Fastned has opened its first ultra-rapid EV charging location in London. Based in the London Borough of Greenwich the station provides six bays with a total of 300kW of renewable energy. The launch is Fastned’s 11th in the UK and its first in London, coming just weeks after Fastned opened the biggest ultra-rapid charging station […] More…

Fastned has opened its first ultra-rapid EV charging location in London. Based in the London Borough of Greenwich the station provides six bays with a total of 300kW of renewable energy. The launch is Fastned’s 11th in the UK and its first in London, coming just weeks after Fastned opened the biggest ultra-rapid charging station […] More…

Toyota has developed the O-Uchi Kyuden System, a battery system for residential use based on electrified vehicle battery technology. The system features bidirectional vehicle-to-home capabilities. The home battery system is meant for everyday use, providing off-peak electricity, residential solar power photovoltaic system support, and EV charging. EVs capable of bidirectional power can be used by […] More…

Mercedes-Benz USA has announced pricing and packaging structures for the all-electric EQB SUV. The fully electric compact SUV should arrive in US dealerships by summer 2022. For the USA, Mercedes-Benz has revealed that the 2022 EQB 300 4MATIC will start from $54,500 and the EQB 350 4MATIC is priced from $58,050. The Mercedes EQB went […] More…

Elon Musk has imposed a worldwide hiring freeze at Tesla and has plans to lay off ten per cent of the workforce because he has “a very bad feeling” about the economy. He has already confirmed the plans to Reuters. At the end of 2021, Tesla was employing around 100,000 people worldwide, meaning that 10,000 […] More…

Elon Musk has imposed a worldwide hiring freeze at Tesla and has plans to lay off ten per cent of the workforce because he has “a very bad feeling” about the economy. He has already confirmed the plans to Reuters. At the end of 2021, Tesla was employing around 100,000 people worldwide, meaning that 10,000 […] More…

The Finnish retail group Kesko wants to nearly double its charging network for electric cars to a total of about 200 locations this year. The charging network, operated by the offshoot K-Auto under the label K-Charging, currently comprises 107 locations throughout Finland. These have a total of 332 AC charging points and 149 fast and […] More…

Pure Battery Technologies (PBT), an Australian specialist in cathode materials for use in electric car batteries, has received an investment from WIT InnoEnergy. The money will be used to finance the establishment of industrial mass production in Germany. PBT’s first commercial plant in Hagen has already started operations. There, 10,000 tonnes of precursor cathode material […] More…

Stellantis has entered into a binding offtake agreement for lithium hydroxide with Controlled Thermal Resources (CTR). The battery-grade material mined by CTR in California will be used in electric cars manufactured in North America. CTR will supply Stellantis with up to 25,000 tonnes of lithium hydroxide per year during the ten-year contract period, according to […] More…

Polestar is launching a special limited edition model of the Polestar 2. The Polestar 2 BST Edition 270 includes mechanical as well as design modifications to differentiate it from the standard Polestar 2 models. The powertrain is the same as the Polestar 2 with Performance Package: the two electric motors and 78 kWh battery achieve […] More…

At the end of this year, the Volkswagen Group’s planning round is expected to make the final decision on two additional purely electric Audi models at the Neckarsulm site. Two saloons are currently under consideration. According to information from the Heilbronner Stimme, these will be the electric successor to the top model A8 and a […] More…

Ford has announced an investment of 3.7 billion dollars in its production in the US states of Michigan, Ohio and Missouri. With the equivalent of 3.4 billion euros, the production of electric cars is to be strengthened and 6,200 new jobs created. According to Ford, 1.5 billion dollars (1.4 billion euros) alone are to flow […] More…

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has started series production of the all-electric ID. Buzz at the main plant in Hanover. This year, up to 15,000 units of the ID. Buzz Pro and ID. Buzz Cargo will be produced. After the ramp-up, up to 130,000 vehicles per year can be produced in Hanover in the future, according to […] More…

Lexus has unveiled the fifth generation RX SUV series, which comes as a plug-in hybrid for the first time next to another two hybrids. However, Lexus expects the PHEV to become the best-selling RX model in Western and Central Europe. The new Lexus PHEV is labelled RX 450h+ and has 225 kW of system power […] More…

Canadian battery developer Nano One and German chemical company BASF say they have signed a joint development agreement (JDA). The companies plan to co-develop a process with reduced by-products for commercial production of next-generation cathode active materials. The new process will be based on BASF’s HED family and will use Nano One’s patented One-Pot process […] More…

Boosted charging specialist Freewire announced signing a letter of intent with Phillips 66. The rest stop operator says it wants to explore opportunities to deploy FreeWire’s technology within its US fueling station network and other strategic locations. Phillips 66 operates around 7,000 pit stops in the USA under various brands and intends to expand its […] More…

The Dutch retailer Albert Heijn will decarbonise all deliveries in the centre of the Hague by the end of this year, including home delivery and the supply of its stores. Throughout 2023, deliveries in central Rotterdam, Utrecht, and Amsterdam are also to be made only electrically. To this end, Albert Heijn and its transport partners […] More…

Renault Group has entered into a strategic partnership with Moroccan mining company Managem Group for the supply of cobalt for electric car batteries. Under the terms of the agreement, Managem will supply Renault with 5,000 tonnes of cobalt sulphate per year over a seven-year period, with the first delivery scheduled for 2025. Renault did not […] More…

Panasonic has delivered the first sample cells of the new 4680 format to Tesla. The large round cells were built on a Panasonic pilot line in Japan. The company is still looking for a location for the planned US production. According to Kazuo Tadanobu, CEO of Panasonic Energy, prototype production for the 4680 cells began […] More…

Glasgow is now home to the largest fast-charging centre for electric vehicles in the UK after First Bus completed the transformation of its Caledonia bus depot. The depot in the south of Glasgow has seen 160 fast-charging points installed over the past nine months. And, this was just phase 1. First Bus announced the project […] More…