the solar industry met Maxeon Solar Technologies, a spinoff that will pull SunPower’s global solar panel manufacturing and sales into a new company based in Singapore. Expected to close next year, the split will leave […]
US Trade Court Sides With Longi, Jinko, REC in Solar Patent Infringement Case
A trade squabble between Hanwha Q Cells and some of the world’s largest PV manufacturers appears to be resolved in the all-important U.S. market. Longi Solar, JinkoSolar and REC Group appear to have emerged victorious from a legal attempt to shut the manufacturers out of the U.S. market. In a complaint filed in March, Hanwha […]
Iron Flow Battery Startup ESS Raises $30M From SoftBank and Breakthrough
The flow battery survivor marks the latest in a series of recent investments in unconventional long-duration storage technologies. Iron flow battery startup ESS raised an additional $30 million to take its technology from pilots to commercial scale. Since 2011, the company has been developing a low-cost, nonflammable long-duration storage technology to compete across domains where […]
Google Promises $150M for Renewables to Green Manufacturing Footprint
Tech giant will put money into “key manufacturing regions” for its products, including Nest. Google on Tuesday announced it will spend $150 million on renewable energy projects in “key manufacturing regions” for its products, including Nest, with a goal to encourage $1.5 billion in capital investment for renewables. Details on the commitment were scarce. Because […]
Trump Gets Manufacturing Win as Hanwha Q Cells Opens US Solar Factory
The country’s largest solar production facility officially opens Friday in Georgia, with the Trump administration expected to be in attendance. A representative of the Trump administration and Georgia Governor Brian Kemp will converge on Dalton, Georgia on Friday to celebrate a U.S. manufacturing win, as Hanwha Q Cells officially opens its solar module manufacturing facility […]
Lithium batteries: Far more widely recycled than second-hand statistics imply
Lithium-ion batteries are far more widely recycled than many people think, while China and South Korea are already leaders of the emerging circular economy of lithium, a report commissioned by the Swedish Energy Agency has found. An often-cited figure is that “5% of lithium-ion batteries are recycled”, when in fact this statistic, taken originally from […]
India’s Madhya Pradesh consults on 500MW of energy storage and manufacturing
Indian firm Madhya Pradesh Power Management Company (MPPMCL) has invited expressions of interest (EOI) for setting up 500MW of grid-scale energy storage capacity as well as a storage manufacturing facility in the central Indian state. Under prime minister Narendra Modi’s first term heading the government, the Saubhagya Yojna electrification scheme brought an extra 2.7 million […]
Certification for different territories the ‘main’ challenge for ESS R&D, Tesvolt CEO says
As it prepares to break ground on a ‘Gigafactory’, energy storage system provider Tesvolt has said that gaining certification across diverse regions remains the biggest challenge in forming strategy today. The company seeks to serve “all applications you need in the world”, with its battery energy storage systems, according to CEO Daniel Hannemann, who spoke […]
ACE EV to sign agreement to build electric vehicles in Adelaide starting in 2020
Electric vans, utes and eventually cars will be assembled in Adelaide from next year, with start-up company ACE EV to sign an agreement with an Adelaide-based business today. ACE EV will work with Adelaide’s Aldom Motor Body Builders to build up to 15,000 vehicles a year by 2025. ACE EV’s first electric car manufactured in Australia […]
