Autonomous & Electric Mobility

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RALEIGH, NC—VinFast recently held a groundbreaking ceremony here for its new EV assembly plant.

JOLIET, IL—Lion Electric Co. recently celebrated the official opening of a 900,000-square-foot facility here that will assemble battery-powered school buses and trucks.

FOSHAN, China—Some 100 six-axis robots weld, bond and package EV batteries at the FAW-Volkswagen Automobile Co. Ltd. assembly plant here. The factory produces 300,000 battery packs annually.

CAMBRIDGE, England—A new report from IDTechEx analyzes the three key technologies currently being used: mechanical, pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical recycling.

SEOUL, South Korea—Samsung Electro-Mechanics plans to mass-produce AEC-Q200 compliant power inductors for electric and autonomous vehicle applications.

LISLE, IL—BMW Group has selected Molex’s Volfinity Cell Contacting System for use in next-generation electric vehicles.

STUTTGART, Germany—Assemblers at Bosch’s Feuerbach factory have begun producing fuel cell modules for Nikola Corp.’s much-anticipated Class 8 truck.

REDONDO BEACH, CA—Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded a contract by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency to design an autonomous vertical takeoff and landing uncrewed aircraft system capable of operating from a moving U.S. Navy ship at sea.

LONDON—Demand for electrified off-highway power train componets will grow from $9 billion in 2023 to $17 billion by the end of this decade.

AMSTERDAM—Stellantis has unveiled a new flexible EV platform dubbed STLA Medium.