FRANKFURT, GERMANY (Dec. 7, 10:55 a.m. ET) Battery housings for electric vehicles (EV), previously made of metal, are now being developed in thermoplastics and thermosets, and thermoplastic battery ...

AUBURN HILLS, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Continental Structural Plastics (CSP), along with its parent company Teijin, today unveiled an innovative honeycomb Class A panel technology and an advanced, ...

All road vehicles have batteries, and all vehicle batteries require protection in case of a crash, vehicle fire or other emergency. In the case of a gasoline-powered vehicle, the relatively small ...

Peterbilt Motors Co. is now offering a compact space-saver battery box on its Model 579 for use with the no-idle SmartAir system. “The SmartAir system provides customers with unparalleled climate ...

Compact space-saver battery boxes now available for Peterbilt’s no-idle SmartAir system on the Model 579 allow for greater spec’ing flexibility with new chassis configurations, the company has ...

Automotive and heavy truck composite components supplier Continental Structural Plastics Inc. has developed a multimaterial electric vehicle battery enclosure that meets stringent performance ...

Hyundai-Kia America Technical Center (HATCI) and Forward Engineering North America LLC recently worked together to design a new method of testing thermal runaway performance in composite materials for ...

Since it's a stretched cab pickup one of the questions that arose during planning was, how do we utilize the extra space offered by the stretched cab (aside from the extra leg room)? One option was by ...

I'm working with a client to develop a remote data acquisition system. It must run on a rechargeable "battery" source, and the battery(ies) need(s) to fit inside an explosion proof box because this ...