Industry News

­Libattion, a fast-growing, leading-edge company offering stationary energy storage solutions from upcycled electric vehicle batteries, has secured a total of €14 million from four international investors. The high level of interest by investors is based on the increasing demand for green battery

­Semiconductor manufacturer Nexperia announced plans to invest USD 200 million (appx. 184 million Euros) to develop the next generation of wide bandgap semiconductors (WBG) such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN), and to establish production infrastructure at the Hamburg

­Feon Energy, an advanced battery electrolyte startup spun out of Stanford University, announced the recent closing of a $6.1 million seed round that will enable the development of next-gen batteries. The round was led by Fine Structure Ventures, with participation from Eight Roads, Foothill Ventures,

­ClassOne Technology, a leading global provider of advanced electroplating and wet processing tools for microelectronics manufacturing, announced it has delivered the first of two Solstice® S4 single-wafer processing systems ordered by Analog Devices, Inc. to its Beaverton, Ore.,

­The New York Power Authority (NYPA) has expanded upstate fast-charging options in advance of the busy summer travel season, making it easier and more convenient to drive an electric vehicle (EV) on the Northway (I-87) in the Adirondack Park and in the Capital Region. The additional locations

­Watt Electric Vehicle Company (WEVC), a pioneer in the design, engineering, and manufacture of low-to-medium volume EVs, both under its own brand and for third parties, today reveals its production-ready eCV1 electric light commercial vehicle, now with a revised body style for even greater carrying

­Integrals Power is accelerating the development and establishment of a more sustainable, more robust, and more transparent supply chain for cathode active materials used in Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) batteries. The market share of LFP batteries in electric vehicle applications has

­GE Vernova, Inc. announced it has secured an order for six 7HA.03 gas turbines and two 7E.03 gas turbines from the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) company SEPCOIII Electric Power Construction Co., Ltd. (SEPCOIII), for two new power plants: Taiba 1 located in the western region

­“Some time ago, we showed that it is possible to induce an inverse phase transition in magnetite,” says physicist Fabrizio Carbone at EPFL. “It’s as if you took water and you could turn it into ice by putting energy into it with a laser. This is counterintuitive as normally

­A research team led by Prof. ZENG Hualing, Prof. QIAO Zhenhua, and Prof. SHAO Xiang from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) achieved progress in studying van der Waals (vdW) contacts for two-dimensional (2D) electrical