The FIA World Rallycross Championship (WRX) has started its first all-electric season in Hell, Norway. Johan Kristoffersson won the season opener at the traditional Norwegian race track last weekend. The World Automobile Federation had already announced the start of the electric WRX for 2021. However, when the decision was made in 2019, the Corona pandemic […] More…

In the USA, FedEx subsidiary FedEx Office is piloting ten Ford E-Transit vans across its SameDay City network, which is the company’s local shipping option. The Ford E-Transit vehicles are being tested in nine markets coast-to-coast to assess performance in different road and weather conditions. The SameDay City network offers door-to-door delivery of time-sensitive parcels […] More…

The German charging provider Plugsurfing has just signed another cooperation agreement with a Chinese electric car manufacturer. Xpeng drivers in Norway will now receive Plugsurfing’s charging solution and a co-branded charging key that will give them access to 300,000 public charging points across Europe via the Plugsurfing network. In May this year, Plugsurfing partnered with […] More…

Mercedes-Benz is recalling 7,810 units of the electric models EQE and EQS worldwide due to faulty threads of the towing devices. In Germany, 1,746 vehicles are affected. For Mercedes, it is not a profound recall, but an annoying one nonetheless. According to the entry in the KBA recall database, the issue is a possibly faulty […] More…

Volcon, a Texas-based off-road electric vehicle startup, will equip all of its models with General Motors powertrains. The company offers two- and four-wheeled electric vehicles for off-road use that are equipped with battery modules and other electric drive system components from GM. Volcon’s products are not off-road electric vehicles or pickups, which are in direct […] More…

According to a media report, BMW wants to produce fuel cell SUVs in large series from 2025. BMW had previously only confirmed that it intended to offer the iX5 Hydrogen in small series this year. This is reported by the Japanese business paper Nikkei with reference to BMW sales chief Pieter Nota. According to Nikkei, […] More…

The Chinese car company GAC Group is investing 2.16 billion yuan (312 million euros) in setting up a subsidiary for the production of electric drive systems. The new subsidiary plans to build production lines with an annual capacity of 400,000 integrated electric drive systems by 2025. Officially, the electric drive system subsidiary is a joint […] More…

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has prepared the first areas of production at its plant in Hanover for future variants of the ID. Buzz. The modernisation measures at the plant were carried out during a three-week summer break. The specific variants, according to the statement, involve the ID. Buzz with a long wheelbase, which VWN plans to […] More…

Stoffel Vandoorne has won the Formula E championship. At the final race weekend in Seoul, a fifth and a second place were enough for the Mercedes EQ driver to win the title. The manufacturers’ championship also went to Mercedes for the second year in a row. Races 99 and 100 in the history of Formula […] More…

Tesla has imposed an order freeze in North America for one of the most popular variants of the Model 3. The Model 3 can no longer be ordered Long Range in the USA and Canada, only as a base and performance version. According to CEO Elon Musk, the background to this is that the waiting […] More…

The Inflation Reduction Act, which also includes the reform of the EV tax credit, has now passed the House of Representatives after the Senate and is expected to be signed by President Joe Biden in the coming days. The new eligibility requirements will make most electric models ineligible for the tax credit. After the package […] More…

Last year we reported that the Mini EV, an extremely popular electric car from General Motors’ partner Wuling in China, was being brought to Europe as the FreZe Nikrob EV by Latvian company Dartz Motorz. The Mini EV is now to come to Europe as a convertible called FreZe Froggy EV. The Froggy is effectively […] More…

Last year we reported that the Mini EV, an extremely popular electric car from General Motors’ partner Wuling in China, was being brought to Europe as the FreZe Nikrob EV by Latvian company Dartz Motorz. The Mini EV is now to come to Europe as a convertible called FreZe Froggy EV. The Froggy is effectively […] More…

US charging infrastructure operator EVgo has contracted Delta Electronics to supply 1,000 fast charging columns. The Delta devices for EVgo will mainly be HPC columns with up to 350 kW power and power sharing functionality. The exact charging pole model is not mentioned in the announcement. On its product website, Delta Americas so far only […] More…

Volkswagen’s US subsidiary Electrify America will install more than 200 high-power charging stations at Ikea locations in the US. The fast chargers, with outputs ranging from 150 kW to 350 kW, will be set up at more than 25 Ikea shops in 18 US states and will be available for public use. In addition, Ikea’s […] More…

Switch Mobility, the UK subsidiary of Indian commercial vehicle manufacturer Ashok Leyland, and Indian transport company Chalo have entered into a strategic cooperation to deploy 5,000 electric buses across India. The Memorandum of Understanding, initially for three years, will see Switch e-buses deployed in districts and cities across India where Chalo operates. Under the agreement, […] More…

Norwegian battery company Freyr has opened its first location in Asia. The office is located in Fukuoka, Japan, and includes a technology resource campus. This will be primarily concerned with conducting electrochemical tests of various materials in connection with the technology development of partner 24M and provide a platform for recruiting and hiring experienced talent […] More…

The Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn will in future also build electric tractors and batteries for them in the USA. An agreement now concluded with tractor supplier Monarch Tractor provides for Monarch’s MK-V series electric tractors to be built at the Foxconn plant in Ohio from 2023. As is well known, this plant is the one […] More…

Brabus, the tuning company from Bottrop, Germany, has presented a refinement programme for the Mercedes EQS, which is intended to further improve the aerodynamics and efficiency of the electric sedan. With a cW value of 0.20, the EQS is already one of the most aerodynamic electric cars ex-works. The aerodynamic components, wheels and lowering from […] More…

The Chinese battery cell manufacturer CATL will build another cell factory in Europe. The second location after Erfurt is Debrecen in Hungary. CATL already has an important customer on its hands: the cell factory is to supply the Mercedes-Benz vehicle plants in Germany and Hungary with batteries. Hungary was already in the running when the […] More…