Pilot, General Motors and EVgo now jointly operate over 130 fast-charging locations in 25 US states. The charging network is focused on interstate highways and popular travel routes, and is set to grow to up to 500 locations. Read more…

The automotive supplier Webasto, which has also been manufacturing battery systems for electric cars and electric commercial vehicles since 2019, is entering into a cooperation with the Aachen-based battery recycling startup Cylib. Cylib will recycle used batteries and production waste from Webasto’s battery production. Read more…

Nissan has confirmed that it will release a fully electric version of its Micra this year, the car’s first all-electric generation. The EV will be built by Nissan’s long-time partner Renault in France and will share the same platform as the R5 electric car. Read more…

The Polish electric bus manufacturer Solaris has secured an order from the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It will deliver ten Trollino 18 by the middle of next year. Read more…

The EU-funded project ‘nExt geNeration 1200V eLectric hIGH volTage powErtraiN’ (ENLIGHTEN), which runs until 2028, aims to develop, integrate and test a next-generation electric powertrain with a nominal voltage of 1,200 volts. Read more…

Hyundai and Genesis now offer US customers a free NACS charging adapter, giving them access to more than 20,000 Tesla Superchargers across the United States. They are the latest EV makers to offer adapters to its customers. Read more…

BYD hopes to sell more than 800,000 vehicles outside of China this year. The company sees particularly good opportunities for increasing sales in the UK, as well as in Latin American and Southeast Asian countries. Read more…

Last summer, MG Motor presented the MGS5 EV in China, an electric compact SUV that is intended as the successor to the ZS EV. The model is now coming to the UK in April and will also be launched in continental Europe in the second quarter. Read more…

BYD premiered a new electric model of its Sealion series in China. The compact SUV called Sealion 05 EV is priced at 117,800 yuan in China, which is the equivalent of around 15,000 euros. The EV is also supposed to be exported globally. Read more…

Nio presented its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2024 and the past full year. Although the company was able to significantly increase deliveries and revenues, losses also increased slightly again. Nio now expects 2025 to be increasingly marked by profitability. Read more…

RAW Charging announced a new partnership with the British gardening charity Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). The first stage of the contract will see RAW deliver over 90 EV charging bays across five RHS Gardens in the UK. Read more…

Nova Scotia has become the latest Canadian province to scrap electric vehicle rebates for Teslas due to the CEO’s association with the U.S. administration and its trade war on Canada. Read more…

The Italian bus manufacturer Rampini is introducing its new H2EU Power division, which is launching a product line of hydrogen fuel cell systems for commercial vehicles as well as off-highway and stationary applications in Europe. Read more…

Vilniaus viešasis transportas (VVT), the public transport operator active in Vilnius, is inviting tenders for the procurement of 145 electric buses. Electric vehicles are to be purchased in four sizes with lengths of eight, ten, twelve and 18 metres. The contract is to be awarded in the third quarter of 2025 and the vehicles are to be put into operation in 2026 and 2027. Read more…

The Danish transport and logistics company Danske Fragtmænd has put its first charging hub for electric trucks into operation in Aalborg. The site has a Kempower charging system built by GodEnergi with four satellites, each of which can supply up to 400 kW. Further such charging hubs are to follow shortly at Danske Fragtmænd locations in Sakskøbing, Taastrup, Odense and Aarhus, among others. Read more…

As part of the Critical Raw Materials Act, the EU Commission has selected 47 strategic projects to secure and diversify access to raw materials in the EU. The 47 projects, located in 13 EU member states, cover one or more segments of the raw materials value chain – including battery production. Read more…

Californian haulage company Tradelink Transport has put 15 all-electric VNR Electric heavy-duty trucks from Volvo Trucks North America into operation at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. This means that almost a third of the company’s fleet is now purely electric. Read more…

Since the spin-off in 2023, Renault CEO Luca de Meo has managed the electric car division Ampere in a dual role. That will be over in a few days: Josep Maria Recasens will become the new CEO of Ampere on 1 April 2025. There are also other new appointments in top management. Read more…

Scandinavia’s largest public transport operator Nobina has entered into a strategic partnership with the Munich-based company STABL Energy. The aim is to utilise decommissioned batteries from Nobina’s extensive fleet of electric buses in stationary storage systems. Read more…

According to the industry association ACEA, new registrations of battery-electric cars in the EU rose by 28.4 per cent year-on-year to 255,489 units in the first two months of 2025, achieving a market share of 15.2 per cent. Read more…