Nissan has reduced the starting price of its Ariya electric SUV in the UK by more than £6,000, making most variants eligible for the UK’s £1,500 Electric Car Grant. A new entry-level Shiro version also joins the line-up, bringing the post-grant entry price down to £33,500. Read more…

Alongside Norway, where 97.2 per cent of all new passenger car registrations in July were electric, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden also recorded growth in new EV sales. Yet there is a marked difference – demand for Teslas. Read more…

In the DAKIMO project, researchers at the Fraunhofer IOSB in Karlsruhe have developed an AI-based forecast for the availability of shared transport. The aim is to identify more reliable door-to-door routes that motivate more people to leave their private cars at home. Read more…

The weight and air resistance of caravans significantly limit the range of electric tow vehicles. Lightship, a manufacturer founded by two former Tesla employees, equips its models with large batteries and an additional electric drive to minimize these limitations. Read more…

Taiga Motors, a Canadian manufacturer of electric snowmobiles and jet skis, has entered into a partnership with Aqua SuperPower, a fast charging network for electric boats. Taiga customers will benefit from extended charging solutions at home, on board yachts or for on-site fleet operation. Read more…

The Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand has excluded its ID. series electric cars from the annual price adjustment for the 2026 model year. However, most combustion engines will become more expensive on 21 August, on average by 1.5 per cent. Read more…

VinFast has entered into a partnership with Plugsurfing to give its customers access to more than one million charging points in Europe. The previous charging cards from the Vietnamese manufacturer will be replaced by new one, because the previous partner Bosch has discontinued its service. Read more…

The parcel service DPD now exclusively uses fully electric vehicles in St. Pölten in Lower Austria. Mercedes-Benz eSprinters are used for this purpose, supplemented by electric cargo bikes. Read more…

Daimler Truck and three other major truck manufacturers have sued the US state of California for excessively strict emission regulations and are simultaneously burying their Clean Truck Partnership, which was launched in California in 2023. The OEMs claim they feel victimised by contradictory regulations at federal and state level. Read more…

The Republic of Slovenia is launching a new subsidy programme for the purchase of electric vehicles. Not only the purchase of electric cars is subsidised, but also electric two- and three-wheelers. The subsidy is staggered depending on the vehicle category and amounts to a maximum of 7,200 euros. Read more…

Alexander Dennis Limited has delivered the first nine of a total of 35 electric double deckers to Hong Kong’s public transport company, the MTR Corporation. Manufactured in Scotland, these use German-made Voith electrical drive systems (VEDS). Read more…

In the ELiSePro project, the German-Canadian company Rock Tech Lithium is working with researchers from RWTH Aachen University to further increase the lithium yield in the converter process at Rock Tech’s site in Guben. The German government is funding the project, despite turning down Rock Tech a year and a half ago. Read more…

The Chinese global battery market leader CATL is further expanding its after-sales business. The service division Ning has now opened new flagship stores in the Chinese metropolis of Shanghai and in the Thai capital Bangkok. Read more…

The US construction firm McKinstry has just added the 100th Chevrolet Silverado EV to its fleet. It now operates a total of 114 EVs. Read more…

BMW originally wanted to source battery cells from a new AESC plant for the electric cars from its US factory. However, the partner has paused construction work on its battery factory. Instead, the Munich-based company is now reportedly considering purchasing batteries in China. Read more…

The charge point operator Greenlane has established its second commercial EV charging corridor between Southern California and Arizona via Interstate 10. It is designed to support medium- and heavy-duty logistics fleets. Read more…

BYD will set up its new German headquarters in Offenbach rather than Frankfurt. In the fourth quarter of 2025, the Chinese car manufacturer plans to move its team into the GROW office building in Offenbach’s Kaiserlei district, which will be completed in 2023. Hyundai also has its German headquarters in this neighborhood. Read more…

The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Texas at Dallas have signed a memorandum of understanding to advance battery science, strengthen critical materials supply chains, and expand workforce development in the energy storage sector. Read more…

It has long been suspected that Elon Musk’s support for US President Donald Trump is damaging the Tesla brand. Now, data analysis from the US provides clear evidence for this theory: since Musk began publicly supporting Trump, customer loyalty has declined significantly – and since the two fell out, there has been a reversal of this trend. Read more…

IM Motor is presenting the ‘Stellar’ drive, a new range extender system for the redesigned LS6 and the upcoming LS9. A 66 kWh battery enables a pure electric range of 450 kilometres. The combined range stands at an impressive 1,500 kilometres. Read more…