The first electric model from Evergrande New Energy Vehicle, the electric car division of Chinese real estate group Evergrande, is now officially listed in the catalogue of the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). This completes the registration process for the Hengchi 5 LX. The electric SUV, whose production start is reportedly scheduled […] More…

The Australian government has presented its Future Fuels and Vehicles Strategy, which provides for 250 million Australian dollars of investment in electric transport. The largest part is to flow into the expansion of electric car charging infrastructure and the establishment of hydrogen filling stations. However, there will be no direct purchase incentives. The total investment […] More…

Sono Motors plans to offer 10 million ordinary shares in its planned US IPO. The German solar car start-up says the placement price per share is expected to be between US$14 and US$16. Sono has applied to list its common shares under the symbol ‘SEV’. The number of shares and the placement price will result […] More…

BMW has just started the series production of the all-electric CE 04 moped scooter and its police or public authority variant at the motorbike plant in Berlin. According to the company, all future new models from BMW Motorrad in the field of urban mobility will be 100 per cent electric. On its German and British […] More…

The US start-up Nuro, which specialises in autonomous electric vehicles, has closed a financing round of 600 million dollars (around 518 million euros). With the fresh capital, Nuro wants to drive the development and spread of its autonomous delivery services. According to the company, investors such as Tiger Global Management, Baillie Gifford, Fidelity Management & […] More…

In Germany, the European battery research project Spartacus has published a positive interim report one year after it was first initiated for the development of advanced battery sensors and cell management systems. The Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research in Würzburg is acting as project coordinator. Spartacus stands for ‘Spatially resolved acoustic, mechanical and uasonic sensing […] More…

The electric scooter and e-bike sharing provider Lime has raised 523 million US dollars in an oversubscribed financing round. With the fresh capital, among other things, Lime wants to bring its vehicles to more cities. Lime is also aiming to go public in 2022. ADG, Fidelity and Highbridge as well as the ride-hailing company Uber […] More…

The Canadian company First Cobalt wants to build North America’s first factory complex for the production of battery materials specifically for electric vehicles. As part of the realignment, First Cobalt is renaming itself Electra Battery Materials. Electra Battery Materials (the name change is subject to shareholder approval) promises to make domestic battery-grade nickel and cobalt, […] More…

Australian mining company European Lithium is in the process of securing two promising lithium deposits in Ukraine, aiming to become the largest lithium supplier in Europe and an essential part of an integrated European battery supply chain. The two deposits, discovered and subsequently explored in the 1980s and 1990s, are located in Shevchenkivske in the […] More…

In New Zealand, Auckland Transport and bus operator NZ Bus have reached an agreement to put 152 more battery-electric buses on Auckland’s roads over the next four years. The first of the new electric buses are scheduled to enter service in October 2022. So far, 33 electric buses are already in operation in Auckland. In […] More…

Tesla has acquired Colorado-based battery start-up SiILion, according to a new patent for a silicon-based battery anode. Tesla is also planning a new factory in Canada to build battery production facilities. There were already rumours about the takeover of SilLion last year, but the deal was not confirmed. At that time, Tesla had hired some […] More…

In October, 368,000 new energy vehicles were sold in China, an increase over both the same month last year and the previous month. However, the best-selling NEV in October did not come from BYD or Tesla. The 368,000 NEVs in October represent an increase of 148.1 per cent compared to the same month last year […] More…

The British charging infrastructure company Connected Kerb has said it will install a total of 190,000 publicly accessible AC chargers in the UK by 2030. The company specialises in standard chargers with 7 to 22 kW for overnight street parking. The public chargers will require overall investments of up to 1.9 billion pounds (2.22 billion […] More…

A climate plan has now been drawn up by the Flemish regional government to phase out the sale of cars and vans with combustion engines in favour of electrically powered vehicles from 2029. This phase-out includes petrol, diesel and hybrid vehicles. The push is part of about 40 measures that the Belgian region of Flanders […] More…

The Irish government has presented a climate protection plan that also includes targets for electrification in the transport sector. A total of almost one million electric vehicles are to be on the country’s roads by 2030. According to the government in Dublin, 845,000 of these should be electrically powered passenger cars, 95,000 vans and 1,500 […] More…

Greece wants to ban the sale of new cars with combustion engines from 2030. This was announced by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. As early as 2025, all new taxis and one third of rental cars in Athens and Thessaloniki will have to be electric. The planned phasing out of internal combustion vehicles is part of […] More…

The Chinese manufacturer BYD is closing its electric bus production facility in France. The first electric buses were produced at the BYD plant in Allonne near Beauvais in France at the end of 2018. Since the grand opening of the facility, however, only about 30 vehicles have left the production halls due to a lack […] More…

Canadian commercial vehicle manufacturer Vicinity Motor announces that it has received a letter of intent from Pioneer Auto Group, a retail automotive dealer in British Columbia, for 100 electric trucks worth about CAD 14 million (€9.7Mn/$11.1). Pioneer is a Canadian dealership group with 17 locations located chiefly throughout British Columbia and retails over 6,000 vehicles […] More…

New Flyer continues its winning streak in the US as the NFI subsidiary receives an order over 30 electric buses from Capital Metro Transportation Authority (CapMetro) in Austin, Texas. New Flyer says this was the largest ever electric bus procurement in the US, considering CapMetro’s option over 141 e-buses. Breaking down the order, New Flyer […] More…

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) has been awarded a $6mn grant by the California Energy Commission to install one of the largest EV fleet charging systems in the US. The funding comes after the agency had announced to transition its entire fleet to electric in time for the Summer Olympics in 2028. The […] More…