Key industry milestones

The Trafford Centre in Manchester, north-west England is set to expand its number of EV chargers to become one of Europe's largest charging hubs.

Car maker Stellantis and Chinese battery manufacturer CATL have reached an agreement to invest up to €4.1bn to form a joint venture that will build a large-scale European lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery plant in Zaragoza, Spain.

Entrepreneurs who set up UK EV charging technology company GRIDSERVE have launched GIGATONS, a global technology and funding platform designed to accelerate the global transition to net zero.

EECOMOBILITY, a startup from McMaster University’s Centre for Mechatronics and Hybrid Technology in Canada, has secured seed funding from a global group of investors.

Sweden-based Hexagon has announced a new battery cell design solution that combines Fraunhofer ITWM’s electro-chemical simulation technology with Hexagon’s multi-physics material simulation and metrology software to significantly accelerate new battery cell research and development programmes.

The US Joint Office of Energy and Transportation has celebrated reaching 200,000 public charging bays available nationwide.

The auto industry has taken a significant step in advancing North American electric vehicle (EV) charging with SAE International's release of the NACS J3400 Recommended Practice (RP) document.

Nuvve has joined the EVVE (Environmental Valorization of Virtual Energy Storage) project to accelerate the rollout of bidirectional EV charging stations across Europe.

The National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA), in collaboration with Fuser, has announced the unveiling of its EV Charging Resource Network.