BYD and the Antelope Valley Schools Transportation Agency (AVSTA) plan to bring 20 battery-electric school buses to students in the Antelope Valley. This could help AVSTA to become the first school transport provider in California to operate a complete fleet of zero-emission school buses. BYD is well-established in the region through its bus factory in […] More…

Zeekr will be the first electric car manufacturer to use CATL’s mass-produced Qilin batteries. The Chinese battery manufacturer and the Geely brand signed a five-year strategic cooperation agreement. The Qilin batteries based on CATL’s third-generation of cell-to-pack (CTP) battery technology were presented in June this year. CATL says the new Qilin batteries set a new […] More…

China’s Ministry of Transport (MOT) wants to boost EV charging along the country’s highways, according to a construction outline seen by the Global Times. The Ministry assumes the new facilities must have the capacity to serve 20 million new energy vehicles by 2024. This is according to estimates in the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25). […] More…

Renault has announced a purely electric camping van study for the Düsseldorf Caravan Salon starting at the end of August. Called the Hippie Caviar Hotel, the prototype offers a preview of the first purely battery-powered Renault Trafic, which will make its market debut later this year. The Hippie Caviar Hotel has been built around Kangoo […] More…

Berlin’s public transport operator BVG has released information on the incoming new e-buses. The first of 89 Ebusco 2.2 electric buses will join the Berlin fleet this year. Once these arrive in the German capital, the BVG fleet will include 228 electric buses in active service. BVG plans to convert its city bus fleet of […] More…

Tesla supplier Panasonic is looking to build another battery cell factory in the USA. After the Japanese company confirmed a plant in Kansas in July, media reports suggest Panasonic is looking at a similar facility in Oklahoma. The Wallstreet Journal cites sources close to the matter, saying a deal remained open. The new Panasonic plant […] More…

Xiaomi appears in talks with BAIC to collaborate on producing electric vehicles and is exploring options to take a stake in a Hyundai plant, according to media reports. The technology company aims to make electric cars by 2024 but has hit regulatory hurdles. Bloomberg quotes people familiar with the matter, saying the plans may include […] More…

In the USA, a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) programme coordinated by Highland Electric Fleets with electric school buses in Beverly, Massachusetts, has provided energy back to the electricity grid for more than 80 hours this summer. Highland Electric Fleets – a provider of electrification-as-a-service for municipal and government fleets in North America – activated two electric school […] More…

Separator manufacturer Celgard has entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with American Battery Factory (ABF). Celgard will supply 100 per cent of ABF’s demand for separators for LFP battery cells in the US. Celgard and ABF have said they also plan to develop next-generation technologies and cells for LFP batteries. The two partners also plan […] More…

Kia has given some insights into the final test programme of the EV9 and announced its world premiere for the first quarter of 2023. Test drives with camouflaged prototypes are currently still taking place in South Korea. Kia announced the large SUV with a concept in November 2021. The EV9 is the brand’s second battery-electric […] More…

Audi will compete in Formula 1 from 2026. As the manufacturer has now officially announced, its own hybrid drive unit is being developed for this purpose at Audi Sport’s Motorsport Competence Centre in Neuburg an der Donau. Around half of the power is to come from the electric motor. The background to Audi’s entry into […] More…

The Chinese car company GAC has announced the foundation of a subsidiary for the industrialisation of its own battery business. The new company, named Lvqingg, will probably focus mainly on LFP batteries and build its own battery factory. The newly formed company Lvqingg will be 51 per cent, 40 per cent and 9 per cent […] More…

The current heat wave in China, which marks the worst heatwave since 1961, is now also hampering car production accross the country. After extreme heat and drought led to power outages, the Sichuan province ordered most factories there to close for six days. In the meantime, the shutdown has been extended by another five days. […] More…

With increasing fuel prices and climate change, the aviation industry is having to look at life after fossil fuels but is facing a particularly tough challenge – passenger aircraft needs to be light and very safe, and what about longer distances? We asked aviation insiders where hydrogen fits in. * * * We caught up […] More…

Volvo Trucks North America has announced the culmination of the Volvo LIGHTS project – a three-year project that brought together 14 public and private partners to design and implement a blueprint for the robust support ecosystem necessary to deploy battery-electric trucks and equipment at scale. During the project, which ran from 2019 to 2022 in […] More…

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has now passed the regulation ‘Advanced Clean Cars II’, which defines the path for the ban on internal combustion engine (ICE) cars in the US state from 2035 onwards, which was enacted by California Governor Gavin Newsom by decree around two years ago. However, the ban on internal combustion […] More…

Tesla has added a new basic version with rear-wheel drive to the configurator for the Model Y in Europe. In Germany, the new model variant costs 53,990 euros. It is unclear whether the new variant will come from Grünheide – Tesla has recently been able to significantly increase production there. Tesla gives an estimated WLTP […] More…

Mercedes-Benz has given the go-ahead for the production of the EQS SUV. The SUV offshoot of the all-electric EQS is now being produced at the US plant in Tuscaloosa for the global markets. The Stuttgart company had already started sales a few weeks ago. For years, the vehicle plant in Alabama has not only built […] More…

Mazda has announced that its only electric model, the MX-30, is now sold out in the USA. Only 505 units of the BEV model were sold by the Japanese carmaker within ten months of availability there – and all of them in California. Mazda did not specify whether the MX-30 will receive a new model […] More…

In the USA, Revel, NineDot Energy and Fermata Energy announced that the first Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) program connected to New York City’s grid is now live at Revel’s Red Hook, Brooklyn warehouse. Revel is an electric mobility and infrastructure company based in Brooklyn that has now partnered with V2G and Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) provider Fermata Energy and […] More…