The taxi company Arabia Taxi has put 269 Tesla Model 3 in service in Dubai. As reported, Dubai will only permit electrified taxis in the emirate from 2027. Arabia Taxi operates 6,000 vehicles throughout the United Arab Emirates, 83 per cent of which are hybrid taxis. The Tesla cabs are, therefore, among the first fully […] More…

Skeleton Technologies and the Canadian automotive supplier Martinrea International are cooperating to equip refuse collection vehicles for use in Paris and New York with Skeleton’s so-called ‘SuperBattery’ technology. Martinrea International develops and produces electric vehicle technologies for heavy-duty commercial vehicles through its subsidiary Effenco. The aim of the agreement with the Estonian company Skeleton is […] More…

Fortum has completed its lithium-ion battery recycling factory in Harjavalta, Finland, on time. Announced in 2021, Fortum says this is the largest recycling plant in Europe in terms of capacity and also the first commercial-scale facility for hydrometallurgical recycling. Fortum already operated a pilot plant at the Harjavalta site and has now finished the expansion […] More…

Wrightbus has secured a new order to deliver 48 zero-emission buses for Stagecoach in London. The British public transport operator expects delivery of the all-electric double-deckers before the year’s end. Plus, these are not the only zero-emission models coming to the capital. Earlier this month, bus operator Arriva ordered 50 BEV double-deckers from Wrightbus to […] More…

BMW’s investment arm BMW i Ventures announced an investment in Cyclic Materials, a Canadian company focused on recycling rare earth elements (REE). Regarding e-mobility, Cyclic Materials cooperates with Polestar to recover magnets for electric motors. As for BMW i Ventures, the investor led the $27 million Series A funding alongside Energy Impact Partners (EIP). Fifth […] More…

The first electric car from the American manufacturer Fisker is allowed to roll on the roads in Europe. The Fisker Ocean has received sales approval for the European market and is to be delivered to customers as early as 5 May. Initially, the Fisker Ocean One Launch Edition version, limited to 5,000 units, is to […] More…

Porsche is cooperating with the Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro to significantly reduce the CO₂ footprint of aluminium in the automotive supply chain. By 2030, the aluminium supplied to Porsche and its suppliers should even be CO₂-free. As early as 2025, the production of the aluminium used is to emit around 60 per cent less […] More…

In Nigeria, the energy company Oando Clean Energy Limited (OCEL) has announced a partnership with China’s bus builder Yutong to put 12,000 electric buses on the roads over the next seven years and build the infrastructure for them. Starting in Lagos State, where the first two electric buses and charging stations have arrived for a […] More…

Kia had the Italian company BrickVision build a 1:1 model of its EV6 electric car out of Lego bricks. It took more than 800 working hours and 350,000 Lego bricks. The model was recently presented at the Design Week in Milan and is now on display at the Kia Energy House in Rome. The 1:1 […] More…

Vietnamese electric car maker VinFast is securing up to $2.5 billion in fresh capital to fuel its global expansion. 1.5 billion dollars comes in the form of grants from parent company Vingroup and its chairman Pham Nhat Vuong. Another billion can be accessed by VinFast over a five-year period in the form of loans from […] More…

Bosch is planning a billion-euro investment in its strategically important semiconductor business for electromobility. In the USA, Bosch wants to take over parts of the business of chip manufacturer TSI Semiconductors from Roseville in the US state of California – and convert production there to SiC chips. Bosch and TSI Semiconductors have reached an agreement […] More…

Canada’s largest city, Toronto, is investing CAD 700 million into procuring 340 electric buses and infrastructure. There is some funding through the provincial government. The equivalent investment of €465 million is being shared more or less equally by the Canadian government and the City of Toronto. The 340 electric buses and 248 chargers are for […] More…

The Chair of Production Engineering of E-Mobility Components (PEM) at RWTH Aachen University is involved in establishing a battery industry and electromobility in Indonesia. This will also involve an electric vehicle and the electrification of public transport. Indonesia is known to have the world’s largest nickel reserves. The government has therefore been trying for some […] More…

Farasis Energy and the Turkish electric car manufacturer Togg have begun construction of their joint battery cell factory. Their joint venture Siro officially laid the foundation stone for this at the site in Gemlik, Turkey. At the end of March, Siro officially started the series production of battery modules and packs. For the time being, […] More…

Redwood Materials will recycle e-bike batteries for Rad Power Bikes in North America, thus entering an often-overlooked market for LEV batteries. Founded by former Tesla man JB Straubel, Redwood also works with Panasonic, carmakers, and bike makers Specialized. The new deal with Rad Power Bikes is notable since the company claims it was among the […] More…

Nikola recalls all of its battery-electric trucks manufactured since November 2021 in the US, 364 units in total. Due to a problem with a supplier’s electronic parking brake, there is a risk of the vehicles rolling away unintentionally. Dealers will replace the faulty part. According to the recall notes, if a driver notices the ‘Intellipark […] More…

Blink Charging’s subsidiary Blink Mobility, an all-electric carsharing service, announced the acquisition of Envoy Technologies, which offers shared electric vehicles as an amenity for real estate developers. Blink Mobility says the deal will create one of the largest all-electric carsharing companies in the United States. This is when combining Blink’s existing EV carsharing service with […] More…

The automotive supplier Eberspächer has begun construction of a new production plant for electric vehicle heaters in the Bulgarian city of Ruse. The new site is to supply car manufacturers with electric vehicle heaters from the beginning of 2024. According to the supplier’s announcement, these will be used, for example, in electric vehicles and plug-in […] More…

Tesla is opening its fast-charging network to electric cars from other manufacturers in China after similar moves in Europe and the US. A pilot project in Beijing and Shanghai sees Tesla initially release five Superchargers in each city for third-party brands. Tesla runs over 1,600 Supercharger hubs with 10,000 charge columns on the Chinese mainland. […] More…

The Chinese car manufacturer Changan is investing the equivalent of 258 million euros in a plant for electric and hybrid cars and batteries in Thailand. It is to become Changan’s first vehicle plant for right-hand drive vehicles outside China. According to the Thailand Board of Investment (BOI), the plant will have an initial production capacity […] More…