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US Customs delays force solar giant Qcells to furlough 1,000 workers [update]

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In early November 2025, solar panel giant Qcells announced that it was temporarily furloughing 1,000 US workers – 25% of its workforce – and reducing pay and shifts at its Georgia factories due to supply chain delays caused by US Customs. Today – four months later – Qcells announced that its solar panel output is finally back to normal production. Read more…

Forget about X, AI and robots—Tesla is quietly building a complete EV battery supply chain

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For many a year, a certain California carmaker dominated the headlines in the EV press—so much so that I created a keyboard shortcut for the company’s name. Despite a relentless tide of naysaying, the company went from strength to strength for almost two decades. Then, coincidentally (?) around the time of Covid, the innovation engine… Read more…

Renesas’ 28 nm RH850/U2C MCU targets ASIL D vehicle control, BMS and zonal architectures

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Renesas has added a new low-end member to its RH850 automotive MCU family with the 28 nm RH850/U2C, aimed at chassis and safety systems, battery management systems, lighting, motor control and other ASIL D applications. The 32-bit MCU combines four RH850 CPU cores running at up to 320 MHz—including two lockstep cores—and up to 8… Read more…

Tesla finally catches a break in Europe

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Tesla shared its newest registration numbers for the European market. In February 2026, the company saw a 10% increase in sales across 15 major countries. This might sound like a major victory for the American carmaker, but the context tells a different story. To understand these numbers, we have to look at how poorly the company performed last year. When… Read more…

Next year, your luxury Uber robotaxi may be a Lucid; how it all came together

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From the sensor-packed ‘tiara’ on the roof to the Nuro software stack providing autonomous driving, the Lucid Gravity met all the qualifications for a self-driving luxury Uber. Lucid’s robotaxi is ready for the road—except for one small detail. It still needs to fit the microsprayers that will clean its various sensors to ensure they work… Read more…

Horse Powertrain’s amorphous-steel hybrid motor reaches 98.2% efficiency

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Horse Powertrain has unveiled a new hybrid transmission motor that uses amorphous steel in the stator and, the company says, reaches 98.2% efficiency while delivering 140 kW and 360 Nm. The company says the motor’s stator uses amorphous steel alloy layers just 0.025 mm thick—about one tenth the thickness of steel used in conventional motors…. Read more…

Holyvolt acquires Wildcat to pair high-throughput battery materials discovery with water-based cell manufacturing

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Sweden’s Holyvolt has completed its $73 million acquisition of Wildcat Discovery Technologies, bringing together Wildcat’s high-throughput battery materials R&D platform and Holyvolt’s screen-printing, water-based manufacturing process. The companies say the combination is meant to bridge a familiar gap in the battery business: promising lab results that never make it efficiently into scalable production. Wildcat has… Read more…

Webinar: Applying functional safety to eMobility battery systems

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Functional safety requirements are applied across Industrial and Electrical System control and safety systems. In battery standards and certifications, functional safety requirements have become more and more stringent, reducing the reliance on single-fault testing schemes, but often adding confusion and complexity to “legacy” testing and safety certification standards. Join this webinar at our March Virtual… Read more…