The car company Stellantis has started building fast-charging stations in Italy. The first fast charger of the Atlante project was installed at a Stellantis dealer in Magenta near Milan. Soon, the first Atlante columns will also follow at Stellantis dealers in France. The local dealer Automagenta sells vehicles of the Stellantis group. The press release […] More…

The Belgian charging infrastructure provider Blue Corner will gradually install, operate and maintain 280 charging points for electric cars at business and conference centres in Brussels, Antwerp and Liège over the coming years. This is provided for in a ten-year contract Blue Corner has now signed with the event company BluePoint. Despite the similar names, […] More…

One year after it was founded, the joint venture Rheinmetall Polycharge landed its first customer: an unnamed international supplier to the automotive industry. The order was for two different DC link capacitors for applications in the 900V range. According to the company, the order, worth a “mid-double-digit million” euro range, was placed back in December […] More…

The US Department of Transportation is expected to set the final requirements that all electric vehicle charging stations must meet to qualify for the US government’s $7.5 billion incentive programme this week. According to an agency report, one of the policy decisions is unlikely to please Tesla. As Reuters has learned, the use of the […] More…

India has discovered a significant lithium deposit. In the Reasi district in the north-western state of Jammu and Kashmir, experts from the Indian Geological Survey have discovered deposits of around 5.9 million tonnes. This was announced by India’s Ministry of Mines. A plan for the mining of lithium is now to be worked out. The […] More…

Vulcan Energy Resources has announced the results of its definitive feasibility study for the first phase of its CO2-free lithium project in the Upper Rhine Graben. In Phase 1, Vulcan Energy aims to produce 24,000 tonnes of lithium hydroxide monohydrate (LHM) per year. Compared to the preliminary feasibility study, this is an increase of 60 […] More…

Renault and Nissan are investing around 600 million dollars in India to produce six new models at their joint plant in Chennai. These will include the first two electric cars companies will build in India. The two EVs will be A-segment and will also be exported – but that is all the details the partners […] More…

The British vintage EV conversion company Lunaz Design made the Bentley S2 Continental into an electric car. According to Lunaz, this specific model is one of only four examples built in 1961 and has now been given a second life. The luxury vehicle was powered by a 6.2-litre V8 petrol engine and will now be […] More…

First and second place went to Jean-Éric Vergne from team DS Penske and Nick Cassidy from Envision Racing. Originally, Sebastian Buemi had finished third. But due to a penalty post-race, he dropped to 15th place. An overpower infringement saw him demoted via a 17-second penalty, equivalent to a drive-through. Following the fourth Formula E race […] More…

Geely’s premium electric car brand Zeekr has raised 750 Million dollars from external investors. The cash from five strategic investors puts the carmaker at a value of 13 billion dollars. Just as during the pre-A financing, one of the investors is the Chinese battery cell manufacturer CATL. According to Zeekr, it will use the funds […] More…

Nikola has received approval from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for its Tre FCEV truck to be eligible for the Board’s Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP) programme. This approval will now enable customers of Nikola’s fuel-cell electric truck ‘Tre’ to access a point-of-sale incentive starting at $240,000 and ranging […] More…

Public transport operator Tide Bus has commissioned Scandinavia’s largest electric bus depot in the Danish city of Aalborg. There, 124 DC chargers from hardware supplier Kempower are available. The company GodEnergi was responsible for the installation. According to a Kempower statement, the 124 fast chargers at the Tide-Bus depot in Aalborg are connected to 18 […] More…

Sepur, a waste management company, is using 18 Renault Trucks electric refuse trucks in Paris. The 18 E-Tech D Wide are used by Sepur for the collection of household waste in the 13th arrondissement, where they make around 100 collections per week. With the deployment of the BEV fleet, waste collection in the 13th arrondissement […] More…

Mercedes-Maybach is introducing its first model with a plug-in hybrid drive. This is essentially the Maybach variant of the plug-in hybrid of the Mercedes S-Class. The first fully electric model from Maybach is also to be presented before the end of 2023. The plug-in hybrid Mercedes-Maybach S 580 e now presented offers a purely electric […] More…

Californian battery developer Ionblox has closed a US$32 million Series B funding round, with Bavarian electric taxi startup Lilium also participating. Lilium had previously invested in the company then known as Zenlabs and licensed its technology. The existing investor Applied Ventures also participated in the series B financing worth the equivalent of €30 million, and […] More…

BYD has received an order for 52 electric buses from public transport operator Transdev in Sweden. The order includes 44 15-metre electric buses and eight 12-metre buses for use in the province of Gästrikland on the east coast of Sweden. The 15-metre buses with a double axle at the rear are a vehicle category that […] More…

The test of a Swedish testing institute has apparently revealed numerous safety deficiencies in the wallboxes of the Norwegian manufacturer Easee. One of the central problems: Contrary to the declaration, no RCD was apparently installed – which increases the risk of fire. In addition, some EU declarations are said not to be fulfilled, which is […] More…

Nidec Leroy-Somer has been contracted by Airbus to develop electric motors for a future hydrogen-electric propulsion system. The prototypes are to meet “very high requirements in terms of safety, reliability, energy efficiency and weight”. Nidec Leroy-Somer is a French propulsion developer belonging to the Japanese electric motor manufacturer Nidec, Leroy-Somer has been part of the […] More…

Ford has sold off a large part of its Rivian shares. According to a notification from Rivian to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Ford’s stake in Rivian is now only 1.15 per cent. The sale comes a week after Ford reported a US$7.3 billion write-down on its Rivian investment in 2022. Since February […] More…

Volvo Trucks has delivered its first all-electric ready-mix concrete mixer. The Volvo FMX Electric goes to the building materials manufacturer Cemex, which uses it in a ready-mix concrete plant in Berlin-Spandau. The vehicle now delivered, based on a Volvo FMX Electric, stems from an agreement that Volvo and Cemex had concluded in 2021. At the […] More…