In Montreal, Goodfood Market Corp, one of Canada’s largest online grocery companies has just received ten fully-electric refrigerated delivery vans from Lightning eMotors. Lightning eMotors says that this delivery is Canada’s first deployment of a fully electric refrigerated vehicle fleet. The deployment also marks Lightning eMotors’ entry into Canada’s commercial electric vehicle market. Tim Reeser, […] More…

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $199 million to fund 25 projects aimed at putting cleaner cars and trucks on America’s roads. This includes long-haul trucks powered by batteries and fuel cells and improving EV charging infrastructure in projects across the USA. The initiative that was just presented in New York by Vice President […] More…

MG Motor has now presented the details of the announced facelift of the ZS EV, which will arrive at European dealers at the end of November. Initially, only the larger of the two will be available – the ‘Standard Range’ battery will follow later. As already announced at the beginning of October, the 45 kWh […] More…

The Chilean chemical company SQM is initiating the test run of an electric truck in the company’s logistics. The model is an electric 28-tonne truck from the Chinese manufacturer Yutong with a range of around 200 kilometres. According to the company, many more electric trucks could follow. The e-truck is to start its service in […] More…

Customcells has started to expand its production facilities in Itzehoe in order to further increase capacity. In addition, the newly installed facilities are to be “at the current highest level of production technology”. However, Customcells does not specify the future capacity at the site in the announcement. However, the mere expansion of capacity was not […] More…

While the world looks to Glasgow for commitments at COP26 to turn the tides on catastrophic climate change, we look at change happening on the ground – the decarbonisation of public transport, a field where host nation UK and specifically Scotland may actually shine. Local manufacturers are building unique electric vehicles and are increasingly banking […] More…

In England, the city of Leicester has presented a plan that, among other things, envisages converting half of the bus fleet to electric drive by 2025 and the entire fleet by 2030. This involves more than 200 vehicles. The first stage of the plan is to get 96 electric buses into operation by spring 2024, […] More…

Tesla has signed a new framework agreement with Ganfeng Lithium for the supply of lithium hydroxide for three years starting in 2022. The sales volume and order value are to be determined on the basis of Tesla’s specific orders. This was reported by several media, including Reuters and the Chinese portal Gasgoo, citing a stock […] More…

The Chinese battery cell manufacturer CATL will supply the batteries for the Fisker Ocean. The supply agreement now concluded by Fisker and CATL runs initially until 2025. Production of the Fisker Ocean at Magna in Austria is scheduled to start on 17 November 2022, as reported. According to Fisker, the CATL deal covers the years […] More…

The Chinese battery cell manufacturer CATL will supply the batteries for the Fisker Ocean. The supply agreement now concluded by Fisker and CATL runs initially until 2025. Production of the Fisker Ocean at Magna in Austria is scheduled to start on 17 November 2022, as reported. According to Fisker, the CATL deal covers the years […] More…

In Norway, 8,116 new electric cars were registered in October. Electric vehicles accounted for 70.1 per cent of all new registrations in the month. The most successful model across all drive types was the VW ID.4 with 913 registrations. Compared to the 7,873 BEV registrations in October 2020, the 8,116 new electric cars from the […] More…

Tesla has adjusted its configurators for the new model year 2022. In addition to changed model names (the name suffix ‘Standard Range’ has been dropped from the basic versions), there are also changes to the range specifications. According to the changes in the Tesla configurator implemented on Tuesday night, the cheapest Model 3 is now […] More…

The Opel Rocks-e is now available to order in Germany at list prices starting at 7,990 euros. According to Opel, the financing rate for the City EV will be at the same monthly level as a ticket for local public transport. The first vehicles are to be delivered to dealers before the end of the […] More…

The Opel Rocks-e is now available to order in Germany at list prices starting at 7,990 euros. Opel says the monthly financing rate for the City EV will be the same as a ticket for local public transport. Delivered to dealers will begin before the end of the year. Opel had introduced the Rocks-e at […] More…

The contract to build the Artemis models of Audi, Porsche and Bentley at VW Commercial Vehicles’ Hanover plant was considered a great success for the future of the plant. According to a media report, two of the three brands now want changes. According to media reports, Porsche and Bentley in particular do not want to […] More…

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) continues its transition to new electric vehicles and has turned to EDF for installing charging stations across its network of sites. SFRS aims to transition 50 per cent of its 755-strong fleet of cars and vans to EVs by 2025. What is more, the SFRS targets complete light […] More…

Florida-based beverage wholesaler Tri-Eagle Sales has agreed to lease ten Nikola Tre battery-electric trucks. The first deliveries are scheduled for 2022. Ring Power Corporation, a member of Nikola’s sales and service dealer network, is acting as broker. Through the fleet-as-a-service leasing model utilised by Tri-Eagle Sales, Ring Power will provide sales, repairs, maintenance and installation […] More…

Tesla is opening ten Supercharger locations in the Netherlands for drivers of electric vehicles from other brands. The move is intended as a test scenario to gain experience with demand. The ten locations are initially only accessible to BEV drivers who are registered in the Netherlands. Rumours about opening up Tesla’s proprietary Supercharger network have […] More…

Forsee Power is introducing a new range of particularly thin batteries for use in electric vehicles for the construction and agricultural sectors as well as in light electric vehicles. The French battery manufacturer puts the width of the batteries at just 128 millimetres. At the beginning of the year, Forsee Power had already announced the […] More…

The fire brigade of the canton of Basel-city has ordered four all-electric fire fighting vehicles of the RT model series from Rosenbauer. This is the first fleet order for the electric vehicle. Independently of this, Rosenbauer announces that it will now also present the first aerial ladder with an electric drive system. First to Switzerland: After […] More…