Stellantis and BMW consider opening battery plants together with Panasonic in North America. According to American media, talks are already underway. Stellantis has already started building battery factories in North America: one with LG Energy Solution in Canada and another with Samsung SDI in the US state of Indiana. A third one could now be […] More…

The US electric car manufacturer Rivian produced 9,395 vehicles and delivered 7,946 in the first quarter of this year. For the full year 2023, Rivian is sticking to its goal of producing 50,000 vehicles. Compared to the previous quarter, both the production and delivery figures represent virtually flat to slightly declining levels: in Q4 2022, […] More…

The city of Paris has asked its citizens to vote on the proposed ban on electric rental scooters in the city – with a clear result: 89 per cent of those who voted were in favour of banning rental scooters from the streets of the French capital. It is important to note that less than […] More…

BYD has announced a partnership with Evera, a New Delhi-based electric taxi service, to deliver a fleet of 100 e6 electric cars. The 100 BYD e6 units will be delivered to Evera over the next few months. “With BYD All-New e6, we are excited to continue our electric vehicle fleet operation with our shared value […] More…

In the KOSEL project, the Fraunhofer Institute IWU and partners have developed an open-source construction kit for electric vehicles that contains particularly durable and reusable modules. This should allow certain parts to be used over several vehicle life cycles. Specifically, the project initiators have developed the basic concept for a light electric utility vehicle with […] More…

Production at the Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide, Germany, now runs in three shifts. Additional shifts are already being considered to increase output further. In addition to the Model Y, the carmaker could start building a second model there. Jochem Freyer from the employment agency in Frankfurt (Oder) spoke to the local radio- and TV station […] More…

Quantron AG and Norwegian Hydrogen, a producer of green hydrogen and operator of hydrogen refuelling stations, have agreed on a five-year strategic collaboration to introduce hydrogen-powered heavy-duty trucks in Scandinavia. Norwegian Hydrogen is to be Quantron’s preferred hydrogen supplier in the Scandinavian countries, providing green hydrogen through its production facilities. The H2 filling stations there […] More…

Sweden’s e-boat maker X Shore has completed another funding round, raising 300 million Swedish kroner. That is a little over $29 million. The company will use the money to scale its production and reach profitability next year. SEB Investment Management AB led the funding, which also “several new shareholders,” X Shore says. “The X Shore […] More…

Westway Coaches is looking to speed up the electrification process of its fleet. To that end, it is working with the British electric drive specialist Equipmake to retrofit its coaches with electric drives. The system comprises a 545 kWh battery pack, an electric motor, an inverter and an efficiency-maximising HVAC system – all developed by […] More…

Swedish electric truck start-up Volta Trucks is receiving funding of 24.6 million euros from the German Federal Ministry of Transport to subsidize vehicle costs for 151 units of its Volta Zero. Volta Trucks plans to deliver the first of the funded electric trucks to customers before the end of 2023. Volta Trucks announces that “Customer […] More…

The General Motors brand BrightDrop has secured another major order for its electric transporters. Ryder, a US commercial vehicle fleet management company, plans to introduce 4,000 BrightDrop Zevo 600s and Zevo 400s to its fleet by 2025. The order for the first 200 EVs will already be placed this year. The EVs will be introduced […] More…

IBU-Tec Advanced Materials has won another customer for its LFP battery material. It signed a contract with an unnamed “renowned global automotive group for the development and production of battery material for electromobility.” Following the development phase, IBU-Tec will also produce “significant quantities” of the material at its Weimar site as early as the second […] More…

Strasbourg public transport operator CTS (Compagnie des Transports Strasbourgeois) has signed a framework contract with Portuguese bus manufacturer CaetanoBus for the delivery of up to 60 hydrogen buses over the next five years. In a press release sent to us by email, CaetanoBus says that it was awarded the contract after an “international and demanding […] More…

With a market share of 86.8 per cent, electric passenger cars saw a slight increase again in March in Norway, surpassing the result from March 2022. The Tesla Model Y was the best-selling EV by far. After an extremely weak January and a February, which saw only little growth compared to last year, EV registrations […] More…

Tesla reportedly plans a four million-unit production capacity for its future compact model. Half of these will be built in North America, one million in China and another million in Germany. According to kr36, the main production site will be the new factory announced in Mexico. However, the news portal also notes that this is […] More…

This year we have once again discovered the best April Fool’s jokes in the field of e-mobility and compiled them for you. For example, Opel is showing the Corsa Moon II, a solar-powered electric vehicle for space tourism based on the Corsa-e BEV model. According to Opel, the Corsa Moon II has a range of […] More…

Tesla now also sells beer – at the steep price of 89 euros per litre. The “GigaBier” is offered in a package with three 330 ml bottles, whose design is inspired by the Tesla Cybertruck. According to Tesla, it is a “limited edition pilsner-style beer brewed in Berlin with our exclusive strain of Cyberhops and […] More…

The British electric drive specialist Saietta is selling 3,000 of its electric drive systems to Ayro, a US manufacturer of so-called ‘low-speed electric vehicles’. The electric drive systems will be used in the new Ayro Vanish model, which will go into production later this year. Deliveries of the powertrains are scheduled to begin in the […] More…

AVL List wants to include a battery’s CO2 footprint in the battery passport. AVL says that it can already measure and optimise how much CO2 is produced during the manufacturing process in its Battery Innovation Center. Instead of relying on estimates and random checks, AVL says it uses sensors that measure how much energy is […] More…

As part of the TwinTRACE joint project, battery company Customcells and partners from industry and research want to digitise battery production. They will set up an intelligent battery factory at Customcells’ site in Tübingen, Germany – complete with a digital twin. The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA and acp systems are partners […] More…