US automotive supplier BorgWarner has won another order to supply its 400-volt silicon carbide inverter for various BEV models from a European OEM, which is not being named. The new customer’s vehicle production with BorgWarner’s SiC inverter is scheduled to start in 2023. We already know the 400-volt silicon inverter as part of BorgWarner’s iDM […] More…

Volkswagen has presented the coupé version of its ID.4 electric SUV. The ID.5 comes with rear and all-wheel drive, but exclusively with the large 77 kWh battery. Thanks to the more aerodynamic roof design, the range increases – at least somewhat. There are no surprises in the looks of the ID.5. Up to the B-pillar, […] More…

South Tyrol-based charging infrastructure manufacturer Alpitronic has introduced a new DC charging solution called HYC50. The company says that this is the first wall-mountable 50 kW charger on the market. While the HYC50 uses the Hypercharger brand name of the familiar HPC columns, it is a new development that deviates from Alpitronic‘s usual design. Unlike […] More…

The Spanish charging infrastructure provider Wenea and the German battery specialist ADS-TEC Energy have reached an agreement to increase the output of eleven Wenea charging stations in Spain with battery systems from ADS-TEC. More are in the planning stage. The battery storage solution from ADS-TEC called PowerBooster will be used to give the stations more […] More…

Glasgow-based taxi and hire car company GlasGo Cabs has ordered 360 Nissan Leafs to replace existing internal combustion models with its fully electric vehicles. The 360 electric cars are to be delivered over a period of three years, the first eleven of which will arrive this year. For GlasGo Cabs, these are the first electrically […] More…

NewMotion and its US counterpart Greenlots, will be rebranded as Shell Recharge Solutions. The rebranding will be implemented in early 2022 and will bring together Shell’s international range of charging solutions under one identity. Shell acquired the Dutch company NewMotion in autumn 2017 and US company Greenlots in early 2019. With the unified identity, the […] More…

The Aachen-based electric car manufacturer Next.e.GO Mobile has introduced its own battery exchange solution. The first two of the stations called ‘e.Pit’ are already in operation. However, there is a big difference to other battery exchange solutions. While the Chinese manufacturer Nio wants to establish battery exchange as an alternative to fast charging with its […] More…

Volkswagen has taken a stake in energy investor EIT InnoEnergy and hopes that closer cooperation in future will lead to joint innovation and investment activities, which are to be driven primarily by the involvement of promising start-ups. The official announcement of Volkswagen’s new participation states that the aim is to “help technologies and business models […] More…

Renault has released further details of the Kangoo Rapid E-Tech Electric, which will be launched in Europe in spring 2022. Like its predecessor, the compact van will be offered in two length variants that offer the same storage volume and payload as their conventionally powered counterparts. The French manufacturer presented the new Kangoo Rapid in […] More…

According to a South Korean media report, Hyundai is already planning an upgrade for its electric model Ioniq 5, which was launched on the market only a few months ago, to be offered from the beginning of 2022. The upgrade will apparently focus on the larger of the two battery options. As the Korean portal […] More…

The BMW brand Mini has presented its strategy for the future. This reaffirms the previously announced goal of the BMW Group to have exclusively purely electrically powered models in the Mini range by the beginning of the 2030s. Now it has been specified how Mini intends to achieve this goal. Mini also reaffirms the statement […] More…

The BMW brand Mini has presented its strategy for the future. This reaffirms the previously announced goal of the BMW Group to have exclusively purely electrically powered models in the Mini range by the beginning of the 2030s. Now Mini is detailing just how it intends to achieve this goal. Mini also reaffirms the statement […] More…

Tesla is recalling around 2,800 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles in the USA. The worry is that the affected vehicles may develop loose wishbones of the front wheel suspension. The issue itself is that the front suspension lateral link on Model 3 and Model Y vehicles is attached to the sub-frame using two fasteners. Some […] More…

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…