US manufacturer Lucid Motors has significantly lowered the prices of its electric luxury sedan Air. The price reductions affect all trim levels – the Pure, Touring and Grand Touring. The Lucid Air Pure AWD now costs 82,400 dollars in the USA, which is 10,650 dollars less than before. The prices for the Air Touring and […] More…

Denza, BYD’s Chinese joint venture with Mercedes-Benz, has started deliveries of its new all-electric model N7 in China. The electric SUV is intended to compete with the Tesla Model Y. The Denza N7 starts at 301,800 yuan, equivalent to around 38,200 euros. It is thus more expensive than the Model Y in China, which starts […] More…

Nikola Motor is getting a new CEO and a new Chairman of the Board. Michael Lohscheller, who held both positions since the beginning of the year, is stepping down due to personel reasons. The move is effective immediately, though Lohscheller “will remain at Nikola in an advisory capacity through the end of September to support […] More…

In Japan, Uber is putting 100 Tesla Model Ys on the roads of Tokyo. This is the ride-hailing company’s first deployment of electric vehicles in the cab and for-hire industry in Japan. In collaboration with local cab and for-hire car operator Hinomaru Kotsu, the first 30 Model Ys will be deployed in the Setagaya, Edogawa […] More…

New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a $12 million initiative to support the integration of EVs and the grid. The target of this EV-grid integration is hard-to-decarbonise applications, such as heavy trucking and construction vehicles, as well as fleets and residential EV ownership. The competitive program is administered by the New York State Energy Research […] More…

Hyundai and Kia are recalling more than 91,000 newer vehicles in the USA due to fire hazards and are asking their owners to park the cars outside. One might assume that this refers to electric cars, however, one would be mistaken: this recall only affects internal combustion engines. Specifically, about 52,000 units of the Hyundai […] More…

With a range of almost 600 kilometres and low energy consumption, BMW’s i4 eDrive40 is a good electric car. But does the concept of the electric 4 Series Gran Coupé still work if the size of the battery is reduced? And is it even worth it? *** One thing right up front: a catchy model […] More…

The Chinese charging infrastructure manufacturer XCharge is setting up a production facility in the USA, specifically in the city of Kyle in Texas, through its subsidiary XCharge North America. DC fast chargers are to be manufactured there. According to the announcement, the Kyle facility will initially offer an area of around 325 square metres (original […] More…

Rwanda plans to put the country’s first electric buses into operation this year. The first examples are to roll out onto the streets of the capital Kigali as early as October – financed via a kilometre-based leasing model. The vehicles will come from the company BasiGo, a company that supplies and assembles BYD buses in […] More…

Nexeon, a UK-based developer of silicon-based anode materials for lithium-ion batteries, has announced the location for its first commercial production facility in the South Korean industrial city of Gunsan. Construction is expected to begin this year, with production scheduled to start in 2025. The plant is expected to supply “tens of thousands of tons” of […] More…

Ford is developing a heavy fuel cell truck prototype as part of an EU project. This was revealed by the Canadian fuel cell specialist Ballard Power Systems, which will supply the technology for this before the end of the year. The 44-tonne Ford F-MAX of the Turkish joint venture Ford Otosan is to be converted […] More…

Volkswagen Group of America has appointed Lyndon Lie as its new Chief Engineering Officer. He worked for General Motors and for Nikola before joining Volkswagen. At Nikola, Lyndon Lie was the global head of product development for the US manufacturer’s BEV and FCEV trucks. At Volkswagen, Lie will oversee the group’s development of future vehicles […] More…

The SAIC brand MG Motor is considering building the electric compact model MG4 in the planned European plant. While there is no concrete location for the factory yet, but the decision is expected to be made in the next two or three years. At the beginning of July, there were first reports that the Chinese […] More…

Tesla is apparently about to switch production of the Model 3 to the revised version. Observers from China report that production of the current Model 3 at the Tesla factory in Shanghai will cease in a few days on 14 August. The first examples of the new Model 3, which has been under development since […] More…

The French government has been given the go-ahead from the EU Commission to subsidise research and development of solid-state batteries for electric vehicles with the Taiwanese company ProLogium. The European Commission has approved funding of €1.5 billion under EU state aid rules. The R&D project is called “Prometheus” and will run until the end of […] More…

At an event in Huntington Beach, California, Fisker presented its future electric cars that will be on the market by 2026. The models include the Pear compact SUV, the Ronin five-seater sports car and a pickup model that goes by the name Alaska. The Alaska is a four-door pickup truck based on an adaptation of […] More…

The legal dispute between Tesla and Rivian over the alleged theft of trade secrets by former Tesla employees who migrated to Rivian is entering the next round. Although both companies are now cooperating on the NACS charging network, this fight goes on. According to Bloomberg, a judge in California on Wednesday preliminarily denied the employees’ […] More…

In the USA, an additional $16.3 million has been awarded to Nikola in California to support seven open-network hydrogen refuelling stations with its HYLA brand. The truckmaker has also revealed it has surpassed 200 sales orders for its fuel cell truck. So far, HYLA refuelling stations have been planned along Californian freight corridors. The company […] More…

The materials may sound unusual at first glance, but researchers at MIT have created a new supercapacitor from “ancient materials”: cement, carbon black and water. It could be used to charge electric cars, among other applications. The supercapacitor could also be integrated into the foundations of buildings. It would thus contribute to the stability of […] More…

Infineon is investing an additional up to five billion euros in the production of SiC semiconductors in Malaysia by significantly expanding its factory in Kulim. The Infineon plant in Kulim will become the “world’s largest 200-millimetre SiC Power Fab”. The planned expansion will be supported by customer commitments of around five billion euros in the […] More…