BMW began series production of Gen6 round cell batteries in Shenyang, its third battery plant after Debrecen and Irlbach-Straßkirchen, with two more plants due in the coming months and first long wheelbase iX3 deliveries reported for November.
Volkswagen is recalling 22,524 ID.4 vehicles in the United States because charging above 80 percent may trigger thermal propagation in the high voltage battery, and neither the root cause nor the permanent repair is known.
Nightpeak’s 150 MW, two hour Bocanova 2 battery reached commercial operation on 17 September, doubling its Brazoria County site in Texas to 300 MW 13 months after the first phase.
The founder of Europe’s largest second-life storage factory says the model lost to cheaper new cells, and that is good news: Germany needs about 100 GWh of stationary storage by 2030 against about 25 GWh installed, and prices keep falling.
Energy Dome opened a Piacenza plant and plans to spend about €6.5 million over two years to triple output, yet the three projects it names are in India, the United States and Ireland, not Italy.
A Journal of Energy Storage study cuts the daily cost of two simulated microgrids by 31 and 48 percent, using a fixed tariff and a battery model that ignores charging losses and degradation.
Jupiter Wagons is L1 for a 41 MW/102.5 MWh battery project in Uttarakhand and holds a formal award for 50 MW/200 MWh in West Bengal, together about 0.6 percent of the 50 GWh storage India approved on 30 September.
