Despite EV slowdown and Stellantis exit, Windsor’s NextStar battery plant ‘business as usual’ with production, hiring

Despite headwinds in the electric vehicle market and a major ownership shakeup, Windsor’s $6-billion NextStar Energy battery plant is operating “business as usual” when it comes to production and hiring, its CEO says. “With this change in the ownership structure, in terms of operation, I don’t see much of a change,” NextStar Energy CEO DaniesContinue Reading

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Sponsored by Heraeus Electronics. The electric vehicle market is emerging as a leading field for advanced heating technologies. In EVs, heating systems are essential not only for passenger comfort but also fundamental to thermal management, keeping battery cells within their optimal temperature range in cold climates. Proper thermal control enablesContinue Reading

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Japan’s EXEDY has approved the acquisition of Protean Electric, a UK-based developer of in-wheel motors, in a move it says is aimed at strengthening its electrification technology portfolio as the auto industry shifts toward “CASE” (connected, autonomous, shared & services, electric). Protean’s in-wheel motors—drive units integrated into the wheels—are positionedContinue Reading

Path to Cancelling SLS and Orion ?

The pressure to fix SLS and get to a launch for Artemis 2 will build. If there is another rollback in April or new leak or valve issue in May or long repairs. The program will get closer to reaching political exhaustion. This pressure will increase if there are clean launches of SpaceX Starship inContinue Reading

Why This Region of Space Appears to Be Populated by Snowmen

The full Nautilus archive • eBooks & Special Editions • Ad-free reading The full Nautilus archive eBooks & Special Editions Ad-free reading On the outer edge of our solar system, past Neptune’s orbit, lies the Kuiper Belt, a wide band of small bodies drifting lazily in orbit around the sun. Leftover from the formation ofContinue Reading