Canoo announced plans for a battery module manufacturing facility in the US state of Oklahoma. The plant will be fully operational, producing modules from Panasonic battery cells with a total annual capacity of 3.2 GWh. Construction is scheduled to begin before the end of the year. The module assembly plant is to be located in […] More…

BYD plans to produce electric vehicles and process battery raw materials in Brazil. To this end, the Chinese manufacturer has signed a letter of intent with the government of the state of Bahia to set up three production lines in the city of Camaçari. BYD has now confirmed this to the portal Automotive Business. According […] More…

General Motors has confirmed its return to Europe with electric cars. This came in the form of an announcement that Jaclyn McQuaid has been appointed President and CEO of GM Europe. The long-serving GM executive will take up her new job on 1 November and will be based in Zurich. Shilpan Amin, president of GM […] More…

In February, Beijing Benz, the joint venture of BAIC Motor and Mercedes-Benz, announced a recall for the EQC electric model after dozens of owners complained about engine problems. However, it seems that this recall was insufficient, as it has now been expanded. For the initial recall, around 10,000 EQCs from the production period 30 November […] More…

Vattenfall has delivered 32 fast chargers to Tide Bus in Denmark’s fifth-largest city, Vejle, where 33 electric buses operated by Tide Bus have just been put into operation. Vattenfall is responsible for both the operation of the charging infrastructure and the purchase and delivery of electricity. Although Vattenfall does not elaborate on the performance data […] More…

The Norwegian company Teco 2030 is to deliver 120 fuel cell stacks to the Austrian propulsion developer AVL. This is provided for in a letter of intent now concluded between the two companies. However, this is not yet a binding order, because AVL itself has not yet received a confirmed order for the fuel cell […] More…

Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) has expanded its range of zero-emission buses. The British bus manufacturer has now unveiled the electric Enviro400EV double-decker and the Enviro100EV midibus, as well as revealing a new generation of the hydrogen double-decker Enviro400FCEV. Announced in August this year, the new models will be on display at the Euro Bus Expo […] More…

MAN Truck & Bus is working on an after-use strategy for its batteries. The manufacturer is currently drawing up an action protocol for this. In parallel, MAN has launched a project to test used MAN vehicle batteries in stationary storage facilities. MAN Truck & Bus wants to start early to ensure the subsequent use of […] More…

The Danish bus company Vikingbus has ordered 31 Mercedes-Benz eCitaro. These are to be primarily operated in the municipality of Køge, a port city located south of the Danish capital Copenhagen in the east of the island of Sjӕlland. The city buses are scheduled to enter service at the turn of 2023/2024. Daimler Truck says […] More…

Finnish charging hardware manufacturer Kempower is equipping Terminal Group petrol stations across Estonia with fast charging stations. In the first phase, 73 Kempower charging points will be installed at 25 locations along Estonia’s main roads. Each location will offer at least 150 kW of charging power and will be offered under the brand name “eTerminal”, […] More…

The Volkswagen Group has presented a new Green Finance Framework (GFF) that takes into account the EU taxonomy rules defining sustainability. In the new GFF, only investments for battery-electric vehicles that are EU taxonomy-compliant are taken into account. Capital expenditures for plug-in hybrids or pure combustion vehicles are completely excluded, as the group writes in […] More…

In Norway, 9,727 electric cars were newly registered in October, giving them a market share of 77.5 per cent of the country’s new passenger car registrations. In addition, there were 1,126 plug-in hybrids. The VW ID.4 topped the model ranking in October with 1,014 registrations. In September 2022, new registrations of electric cars were still […] More…

Geely’s premium electric subsidiary Zeekr has unveiled its second model and is now accepting reservations for the Zeekr 009 in China. Separately, Geely plans to spin off Zeekr and list it on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. First, let’s talk about the new electric car in the Zeekr portfolio: The Zeekr 009 is an electric […] More…

Nissan unveiled two interesting electric car concepts at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas, both in partnership with South Carolina-based Tommy Pike Customs. Both the Leaf and the Ariya were converted into classically-inspired looks from the past. The Sunny Leaf was converted from a car to a pickup truck with powertrain technology from the Nissan […] More…

Hitachi Astemo has been selected to supply electric motors and inverters for Nissan’s future electric and hybrid vehicles. The automotive supplier will supply the components to Jatco, a systems integrator majority-owned by Nissan. Automotive Supplier also intends to expand sales of its in-house developed e-axle to various carmakers worldwide and supply motors and inverters for […] More…

On 1 November, Volkswagen’s electric car-sharing service WeShare was acquired by Miles Mobility. At the same time, Miles has ordered more than 10,000 electric cars from the Audi, Seat, Cupra and VW brands, which are to be delivered from 2023 onwards. In the course of the “partnership”, in which Miles Mobility acquired the company UMI […] More…

The European fast-charging company Fastned has lowered the prices at its charge points in a number of countries, responding to a recent drop in energy prices. In Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, the kWh tariff will drop from 83 to 74 cents on 1 November, and in Switzerland from 83 to 69 centimes. Fastned had […] More…

The European fast-charging company Fastned has lowered the prices at its charge points in a number of countries, responding to a recent drop in energy prices. In Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, the kWh tariff will drop from 83 to 74 cents on 1 November, and in Switzerland from 83 to 69 centimes. Fastned had […] More…

Jaguar Land Rover and Wolfspeed have announced a strategic partnership for the supply of silicon carbide semiconductors. The technology is expected to increase powertrain efficiency and range for JLR’s next-generation electric cars from 2024. The partnership with Wolfspeed now announced builds on the existing cooperation with the Jaguar TCS Racing team, he said. Silicon carbide […] More…

The Port of Long Beach in California is receiving a $30.1 million grant from the US Department of Transportation to deploy the nation’s largest fleet of electric vehicles for cargo handling at a single container terminal. The project will replace diesel-powered terminal tractors with about 60 electric-powered tractors and build the necessary charging infrastructure. Funding […] More…