SEOUL: The chief executive of a South Korean lithium battery maker where 23 workers were killed in a fire last year was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Tuesday (Sep 23) in the toughest ruling over an industrial accident in the country. Park Soon-kwan, the CEO of the battery maker Aricell, had been charged under the country’s industrial safety law, which subjects senior executives to prison terms of more than one year when found guilty in the event of fatal accidents. Park’s son, w...

Former Honor vice chairman Wan Biao has joined Envision AESC as global CEO. He will also serve as executive director and CTO of parent company Envision Group, according to an internal letter circulated on September 22 and reported by 36Kr. “It is a great honor to join Envision AESC as CEO,” Wan said in the letter. “I look forward to working with the global team to seize the new wave of growth in the renewable energy industry, continue to deliver safe, high-performance solutions to customer...

Li Auto and Sunwoda’s battery arm SEVB will set up a joint venture (JV) with equal capital contributions. The company has already been registered with the Shanghai Administration for Market Regulation and, according to public records, will focus on producing and selling lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. 36Kr has learned that the entity, legally registered in Shandong, will be used to manufacture Li Auto’s self-developed batteries, which could be installed in vehicles as early as n...

Jones Bros Civil Engineering UK undertaking work at the Thorpe Marsh battery energy storage system in Doncaster Jones Bros Civil Engineering UK will undertake civil works at Fidra Energy’s multi-million-pound Thorpe Marsh site in Doncaster. Thorpe Marsh is three times the size of any other battery energy storage system (BESS) project currently in operation or under construction in the UK. It will be capable of exporting more than two million MWh a year, enough to supply around 785,000 homes. A...

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL) has established Nanchang Contemporary Amperex Energy Service Technology Co., Ltd. with a registered capital of RMB 10 million, according to corporate records. The unit’s business scope includes EV sales, charging infrastructure operations, battery swap facility sales, and intelligent control system integration. The new company is wholly owned through Contemporary Amperex Energy Service Technology Ltd., a fully owned CATL subsidiary, making it an...

Doogee S200 Max ZDNET’s key takeaways The Doogee S200 Max is on sale now for $750. It’s a super chunky handset that won’t fit in your pockets, but it’s incredibly durable, passing IP68/IP69K and MIL-STD-810H standards. It’s not exactly cheap, and you have to be a certain user to carry a phone this durable. $799.99 at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I remember when companies such as Doogee started making ruggedized Android smartphones t...