As 2023 comes to a close, the London Electric Vehicle Company (LEVC) has announced a strategic shift, underlined by a change in management. LEVC now aims “to become a leading zero-carbon mobility technology company”. Global CEO Alex Nan will continue in his role, but will now also take on the role of UK CEO. According […] More…

SK Innovation and the recycling specialist SungEel HiTech want to launch a battery recycling joint venture in Korea. Both sides have just signed a letter of intent. The joint venture is to be founded next year. The joint venture is to combine SK Innovation’s independently developed lithium hydroxide recovery technology and SungEel HiTech’s nickel, cobalt […] More…

The first batch of 999 VinFast vehicles has arrived in the US, after 26 days at sea from Vietnam. The models are the VF 8 City Edition, a limited edition exclusively on offer for the US market. VinFast explains that the special launch edition has “all the features of the standard VF 8, the VF […] More…

Stellantis wants to become the third shareholder in the Symbio fuel cell joint venture, alongside Faurecia and Michelin. Negotiations to acquire a “substantial stake” are underway. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2023. This is according to a statement issued by Stellantis. The size of the stake in the French […] More…

Canadian battery developer Nano One and Belgian materials technology group Umicore announce the signing of a non-exclusive agreement to jointly develop production process technologies for lithium-ion battery active cathode materials. Both companies intend to share their respective technologies for high nickel NMC active cathode materials to further increase throughput while reducing the cost and environmental […] More…

John Vo, the former Manufacturing Chief at Tesla, established a marine technologies company. Blue Innovations Group (BIG for short) will focus on manufacturing all-electric boats and equipment and is ready to show its first product. Blue Innovations Group will be at the CES in Las Vegas in January 2023 to showcase its first product. The […] More…

Charging has increasingly become a geographical and financial matter as e-mobility shifted from a niche product to the mass transit option of the future. Sungrow Power aims to answer this challenge with Destination Charging and a basic but reliable charging product range. *** During London EV Show 2022 Sungrow gave insights into their DC solution. […] More…

In the EU project BatWoMan, researchers coordinated by the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) are to develop and implement processes for CO2-neutral battery production in Europe. The goal is, among other things, to reduce the costs of cell production by around 60 per cent and to halve energy consumption. The project with the long title: […] More…

BMW wants to produce solid-state battery cells in its own pilot plant in Germany based on the design of technology partner Solid Power. To this end, the Munich-based carmaker has obtained a research and development licence from the US company. This is not reported by BMW itself, but by Solid Power. It is a new […] More…

North American electric utility vehicle manufacturer Lion Electric has started producing its own battery packs at its Mirabel plant in the Canadian province of Québec. Final certification of the first Lion battery pack is expected in the first quarter of 2023. Following this, Lion Electric plans to gradually ramp up production over the coming year. […] More…

VW sent out an email to ID.4 reservation holders in the US explaining a series of changes that will be made for all ID.4 vehicles assembled after January 4, including a price hike, battery supplier changes, and an end to the reservation system. Most notably in the changes is the fact that the $1,500 MSRP […] More…

The Canadian government is now officially launching regulations to implement its goal of allowing only zero-emission passenger cars and light commercial vehicles to be sold in the country from 2035. Initially, an electric quota of at least 20 per cent will be mandated from 2026. The government will officially launch a formal 75-day consultation period […] More…

The Turkish manufacturer Karsan has won a tender to supply 100 electric buses to the capital of Bucharest, Romania. The winning bid concluded a tender that had failed twice before. Bucharest had to relaunch the tender for the 100 battery buses in June 2022, having failed twice before due to a lack of suitable offers. […] More…

CATL has started series production of battery cells in Germany as planned. At the plant in Arnstadt, the first batch of battery cells ran under series conditions from the newly installed production line in building G2. In spring, CATL announced the start of cell series production in its first plant outside China for the second […] More…

Tesla has made it official that non-Tesla charging stations can now appear on the maps inside the car’s navigation system. This initially applies to Europe and Israel and is subject to conditions. Writes Tesla: “Third-party fast chargers that meet our performance and reliability standards will be added to Tesla’s navigation automatically as Qualified Third-Party Chargers. […] More…

After E.On and Nikola announced in September that they wanted to drive forward the decarbonisation of heavy goods transport jointly, the two companies have now become a little more specific. When announcing the partnership a few months ago, Nikola said they wanted to offer customers an integrated mobility solution to promote the use of hydrogen. […] More…

Scania and Lithuania-based transportation company Girteka announce an extensive new partnership. Girteka expects Scania to deliver up to 600 battery-electric trucks over the next four years. The companies will also collaborate on establishing charging infrastructure. The aim is to help reduce Girteka’s customers’ climate emissions at competitive costs. Girteka Logistics was founded in 1996 in […] More…

Fastned and EVBox have jointly installed one of the first 400 kW fast charging stations in Europe. The HPC station, called EVBox Troniq Modular High-Power, is being tested in a pilot project and is now available at the Fastned station De Watering on the A8 near Oostzaan in the Netherlands. The column can recharge a […] More…

In the USA, the German energy and technology company ADS-TEC Energy will soon also produce its battery-buffered ultra-fast charging solutions for electric vehicles in Alabama. The company is investing around eight million US dollars in its first US plant in Auburn in Alabama and plans to create around 180 jobs there. The build-up of sales, […] More…

The US electric car manufacturer Lucid Motors has started deliveries of its electric luxury sedan Air in Europe. The first units went to customers in Germany and the Netherlands. The Lucid Air starts in Europe with the limited Dream Edition, which is available in two different versions. According to WLTP, the model has a range […] More…