The electric car-sharing service Ride Share Bulgaria has added 100 Dacia Spring to its fleet. According to an announcement on social media, the company, which operates under the name „Spark,“ now has 650 electric vehicles in its fleet. Spark, a Lithuanian startup, posted the news on Facebook. According to it, the Dacia Spring can travel […] More…

Stellantis has invested 155 million US dollars in a sustainable copper production project in Argentina. The project is called Los Azules, which will produce 100,000 tonnes of cathode-quality copper per year from 2027. According to the car company, it is acquiring a 14.2 per cent stake in McEwen Copper for the equivalent of 146.2 million […] More…

According to carmaker Fisker, its first model, the Fisker Ocean, is getting ready to hit the streets in over 20 countries before the end of the year. Homologation testing for Europe and the US is said to be completed in March. And once the regulatory approval process is finished, sales could kick off. Fisker will […] More…

Mercedes-Benz is bringing its EQS SUV to China. The EV will be available from 910.500 yuan (about 123.900 euros or 132,000 dollars), making it more expensive there than in Germany or the US, where it is already available. Three variants are available: the 450+ and 450 4MATIC, each with 265 kW output, and the 580 […] More…

Smart is closing its order books for the EQ Fortwo from April 2023. According to German media outlet Smart Emotion, production will continue until mid-2024 due to long delivery times. But then, the EQ Fortwo will no longer be built. The reason is simple: the brand is going in a new direction, now building cars […] More…

Nissan is now using two heavy-duty, Class 8 electric trucks to deliver new vehicles from the Port of Los Angeles to dealerships in the LA region. The electric trucks come from Nikola and Kenworth. The program is being conducted in collaboration with logistics partner Avant-Garde Auto Logistics. In addition to the new truck fleet, Nissan […] More…

Everun is joining forces with Nicholl Oils to develop the largest electric vehicle charging network in Northern Ireland. Together, the two companies will invest up to £2.6 million to install AC & DC chargers at all Nicholl branded forecourts. As mentioned above, the project represents a total joint investment of up to £2.6 million, with […] More…

Continental is expanding its sensor portfolio for the electromobility market with the new inductive high-speed electric drive rotation position sensor (eRPS). This detects the exact position of the rotor in an electric synchronous motor. According to the supplier, existing solutions for rotation measurement are often based on the resolver principle (a rotating electrical transformer). This […] More…

The government of the UK is launching a new funding programme to strengthen the supply of critical materials on the isles. In order to help facilitate the high need for rare earth elements, a £15 million recycling research programme is to be launched. The CLIMATES programme, which Innovate UK organizes, is to help fund researchers […] More…

Honda has entered into an agreement in principle with US-based Ascend Elements to supply recycled battery materials for its electrified vehicles. Through the cooperation, Honda aims to secure a stable supply of nickel, cobalt and lithium from lithium-ion batteries recycled by Ascend Elements. As Honda writes in the release, the automaker intends to use these […] More…

US researchers have developed a lithium-air battery with solid electrolyte whose energy density could potentially be increased fourfold compared to today’s lithium-ion batteries. In a test cell, the team said it achieved 1,000 charge and discharge cycles. The project, driven by researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and the US Department of Energy’s […] More…

Australian megacity Sydney has adopted a new electrification strategy. This includes doubling the number of charging stations in city parking lots and a comprehensive project to retrofit existing apartment buildings with chargers. Sydney also plans to promote public fast chargers in parking lots and service stations, test on-street chargers on utility poles in residential neighbourhoods […] More…

German rail transport company Arriva will deploy more than 100 new electric buses in the eastern part of the Netherlands from the end of this year. Arriva has been awarded the Twente-ZHO tender for bus and rail services in the province of Overijssel for a period of four years following a tendering process. Arriva says […] More…

US-Australian company Recharge Industries has acquired insolvent British battery startup Britishvolt. The deal had already become apparent in early February and, according to an official statement by Recharge Industries, has now been completed. Britishvolt’s planned battery cell factory in the northern English county of Northumberland has therefore been saved. There are few other details in […] More…

BMW launched a demonstration fleet of hydrogen cars. After four years of development, the BMW iX5 Hydrogen vehicle and development project is thus entering its next phase. After BMW began small-scale production of the iX5 Hydrogen SUV at the Munich Research and Innovation Center (FIZ) pilot plant in early December 2022, the first vehicles of […] More…

Kia will start production of its new EV9 electric model in South Korea in the first half of 2023. According to a report in The Korea Herald, the automaker reached an agreement with the country’s metalworkers’ union. According to the report, the Kia EV9 will be manufactured at the company’s plant in Gwangmyeong, in the […] More…

António Félix da Costa has won the first E-Prix in Cape Town, his first win as a Porsche works driver for Formula E. He drove to victory in the season’s fifth race from eleventh on the grid, ahead of Jean-Éric Vergne (DS Penske) and Nick Cassidy (Envision Racing). With da Costa’s win, Porsche’s Formula E […] More…

Nissan is further accelerating its electrification strategy. The Japanese automaker will launch 27 new electrified models by fiscal 2030, including 19 purely electric ones. That is four more pure electric vehicles than announced with the last strategic plan in November 2021. Nissan’s electrification mix worldwide is expected to increase to more than 55 per cent […] More…

There will be no new VW plant for the “Trinity” project, VW CFO Arno Antlitz confirmed in an internal interview. The carmaker had considered a new factory in the Wolfsburg district of Warmenau for the e-flagship. But these plans were now scrapped. “We will not build any new electric factories in Europe, but transform the […] More…

The Munich-based start-up Sono has decided to discontinue the Sion programme and not to pursue its own solar car project any further – the Sion is thus history before the first series production example. Instead, they will concentrate on the solar business for B2B customers. The #saveSion campaign launched in December was thus not successful. […] More…