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…

Swedish battery cell manufacturer Northvolt is apparently close to finalising a deal for its planned factory in Canada. According to an agency report, an announcement will follow in the coming weeks. And plans are also progressing at the German factory in Heide. But first to Canada, where there was already speculation in early May about […] More…

Tesla has set new records for production and deliveries of its electric cars in the second quarter of 2023. 479,700 vehicles were produced from April to June – an increase of 38,892 compared to the previous record quarter. In Q1/2023, 440,808 electric cars were produced, and 422,875 were delivered. With 466,140 vehicles, deliveries in the […] More…

Canadian motor cores manufacturer Mitsui High-tec (Canada) is investing 102.3 million Canadian dollars to expand operations in the country. The company’s facilities are located in Brantford, Ontario, and opened its doors in 2017. And according to the Ontario government, it has been expanded twice before. This time, the money (an equivalent of around 71 million […] More…

General Motors has acquired Israel-based battery software startup ALGOLiON. The sum of the investment was not disclosed. The startup uses sophisticated algorithms that – data streams from EV battery management systems – are said to identify anomalies in cell performance. According to the company, it can predict these “weeks earlier than other methods in use […] More…

Safety first: E-vehicles are still on the advance – and they need the right safety features for their daily use. For example, HELLA’s new locking actuators ensure a safe charging process. They are suitable for the charging interface on the vehicle side as well as for charging stations and wallboxes. And the e-vehicle can be […] More…

The US electric car manufacturer, Lucid Motors, has just begun delivering its luxury sedan Air in Switzerland. Simultaneously to the start of Swiss deliveries, Lucid also released pricing for two more variants. Starting with the handovers, Lucid Motors launched an event in Zurich, where the first Air EVs in Dream Edition were received by customers, […] More…

Tesla has reportedly removed Valencia from its list of potential locations for a new factory. The carmaker is said to have been “very upset” when confidential negotiations with representatives from Valencia were leaked. Management referred to an “internal leak” in early June. As a result, negotiations have come to a halt, the Spanish Economía Digital […] More…

German commercial EV maker and conversions specialist Quantron has made its first sales of electric buses in Italy. The latest contract comes from Turin, which expects six buses of type Cizaris 12 EV to enter service this autumn. The customer is the transport company Miccolis. Quantron had won an international tender and the new electric buses […] More…

Domino’s Pizza announced that it has 800 Chevy Bolt on the road at select locations in the US. And the pizza chain has ordered another 300 EVs. The company placed an order for 800 Chevy Bold back in November. And according to a company statement, all of these are on the ground, running deliveries. Domino’s […] More…