Electric Vehicle Lubricants

CPC Pitches PAOs for E-fluids

December 22, 2021

As electric vehicle sales in Europe, North America and Asia accelerate, passenger car motor oil demand could decline rapidly in a few years time, acco ...

Although the transition to electric vehicles will gradually cut the automotive industry’s need for industrial lubricants, metal forming fluids used ...

With numbers still ramping up rapidly from such a small base, forecasting global electric vehicle sales far into the future is a dodgy undertaking, bu ...

Multipurpose fluids play a key role for electric vehicle motors as evolving technologies raise cooling and lubrication performance requirements, a Tot ...

Facing the Challenges

October 4, 2021

A perfect storm has been gathering in the lubricants industry for some time: There has been increasing pressure from governments to lower vehicle emis ...

Gulf to Explore E-mobility

August 27, 2021

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. signaled in a recent press release that it may move into the e-mobility space. With India’s government seeking to gro ...

Progress by Failure

August 2, 2021

Electric motor failure in hybrid buses caused by copper corrosion leads to the development of more effective e-transmission fluids.   The tran ...

Alexandra Przyborowski and Raj Shah outline some of the challenges faced by developers of lubrication products that are optimized for electric vehicle ...

Despite the rapid growth of electric vehicles in China, new opportunities are available for lube suppliers, speakers said at the 2021 China Inter Lubr ...

The global electric vehicle lubricant market is expected to grow from 10 million liters in 2020 to 60 million liters in 2025, driven by the booming re ...

Southwest Research Institute is launching this month an industry consortium, Advanced Fluids for Electrified Vehicles, in what the institute called an ...

Electrically conductive layer deposits are emerging as a new corrosion concern in electric motors in hybrid and electric vehicles, and developing test ...

As electric vehicles threaten to drain away the lifeblood of the lubricants industry—engine oil accounts for about 40% of the market—many companie ...

Automotive

April 1, 2021

Electrifying  Well, 2021 is well underway, and it looks a lot like 2020, part 2. There are lots of projections, debates, discussing (and cussi ...

Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world’s largest lubricant producers, will install half a million charging points across the globe by 2025. The move ...

Base Oil Report: Trends

March 4, 2021

Is the ICE Decline an Upturn for Silicones? Unfamiliar to many in the industry, silicone base stocks have limited application in lubricants. The ri ...

General Motors, the world’s fifth-largest carmaker, said it would stop producing internal combustion engine vehicles by 2035 and “aspires” to be ...

Electric vehicle sales have been rising in the affluent countries of the West, where per capita income and environmental awareness are high. But wealt ...

Europe's carmaker trade association and environmental groups both have criticisms of the EU's proposed transport carbon reduction measures.

Despite the havoc wreaked on the auto industry by the pandemic, demand for electric vehicles around the world grew at an impressive rate.