Polestar has entered into a cooperation with the North American start-up Cyclic Materials, which specialises in the recycling of magnets. The memorandum of understanding between the two companies provides for the development of recycled magnets for use in electric motors in Polestar vehicles. The collaboration will also explore ways to efficiently recycle existing magnets, according […] More…

SVOLT, the battery manufacturer that emerged from the Chinese carmaker Great Wall, has unveiled its battery pack innovation that is designed to provide increased safety and enable greater range. The new “Dragon Armor Battery” is now available for pre-order by customers worldwide. According to SVOLT, the new battery pack is expected to be used in […] More…

Toyota Motor North America and Oncor Electric Delivery, a Texas-based electric transmission and distribution company, have agreed to collaborate on a pilot project around vehicle-to-grid (V2G). It is the first cooperation of its kind for Toyota in the US. Toyota’s Electric Vehicle Charging Solutions (EVCS) team will take the lead in this first collaboration with […] More…

BASF has become a strategic supplier of cathode materials for electric car battery cells from Prime Planet Energy & Solutions (PPES), the battery joint venture of Toyota and Panasonic. The first batch has already arrived at PPES. This delivery was made via the joint venture BASF Toda Battery Materials (BTBM), in which BASF holds a […] More…

Dongfeng’s electric car brand Voyah has introduced its third model for the Chinese market. The approximately five-metre-long Zhuiguang electric sedan with twin-motor all-wheel drive has an output of 375 kW and is available with two battery sizes (82 and 109 kWh). In terms of technical data, the Zhuiguang differs from the first Voyah model, an […] More…

Mullen Automotive has received a significant order from one of the largest commercial vehicle dealer groups in the USA. Randy Marion Automotive Group (RMA) signed a firm order agreement for over 6,000 Mullen electric vans, and the contract is valued at $200 million. The order of 6,000 Mullen EV vans of Class 1 followed Mullen […] More…

The Swiss eMobility specialist Designwerk has presented a new type of megawatt charging station designed to rapid-charge electric trucks within 45 minutes. That would be six times faster than 350-kW charging stations, and Designwerk is moving fast towards real-life applications. The new “mega charging station”, as Designwerk refers to it in the announcement, relies on […] More…

From 2031, diesel cars will no longer be allowed to enter the environmental zones of the Flemish cities of Antwerp and Ghent, and from 2035 no petrol cars will be allowed either. This means that the tightening of the environmental zones there will be somewhat weaker than announced a year ago. Antwerp was the first […] More…

The Scottish city of Dundee has scrapped a project that would have seen twelve hydrogen fuel cell buses joining public transport. The Council said it needed the cash elsewhere since costs had gone up, for example, in construction, so hydrogen became “less of a priority”. Lib Dem Councillor Fraser Macpherson said they supported scraping the […] More…

Tata Motors announced today that Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) signed a definitive agreement to launch 921 electric buses in the city of Bengaluru. The Tata subsidiary TML Smart City Mobility Solutions will operate the e-buses for 12 years. TML Smart City Mobility Solutions also signs responsible for supplying and maintaining the Tata buses of […] More…

LG Energy Solution has announced a total investment of 4 trillion won (€2.9 billion) by the end of 2026 in its Ochang plant in South Korea to increase production capacity for electric car round cells and build a new research and development centre. With the expansion of the battery factory, LGES plans to create 1,800 […] More…

VW Commercial Vehicles is launching into a new era with the ID. Buzz as the electric motor replaces the diesel forever. How well does it work? And what has the latest software inside the EV got to offer? Christoph M. Schwarzer tested the ID. Buzz extensively, and here is his assessment. *** The Buzz is […] More…

Volkswagen expects to meet European emissions standards this year without relying on other companies to sell electric cars. In addition, VW has made changes to their CO2 pool in the EU. As the Financial Times reports, citing documents from the EU Commission, the Chinese manufacturers Geely, Nio and SAIC are no longer in the Volkswagen Group’s […] More…

The US fuel cell specialist Plug Power announces that it will buy 75 units of the Nikola Tre FCEV H2 truck within three years and supply customers in North America with green hydrogen using these hydrogen trucks. The first vehicles are to be handed over as early as 2023. Plug Power plans to combine the […] More…

New York Governor Kathy Hochul is progressing with her EV policies once more as she announces $23 million in funding for e-mobility initiatives in New York State. These include $15 mn for charging initiatives and another $8 mn for electric school and transit buses. New York State reportedly has a goal of a zero-emission electricity […] More…

Webasto has more than doubled the volume of its 2022 order intake in the electromobility business field compared to the previous year. Customers ordered battery systems, electric heaters and charging solutions for around 2.8 billion euros from the Munich-based supplier. Four deals signed this year alone for the production of batteries for electric cars come […] More…

The German electric converter Pepper Motion has signed a supply contract for battery systems with Impact Clean Power Technology from Poland. ICPT will now manufacture complete battery systems for Pepper that can be used in electric buses and electric trucks. The requirements for battery systems in the commercial vehicle sector are even higher than for […] More…

In Balingen, dynamic wireless charging technology for electric vehicles is being tested in practice for the first time in Germany. The main actor of the pilot project is a shuttle bus for the Garden Show 2023, which is to charge its vehicle battery while driving. The Israeli company ElectReon, which specialises in inductive charging of […] More…

CATL and Ford are considering jointly building a US factory for LFP batteries. According to an agency report, the production facility will be fully owned by Ford but operated by CATL. This could make the plant eligible for subsidies from the US government under the Inflation Reduction Act. This is reported by Bloomberg with reference […] More…

Tesla wants to build its next North American factory in Mexico. According to a local media report, Tesla has already bought a plot of land in Santa Catarina in the Mexican state of Nuevo León against this background. If the report by the Mexican newspaper Milenio is true, Tesla will make the planned investment in […] More…