The Northern European public transport operator Keolis has been awarded a ten-year contract to operate and maintain bus routes around Stockholm. Eighty per cent of distances undertaken by the company will be covered by electric buses; the remaining vehicles will be biodiesel buses. The contract comes from the Stockholm Regional Transport Authority Trafikförvaltningen and has […] More…

UK building materials supplier Nicholls & Clarke is going to include nearly 100 electric cars from Hyundai in its fleet. The Ioniq 5s and Ionic 6 electric vehicles will be the company’s first EVs. The company says its managers and sales representatives will drive Ioniq 5s, while employees at the director level will also have […] More…

Siemens is launching the e-Line OnBoard series, a particularly quiet charging pantograph for electric buses, suitable for charging powers of up to 600 kW. The pantograph charger can be used for occasional charging for a short time with high currents or for charging at the depot with lower currents. That said, the system is more […] More…

The Chinese manufacturer BYD is launching five electric cars on the French market. BYD has teamed up with four large dealer networks for sales – and that is just the beginning. BYD dealers will be supplied with the first vehicles as early as this month, and sales will begin shortly after. BYD wants to open […] More…

Ford has opened its ‘Electric Vehicle Center’ in Cologne. The Ford plant in Cologne-Niehl was converted for the production of electric cars with an investment of two billion US dollars. The annual production capacity will be 250,000 electric cars in the future. The US carmaker will start producing the all-electric Ford Explorer in Cologne this […] More…

Volkswagen is aiming to bring a new production process for electric car batteries into large-scale production. A dry coating is to reduce the energy consumption in the production of battery cells by 30 per cent and lower the costs of electric cars by several hundred euros per vehicle. German publication Spiegel revealed the car-making giant’s […] More…

The E1 racing series for electrically powered racing boats initiated by Formula E founder Alejandro Agag will start its premiere season in January 2024, about a year later than last announced. Jeddah in Saudi Arabia has now been set as the venue for the first race. The events will each take place over two days […] More…

Volkswagen, Stellantis and the mining company Glencore support the purchase of two mines for battery raw materials in Brazil by the financial company ACG. The latter wants to buy a nickel sulphide and a copper mine for one billion US dollars. To start off the transaction, the Volkswagen subsidiary PowerCo will make an advance payment […] More…

In Germany, the Munich-based e-mobility start-up EcoG will present its standard-compliant technology for bi-directional charging with its cooperation partner Infineon at the Power2Drive industry trade fair in Munich this week. EcoG is offering a solution tested with vehicle manufacturers in accordance with the new ISO 15118-20 standard, which ensures that all vehicles can be charged […] More…

Spanish transport company Trucksters has closed a €33 million Series B funding round and announced plans to electrify parts of its long-distance freight transport service. The new investors include Continental, Volvo and the European Investment Bank. Trucksters offers long-distance freight transport services with a truck switching system based on artificial intelligence and Big Data and […] More…

In Germany, the online supermarket Flaschenpost has purchased 1,000 new electric vehicles. The aim is to complete around half of all deliveries with electric vehicles by the end of the year. The new delivery vehicles will come from various manufacturers, but Flaschenpost has not yet revealed which ones. The photo that the company provided with […] More…

Nio has presented its balance sheet for the first quarter of 2023. The Chinese electric car manufacturer delivered 31,041 vehicles between January and March and also announced that it would reduce the base prices for all its models in China. Possibly in view of the currently strongly weakening sales. First the business figures: The 31,041 […] More…

The US battery developer Kore Power has received a conditional commitment for a loan of 850 million US dollars from the US Department of Energy. The loan is intended to support the domestic production of battery cells for electric vehicles. The loan called a Conditional Commitment, is still subject to conditions imposed by the authority, […] More…

BYD is going to set up a production facility for sodium-ion batteries in China. In cooperation with the Huaihai Holding Group, BYD wants to become the world’s largest supplier of sodium battery systems for small electric vehicles. BYD’s battery subsidiary FinDreams has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Chinese conglomerate Huaihai Holding Group. Among […] More…

Lucid Motors is making moves to enter the Chinese market. The US electric car manufacturer has hired Zhu Jiang to head its business in China. Zhu Jiang previously worked for Nio, Ford and Jidu Motor, the electric car division of Baidu. According to Reuters reports, citing an insider, Lucid initially wants to sell imported cars […] More…

Fisker has presented its plans for the Chinese market. A delivery centre is to be opened this year and deliveries of the Fisker Ocean are to begin in China in the first quarter of 2024. Fisker also announced plans to manufacture the electric SUV locally in 2024. Fisker mentions a potential capacity of 75,000 units […] More…

In Europe, Mars Logistics has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Trailer Dynamics to reserve and deploy 500 eTrailers for fully zero-emission routes from Turkey to Germany. The use of eTrailers enables intermodal transport between trains and trucks on a route that spans over 2,500 kilometres. The first part of the entire 2,500-kilometre route will […] More…

The French government is supporting the domestic hybrid aircraft developer VoltAero with a grant of 5.6 million euros. The money is to go towards the development of the Cassio 330 hybrid aircraft. VoltAero is planning three variants: The five-seat Cassio 330, the six-seat Cassio 480 and the twelve-seat Cassio 600. The number in the model […] More…

A guarantee from UK Export Finance (UKEF) has provided Northern Ireland-based bus manufacturer Wrightbus with £50 million in financing to support its export strategy. The Export Development Guarantee sees the UK’s export credit agency guarantee 80 per cent of the loan from Barclays Bank. The financing will enable Wrightbus to deliver orders to new markets, […] More…

The Mercedes-Benz eCitaro hydrogen fuel cell electric bus will be used in northern Italy from the end of this year. The public transport operator SASA has ordered nine examples of the 18-metre-long articulated version of the electric bus with a fuel cell range extender. Daimler only just presented the eCitaro fuel cell bus a few […] More…