The Chinese electric car manufacturer Nio has opened a 1,500 square metre innovation centre in Berlin. As a European technology hub, the location in the German capital is to contribute to the development of new technologies and applications. We asked around on-site. The new Amazon Tower is just around the corner, as is the RAW […] More…

This year’s Tour de France, which started on 1 July, marks Skoda’s 20th anniversary as the official main sponsor of the world’s most famous cycling race. This year’s 209 support and organisation vehicles are almost entirely electric. 207 of the 209 Skoda models in use have electric or hybrid drives. The race director leads the […] More…

The Dutch construction company Jos Scholman will purchase 16 Opel Vivaro-e Hydrogen vehicles. The 16 fuel cell transporters will expand Jos Scholman’s hydrogen-powered fleet, which already consists of around 30 FCEVs, including cars, tractors and diggers. The Opel Vivaro-e Hydrogen, presented in mid-2021, will be mass-produced at the Hordain plant in France, along with the […] More…

Siemens will deliver metering services to three partners in the UK, namely Blink Charging, Be.EV and Evyve. These partnerships are set to fast-track the installation of more than 10,000 new EV charging points across the UK over the next four years and help bridge a gap in the market. The charge point operators say the […] More…

The Volkswagen Group and FAW-Volkswagen will invest an additional 800 million yuan (around €10 million) in its Chinese charging infrastructure joint venture, CAMS. The goal is to accelerate the development of fast charging stations in China. Volkswagen plans to install 17,000 CAMS fast-charging points in China by 2025. In context: in June 2023, the CAMS […] More…

EKPO Fuel Cell Technologies, the fuel cell joint venture between ElringKlinger and Plastic Omnium, announces an order for the supply of fuel cell stacks for a cruise ship. The order from an unnamed international cruise company involves the delivery of NM12 single fuel cell stacks for an initial cruise ship operated by a global shipping […] More…

Kentucky has become the first US state to require charging infrastructure providers to implement the Tesla charging system as a condition of receiving funding. The corresponding regulation in Kentucky went into effect last Friday. In addition to federal requirements for the competing Combined Charging System (CCS), Kentucky stipulates that Tesla’s so-called North American Charging Standard […] More…

In China, battery specialist WeLion has delivered its first semi-solid-state battery cells to electric car manufacturer Nio. Nio will use the cells in its 150 kWh battery pack and is aiming for the first deliveries of e-cars with these battery packs before the end of July. At a ceremony last week, the first delivery of […] More…

The governor of New Mexico, Michelle Lujan Grisham has announced a plan requiring vehicle manufacturers to provide an increasing number of electric models in the state over the next ten years. She will use an executive order to pass the measure. Once it has passed, the Advanced Clean Cars & Advanced Trucks rule will require […] More…

Battery materials company RecycLiCo (formerly American Manganese) has entered a 50-50 joint venture with Zenith Chemical Corporation to build a battery recycling plant in Taiwan. The first facility, estimated to cost $25 mn, is to process 2,000 metric tons per year of lithium-ion waste. The partners expect to convert the materials into valuable resources such […] More…

Argentina plans to start producing battery cells for electric cars in September 2023. The production plant, built by the state-owned energy research company Y-TEC, will use lithium carbonate extracted from Livent in northern Argentina. Nothing is known yet about the production capacity. “We will start to produce the first lithium-ion battery cells in the country,” […] More…

The VW brand announced an investment of one billion euros until 2026 for a product offensive in South America. Before the end of the year, the electric models ID.4 and ID. Buzz will be offered in Brazil on a subscription basis. By 2025, Volkswagen plans to launch 15 new electric and so-called flex-fuel vehicle models […] More…

Iveco has now completed the acquisition of the Ulm, Germany-based BEV and FCEV truck joint venture with Nikola, announced in May. Nikola Iveco Europe will be renamed EVCO (Electric Vehicles COmpany) as part of the acquisition. The definitive agreements with Nikola Corporation have been finalised “in accordance with the terms described on 9 May 2023”, […] More…

New registrations of electric cars in Norway continued to increase for the end of the first half of 2023. With 12,801 new electric cars, the result not only surpassed that of May, but also that of June 2022. The most popular model in Norway last month was the Tesla Model Y by a wide margin. […] More…

Canada’s capital Ottawa wants to set up a coast-to-coast EV charging station network. All 133 planned stations should be up and running by 31 March 2025. The project is expected to cost a total of CAD 1.6 million – 500,000 of which will be covered by Natural Resources Canada’s Zero-Emission Vehicle Infrastructure Program. The concerned […] More…

Tesla recently stopped making right-hand-drive models, offering only left-hand-drive models in the UK and other countries. And for some drivers, that is quite a stretch. For them to still be able to i.e. pull a receipt at the car park or grab food at a drive-thru through the passenger window, Tesla now offers “The Reacher.” […] More…

In the London Gatwick Airport greater area, 20 fuel cell buses procured by the transport company Go-Ahead are now in use. To supply the buses, Air Products operates a liquid hydrogen filling station in Crawley in the immediate vicinity of Gatwick Airport. The GB Kite Hydroliners ordered by Go-Ahead from the Northern Irish manufacturer Wrightbus […] More…

London’s largest taxi and rental car company, Addison Lee, is buying Green Tomato Cars, a London-based ride service provider specialising in electrified cars. Addison Lee will thus take over the fleet consisting of more than 1,000 electric vehicles. Addison Lee’s fleet will grow to more than 7,500 vehicles following the takeover of Green Tomato. The […] More…

The German automotive supplier Schaeffler has opened a new development centre in Kysuce, Slovakia. Here, the company is developing products and components for e-mobility as well as chassis applications that are used for automated driving, among other things. The supplier is also expanding its test centre at the location with new test benches, test and […] More…

Hofer, the Austrian subsidiary of the supermarket chain Aldi, is expanding the charging infrastructure at its shops. Hofer wants to install more than 1,500 new charging points at over 450 locations by the end of 2026. The expansion will be carried out together with regional energy suppliers. According to the portal Ökonews, the roll-out has […] More…