Berlin’s oldest passenger ship ‘Kaiser Friedrich’ used to consume a whopping 150 litres of diesel per operating hour. But this is now a thing of the past: Torqeedo, a specialist in electric boat engines, has converted the 138-year-old ship to an electric drive. Read more…

Opel/Vauxhall revealed the design of the new Frontera a few weeks ago, and now the new electric compact SUV from Rüsselsheim is finally celebrating its world premiere. While international pricing remains unclear, it was announced that the Frontera will also be available as a seven-seater. Read more…

Manufacturers producing in China sold around 850,000 electric cars and plug-in hybrids in April. Although this is slightly less than in March, a third more plug-in vehicles were sold than a year ago. The electric share of all vehicles sold in China climbed to around 36 per cent in April. Read more…

The new Kia EV6 is a facelifted version of the South Korean automaker’s Tesla Model Y rival. The electric crossover SUV is set to go on sale in the brand’s home market in June. Read more…

The breakthrough in the EU countries on the new CO2 standards for trucks and buses took place several weeks ago. Now the European Council has also formally agreed. The regulation has thus cleared the final hurdle. It stipulates that all new city buses must be emission-free from 2035 and almost all new lorries from 2040. Read more…

The Cross-E project, funded by the European Union, has been launched to set up high-power charging stations for electric vehicles along major routes and harbours across Europe. A total of 911 charging points are planned in eight countries. Read more…

After Tesla recently disbanded its team responsible for the Supercharger network, CEO Elon Musk has now announced that his company will invest more than 500 million US dollars in the expansion of its charging network this year. Staffing issues are expected, however. Read more…

Qwello, a provider of charging infrastructure from Munich, has acquired Park & Charge, a Dutch operator of charging stations. The combined company will manage more than 12,000 charging points in almost 300 municipalities in seven European countries. Read more…

Daimler Truck North America announced two significant investments at its headquarters complex on Swan Island, a new Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) training center adjacent to Electric Island and a new engineering facility at the DTNA campus. Read more…

China’s EV and battery manufacturer BYD has launched a joint venture for sodium-ion batteries with its partner Huaihai. The two sides started building the first factory for the corresponding batteries at the beginning of this year. Read more…

Nick Cassidy and Antonio Felix da Costa are the winners of the Formula E weekend in Berlin. Jaguar driver Cassidy won the first race of the E-Prix, Porsche driver da Costa the second. Jaguar extended its lead over Porsche in the team standings. Read more…

Mercedes-Benz is putting the brakes on investment with a change of course – and is no longer developing its electric platform “MB.EA-Large”, according to a media report. From 2028, the Stuttgart-based company actually wanted to electrify the new generation of its largest saloons and SUVs on the basis of this architecture. Read more…

Californian lithium-sulphur battery developer Lyten has started shipping A-samples of its 6.5 Ah pouch cells to Stellantis and other car manufacturers in the US and EU. Read more…

The Chinese electric car brand Avatr from the two partners Changan and CATL has unveiled its third model, the Avatr 07. The SUV crossover is positioned as a competitor to the Tesla Model Y and comes both as a fully electric vehicle and as a variant with an additional range extender. Read more…

BYD has released a new affordable electric SUV in China, and it’s headed to Europe next here. Called ‘BYD Sea Lion 07,’ the new model will slot above the BYD Seal and likely compete with the VW ID.5. Read more…

The VW ID. California that was confirmed in 2021 might not be coming in 2025 as rumoured in 2023. Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles doesn’t look keen on launching the electric campervan anytime soon, although it’s not backtracking on its decision to launch this model. Read more…

Tesla is currently on tour in Europe with the Cybertruck, but only in showrooms. The edgy electric pickup is unlikely to make it onto the continent’s roads. To still get a chance to test drive a Cybertruck, our contributor from P3 travelled to the US to gather both positive and negative impressions of the stainless steel colossus. Here’s a somewhat different driving report—including the charging curve.

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A VW ID.1 could arrive as the VW e-up! successor later this decade. Volkswagen has begun initial planning but faces some challenges in bringing the new electric city car to the market, but the slowdown in EV sales is not one of them. Read more…

The Hyundai Nexo, the South Korean automaker’s hydrogen fuel cell electric SUV, is set for a full makeover and will enter its second generation in 2025. Along with a completely new design, the next-gen Hyundai Nexo will have significant engineering improvements for a higher and more practical driver range. Read more…

After confirming the launch of an all-new Golf EV, Volkswagen has started early design work on the car. That’s a new development coming directly from Thomas Schäfer, the CEO of the company. This time around, the Golf EV will be a high-volume car offered widely across Europe and possibly even in other regions. Read more…