Last autumn, the Milan public transport company ATM invited tenders for the procurement of a total of 340 battery buses. According to Italian media, the winners of two of the three lots have been determined. According to the Italian trade portal Autobusweb, Iveco Bus has been awarded the contract to supply 205 electric 12-metre buses. […] More…

The Indian petroleum company Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd (BPCL) wants to turn all its petrol stations in India into “energy stations” that also offer charging options for electric vehicles. As a first step, charging stations will be set up at 7,000 of BPCL’s more than 19,000 petrol stations by December 2024. BPCL will initially focus […] More…

The Japanese semiconductor conductor manufacturer Rohm Semiconductor wants to start up its largest production facility to date at the end of 2024. For this purpose, Rohm is acquiring an existing plant of the solar technology company Solar Frontier in Kunitomi, Japan. The purchase is expected to be completed in October 2023. With the new plant, […] More…

A new solid-state battery factory is being built in China. Jiangxi Judian New Energy Technology, a battery manufacturer little known in the West, has announced the start of construction of a plant in Ganzhou in China’s Jiangxi province. Once fully operational, the new plant is expected to have an annual capacity of ten gigawatt hours […] More…

The Israeli chemical company ICL (formerly Israel Chemicals) has begun construction of a factory for lithium iron phosphate (LFP) in St. Louis in the US state of Missouri. The plant will produce LFP cathode material for battery cells for use in electric cars, among other things, from 2025. The background to the construction of the […] More…

Around 780,000 electric cars and plug-in hybrids were sold in China in July, 31.6 per cent more than in the same month last year. Among the manufacturers, BYD continues to outpace the competition, but there is also movement among the startups. However, sales are down slightly compared to the 806,000 so-called News Energy Vehicles (NEV) […] More…

Tech company Huawei has announced a coupe-like electric sedan. The company revealed the first image of the EV, saying that it will be officially unveiled this quarter – possibly as early as August at the Chengdu Auto Show. The electric car is part of a joint project between Huawei and EV maker Chery. According to […] More…

Geely’s EV brand Zeekr has slashed its Zeekr 001 model prices in China. Customers, who purchase the EV before the end of the year, get the car for up to 37,000 yuan (4,700 euros) less. Zeekr sells four versions of the Zeekr 001 model in China. The prices of the first two, normally offered from […] More…

Ford’s Cologne-build Explorer will be delivered about half a year later than initially planned. Now, the carmaker gives a reason for the delay: it wants to use a different battery to comply with the ECE standard. Until now, the plan was to manufacture the Explorer based on Volkswagen’s MEB. Ford’s electric SUV was thus to […] More…

Mercedes-Benz has recalled over two thousand of its all-electric flagship model EQS in China due to two different software problems. Vehicles from different production periods are affected. One of the two recalls involves 2,324 imported EQS vehicles with production dates from 14 June 2021 to 8 July 2022, where the e-drive may be disabled due […] More…

Hubject is working with CharIN to integrate the organisation’s latest Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for vehicle-to-grid applications into Hubject’s Plug&Charge system. The partners expect to complete the implementation before the year’s end. PKI is one of the most common forms of internet encryption and has spread to other industries. Essentially, a public key infrastructure uses […] More…

BorgWarner is supplying Li Auto with its integrated drive module ‘iDM220’ for the company’s planned New Energy Vehicles. This is BorgWarner’s first iDM business in China and is currently installed in two of Li Auto’s model lines, including the L8 and L9 range-extended electric vehicle. According to the drive manufacturer, BorgWarner’s iDM220 is a highly-integrated […] More…

German automotive supplier Mahle has released a new battery cooling plate and considers it a “technological leap”. The company’s engineers took inspiration from nature to develop a bionic structure for the cooling channels enabling the coolant to flow differently. According to Mahle, this significantly improves the thermodynamic performance and the structural-mechanical properties of the cooling […] More…

TeraWatt Infrastructure, founded by ex-Google strategist Neha Palmer, has broken ground on a new charging site for EV fleets in California. The charging park near Los Angeles Airport will host 26 DC fast chargers and is slated to open next year. TeraWatt owns the site and will operate and maintain the charging infrastructure. At the […] More…

The South Korean conglomerate Lotte has announced the construction of a factory in Spain for the production of copper foils for use in battery cells for electric cars. Near Tarragona, up to 30,000 tonnes of copper foils are to be produced per year from 2025. Construction will be carried out by subsidiary Lotte Energy Materials, […] More…

Dutch charging software provider GreenFlux has launched a DC-specific algorithm for intelligent fast charging. The algorithm is designed to ensure that the combined power consumption of a group of charging stations automatically stays below a specific limit. This makes it geared towards commercial customers, and Greenflux confirms that the algorithm has already been incorporated into […] More…

Ford has postponed the market launch of its Cologne-built electric model Explorer, previously planned for early 2024, by about half a year. The issue is apparently related to new global safety regulations for the drive train. As reported by the Cologne-based publication Kölnische Rundschau, Ford informed the Cologne workforce on Thursday morning. According to the […] More…

The Chinese carmaker Li Auto plans to introduce its first pure BEV model, Mega, at this year’s end and launch three more BEVs on the Chinese market in 2024. So far, the company has focused on hybrid models with range extenders (EREV). Li Auto is thus “declaring war” on brands such as BMW, Audi and […] More…

Motiv Power Systems presents the new Argo series featuring the first medium-duty EV cab designed from the ground up. The commercial electric vehicle specialist says the Argo can support all medium-duty applications across Class 4-6. This includes box trucks, step vans, shuttle buses, refrigerated vehicles, vocational vehicles, and other specialities, so Motiv. The company considers […] More…

Cadillac has unveiled the Escalade IQ, an all-electric “full-size SUV” that is scheduled to go into production in the summer of 2024. Based on General Motors’ Ultium platform, the Cadillac Escalade IQ gets an enormous battery. The Escalade IQ, which will debut with the 2025 model year, has up to 559 kW of all-wheel drive […] More…