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We are pleased to introduce Rivian, an American automaker and automotive technology company, as a new EWI member. Founded in 2009, Rivian develops vehicles, products and services related to sustainable transportation.

In the last few years, additive manufacturing (AM) technology has moved increasingly away from prototyping toward production. Manufacturers across all sectors are looking for ways to integrate the AM techniques into their processes to improve productivity, cost margins, and reliability. The auto industry is especially interested in finding ways to adopt AM. EWI has the...

Electric vehicles and consumer electronics depend on high-capacity, highly efficient batteries, and the demand continues to rise. Critical to producing these batteries is the successful welding of foil-to-tab joints which are often made of dissimilar materials with dissimilar thicknesses. This process is complicated, and the failure of a single joint will compromise an entire battery...