The US company Ascend Elements has announced plans to invest up to one billion US dollars in a factory for the production of sustainable battery materials for electric vehicles in southwestern Kentucky. Production is scheduled to start at the end of 2023. The Hopkinsville facility, which is expected to begin construction this year and be […] More…

The Stellantis subsidiary Dodge will drop the V8 combustion engine in favour of pure electric drives in the next generation of its Charger and Challenger models. Accordingly, the next generation of the Charger and Challenger, which are expected to be launched in 2024, will be powered exclusively by battery-electric drives. The news was broken by […] More…

The government of British Columbia has increased the maximum provincial rebate under the ‘CleanBC Go Electric Passenger Vehicle Rebate Program’ from $3,000 to $4,000. At the same time, the province decreased the funding for households with higher incomes. British Columbia’s rebate scheme includes purchasing or leasing a BEV, FCEV and long-range PHEV. The maximum rebate […] More…

Volvo Group plans to build a battery cell plant in Sweden to mass produce battery packs for its heavy-duty commercial vehicles. Volvo says it has already identified “an ideal location” for the factory. Mariestad in the Swedish province of Skaraborgs has resulted from “an extensive site localization study”, says Volvo Group. That Mariestad would come […] More…

According to a media report, the series version of the electric Mini Urbanaut concept could be produced by Canoo in the USA from 2025. Mini is looking for a technical basis and a production site for the series version of the Urbanaut study, which could complement the Mini range as an electric van. But there […] More…

Ingka Group, which owns most Ikea stores, says it will install over a thousand EV charge points at Ikea stores in Sweden and Norway by late 2024. Ikea Sweden will add 700 new charging points and Ikea Norway more than 300 new charging stations. More than 300 of the incoming charge columns will deliver fast […] More…

A special attraction will be inaugurated tomorrow at the Roland Schüren Seed&Greet charging park in Hilden, Germany. A Tesla swimming pool will open at the pit stop for personal cooling during the charging break. Instructions were posted by Tesla that indicate that up to 4 people can use the pool at the same time for […] More…

BMW has introduced the i4 eDrive35, a new entry-level, single-motor version of the brand’s all-electric sedan with a smaller battery and a smaller price for the American and Canadian markets. The i4 eDrive35 joins the BMW lineup alongside the i4 eDrive40 and the i4 M50. The latter two models are endowed with an 81.5 kWh […] More…

Vitesco Technologies has joined the Swappable Batteries Motorcycle Consortium (SBMC). The consortium was founded in 2021 by the two-wheeler manufacturers Honda, KTM, Piaggio and Yamaha and has now grown to 21 members. Vitesco says it has two decades of experience in two-wheeler development and most recently presented a system for 48-volt electric drives for two-wheelers […] More…

The e-bike joint ventures launched by Porsche and Ponooc (part of Pon) are gaining traction. The partners announced that Porsche eBike Performance GmbH and P2 eBike GmbH began business. You may expect to see Porsche-branded e-bike drives across many labels in future. Porsche eBike Performance GmbH, based near Munich, will develop whole e-bike systems comprising […] More…

California’s EV subscription service Autonomy has partnered with America’s largest automotive retailer AutoNation. Autonomy wants to expand the portfolio from Tesla cars into several EV brands and launch in more states across the US. Autonomy plans to buy up to 20,000 electric vehicles over the next 12 – 18 months with the support of AutoNation. […] More…

Hyundai announces the launch of the XCIENT fuel cell truck in Germany. Seven local logistics, manufacturing and retail companies will integrate 27 Hyundai hydrogen trucks into their fleets with funding through the German Federal Ministry for Digitalisation and Transport (BMDV). Hyundai and the Swiss company H2 Energy have also established Hyundai Hydrogen Mobility Germany GmbH […] More…

Tesla has signed new contracts with two of its existing Chinese suppliers of battery materials. Huayou Cobalt and CNGR Advanced Material signed pricing agreements with Tesla for deliveries through the middle of this decade. Bloomberg reports this, citing separate stock exchange announcements from the two companies. Huayou Cobalt will supply Tesla from 1 July 2022 […] More…

Prime Planet Energy & Solutions, the battery joint venture of Toyota and Panasonic, has signed a binding offtake agreement with Ioneer for lithium carbonate from Ioneer’s Rhyolite Ridge project in Nevada. Under the agreement, Ioneer will supply 4,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate per year over a five-year period to Prime Planet Energy & Solutions (PPES) […] More…

Electric truck maker Nikola has agreed to acquire Romeo Power, thus taking battery development and manufacturing in-house. The agreement is definitive. Romeo specialises in batteries for commercial EVs, and their Cypress factory will become Nikola’s Battery Center of Excellence. Nikola expects the Romeo acquisition to yield annual cost savings of up to $350 million by […] More…

In Norway, 5,123 new electric cars were registered in July, accounting for 70.7 per cent of all new passenger car registrations for the month. In addition, there were 890 new plug-in hybrids. Among the models, the Skoda Enyaq led the ranking in Norway in July with 673 registrations. With the 5,123 new electric cars, electric […] More…

BYD has announced its market entry with passenger car models in Germany and in Sweden. Their current lineup now only electric cars and plug-in hybrids. The Chinese manufacturer has chosen Hedin Mobility Group as its sales partner for these two countries. In October 2022, the first BYD showroom is to be opened in Stockholm. In […] More…

440 km of range for less than €30,000 after subsidies – that’s the MG ZS EV Long Range in a nutshell. The same applies in the UK: 273 miles in WLTP for less than 30k. No Volkswagen or any other European manufacturer has such a car in its portfolio but MG. Yet does it deliver […] More…

BMW has issued a recall for a small number of its iX and i4 EVs in the US due to a possible fire hazard. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 56 iX and 27 i4 were “manufactured with a high-voltage battery that may not have been produced to specifications by the supplier”. During […] More…

The Chinese government wants to continue the purchase tax exemption for New Energy Vehicles (BEVs, FCEVs and PHEVs) in 2023. The purchase tax exemption for NEVs in China has been in place since 2014, and with its continuation the government wants to further support the growth of the industry. The purchase tax exemption has been […] More…