Cyberdefense specialist Xiid has announced a strategic partnership with eVerged. The companies aim to strengthen EV cybersecurity by using Xiid’s Terniion zero-trust application control platform, and by embedding Xiid’s SealedTunnel cybersecurity tech into eVerged’s offerings.
“The rapid expansion of EV infrastructure has introduced a growing number of escalating cybersecurity challenges, threatening charging stations, millions of individual devices, even the stability of power grids,” eVerged explains. “Together, eVerged and Xiid are securing the EV charging ecosystem from vehicle to cloud. The new joint solution delivers next-generation cybersecurity across billing systems, charging stations, EVs and networks, addressing critical vulnerabilities while protecting data transport and ensuring secure billing.”
The companies offer a range of benefits to different types of customers:
For charging station operators, reduced downtime and liability.
For EV drivers, protection of sensitive data.
For municipalities and fleets, a scalable model to meet compliance and security mandates.
For utilities and billing providers, protection of the integrity of data transport and transactions across distributed charging networks.
“EV charging is a critical link in the clean energy future, but the scale of its impact makes it a vulnerable target,” said Xiid CEO Steve Visconti. “Together with eVerged, we’re delivering end-to-end protection—making charging systems undiscoverable, eliminating lateral movement risks and ensuring billing integrity.”
“eVerged was founded on the belief that security must be built into EV infrastructure from day one,” said eVerged President James Dion. “Xiid ensures that eVerged customers—whether drivers, enterprises or municipalities—can charge with confidence, knowing their data, transactions and vehicles are fully protected.”
CWIEME Berlin, the leading exhibition for the electrification supply chain, is bringing back its industry awards for the first time in four years, following strong interest from the electrical engineering community. Celebrating the people and projects driving the next era of electrification, the awards ceremony will take place during the exhibition on May 21, 2026.
Four award categories have been announced, open to a wide range of applicants, from engineers and innovators to students and sustainability leaders.
Product of the Year
Engineer of the Year
Sustainability and Leadership
The Future Engineers Award, sponsored by Hitachi Energy
Together, the awards recognise innovation across the electrification ecosystem — from product development and engineering excellence to sustainability and the next generation of talent.
The deadline for entries is April 13.
A key focus of the awards is developing the next generation of engineering talent.
The Future Engineers award, sponsored by Hitachi Energy, highlights the importance of developing the next generation of engineering talent, recognising standout student and early-career projects with strong industry relevance.
The awards form part of CWIEME Berlin’s 30th anniversary programme, highlighting the technologies, products and engineering talent shaping the future of electrification across the supply chain.
CWIEME Berlin 2026 takes place at Messe Berlin from May 19 to 21.
Entries are now open across all categories.
Qoolers has introduced BTMS CORE, a tube-based liquid heat exchanger for battery modules that the company says can reduce cooling-system weight by more than 70% compared with conventional aluminum designs while maintaining tighter thermal control.
The Czech company says BTMS CORE is designed to keep cells in the 20 °C to 40 °C operating window through direct tube contact, supporting both cooling and heating. According to Qoolers, the architecture improves thermal uniformity across the module, helping avoid hotspots that can accelerate degradation and undermine fast charging performance.
Qoolers claims BTMS CORE delivers heat transfer that is 3.4 times faster than conventional systems and improves efficiency by 29%. The company is also says the system is more than 90% recyclable, and its modular tube-based architecture is intended to simplify integration into series or parallel battery module layouts.
Qoolers is targeting EVs, energy storage, robotics and other high-power applications—basically any battery pack where thermal performance matters, but pack mass and packaging also matter. In battery systems, lighter cooling hardware can be an underrated win: every kilogram not spent on thermal management is a kilogram that can go to cells, payload or range.
The UK Battery Industrialisation Centre has opened a new Flexible Pilot Line in Coventry aimed at helping UK battery startups and SMEs move promising technologies out of the lab and prove they can scale at lower cost and lower risk.
According to the Department for Business and Trade, the new line is the only facility of its kind in Europe and is intended to fill a gap between laboratory development and full commercial production. UKBIC says the facility gives smaller companies a way to validate new chemistries and materials at a meaningful scale before moving to its Industrial Scale Line for commercialization.
The first two companies set to use the line are Echion and Ilika, both working on next-generation battery technologies. Ilika will use the facility in collaboration with Jaguar Land Rover and Oxford University. The government says the line will support battery development not only for EVs, but also for defense and maritime applications.
