Ford has again increased the production target for the all-electric F-150 Lightning. At the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, production of the electric vehicle is to be nearly doubled to 150,000 units annually in order to meet the high demand. The US carmaker has now officially confirmed the new production target in an announcement; […] More…

Israeli battery developer StoreDot has announced the first close of its Series D funding round of up to $80 million, the majority of which has already been secured. The main investor is the up-and-coming Vietnamese electric car manufacturer VinFast, with whom StoreDot had previously entered into a development cooperation. BP Ventures, the investment arm of […] More…

Spanish charging station manufacturer Wallbox has announced the introduction of Quasar 2, the latest generation of its bidirectional home charger designed specifically for the North American market. Quasar 2 retains the advanced features and functionality of its predecessor, Quasar, but now additionally offers bidirectional home charging, CCS compatibility and what the company calls “blackout mode”. […] More…

LG Chem will invest 475.4 billion won (about 354 million euros) in a cathode materials plant, according to the Korean Ministry of Trade. Construction of the plant with a planned annual capacity of 60,000 tonnes in the South Korean city of Gumi is to begin this month. Commissioning by subsidiary LG Battery Core Material is […] More…

The Danish government has announced its intention to make all domestic flights free of fossil fuels by 2030. By 2025 at the latest, the first domestic flights in Denmark are to start using “green” fuel. This was declared by the head of government, Mette Frederiksen, in her New Year’s speech. Frederiksen admitted, however, that the […] More…

Chinese electric car manufacturer Aiways is reshaping its management team to gain more market share in its home market: Aiways has secured a new round of financing worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to local media reports, involving a major restructuring of the management team – and arguably a change in strategy. Former Nio […] More…

In the UK, Arrival has started trials of its electric bus at a testing facility. Arrival is expected to begin production for the bus in Q2 2022. Arrival announced the trials in February last year, whereby they were scheduled to start in autumn just passed. Now the company has commenced the ground trials at their […] More…

In Norway, 13,803 new electric cars were registered in December. The share of electric cars among all new registrations was 67.1 per cent. In addition, there were 4,706 new plug-in hybrids. Norway’s most successful model in December was the Tesla Model Y with 2,379 registrations. In 2021 as a whole, there were 113,751 battery-electric cars, […] More…

China has cut government subsidies for private New Energy Vehicles by 30 per cent from 2021 with the new year. From 31 December 2022, government NEV subsidies in China will be completely eliminated. This was announced by the Chinese Ministry of Finance. The move did not come as a surprise: the Chinese government had already […] More…

Hyundai has to recall 2,679 units of the all-electric Ioniq EV in the US. The reason is an electronic fault in the CAN bus system that can put the car into a “fail-safe” mode. If this happens, the EV sign lights up in the instruments and the electric car is only on the road with […] More…

In Europe, Allego has introduced new prices for its charging stations in Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands as of 1 January 2022 – which does not always mean a price increase. Also new is a distinction between slower DC charging and HPC. AC charging now costs 43 cents per kilowatt-hour at Allego in Germany […] More…

In the USA, BMW has released EPA range figures and pricing for the iX and i4, both of which are due to go on sale there during Q1 2022.  We have summarised the dimensions and technical data in these articles on the i4 and iX. For US American drivers of electric BMW vehicles, BMW Charging […] More…

Mercedes-Benz has unveiled a new electric concept car at the CES with the Vision EQXX. As with previous CES concepts by the Stuttgart-based company, the Vision EQXX is not a concrete forerunner of a production model but is intended to provide a preview of a range of technologies that aimed to make production vehicles more […] More…

Zeekr and Waymo are working together on a purely electric and fully autonomous ride-hailing vehicle. This will be an electric minivan that will be used primarily in the USA. According to the Geely brand and the autonomous vehicle development subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, the minivan-style electric car is being developed for use in […] More…

Ionity has now reached its target of 400 charging parks in Europe, originally planned for the end of 2020, with a delay of around a year. According to Ionity’s website, 401 sites are now in operation. The fast-charging joint venture launched its first German HPC site at the Brohltal Ost service area on the A61 […] More…

The New York Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) has ordered 184 all-electric Ford Mustang Mach-E GTs for the police and other agencies in New York City. DCAS also aims to purchase 250 Tesla Model 3s whereby the contract is still being finalised. Ford’s new electric SUVs are scheduled to arrive at the city by […] More…

RWE has commissioned an energy storage system in Herdecke, North Rhine-Westphalia, which runs on used lithium-ion batteries from Audi electric cars. With this project, the energy company wants to gain knowledge in order to implement even larger storage systems in the future. With the help of 60 battery systems, the new type of storage facility […] More…

The Chinese battery manufacturer CALB (China Lithium Battery Technology) is now also planning a factory in Europe. An annual capacity of 20 GWh is planned. There is no further information on the location and timetable so far – but Germany seems to be in the running. For the construction of the battery factory, the Chinese […] More…

Samsung SDI is marketing its current and future batteries for electric vehicles, among others, under the new brand ‘PRiMX’. The brand registration for PRiMX has been completed in South Korea and Europe and is expected to be completed in the USA shortly. ‘PRiMX’ stands for “Prime Battery for Maximum Experience”, according to the company. All […] More…

Rivian has postponed deliveries of its R1T and R1S models with the largest battery to 2023. The reason is that most of the approximately 71,000 pre-orderers of the R1T and R1S in the US and Canada have chosen the medium battery option and will be prioritised. This was announced by CEO RJ Scaringe in an […] More…