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Turntide’s semi‑integrated electric drive powers off‑highway electrification

Increasingly close powertrain integration is well established in the passenger car sector, but for off-highway, construction, and commercial vehicles, the path to electrification presents a unique set of challenges, writes Peter Donaldson.

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Porsche Cayenne S Electric brings 400 kW powertrain and 400 kW charging to the mid-range SUV slot

Porsche has added a mid-range variant to its all-electric Cayenne line, slotting the new Cayenne S Electric between the base Cayenne Electric and the Turbo. The powertrain uses permanent magnet synchronous motors on both axles for a system output of 400 kW, rising to 490 kW under Launch Control.

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Omron G9KJ relay handles 1500 V pre-charge in EV chargers and grid storage

Omron Electronic Components Europe has put the G9KJ relay into production, a compact PCB-mount device rated to 1500 VDC and aimed squarely at pre-charge circuits in battery energy storage systems and high-voltage EV fast chargers. It is a small component with a pointed job, and its arrival reflects how seriously the industry now takes a switching function that was, not long ago, treated as an afterthought.

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Škoda boosts Czech EV hub with new cell-to-pack battery plant in Mladá Boleslav

Škoda Auto has opened a new battery assembly facility at its main plant in Mladá Boleslav, becoming the largest producer of BEV battery systems within the Volkswagen Group. The €205 million, 55,000 m² hall was built in under a year and is the first site in the Group's European network to produce cell-to-pack battery systems for high-volume electric vehicles.

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Porsche Macan electric powertrain hits the water with Frauscher 790 Spectre and Cayenne Electric tow support at boot Düsseldorf

The most obvious way to put an automotive electric powertrain into a boat is to find a hull that fits and start adapting. Frauscher took the opposite approach with the 790 Spectre, developing an entirely new hull around the complete drive system from the Porsche Macan Turbo and treating that module as the fixed point from which everything else follows.

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Royal Waste Services grows Mack LR Electric fleet as New York tests zero-emission refuse trucks

Royal Waste Services is scaling up its use of battery-electric refuse trucks in New York City with an order for three additional Mack LR Electric vehicles, extending a trial that has already proved the platform’s suitability for dense urban routes. The Waste Connections subsidiary began operating its first LR Electric in December 2025 and has since logged more than 500 miles, collecting around 600 tons of municipal solid waste without any recorded downtime.

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Lehmann Marine powers Hamburg’s first all-electric ferries with 3.8MWh LFP systems

Hamburg-based Lehmann Marine has secured the largest contract in its history with the supply of high-capacity battery systems for three new fully electric ferries being built for HADAG Seetouristik und Fährdienst. The vessels will form the first all-electric additions to HADAG’s fleet and play a key role in the Port of Hamburg’s plan to decarbonise its urban water transport network.

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R&D chiller offers data-driven route to accurate cooling specification

Technical Services has developed an intelligent R&D chiller for engineers working on EV and hybrid system thermal management, designed to define real-world cooling requirements early in development. The system integrates built‑in calorimeters and multiple sensors to capture live data on flow, pressure, heat rejection, power consumption, and temperature.

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Hydrogen-ready cleanliness for next‑generation high-tech manufacturing

Hydrogen-ready cleanliness is now essential for next-generation components in semiconductors, e-mobility, optics and aerospace. Manufacturers have shifted from removing bulk residues to eliminating submicrometre particulates and nanometre-scale films of organic, inorganic or ionic contamination that threaten performance and outgassing in vacuum or high-purity environments.

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Porsche Cayenne Electric debuts with 850 kW powertrain and next‑gen 113 kWh battery system

Porsche has begun series production of the Cayenne Electric, marking the brand's entry into the premium electric SUV segment with in-house battery manufacturing capability in Slovakia. The Turbo variant delivers up to 850 kW and is built on a flexible line alongside combustion and hybrid Cayenne models at the Volkswagen Group plant in Bratislava, so the EV effectively becomes another derivative in an already high-volume programme rather than a standalone product.