Charging infrastructure provider SemaConnect, usually in the B2B area, presents its first consumer product, the Series 4 EV Home Charger. The company has opened the order books for the Level 2 charging station and expects shipping to start in December. For technical data, SemaConnect says the charging station can be configured from 16 – 50 […] More…

The MotoE electric motorcycle racing series, which has been part of the MotoGP supporting programme since 2019, is losing its exclusive motorbike supplier. The Italian manufacturer Energica will withdraw from MotoE after the 2022 season. It is not yet clear what will happen to the electric series from 2023. Energica has accompanied the racing series […] More…

New Flyer announced two new orders from California. San Diego will see twelve electric buses going into service while Culver City ordered six e-buses from the NFI subsidiary. First to the larger order through the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS). The operator has awarded New Flyer a contract for 12 battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE buses […] More…

The state of Virginia announced more than $10 million in funding through the Clean School Bus Program run by the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). The funding is available to public school districts to replace diesel vehicles with cleaner alternatives. The new scheme follows an earlier funding round launched in August, which helped replace 83 […] More…

HT Aero, the flying car offshoot of Chinese electric car manufacturer Xpeng, has raised more than half a billion US dollars from a number of investors in its Series A funding round. The exact amount is not mentioned in the announcement, it only talks about “over 500 million dollars”. Among others, the investment companies IDG […] More…

The UK government wants to introduce a new mandate requiring manufacturers to sell an increasing percentage of emissions-free vehicles each year from 2024 onwards as part of its new Net Zero Strategy. New funding commitments include an extra £350 million to support the electrification of UK vehicles and their supply chains. To prepare for the […] More…

Geely has given its subsidiary Volvo Cars control of the car plant in Luqiao, China, where the Polestar 2 and Volvo XC40 Recharge electric models, among others, are produced. In the process, the Luqiao production plant will be renamed Taizhou. According to a statement, the parent company and the subsidiary have agreed to integrate the […] More…

Geely’s premium electric brand Zeekr has started production of its debut model presented in April in the eastern Chinese region of Ningbo. The first deliveries of the Zeekr 001 have already been announced for 23 October. In addition to its plant for pure electric vehicles in the Ningbo region, Zeekr also moved its headquarters to […] More…

BMW presents a new use for end-of-life electric car batteries. More than 40 partially recycled BMW i3 batteries provide electricity to Coldplay’s live performances, replacing diesel and gasoline generators for the band on tour. “We’re proud to partner with BMW to create the world’s first tourable, rechargeable show battery – which will allow us to […] More…

BMW found a new use for end-of-life electric car batteries. More than 40 partially recycled BMW i3 batteries provide electricity to Coldplay’s live performances, replacing diesel and gasoline generators for the band on tour. To recharge the show battery system on tour, BMW says it wants to use renewable sources, including solar installations, a kinetic […] More…

ElectrReon announced the launch of the first fully operational e-bus utilising the company’s wireless charging infrastructure in the city of Visby, Sweden. The Smartroad Gotland project started in 2020 and is one of four Electric Road demonstrators in Sweden. The Swedish transport authority Trafikverket has been involved since the partners began installing the in-road wireless […] More…

Cupra driver Matthias Ekström has secured the drivers’ title in the first season of the Pure ETCR electric touring car series after five race weekends. Cupra also emerged victorious in the manufacturers’ classification. Since June, three vehicles competed against each other in the Pure ETCR: The Cupra Leon, the Hyundai Veloster and the Romeo Ferraris […] More…

One of Australia’s leading bus manufacturers, Custom Denning, has selected Siemens to supply its charging stations and management solution Sicharge UC. The system will support the manufacturer’s future electric buses with trials now underway. So far, the Australian manufacturer has made four prototypes of their electric bus named Element. With the new agreement now in […] More…

Heliox introduces its latest charging system, ‘Flex 180 kW,’ designed for high-powered depots and overnight charging across multiple vehicles. Multiobus in Belgium already uses the charging system with GVB Amsterdam and Transdev Hermes in Eindhoven to follow shortly. When announcing the new charging system, the Dutch manufacturer primarily referred to a market in transformation. “From […] More…

Wallbox Chargers and Nuvve announced a new vehicle-to-grid (V2G) partnership in Iberia. It will incorporate Wallbox’s bidirectional DC home charger Quasar into Nuvve’s V2G software GIVe. The partners target a kick start in Southern Europe in 2022 with their eyes set on overseas markets. Nuvve and Wallbox Chargers expect the “combined technology” to be available […] More…

The US battery start-up Our Next Energy (ONE) has raised around 25 million US dollars (around 21.5 million euros) in a Series A financing round. BMW is one of the investors. ONE is currently working on a so-called dual battery. Founded last year, ONE is a startup based in the US state of Michigan that […] More…

The purely electric crossover model based on the Alliance platform CMF-EV announced by Nissan in the summer is to replace the Nissan Leaf from around 2025. It will be built at the plant in Sunderland, England. This was confirmed by Nissan’s European boss Guillaume Cartier to the British portal Autocar. The Nissan Leaf hatchback, which […] More…

Stellantis is developing a European charging network for electric cars in cooperation with the Italian company The F Charging. Plans now announced comprise more than 15,000 locations with a total of two million parking spaces by 2025. The roll-out is to begin soon. Stellantis and the F-Charging estimate to begin building the network this year, […] More…

Demers Ambulances and Lion Electric have unveiled the first all-electric and purpose-built ambulance. The Demers eFX Ambulance is scheduled to enter into commercial production in the second half of 2022. North American ambulance manufacturer Demers Ambulances and The Lion Electric Company, who is known as a leading manufacturer of all-electric medium and heavy-duty urban vehicles, […] More…

The first electric car of the “New Class” announced by BMW for the middle of the decade is to be an all-electric version of the next 3 Series generation, according to a British media report. The abbreviation “NK1” is given as the internal working title. This is according to a report by Autocar. The 3 […] More…