A study released earlier this week showed that over 27% of all EV charging stations in the San Francisco Bay area are non-functioning. Failures are manifold, and the shortcomings many. 22.7% of connectors had unresponsive or unavailable screens, payment system failures, charge initiation failures, network failures, or broken connectors; another 4.9% of chargers had cables […] More…

The fact that temperature affects charging performance is nothing new for electric car drivers. However, a footnote in a US press release from Toyota about the bZ4X electric model is quite unusual. Toyota warns that DC charging may not be possible at all in cold temperatures. This afflicts the bZ4X with all-wheel drive. Specifically, Toyota […] More…

Volvo Trucks North America has received an order from NFI Industries for 60 heavy-duty electric trucks. NFI bought the latest generation of the VNR Electric and will deploy the new zero-emission vehicles in Ontario, California, starting this year. NFI aims to operate a 100% zero-emission freight logistics fleet. The trucks on order come with a […] More…

The Afro-European startup NAMX has presented a fuel cell SUV designed by Pininfarina due for market launch in 2025. The highlight of the car, called HUV, lies in its hydrogen storage. NAMX’s patented technology combines a fixed hydrogen tank and six removable capsules as secondary tanks. These tanks were of primary concern also to Pininfarina, […] More…

US company ACE Green Recycling announced plans to build and operate North America’s largest sustainable battery recycling park in Texas. The facility will be capable of recycling both lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries from vehicles and other sources. The site measures 37,000 square feet (about 3,437 sqm), and ACE says Texas was an “obvious choice” due […] More…

British electric car subscription service Onto has bought 600 electric Fiat 500 for the rental fleet, including some convertibles. The 600 electric cars join Onto’s long list of orders from the Stellantis Group. Onto has opted for the Fiat 500 in Icon trim and the larger 42-kWh battery. The three-door models are offered on a […] More…

French battery manufacturer Forsee Power has opened its production site in Poitiers. The Poitiers plant has five assembly lines for e-bus batteries with a production capacity of 1 GWh, equivalent to more than 2,500 bus batteries per year. Or, put another way, more than 76 per cent of the current electric bus market in Europe. […] More…

Micro Mobility Systems has launched the first edition of Microlino. The limited ‘Pioneer Series’ comprises 999 light electric vehicles that will roll off the lines in Turin, Italy. All Pioneer Series Microlinos have a 10.5 kWh battery for a range of up to 177 kilometres and come in two colours exclusive to the launch edition: […] More…

The Norwegian Government followed up on plans to remove EV subsidies when it announced the revised budget this week. First to fall is the VAT exemption on electric cars costing more than 500,000 kroner (just under 49,000 euros) as of 1 January 2023. The VAT for electric vehicles under the new scheme is dynamic, i.e. […] More…

Budapest Airport is to be equipped with 176 new charging stations for airport and service vehicles, and will be installed by partner companies over the next three years. The number of fast charging stations for taxis is also to see a significant increase. The airport company says that of the 176 charging points for its […] More…

Renault’s mobility brand Mobilize aims to double its leasing fleet financed by Mobilize Financial Services by 2025 and grow to one million electric vehicles by 2030. These are to make up 70 per cent of the fleet and generate 20 per cent of Renault Group’s turnover. Mobilize aims to increase the fleet size for mobility […] More…

Shell has announced that it will install a total of 100,000 public charging points for electric cars in the UK by 2030, 11,000 of which will be fast chargers. The latter are to be installed at petrol stations, among other places, but also in supermarket car parks. Shell UK calculates that with the targeted expansion […] More…

Deutsche Post DHL has announced that it will procure 44 new electric trucks from Volvo for its European operations. Both companies have signed a cooperation agreement “to accelerate the transition to zero-emission commercial vehicles”. The German logistics group has said that the planned order from Volvo Trucks involves 40 electric trucks of the Volvo FE […] More…

Northvolt is to recieve European funding for its battery factory in Germany. In Berlin, the German Federal Minister of Economic Affairs Robert Habeck officially handed over notification of IPCEI funding (Important Projects of Common European Interest) to Northvolt. The Swedish company is planning a battery cell factory in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Northvolt […] More…

The Israeli battery developer StoreDot has published a video of a fast-charging process of its current battery cell technology. This is said to be the version that is to go into series production in 2024. After StoreDot presented its strategic technology roadmap “100inX” in March and set the goal of delivering battery cells that can […] More…

Shortly after BMW boss Oliver Zipse confirmed that the new New Class platform planned for 2025 will first be used in the 3 Series segment and probably exclusively in purely electric mode, the next strategic shift is now on the horizon: According to a report, BMW could switch to round cells for the battery. This […] More…

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) has now presented the production version of its battery-electric truck model Freightliner eCascadia after extensive testing of pre-production models with customers. Production is scheduled to start later this year at Freightliner’s factory in Portland, Oregon. Freightliner has received around 700 orders for the electric truck so far. Daimler had already […] More…

The US electric car start-up Rivian has presented its business figures for the first quarter of 2022. The net loss in the first three months of the year was 1.59 billion US dollars, compared to 414 million US dollars in the same quarter of the previous year. Compared to Q4 2021, however, the loss fell. […] More…

The European Parliament’s Environment Committee has voted in favour of the EU Commission’s proposed de facto ban on internal combustion engines from 2035 for new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in the European Union as part of the “Fit for 55” climate package. In its meeting on Wednesday, the committee voted in favour of […] More…

The all-electric BMW iX1 has successfully completed its driving dynamics testing at the BMW Group’s winter test centre in the Arctic Circle. The series development process has thus reached its final phase. The winter tests in Arjeplog, Sweden, took place in parallel with the testing of the combustion engine variant and the plug-in hybrid of […] More…