The facility was backed by £38 million in government funding through the Faraday Battery Challenge. “The FPL further strengthens our offering to industry, giving start-ups and SMEs a great opportunity to bring their innovative chemistries and materials to us to prove at scale before moving onto our ISL for full commercialisation,” said UKBIC Managing Director Sean Gilgunn.
Over just a year, Ionna—the high-speed charging network backed by 8 automakers—has opened 100 sites that are reliable and pleasant. And it has 340 more in process.
Two years after the Ionna EV fast-charging network was announced, and 13 months after it officially opened its first handful of sites, it switched on its 100th site today—with another 340 already contracted and in process. Today it has just under 1,000 live charging bays, with 3,700 more in process.
To mark that occasion, Ionna also launched new benefits that will roll out to drivers of EVs sold by the eight automakers that funded the network. Those makers are BMW, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, and Toyota.
The first such benefit appeared two weeks ago for drivers of General Motors EVs: a 10-percent discount on all Ionna charging sessions initiated via either Plug & Charge or the appropriate app from Chevy, GMC, or Cadillac. Another founding maker will launch its own discount in March, said Ionna CEO Seth Cutler. That will be followed by a third maker in April, with the rest rolling out over the balance of the year.
Coming up: loyalty programs
Speaking with Charged, Cutler laid out a further range of options its automaker backers can choose to provide to their EV buyers. They include charging credits for new buyers, maker-specific subscription programs, prepaid discount charging cards, and loyalty rewards for frequent use. Makers can mix and match benefits depending on which they feel best suit the needs of those customers.
While many other EV charging networks stress membership for users and offer different price tiers to members, those programs are usually limited to discounts on charging within that network. Automaker loyalty programs span a much wider range of products and services, from parts and maintenance at dealerships to discounts on vehicle purchases or leases, merchandise, and more.
Once Ionna’s eight makers have these features launched and available, Cutler said, Ionna can then assess whether its site partners—including convenience stores like Caseys, Sheetz, and Wawa—want to integrate EV charging into their own loyalty and rewards programs. Those programs can be powerful, with estimates of 40 to 60 percent of “C-Store” customers belonging to the programs, though adoption and results vary greatly,
Meanwhile, what would Cutler say to drivers of EVs from Audi, Ford, Lucid, Nissan, Rivian, Tesla, and Volkswagen—the makers who are not financial backers of Ionna? “Come and charge with us!” he responded, noting that the Plug & Charge protocol works for cars from several makers that are not its founding partners.
Reliable, pleasant experience
With a staff drawn from a variety of other charging networks and EV makers, Ionna’s goal from the start was to “right the wrongs of the past” and create an EV charging experience that was better than any competitor’s—because its automaker backers knew that was table stakes for success in selling EVs in the long term.
By and large, Ionna stations have garnered rave reviews (for instance, here and here). And anecdotally, this reporter has heard no notable complaints from EV drivers about failed charging sessions or unpleasant experiences at Ionna sites. Of course, part of that may be lack of awareness: The Ionna network is only a year old, and Cutler admits, “We don’t do a lot in marketing right now, because I’m more worried about delivering the best quality I can.”
That includes keeping stocks of spare parts around the country and, he said, occasionally putting parts in a suitcase and putting an employee on a plane to get to the site of a station to fix a problem as quickly as possible. Still, Cutler admits Ionna has been learning as it goes.
Customer complaints have included overflowing trash cans—“We’ve had a whole team focus on how to do better at trash”—and it’s had to understand local circumstances along the way. “Hey, guess what, you can’t use water-based Squeegee fluid in the middle of winter! In Minnesota, you have to use an alcohol blend, because otherwise it freezes.” Left unsaid is that most of Ionna’s competitors don’t offer squeegees, or windshield washer fluid, or air pumps, in the first place.
Canopies, another major user preference, are now in place at roughly one-third of Ionna sites, Cutler said. They generally require additional layers of permission from C-store operators, their landlords, and often local zoning authorities, whereas Ionna’s bias has been to get reliable stations up and running as fast as possible. Most of its competitors have few to zero canopies over their charging stations.
Shoutouts to utilities
In the release announcing its second anniversary and new benefits, it’s notable that Ionna lauded its electric-utility partnerships. To get its 100 locations to date up and running, it named nine utilities as “MVPs” for powering up multiple Ionna sites, some of them in multiple states. It listed a further 35 utilities that have energized single Ionna sites. With utilities often the unspoken and unmentioned partner in EV charging network publicity, it’s a move that’s both smart and gracious.
