TROY, MI—The 2024 Polestar 2 recently received the Altair Enlighten Award for sustainability and lightweighting advancements.

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.

Tunica, MS—On August 24, 2023, Southern California-based automotive company Mullen an emerging electric vehicle (“EV”) manufacturer, will hold an event to commemorate the first Class 3 vehicles rolling off the production line, ready for customer deliveries.

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.

Zonal architectures are intriguing to automakers and suppliers, because they promise to help reduce costs, save weight, streamline supply chains and improve production processes.

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.