The VW brand delivered around 394,000 fully electric vehicles worldwide in 2023, an increase of 21.1 per cent compared to the previous year. However, business with combustion cars remains strongly dominant at Volkswagen. Read more…

Diess succeeds Alexander Landia, an energy market expert who has held the position since 2017, at the technology company for vehicle-to-grid (V2G) and intelligent charging. According to the press release from The Mobility House, Landia will “continue to contribute his outstanding energy market expertise to the company” as an ordinary member of the Board of Directors. Read more…

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Volkswagen is integrating ChatGPT into its vehicles. As the Group announced at the CES in Las Vegas, the chatbot based on artificial intelligence will be made available in its own voice assistant, which can be used to control infotainment, navigation and air conditioning, for example, or to answer general knowledge questions. Read more…

The map and navigation provider Here wants to enable electric car manufacturers to make more accurate range predictions. The ‘Here EV Range Factors’ system that has now been announced is intended to incorporate numerous values in order to achieve a more accurate prediction of the remaining range. Read more…

The US electric vehicle startup Revo Zero has opened the order books for pre-orders of its SUV called Energy. The vehicle uses both a hydrogen fuel cell and an electric battery. It is not clear when the car will hit the road or what the final price will be. Read more…

Volvo has started deliveries of the EX30 in Europe. The first examples of the all-electric compact SUV were handed over to customers in Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal. Read more…

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have developed and patented a new cathode material for sodium-ion batteries. This should enable a significantly higher energy density than other sodium-ion cells – but still lags somewhat behind lithium-ion technology. Read more…

The US battery cell developer 24M, which is supported by Volkswagen, is presenting a battery separator called Impervio. The new technology is designed to significantly improve the safety of lithium-ion and lithium-metal batteries and will be ready for the market in one to two years. Read more…

BASF and Stena Recycling have signed an agreement on purchasing black mass. The deal is part of a broader collaboration between the two companies to establish a value chain for battery recycling for Europe’s EV battery market. Read more…

France not only has a reformed subsidy scheme for electric vehicles since the beginning of the year. A penalty tax, the so-called “malus ecologique” for polluting and heavy combustion vehicles, has also been increased to keep said vehicles off the road. Read more…

In a new round of funding, the US government has awarded a total of almost one billion dollars to 67 applicants for the procurement of “clean” school buses and their infrastructure. Read more…

The BMW Group sold a total of 376,183 all-electric vehicles in 2023. That is 74.4 per cent more than in 2022, with the BMW core brand achieving even stronger growth thanks to several new models, while Mini only saw a slight increase. Read more…

Kia presents its future “Platform Beyond Vehicle” (PBV) strategy at CES 2024. The focus is on modular electric cars and integrating software solutions, robotics and autonomous driving. The Concept PV5 presented in Las Vegas previews the first PBV series model. It will launch in 2025. Read more…

Bosch has been trialling automated parking with partners for a while now. Now the concept is to be expanded to include the automated charging of electric cars. Bosch and VW software subsidiary Cariad are now testing the system in two multi-storey car parks. Read more…

Evergrande New Energy Vehicle, the electric car division of the Chinese property group Evergrande, is now facing a second investigation into a manager. This time, the focus is on Liu Yongzhuo, the company’s president. Read more…

Hyundai Mobis North America Electrified Powertrain and UL Solutions have announced plans to join forces to improve the safety and performance of electric car batteries. The companies state that the new collaboration aims to help increase the safe, widespread deployment of electric vehicle battery technology. Read more…

The BT Group (British Telecommunications) is launching the first pilot project to convert its distribution boxes for broadband and telephone cables into charging points for electric cars. The goal is to examine the potential of repurposing up to 60,000 street cabinets. Read more…

New car registrations reached 1,903,054 units in the UK in 2023. Battery-electric cars make up 16.5 per cent of the market share, and plug-in cars another 7.4 per cent. Read more…

The EU Commission has approved the German government’s funding for Northvolt’s battery cell factory in the North of the country under state aid law. Northvolt received the funding decision for the factory at the beginning of December 2023 – it was subject to approval, which the EU has now granted. Read more…