SVOLT presented its new product category from the lithium iron phosphate battery cell family at a company event. The cell variant with LiFePO4 cell chemistry is expected to be produced from the third quarter of 2022. As SVOLT now announces, the event in China already took place on 8 December 2021. In front of more […] More…

Panasonic battery cells from the Gigafactory in Nevada, operated together with Tesla, are to use more recycled materials in future as part of an expanded partnership with start-up Redwood Materials. Panasonic announced at the CES technology show that Redwood Materials will start producing copper foil from recycled materials in the first half of 2022, which […] More…

GAC Aion, the electric car offshoot of the Chinese GAC Group, is building a second plant with a capacity of 200,000 vehicles per year. With the new plant, whose construction is to be completed by December 2022 according to Chinese media, GAC Aion would double its production capacity. As the portal Gasgoo reports, the construction of […] More…

Lightning eMotors has presented its own chassis for electric commercial vehicles. The Lightning eChassis accommodates different battery sizes and configurations, as well as powertrains and wheelbases, to support a variety of commercial applications. The first pre-production vehicles are expected to be available this year. Lightning Motors has worked with Metalsa, a supplier of structural components […] More…

US Stellantis brand Chrysler has unveiled its Airflow Concept at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2022, giving a glimpse of its electric future. Chrysler aims to launch its first BEV model by 2025 and offer an all-electric vehicle range by 2028. “The Chrysler Airflow Concept represents the beginning of the brand’s journey to a fully […] More…

Sony presented its second electric car prototype at this year’s CES – an enhanced electric SUV of the well-known sedan. Unlike in 2020, the chances of series production are now much better – Sony says it wants to examine this step soon. First, the vehicle: the VISION-S 02 is an SUV offshoot of the VISION-S […] More…

Transitioning off fossil fuels in transport takes more than just switching from a combustion engine to an electric car. France is now taking a new approach to make sure that citizens are informed of their options as well as their environmental impact. Car manufacturers advertising in France will therefore be legally obliged from March onwards […] More…

BMW has unveiled its first M model designed from the outset for electric mobility. The iX M60 is the third, even more powerful model variant and has now been presented at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The global market launch is planned for June 2022. “The BMW iX M60 combines a vehicle […] More…

Deutsche Post DHL Group has sold its electric delivery van subsidiary StreetScooter to the Luxembourg holding company Odin Automotive. StreetScooter rights and production know-how as well as its subsidiaries in Switzerland and Japan will go from Deutsche Post DHL Group to the new owner. Deutsche Post DHL Group has not made the purchase price public. […] More…

Swedish carmaker Volvo has appointed a new CEO. Jim Rowan will take over as CEO from Håkan Samuelsson in March 2022. Under Håkan Samuelsson, Volvo Cars initiated the farewell to the combustion engine – with the goal of making the brand a purely electric car manufacturer by 2030 and accounting for 50% of all sales […] More…

Vulcan Energy Resources has secured five new licences in the Upper Rhine Graben. In addition to an extraction licence for geothermal energy, Vulcan is expanding its previous exploration area for geothermal energy extraction and lithium by 325 square kilometres with four new exploration licences. Thus, the licence rights extend to more than 1,000 square kilometres […] More…

The US logistics company Heniff Transportation Systems plans to procure 100 Nikola Tre battery-electric trucks from Nikola. Deliveries of the first ten examples are to begin in the first half of this year. The agreement between Nikola Trucks, Thomson Truck Centers and Heniff Transportation Systems also stipulates that after the successful deployment of these first […] More…

In the UK, the grocery store chain Tesco will is launching fully electric heavy freight articulated trucks. In partnership with FSEW freight company, two new 37 tonne DAF electric vehicles will go into service. The new trucks will be transporting food and other products from the Wentloog rail terminal just outside Cardiff in Wales. These […] More…

Ford has again increased the production target for the all-electric F-150 Lightning. At the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, production of the electric vehicle is to be nearly doubled to 150,000 units annually in order to meet the high demand. The US carmaker has now officially confirmed the new production target in an announcement; […] More…

Israeli battery developer StoreDot has announced the first close of its Series D funding round of up to $80 million, the majority of which has already been secured. The main investor is the up-and-coming Vietnamese electric car manufacturer VinFast, with whom StoreDot had previously entered into a development cooperation. BP Ventures, the investment arm of […] More…

Spanish charging station manufacturer Wallbox has announced the introduction of Quasar 2, the latest generation of its bidirectional home charger designed specifically for the North American market. Quasar 2 retains the advanced features and functionality of its predecessor, Quasar, but now additionally offers bidirectional home charging, CCS compatibility and what the company calls “blackout mode”. […] More…

LG Chem will invest 475.4 billion won (about 354 million euros) in a cathode materials plant, according to the Korean Ministry of Trade. Construction of the plant with a planned annual capacity of 60,000 tonnes in the South Korean city of Gumi is to begin this month. Commissioning by subsidiary LG Battery Core Material is […] More…

The Danish government has announced its intention to make all domestic flights free of fossil fuels by 2030. By 2025 at the latest, the first domestic flights in Denmark are to start using “green” fuel. This was declared by the head of government, Mette Frederiksen, in her New Year’s speech. Frederiksen admitted, however, that the […] More…

Chinese electric car manufacturer Aiways is reshaping its management team to gain more market share in its home market: Aiways has secured a new round of financing worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to local media reports, involving a major restructuring of the management team – and arguably a change in strategy. Former Nio […] More…

In the UK, Arrival has started trials of its electric bus at a testing facility. Arrival is expected to begin production for the bus in Q2 2022. Arrival announced the trials in February last year, whereby they were scheduled to start in autumn just passed. Now the company has commenced the ground trials at their […] More…