UK public transport operator Stagecoach has announced plans to introduce the UK’s first all-electric city bus fleets in two Scottish cities in late 2022 and 2023, respectively. The company is investing over 14 million euros in this endeavour. The all-electric fleets will be made up of 38 electric buses for the cities of Inverness and […] More…

German charging and energy storage technology specialists The Mobility House have started trading the flexibilities of 4,500 electric car batteries on EPEX SPOT SE. For this purpose, the company has its own connection to the European power exchange. The electric car batteries traded on the EPEX SPOT SE have a control capacity of 100 MW. […] More…

The Chinese battery-maker CATL was able to increase its net profit in the first half of 2022 by around 82 per cent compared to the same period last year to 8.17 billion yuan. That is the equivalent of 1.19 billion euros. Revenue rose 156 per cent to 112.97 billion yuan or 16.5 billion euros. CATL’s […] More…

Automotive supplier ZF is looking to sell off parts of its prestige project ‘People Mover’ and electric axle business. At least for the axle division, ZF has confirmed that a sale of shares is under consideration. According to a report in the German publication Manager Magazin, ZF CEO Wolf-Henning Scheider, who is leaving at the […] More…

In the German state of Lower Saxony, the world’s first network with hydrogen trains in passenger service has now gone into operation. On the route between Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven, Bremervörde and Buxtehude, 14 hydrogen-powered Coradia iLint regional trains are now in operation, replacing 15 diesel trains. The operation is carried out by Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser […] More…

The British bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) has announced that it will expand its range with new electric buses that will be developed entirely in-house. With this, ADL intends to offer its own fully integrated vehicles in future, in addition to buses built on chassis from partners. Initially, a new minibus and a new […] More…

Opel has announced that a campervan based on the battery-electric Zafira-e Life will be launched next year. The ‘Crosscamp Flex’ presented at the Caravan Salon from 27 August to 4 September is still a prototype. The campervan was built on the basis of an Opel Zafira-e Life with a 75 kWh battery. Opel does not […] More…

Hongqi is the next Chinese car brand to enter the European market with electric cars. The FAW Group subsidiary brand has been present in Norway since January 2022 and has now entered into a cooperation with Stern Premium Car in the Netherlands to import and distribute its vehicles. Hongqi plans to offer the E-HS9, an […] More…

Mercedes-Benz has started selling the EQE in China. Three rear-wheel drive variants are on offer, one of which offers a maximum CLTC range of 752 kilometres and the other two versions a range of 717 kilometres. The CLTC is the Chinese test cycle, and the ranges determined there are generally significantly higher than the WLTP […] More…

The Bank of Australia will stop granting new fossil fuel car loans from 2025. A post on their website explains, “We’ve chosen 2025 because the change to electric vehicles needs to happen quickly.” The reasoning behind the move is that the Bank says that it doesn’t want to “lock our customers into higher carbon emissions […] More…

The Mexican government has founded a state-owned company to extract and market lithium. According to a decree by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the raw material is to be produced and distributed exclusively by Litio para México. The company aims to start operations in six months at the latest. The company is called Litio para […] More…

Kia just debuted the EV6 GT at a motorsport event in the States, saying this most potent offspring of the EV6 family will hit the US market this winter. Pricing has yet to be revealed, but the spec sheet (and our testing) remains promising. The EV6 GT builds on Kia’s EV6, the brand’s first electric […] More…

The EV start-up Canoo and its main client Walmart launched real-world deliveries in a 7-days-a-week program in the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex (DFW). Canoo will finalise configuring the all-electric vans according to Walmart’s requirements following their significant order. The US retail giant had signed a binding agreement with Canoo to buy 4,500 all-electric vans, starting […] More…

Orange EV, a manufacturer of electric trucks in the USA, has closed a $35 million institutional funding round led by S2G Ventures and CCI. The fresh funds should support and accelerate the company’s growth and allow it to scale its manufacturing and develop new technologies. The truck-maker says it has more than 450 heavy-duty electric […] More…

Australia’s Tritium has opened its factory in the state of Tennessee. President Joe Biden had endorsed the company’s US plant when announced earlier this year since it follows his ‘Buy American’ policy. The Tennessee facility was announced in February at a press event at the White House with President Biden, National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy […] More…

The German press manufacturer Schuler Group has taken over Italy’s Sovema and wants to provide battery cell production systems for the automotive industry and other sectors. The aim is to develop machines and production lines for the mass production of lithium-ion batteries. The German company has not disclosed the purchase price or further details of […] More…

Nissan will start the upcoming Formula E season with a new driver duo. The current drivers Maximilian Günther and Sebastien Buemi will be replaced by Norman Nato and Sacha Fenestraz. Norman Nato from France was already a regular driver in Formula E (with one race win). In the past season, he was active as a […] More…

Nissan will start the upcoming Formula E season with a new driver duo. The current drivers Maximilian Günther and Sebastien Buemi will be replaced by Norman Nato and Sacha Fenestraz. Norman Nato from France was already a regular driver in Formula E (with one race win). In the past season, he was active as a […] More…

The Chinese electric car manufacturer Xpeng has just presented its financial data for the second quarter of 2022. Compared to the same period last year, sales and revenue almost doubled while losses also increased. Xpeng delivered 34,422 cars from April to June, which is 98 per cent more than in the same quarter last year […] More…

The new EU project REEsilience focuses on the supply chain for rare-earth-based magnetic materials in Europe. These magnets are crucial in building wind turbines, sensors, and especially electric vehicles. Magnetic rare earth elements (REE) such as neodymium form part of permanent magnets as used in permanently excited synchronous motors. Although the EU is a world […] More…