Kia has revealed pricing and specification details in the UK for the new Kia Niro. Customer pre-orders for the second-generation open today. The Korean carmaker has introduced three grades of ‘2’, ‘3’, and ‘4’ for each variant which come as BEV, PHEV and HEV. Kia has put a price rise of £2,750 between each trim […] More…

In the USA, Frito-Lay will put a new electric fleet into operation, serving Carrollton in the Dallas Fort Worth area. The first pilot Ford E-Transit truck has arrived, with 40 to follow later this summer. Ford’s E-Transit has proved very popular, providing more power for its size than competitors. While Frito-Lay has not said exactly […] More…

LG Magna e-Powertrain, the joint venture between LG Electronics and Magna, has begun construction of a new plant in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico. This will produce electric motors, inverters and onboard chargers for General Motors from 2023. General Motors has operated a vehicle plant at the Ramos Arizpe site for years. A few weeks ago, the […] More…

Porsche and Audi have established a “Premium Charging Alliance” in Japan, through which BEV customers of the brands will be able to use the fast-charging stations of both companies from July 2022. These will be located at both dealerships and in city centres. According to Porsche, customers will then be able to use 50 Porsche […] More…

In the USA, EV charging network ChargePoint has just announced the completion of the first of six fast-charging corridors in partnership with the Colorado Energy Office. Corridor A runs along Highway 40 from Boulder to Dinosaur near the Utah border. ChargePoint was awarded six corridors throughout Colorado. Each charging site offers either two or four […] More…

In the Netherlands, the solar car start-up Lightyear is cooperating with The Sharing Group to integrate its vehicles into their car-sharing platform MyWheels. Lightyear is also making its Lightyear One sedan significantly more expensive for private customers. According to Lightyear, 5,000 Lightyear Two models will be available via MyWheels from 2025 onwards. The Lightyear One […] More…

BMW has presented the new generation of the 7 Series and in parallel its electric version i7. BMW sees the generation change as a “redefinition of luxury”. Expressed in technical figures, the i7 is the top model of the entire series. When it comes to the basic concept of the car, BMW has opted for […] More…

Lars Carlstrom, the founder of Britishvolt and Italvolt, has announced another battery factory – this time in the USA. The newly founded company Statevolt is to build a factory in Southern California’s Imperial Valley that will offer an annual capacity of 54 GWh when fully expanded – enough for around 650,000 electric vehicles. The exact […] More…

Lexus has presented the new RZ, its first BEV model that will be available worldwide. The electric SUV is based on the e-TNGA platform and is thus a sister model of the Toyota bZ4X and Subaru Solterra. The powertrain is already known from the two models mentioned: As in the bZ4X, the mid-size SUV RZ […] More…

Genesis has now officially confirmed that its Electrified GV70 electric SUV will be produced in the US. Production of the electric vehicle at Hyundai’s Montgomery plant in the US state of Alabama is scheduled to start in December 2022. Previously, it had been announced that the production of the Genesis Electrified GV70 was to begin […] More…

Tesla’s Shanghai plant has apparently resumed suspended production. According to a media report, battery and motor production is up and running again and vehicle assembly is being gradually increased. It is unclear how long the factory’s inventory will last. “We’ll have capacity gradually climbing over the next three to four days until a single shift […] More…

Volvo Cars has invested in the Israeli battery developer StoreDot. The two companies have not disclosed the amount of the strategic investment. Previous investors in StoreDot include Daimler, Samsung, BP, VinFast and Ola Electric. The Geely-owned Swedish company says that the investment is being made through its own Tech Fund. This investment gives Volvo Cars […] More…

The Austrian startup Deus Automobiles, founded in Vienna in 2020, presented the concept of an all-electric hypercar at the New York International Auto Show. The Deus Vayanne was developed in cooperation with Italdesign and Williams Advanced Engineering and is to be delivered from 2025 as a small series limited to 99 units. The luxury electric […] More…

The German premium manufacturers BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi are clearly behind the Chinese brands in the sale of electric cars in China. The number of all-electric cars sold in China in 2021 was 2.73 million, of which Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi together accounted for only about 27,000. This is roughly equivalent to the sales of […] More…

A South Korean consortium led by LG has signed an agreement with Indonesian state-owned companies for a project worth around nine billion US dollars. The project aims to build a complete value chain for electric vehicle batteries. The project will cover the extraction of raw materials, the production of key components such as cathodes to […] More…

US electric bus manufacturer Proterra has announced increased battery capacity for its ZX5 battery-electric transit bus. Starting next year, the 40-foot (12.2-metre) version of the Proterra ZX5 can be equipped with up to 738 kWh of battery capacity. This should allow for more than 300 miles (480 kilometres) of range, according to the announcement – […] More…

Autoguidovie, a transport company operating in northern Italy, has reportedly launched a tender for the procurement of 120 battery-electric buses. The buses are scheduled to start service in early 2023 and will be the first electric buses that the company has put into service. Bids will be accepted by Autoguidovie until noon on 27 May […] More…

Australian charging infrastructure manufacturer Tritium has signed a multi-year contract with BP for the supply of DC charging stations and associated services. BP is placing an initial order with Tritium for almost 1,000 fast charging stations for the UK, Australian and New Zealand markets. The charging stations will then be achieved and operated under the […] More…

Ford has received another large order for its E-Transit electric van in the US. Penske Truck Leasing has ordered 750 E-Transits to rent and lease to its customers. The first units of the Ford E-Transit for Penske Truck Leasing are scheduled to be delivered to Southern California in the coming weeks, before the E-Transit is […] More…

Ubitricity has won a tender from the French municipal association Le Havre Seine for 534 public AC and DC charging points at 172 locations across Normandy. The installation of the first chargers will start in summer, with the rest expected to be in place by the end of 2024. This summer Ubitricity will install 22 […] More…