With the SUITE N°4, Renault presents a unique concept car in the style of the Renault 4. Designed as an electric car, the one-off does without the boot and rear seats of the original and transforms the interior into a room with a view of the sky. “The collaboration with Mathieu Lehanneur was a natural […] More…

Zero-emission flight specialist ZeroAvia has scored two new partnerships, most strikingly with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries RJ Aviation Group (MHIRJ). They intend to develop fuel cell-powered regional jets, including retrofit solutions. There’s also news from Alaska Airlines. First to Mitsubishi and ZeroAvia since they already signed an agreement to develop hydrogen-electric propulsion for regional jets. Plus, […] More…

After General Motors recently announced charging infrastructure investments of almost $750 million by 2025, the car company now reveals concrete steps. Together with its dealers, GM will launch the ‘Dealer Community Charging Program’ with impressive targets. In today’s statement, GM said it would build up to 40,000 AC charging stations for electric vehicles in the […] More…

DHL Parcel UK will add 50 new electric vans to their fleet before the year’s end. The logistics company will deploy the 50 Mercedes-Benz eSprinter L2s in Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Leicester, Bristol and Southampton and complement the fleet in London. Scott Laird, vice president of operations at DHL Parcel, said, “Just a few months after […] More…

US electric truck maker Atlis Motor Vehicles has closed a heavily oversubscribed six-week $5 million crowdfunding raise. The new capital injection adds to over $16 million of crowdfunding raised by the Arizona-based company, towards developing its own electric vehicle battery cells and packs. Impressively, the crowdfunding campaign managed to attract 4,123 new investors, who pooled […] More…

The Canadian manufacturer MacLean Engineering wants to operate its heavy mining machines of the EV series and other equipment emission-free. The company is relying on technology from Xalt Energy and Freudenberg Battery Power Systems, both subsidiaries of Freudenberg Sealing Technologies (FTS). According to an accompanying press release, MacLean has already been supplying battery-electric machines to […] More…

CATL is licensing its Cell-to-Pack technology, unveiled in 2019, to South Korean supplier Hyundai Mobis. In the course of the agreement, the Chinese battery manufacturer will support Hyundai Mobis in supplying CTP products not only in South Korea, but worldwide. The basic idea of cell-to-pack batteries is already evident from their name: the cells are […] More…

Daimler Truck and BP have signed an agreement to jointly drive forward hydrogen infrastructure development and the introduction of fuel cell trucks in the UK. Concrete terms will see BP installing hydrogen refuelling infrastructure throughout the decade with Daimler to push fuel cell trucks through its dealerships. So far, the MoU states that BP could […] More…

Daimler Truck and BP have agreed to jointly accelerate hydrogen infrastructure development and the introduction of fuel cell trucks in the UK. Concrete terms will see BP installing hydrogen refuelling infrastructure throughout the decade with Daimler to push fuel cell trucks through dealerships. So far, the MoU states that BP could build and operate up […] More…

Norwegian company Morrow Batteries is working with South Korean company Posco Chemical to jointly develop cathode and anode materials for Morrow’s future battery cells. The collaboration is expected to lead to a long-term volume supply contract. Morrow Batteries had announced at the end of 2020 that it would build a battery cell factory at Eyde […] More…

Stellantis has announced the launch of two new Fiat models that will also be marketed as pure electric vehicles. Specifically, these are a van and a delivery van. The names are well known: Ulysse for the van, Scudo for the van. For both models, the current announcement virtually closes the circle: they have already been […] More…

Although Sono Motors already announced in 2019 that it would have its Sion solar electric car produced by National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) at the Swedish site in Trollhättan, there is apparently no binding production agreement to date. We asked the Munich-based company about this. The lack of a final contract was discussed by NEVS […] More…

Land Rover has presented the fifth generation of the Range Rover. At the market launch next year, this will receive two plug-in hybrid variants with 324 and 375 kW respectively and a purely electric WLTP range of up to 100 kilometres. The manufacturer has announced a purely electric Range Rover for 2024. The new Range […] More…

Audi is setting up a centre of excellence for the development of batteries for future electric cars at its Neckarsulm plant. A battery technical centre is to go into operation by 2023 at the latest, where prototypes for new batteries will be researched and tested. The news was first broken by German publication Heilbronner Stimme […] More…

After Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess had a bad experience with Ionity’s charging network a few months ago and made his anger known on LinkedIn, Ionity should be happy about Diess’ latest post: This time his charging experience at the German network was far improved. Diess made post about his experience electric car trip that included […] More…

BYD has appointed Bluekens EV as the first dealer in the Netherlands for its all-electric trucks and vans. The company is a subsidiary of Bluekens Group and will handle sales and after-sales services for BYD electric commercial vehicles up to twelve tonnes in the Netherlands. Bluekens EV says it aims to develop a 360-degree approach […] More…

ADS-TEC Energy, a German provider of battery-based fast charging technology has announced a joint venture with Swedish company Polar Structure. Polar will become the preferred strategic distribution partner for ADS-TEC Energy’s technology platforms in Northern Europe. The two partners are offering a model of ‘infrastructure-as-a-service’. According to ADS-TEC Energy, this business model is based on […] More…

ABB’s corporate startup Panion and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are launching the test phase of their jointly developed digital solution for electric vehicle fleet charge planning. The cloud-based software, called Panion EV Charge Planning, is dedicated to real-time management of electric fleets and charging facilities. Panion says the tool is designed to help operators monitor […] More…

Lion Electric has received a conditional purchase order for 1,000 all-electric LionC school buses from Student Transportation of Canada (STC). If grant conditions are fulfilled, this purchase order would allow STC to become the largest operator of zero-emission school buses in North America. The purchase order is conditional upon the satisfactory grant of non-repayable contributions […] More…

Tesla has completed its new research and development centre at the Gigafactory in Shanghai. The facility is the electric carmaker’s first R&D centre outside the US. In parallel, Tesla has raised a data centre in Shanghai and opened a large delivery centre. The new facilities signify a further localisation of Tesla’s activities in China. Media […] More…