Today, Ionna’s sites are largely located in the “smile zone” along the West Coast, across the southern and central states below Interstate-80, and then up much of the East Coast. Notably Michigan and New York still lack sites, among several other larger states.
A full map of Ionna sites shows the states still lacking Rechargeries, as the company calls its sites. With 100 sites live but more than 300 to come, it’s reasonable to expect considerably more diverse locations within the year, certainly two years. Cutler told Charged the company is on track to achieve its goal of 30,000 EV charging bays by the end of 2030.
For further details of the different programs for EV drivers from each of Ionna’s backers, see:
ACT Expo has announced its 2026 speaker roster, bringing nearly 400 fleet operators, vehicle engineers and technology leaders to Las Vegas, May 4–7, to explore the electric powertrain, autonomy and advanced vehicle systems transforming commercial transportation.
AI, autonomy, advanced safety systems and alternative powertrains, as well as speakers sharing deployment experience and investment insights, will all be part of a comprehensive program of keynote talks and sessions.
“Fleet leaders are trying to make long-term technology and infrastructure decisions amidst an absolute tsunami of new technology options that includes not only a range of advanced powertrains, but now a rapidly expanding suite of digital and AI-powered technologies,” said
Erik Neandross, president of TRC’s Clean Transportation Solutions group, the producers of ACT Expo.
Held at the Las Vegas Convention Center, ACT Expo’s program is designed to mirror the decisions fleets are actively making right now, with speakers sharing on-the-ground experiences as well as investment insights.
For the first time the show will also offer a continuing education program in partnership with NAFA Fleet Management Association and Green Business Certification Inc., with more than 25 conference sessions and 10 workshops approved for continuing education credit.
Speakers include leaders advancing the next generation of electric, autonomous and commercial vehicle platforms: RJ Scaringe (Founder & CEO, Rivian), Raquel Urtasun (Founder & CEO, Waabi), Don Burnette (Founder & CEO, Kodiak), Ossa Fisher (President, Aurora), Dan Priestley (Director of Semi-Truck Engineering, Tesla), Joanna Buttler (GM of Product Strategy, Daimler Truck North America), John Harris (Co-founder & CEO, Harbinger), Michael Halbherr (CEO, ABB E-Mobility), Doug Gould (Operations Infrastructure & Strategic Partnerships, Zoox), and Mustafa Samiwala (Fleet Development, Amazon).
Registration for ACT Expo 2026 is now open.
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Integrating InductEV’s assets and intellectual property enables Electreon to offer a comprehensive wireless EV charging portfolio spanning passenger vehicles, light delivery vans and heavy-duty Class 8 trucks.
The combined company will offer operators a suite of charging solutions for different charging use cases including in-road dynamic charging while driving, top-up charging during planned stops along routes, and overnight charging in depots and parking facilities.
A hands-free charger provides increased safety for drivers in all weather conditions, eliminating the need to handle cables and connectors. Proper route design can help to reduce range anxiety even with smaller and less expensive batteries, which increase payload capacity and reduce vehicle purchase prices.
The platform supports diverse fleets from transit buses to freight trucks, and uses specialized in-ground technology for every use case. Integrated Flow software optimizes energy delivery to avoid peak demand charges and costly utility upgrades.
The integrated product suite includes LINE, a dynamic solution that charges vehicles at high speeds on highways and urban corridors and DASH, a semi-dynamic option that provides high-power burst charging at stop-and-go locations like taxi queues, bus stops and traffic lights. For stationary charging, DOT delivers automatic, hands-free charging for parked vehicles in depots and logistics hubs, while Ultra DOT supports specialized high-power, hands-free charging for heavy-duty transit and freight, powered by InductEV technology.
The combination of Electreon and InductEV also brings together nearly 400 granted and pending patents. It also balances Electreon’s offshore manufacturing efficiencies with InductEV’s Build America Buy America (BABA) compliant offerings. This ensures North American transit agencies and federal contractors can access wireless technology while remaining eligible for government funding and incentives.
“By combining our proven dynamic wireless product with InductEV’s leadership in ultra-fast stationary charging, we offer powerful synergies in manufacturing and technology, helping fleets go electric without compromising their operations,” said Oren Ezer, CEO and co-founder of Electreon.
