Since 2024, Skoda’s apprentices have been developing a concept car every year. The ninth apprentice car, in which 29 of the automaker’s junior staff are participating this year, will be fully electric. This time around, the apprentices are developing a multifunctional camping vehicle based on the Skoda Enyaq iV electric SUV model, which also serves […] More…

Nissan is launching two new variants of its Ariya electric model in Europe. There are no changes to the body. One is a new top-of-the-line model, and the other is a more affordable trim to make the Ariya eligible for subsidies in some countries. The latter is the front-wheel drive Ariya Engage, available with both […] More…

US company Ascend Elements has opened its commercial-scale lithium-ion battery recycling facility in the US state of Georgia. The company invested $50 million in the site and says it is “North America’s largest electric vehicle battery recycling facility” to date. According to Ascend Elements, it can recover up to 98 per cent of critical metals […] More…

Tesla and Chinese battery maker CATL are reportedly looking into building an LFP battery plant in the US. According to media reports, the US carmaker discussed the matter with US politicians to see how the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) would apply. Bloomberg first reported the story, citing people familiar with the talks. A potential […] More…

The ZF Group will expand manufacturing capabilities in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, to serve the growing EV market in North America. In total, the company wants to invest more than $194 million. In the first phase, ZF plans to invest $150 million in a new facility at its site in northern Mexico to manufacture the company’s […] More…

Blink Charging has announced the rebranding of EB Charging to Blink Charging UK following its acquisition in April 2022. The rebrand provides Blink with a visible footprint of more than 1225 chargers in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Blink Charging is a US-based supplier of charging equipment that has deployed nearly 66,000 charging ports across […] More…

The Chinese electric car manufacturer Nio has opened its third ‘Nio House’ in Europe in Rotterdam. The locations primarily serve as showrooms, but also have a café, a meeting room and an area for children, among other things. Nio’s new showroom is located at De Meent 80-84 in Rotterdam, sitting “in the heart of Rotterdam”. […] More…

Ideanomics has created the brand Wave Charging for its charging solutions. Wave Charging plans to manufacture its charging solutions and components in the United States. Under the Wave Charging brand, Ideanomics will sell inductive charging, DC fast chargers, mobile charging solutions, end-to-end infrastructure solutions, and charge management software. Robin Mackie, Chief Operations Officer at Ideanomics, […] More…

The British government has announced an additional investment of more than 380 million pounds in the development of charging infrastructure for electric vehicles as part of a major energy package. In addition, the government is now launching the final consultation on their so-called ‘ZEV mandate’. The consultation will run until 24 May 2023 and is […] More…

In the USA, Washington DC’s Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) has just ordered five 40-foot electric buses from Nova Bus and five from New Flyer. The purchase is part of the WMATA plan to fully decarbonise its bus fleets by 2042. WMATA’s plan to speed up its transition off fossil fuelled buses has been tightened […] More…

In the USA, the South Carolina Department of Education has ordered 160 all-electric school buses from North American Daimler subsidiary Thomas Built Buses (TBB). The order is for the 160 Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley model with drive technology from Proterra. Thomas Built Buses says the purchase of the 160 units marks the largest single order of […] More…

Lamborghini has presented the Revuelto, the successor to the Aventador. The Revuelto is the first production model from the Italian sports car manufacturer, which belongs to the Volkswagen Group, with a plug-in hybrid drive. This has an output of 1,015 hp and combines a V12 combustion engine at the rear with three electric motors, two […] More…

Swedish company Stena Recycling opens its new battery recycling facility in Halmstad, Sweden. The company also announced a new customer with the Norwegian battery company Freyr. The inauguration comes some 16 months after the start of construction. The initial recycling capacity is 10,000 tonnes, but is expected to increase in line with the growth of […] More…

Mathias Hüttenrauch has been CEO of the European business of the Chinese battery cell manufacturer CATL since March. This is a position that did not exist at the company before. This is reported by the German publication Automobilwoche. And Hüttenrauch himself confirmed his change of position on LinkedIn. The manager has gathered more than 30 […] More…

Hyundai Motor has just signed a joint development agreement with Advent Technologies, a US company that develops, manufactures, and assembles complete fuel cell systems. The agreement follows a successful fuel cell technology assessment.  This assessment concluded evaluations of Advent’s proprietary Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA) technology for supplying Hyundai’s high-temperature fuel cell needs. If the further […] More…

The Californian electric car start-up Faraday Future has announced the official start of production for its debut model, the FF 91. Although five years later than originally planned, the first units could soon be rolling out to customers. Initially, the electric car was supposed to roll off the production line in 2018, but the start-up […] More…

The Californian battery developer Amprius Technologies says it has increased the energy density of its cells to around 500 Wh/kg or 1,300 Wh/l. Results from the Mobile Power Solutions testing institute have shown that the cells deliver an energy density of 504 Wh/kg or 1,321 Wh/l at 25 degrees Celsius. According to Amprius, the cells […] More…

As part of an extensive development programme, nine prototypes of the electric Renault 5 are currently undergoing final endurance tests. The platform, powertrain and battery of the test vehicles are already up to series standard. Now Renault also published the first background information on the new CMF-BEV platform. Visually, the prototypes, which are currently being […] More…

The generation of electricity for mobile charging points by means of so-called “airborne wind turbines” is the subject of an unusual project by Volkswagen Group Charging and the Brandenburg-based company Enerkite as part of the federally funded ‘Technohyb’ project. Within the ‘Autarkic Mobile Charging Infrastructure’ sub-project, which will run until the end of 2024, Enerkite […] More…

UK-based engineering firm Magtec has secured GB Small Series Approval for its 7.5-tonne electric truck the MEV75. The truck is designed for last-mile logistics, waste collection and refrigerated deliveries. Receiving the approval means that the MEV75 will be eligible for the UK government’s plug-in grant. Furthermore, Magtec achieved Conformity of Production (CoP) in vehicle manufacture […] More…