In Salzburg, letters, parcels and other postal items are to be delivered CO2-free from the beginning of next year. To this end, Austrian Post is adding 120 new electric vehicles to its fleet at three depots in the region. By the end of this year, 220 electric vehicles from the Austrian Post fleet will be […] More…

Ora wants to give all Funky Cat stock vehicles a software update. Vehicles that are already on the road will be returned to the workshop for this. The background to this is the elimination of an alleged safety defect that the German automobile association ADAC had installed. During the charging process, the charging plug of […] More…

The Luxembourg government is funding the expansion of the charging infrastructure with an additional five million euros. In a second tender, 20 fast-charging projects from 17 companies have now been selected. Not all of the fast chargers will be open to the public. A total of 246 new fast-charging points are to be built and […] More…

Quantron has entered into a strategic collaboration with Mob’Hy, a French specialist in the production and distribution of green hydrogen. As part of this, both companies signed a letter of intent for the procurement of 253 hydrogen-powered Quantron vehicles by Mob’Hy. According to Quantron, the purchase of the vehicles is planned for the period from […] More…

Bucharest-based energy company OMV Petrom has announced the construction of more than 400 new HPC points. Each of these will have a capacity of 150 kW at will be installed at 98 locations in Romania, Slovakia and Hungary by the end of 2025. OMV Petrom has said that 328 charging points will be installed at […] More…

Mazda is discontinuing sales of its only all-electric model in the US. The Mazda MX-30 will not receive a new model year – instead, the Japanese are going all-in on hybrids for electrification in North America. The automaker announced in a terse statement. “Mazda will discontinue MX-30 EV for the US market following the 2023 […] More…

Tesla has just completed the planned acquisition of German inductive charging technology specialist Wiferion announced in June. According to its website imprint, the Freiburg-based company now operates as Tesla Engineering Germany GmbH. Last month, we reported the confirmation from two of the German startup’s investors that the company’s founders had made an exit and shareholders […] More…

Stellantis has officially joined Symbio as the third shareholder in the fuel cell joint venture. The company announced that it now holds 33.3 per cent of the shares. Other shareholders are Faurecia and Michelin. Stellantis had announced its intention to take a stake in Symbio at the end of last year. In May 2023, the […] More…

The new Formula E world champion is Jake Dennis. The British driver from the Porsche customer team Avalanche Andretti finished on the podium in both races of the season finale of the electric racing series in London and took the driver’s title with 229 points. After the penultimate event of the season in Rome, Dennis […] More…

The company Tanbreez Mining wants to mine rare earths in Greenland from 2024 onwards, as reported in German media. The supply of these essential elements for electric motors is currently dominated by China. The Greenland mining project should supply Europe’s needs more locally from next year onwards. The German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche reported that North […] More…

Iveco wants to produce and market battery-electric and fuel-cell trucks under its own name. The news comes as little surprise, as the company had been working with electric trucks on the road since 2019, albeit originally not on its own. The news comes after Iveco unveiled the Iveco Heavy Duty BEV on the sidelines of […] More…

As this year’s Formula E season draws to a close, electrive interviewed Dirk Kesselgruber, the Chief Technology Officer at GKN Automotive, who provided an outlook on where the company’s technology stands, and where it wants to be heading. Fans of the electric racing series will know that the technical requirements change from season to season, […] More…

According to a new investigative report from Reuters, Tesla has rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge. Because of Tesla’s range visuals suddenly dropping and not delivering the range promised in the cold, drivers think there is something wrong with […] More…

Charging software provider ev.energy has closed a Series B funding round of US$33 million, bringing the company’s total capital to US$46 million. The company says it will use the equivalent of €30 million in Series B funding to advance the integration of electric vehicles into the power grid in North America and Europe. According to […] More…

In Canada, BC Transit, the public transport operator for British Columbia, will procure up to 115 battery buses and install 134 charging points throughout the province. The total investment garnered for the project is 395 million Canadian dollars (272 million euros). The Government of Canada is contributing just under 170 million CAD (117 million euros), […] More…

The charging network operator ChargePoint has secured a credit line totalling 150 million US dollars from four banks (JP Morgan, HSBC, Citi and Goldman Sachs). ChargePoint intends to use the funds to accelerate its commercial growth. As ChargePoint itself reports, no funds from the credit line have yet been drawn down. On the one hand, […] More…

Japanese trading company Marubeni is investing in Skeleton Technologies, a developer and manufacturer of supercapacitors, to expand Skeleton’s production capacities in Germany. This apparently involves a double-digit million euro amount. Marubeni sells Skeleton’s technology in Asia and wants to support the expansion of production to meet demand for Skeleton’s so-called SuperBattery. This is a new […] More…