Canadian battery manufacturer Electrovaya has signed a supply agreement with Janus Electric, a specialist in converting diesel trucks to fully electric trucks, which recently went public on the Australian stock exchange. The agreement involves the use of interchangeable battery systems. Read more…

Octopus Energy’s EV charging platform, Electroverse, has just announced a new ‘Business Payments Card’ for fleets to use to pay for charging and keep track of expenses. It’s being delivered in partnership with Visa and places all charging data in a single dashboard. Read more…

This will effectively see Shell integrate a combination of Shell Recharge sites, private charge points, semi-public depot sites, and third party locations into a single network. Shell says this is designed to aid heavy-duty fleet electrification across Europe. Read more…

German supplier Mahle is expanding production at its Morristown plant in the US to include components for electric vehicles. E-compressors for the North American market will now be manufactured in Tennessee. Read more…

Hyundai Mobis presented its future growth strategy at its CEO Investor Day. The supplier intends to concentrate on areas such as electrification, electronics, semiconductors and robotics. Solutions for software-defined vehicles (SDVs) and a battery system with an integrated fire extinguishing function will play an important role in this strategy. Read more…

ChargeTronix, a provider of EV charging hardware, is partnering with vendor finance company DLL on financing for charger infrastructure. It will mean more capital will become available for commercial fleets to lease charging systems. Read more…

It had already leaked that Turkish carmaker Togg planned to mark its launch in Germany with an appearance at the IAA in Munich this September. Togg has now confirmed it will showcase not only the familiar T10X SUV but also the T10F electric saloon. Read more…

Xpeng has set the price for the second generation of the P7 for the Chinese market. The electric sedan, based on an 800-volt architecture, costs the equivalent of €26,400. As the previous P7 model is also available in European markets, it is likely that the new version will also find its way over. Read more…

According to the European industry association ACEA, 1,011,903 new battery electric cars were registered in the first seven months of 2025, representing a 15.6 per cent share of the EU market. Some manufacturers already have a higher share of electric cars, which is important for CO2 fleet targets. Read more…

First Bus, one of the UK’s largest bus groups, says its battery storage site in Hampshire will enter operation next month. It will be used to store surplus energy for export to the grid, as well as provide power for over 1200 electric buses. Read more…

Huawei and SAIC have begun pre-sales of their first jointly developed model, the Shangjie H5 SUV. Priced from 169,800 yuan (around 20,400 euros), the vehicle is positioned as the most affordable model under Huawei’s Harmony Intelligent Mobility Alliance (HIMA). The official market launch is scheduled for 23 September. Read more…

Vodafone UK will complete the electrification of its 1,000-strong company car fleet by 2026, one year ahead of schedule. The move is part of the operator’s wider strategy to achieve net zero emissions across its operations by 2030. Read more…

It was only at the beginning of the year that co-founder and long-standing Virta CEO Jussi Palola handed over the CEO position to Christian Girardeau. Juhani Hintikka has now been appointed as the new CEO, but Girardeau will remain in a management role at Virta. Read more…

The SAIC brand MG Motor apparently wants to launch a total of 13 electrified vehicles worldwide in the next two years, including BEVs, EREVs and PHEVs. The model development initiative is planned to cost about 10 billion yuan (1.2 billion euros).
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Together with partners, ‘electric trucker’ Tobias Wagner developed the ‘eTrucker’ app to make it easier to find truck-compatible charging stations. An update to the app has now been released, which also supports charging stations in Spain, Portugal, the UK, Belgium and Romania. Read more…

The Spanish charging provider Iberdrola | bp pulse has launched a new partnership with supermarket chain Alimerka. The aim is to install ultra-fast chargers at Alimerka stores in Asturias, Castilla y León, and Galicia. Read more…

Researchers at Helmholtz Institute Berlin (HZB) have identified a new storage mechanism for sodium-ion batteries. Their study shows that the co-intercalation of sodium ions and solvent molecules in cathode materials can be reversible and fast, enabling efficient high-rate sodium-ion cells. Read more…

Astemo, a joint venture between Hitachi, Honda and JIC Capital, is to build a new production line for next-generation electric car inverters at its Bolton plant in northern England. Production is scheduled to start in April 2027. Read more…

Austrian manufacturer K-Bus GmbH has delivered ten fully electric low-floor buses to Italy for urban operations in Catania. The vehicles, designated E-Solar City XL, are based on Mercedes-Benz technology and offer up to 200 kilometres between charges. Read more…

The Mülheim-based startup Minerva Carbon, a spin-off from the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, has received around 1.8 million euros in funding from the EXIST program of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. The team is researching mesoporous high-performance carbon materials for batteries. Read more…