Trucks with combustion engines will still be able to be registered in the EU after 2035. A possible phase-out would take place in 2040 at the earliest, according to an internal Commission document on the revision of CO2 fleet limits for heavy-duty vehicles. This document was made available to Euractiv. The EU Commission’s proposals are […] More…

Chinese electric car manufacturer Nio has started deliveries of its EL7 SUV model in Europe. The first cars went to customers in the Netherlands. Deliveries of the EL7 in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway will follow soon. The very first SUV was handed over on January 31st, Nio’s managing director for the Netherlands communicated over […] More…

Tesla plans to produce an average of 20,000 vehicles at its Shanghai factory in February and March. This is according to an internal planning memo available to the news agency Reuters. That would bring the production roughly back to the level of September 2022, when the factory turned out 82,088 Model 3 and Model Y. […] More…

Barcelona has banned e-scooters after a kick scooter burst into flame when charging on a train. Authorities say the ban will be in place for six months to give them time to work on regulations that will guarantee the safety of passengers. The move has been controversial to begin with, as commuters who do rely […] More…

Less than 2,000 passenger cars were newly registered in Norway in January, some 6,000 fewer than in the same month last year. This comes after Norway hit a new record in December, with 32,714 newly registered batter-electric passenger cars – by far the strongest month in 2022. The market share of zero-emission cars also took […] More…

The Chinese electric car manufacturer Xpeng has strengthened its team with an experienced automotive manager. Fengying Wang joined Xpeng as president on January 30, where she will be responsible for product planning and sales, which have been flagging recently. Fengying Wang will report directly to He Xiaopeng, the company’s chairman and CEO. Fengying Wang previously […] More…

Mercedes-Benz has unveiled the model update for the SUV GLE and the GLE Coupé. When the revised vehicles are launched in July 2023, there will only be electrified powertrains – the plug-in hybrid will also receive a minor technical update. Basically, the model generation launched in 2018 has been updated in terms of exterior, interior, […] More…

The US semiconductor manufacturer Wolfspeed has confirmed previously leaked plans to build a plant for SiC semiconductors in Saarland with local supplier ZF. The highly automated 200 mm wafer plant will be the company’s first “fab facility” in Europe and is expected to be the most modern of its kind. Wolfspeed and ZF made the […] More…

The Mobility House (TMH) has, for the first time, proven that electric vehicle batteries can take part in energy market trading and achieve four-digit revenues per vehicle. The key is in the EVs’ flexibility as mobile storage units, just the experimental set-up was stationery. The Mobility House is based on the EUREF Campus in Berlin, […] More…

French battery manufacturer Forsee Power has signed a cooperation agreement with Chinese cell producer CALB. Under the agreement, Forsee Power will integrate CALB’s NMC cells with “very high energy density” into its battery systems for electric commercial vehicles. Concrete purchase quantities or financial volumes of the agreement have not yet been disclosed. The cooperation also […] More…

General Motors is investing in the lithium producer Lithium Americas, thus securing access to the Thacker Pass mine in Nevada, the largest known source of lithium in the USA and the third largest in the world. In addition, GM has secured its supply for another component for its electric cars with a German company. Under […] More…

The South Korean materials group Posco Chemical has received its largest and longest-term order to date. Battery manufacturer Samsung SDI has contracted Posco Chemical to supply NCA cathode material over a ten-year period. The high nickel content NCA cathodes are explicitly for electric vehicle batteries. The order is worth 40 trillion won (equivalent to around […] More…

The ChargePoint network and Stem, an AI-driven clean energy solutions provider, have agreed to join forces and put artificial intelligence behind EV charging. They aim for lower operating costs and added energy resiliency at charging hubs and locating new sites. ChargePoint will analyse the EV charging demand at sites looking to install DC chargers and […] More…

Sonoma County in California announced the purchase of ten battery-electric buses by Proterra to replace ten compressed natural gas buses. The new buses shall arrive in the summer of 2024 and join six other all-electric buses expected to arrive in June. This will bring up the total number of electric buses in Sonoma County services […] More…

BMW is joining forces with Evergo in Mexico to build more than 4,000 public charging stations for electric vehicles in the country over the next five years. The companies have slated a $ 200 million investment and are looking into both AC and DC charging. BMW Mexico has been offering electrified vehicles in the country […] More…

Stagecoach has ordered 55 electric buses from British bus builder Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL). It is the first order of ADL’s latest double-decker, which they developed entirely in-house. ADL unveiled the Enviro400EV in November 2022 – before the presentation, all Enviro400EV buses of the same name came from a cooperation BYD. The vehicles marketed as […] More…

The Geely subsidiary Lotus has announced its intention to list its electric car division Lotus Technology on the stock exchange. Accordingly, the plan is to list on the US stock exchange Nasdaq through a merger with L Catterton Asia Acquisition Corporation, which is already listed there. The plans, which were leaked about a year ago, […] More…

Tesla is planning to increase its capital expenditure range by one billion dollars. The money could flow into the expansion of Giga Nevada, or possibly into a new plant in Mexico, for which there is new information about a possible location. First, to the company’s investment plan: as a document submitted to the US Securities […] More…

Swiss technology group ABB has raised a further 325 million Swiss francs from four investors, including Porsche SE, for its e-mobility division with its charging station business in the second and final round of its pre-IPO private placement. ABB had raised around 200 million Swiss francs in the first pre-IPO private placement. This raised a […] More…

DHL Express has expanded its fleet of electric vehicles in the Philippines. The new batch of 18 EVs includes 13 BYD vans and five motorcycles manufactured by Ecooter. These new electric vehicle fleets will be deployed to operate delivering shipments in Metro Manila cities such as Makati, Ortigas, Manila and Las Piñas. They will also […] More…