From 2031, diesel cars will no longer be allowed to enter the environmental zones of the Flemish cities of Antwerp and Ghent, and from 2035 no petrol cars will be allowed either. This means that the tightening of the environmental zones there will be somewhat weaker than announced a year ago. Antwerp was the first […] More…

The Scottish city of Dundee has scrapped a project that would have seen twelve hydrogen fuel cell buses joining public transport. The Council said it needed the cash elsewhere since costs had gone up, for example, in construction, so hydrogen became “less of a priority”. Lib Dem Councillor Fraser Macpherson said they supported scraping the […] More…

Tata Motors announced today that Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) signed a definitive agreement to launch 921 electric buses in the city of Bengaluru. The Tata subsidiary TML Smart City Mobility Solutions will operate the e-buses for 12 years. TML Smart City Mobility Solutions also signs responsible for supplying and maintaining the Tata buses of […] More…

LG Energy Solution has announced a total investment of 4 trillion won (€2.9 billion) by the end of 2026 in its Ochang plant in South Korea to increase production capacity for electric car round cells and build a new research and development centre. With the expansion of the battery factory, LGES plans to create 1,800 […] More…

VW Commercial Vehicles is launching into a new era with the ID. Buzz as the electric motor replaces the diesel forever. How well does it work? And what has the latest software inside the EV got to offer? Christoph M. Schwarzer tested the ID. Buzz extensively, and here is his assessment. *** The Buzz is […] More…

Volkswagen expects to meet European emissions standards this year without relying on other companies to sell electric cars. In addition, VW has made changes to their CO2 pool in the EU. As the Financial Times reports, citing documents from the EU Commission, the Chinese manufacturers Geely, Nio and SAIC are no longer in the Volkswagen Group’s […] More…

The US fuel cell specialist Plug Power announces that it will buy 75 units of the Nikola Tre FCEV H2 truck within three years and supply customers in North America with green hydrogen using these hydrogen trucks. The first vehicles are to be handed over as early as 2023. Plug Power plans to combine the […] More…

New York Governor Kathy Hochul is progressing with her EV policies once more as she announces $23 million in funding for e-mobility initiatives in New York State. These include $15 mn for charging initiatives and another $8 mn for electric school and transit buses. New York State reportedly has a goal of a zero-emission electricity […] More…

Webasto has more than doubled the volume of its 2022 order intake in the electromobility business field compared to the previous year. Customers ordered battery systems, electric heaters and charging solutions for around 2.8 billion euros from the Munich-based supplier. Four deals signed this year alone for the production of batteries for electric cars come […] More…

The German electric converter Pepper Motion has signed a supply contract for battery systems with Impact Clean Power Technology from Poland. ICPT will now manufacture complete battery systems for Pepper that can be used in electric buses and electric trucks. The requirements for battery systems in the commercial vehicle sector are even higher than for […] More…

In Balingen, dynamic wireless charging technology for electric vehicles is being tested in practice for the first time in Germany. The main actor of the pilot project is a shuttle bus for the Garden Show 2023, which is to charge its vehicle battery while driving. The Israeli company ElectReon, which specialises in inductive charging of […] More…

CATL and Ford are considering jointly building a US factory for LFP batteries. According to an agency report, the production facility will be fully owned by Ford but operated by CATL. This could make the plant eligible for subsidies from the US government under the Inflation Reduction Act. This is reported by Bloomberg with reference […] More…

Tesla wants to build its next North American factory in Mexico. According to a local media report, Tesla has already bought a plot of land in Santa Catarina in the Mexican state of Nuevo León against this background. If the report by the Mexican newspaper Milenio is true, Tesla will make the planned investment in […] More…

Seat announces that in future it will also produce components for electric cars at its transmission plant in El Prat De Llobregat near Barcelona. Together with Martorell and Barcelona, the Seat Components plant is one of the Spanish brand’s three production centres. From 2025, five components for the Volkswagen Group’s planned BEV small car family […] More…

Ebusco presents an 18-metre articulated bus version of its Ebusco 3.0 electric model. Just like the 12-metre variant already available, the long Ebusco 3.0 is also supposed to score with a particularly low weight. The manufacturer claims to have already received several orders for the articulated bus. The 18-metre version will have the same electric […] More…

Canadian EV designer and manufacturer Electra Meccanica held a commissioning ceremony for its nearly-completed manufacturing facility in Mesa, Arizona in the USA. The company says its new plant represents a major step and will serve as the company’s new headquarters. ElectraMeccanica says it will ultimately have the capacity to produce up to 20,000 vehicles per […] More…

The Chinese car company GAC has started building a production facility for electric car batteries in Guangzhou. With a total investment of 10.9 billion yuan (1.5 billion euros or $1.561 billion), the new factory is scheduled to go into operation in March 2024 with an annual production capacity of 6 GWh. By the end of […] More…

The start of the first fuel cell trains in the Taunus network is apparently bumpy. According to a report, only two of the six H2 trains that were recently scheduled to run in the Taunus region can currently be used – due to technical problems. According to the local publication Hessenschau, there are difficulties with […] More…

Mercedes-Benz is cooperating with the Norwegian aluminium manufacturer Hydro to significantly reduce the CO2 footprint of aluminium in the automotive supply chain. As early as 2023, aluminium with a CO2 footprint reduced by almost 70 per cent is to be used in Mercedes EQ models, among others. The partnership also aims to achieve virtually emission-free […] More…

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has approved a 2.9 billion US dollar investment plan, primarily to expand infrastructure for zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) in the state. The majority of the budget is to flow into charging points for electric utility vehicles. Of the total equivalent of 2.73 billion euros, the largest portion – $1.7 billion (1.6 […] More…