The Serbian government has denied permission for the Jadar project of the British-Australian mining company Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto wanted to build a lithium mine in Serbia as part of the project. This mine, valued at over $2.4 billion, would have produced up to 58,000 tonnes of battery-grade lithium carbonate from 2026 onwards – which […] More…

‘Autonomy’ is a new offer in California where TrueCar founder Scott Painter now gives customers Model 3 for a monthly flat rate. The new venture has acquired about 100 vehicles from Tesla and has ambitious plans for expansion. By the end of this quarter, Autonomy wants to run a 500-strong fleet and have no less […] More…

Ganfeng LiEnergy, a subsidiary of lithium producer Ganfeng Lithium, has started operating a battery factory with an annual capacity of ten GWh in Xinyu in China’s Jiangxi province. This is the second phase of the factory, which now covers 330,000 square metres, according to Ganfeng Lithium’s WeChat account. The factory has production lines for prismatic […] More…

Tesla has confirmed in an internal email that it plans to start deliveries of the Model Y Performance from Grünheide in March. Previously, a change in the configurator had only hinted at this. The email to employees in Germany, posted on the German Tesla Drivers and Friends forum (TFF), mentions March as the expected start […] More…

Panasonic plans to start mass production of the new 4680 cells for Tesla in the course of 2023. Panasonic is expanding its plant in the Japanese prefecture of Wakayama and integrating new facilities for the mass production of these new cells. According to the Japanese business daily Nikkei, Panasonic also expects an accelerated transition to […] More…

Panasonic plans to start mass production of the new 4680 cells for Tesla in the course of 2023. Panasonic is expanding its plant in the Japanese prefecture of Wakayama and integrating new facilities for the mass production of these new cells. According to the Japanese business daily Nikkei, Panasonic also expects an accelerated transition to […] More…

Public transport operator Unibuss from Norway has placed a major order with Poland’s bus manufacturer Solaris. Unibuss expects 183 articulated electric buses to arrive in Oslo in spring 2023. For Solaris, it is the largest single order to date. Previously, the manufacturer’s biggest contract came through Warsaw’s transport company MZA that ordered 130 electric bendy […] More…

General Motors is investing almost 154 million US dollars in its Lockport Components plant in western New York to produce components for electric motors in the future. Investments are also to be made in two locations in the state of Michigan. The investment in the New York plant involves the production of a stator module […] More…

General Motors is investing almost 154 million US dollars in its Lockport Components plant in western New York to produce components for electric motors in the future. Investments are also to be made in two locations in the state of Michigan. The investment in the New York plant involves the production of a stator module […] More…

Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi are apparently planning to tighten their electric course. The alliance of manufacturers is expected to announce a plan next Thursday to invest more than 20 billion euros in electric vehicle development over the next five years. By 2030, the alliance plans to develop a total of more than 30 new BEVs […] More…

In a remote area of Australia, a roadside restaurant now has a fast charger for electric cars that gets its power from a generator powered by old cooking fat. Retired engineer Jon Edwards developed the system, which provides fast-charging powered with cooking oil at the Caiguna Roadhouse located in the course of Nullarbor. “With this […] More…

No segment is more popular worldwide than compact SUVs, and the model range is correspondingly large. Can the Tesla Model Y stand out from the competition? Here is our drive review, including riding the Tesla at high speeds on the German “Autobahn”. * * * Regional production leads to identification: If there is a car […] More…

Convergence Energy Services (CESL), a subsidiary of state-run Energy Efficiency Services (EESL), seeks to procure more than 5,000 electric buses in India. The energy transition agency has launched the tender under the Grand Challenge Scheme and targets five major cities. Specifically, CESL wants to buy 5,450 electric solo buses and 130 electric double-deckers and deploy […] More…

National Express Coventry has ordered 130 electric double-decker buses to enter service in Coventry by early 2023. The order follows the city’s targets to go 100% electric by 2025. At present, charging infrastructure is being built at the depots and Pool Meadow bus station. In their communications, neither National Express nor the West Midlands Combined […] More…

French manufacturer Alstom and Deutsche Bahn are now taking passengers onboard Alstom’s first fully approved electric train since this weekend in Baden-Württemberg. Further testing will start in Bavaria on 5 February and run throughout early May on all routes. The real-world application follows prototype test runs that Alstom and Deutsche Bahn had launched in Saxony […] More…

Allego has been awarded 14 more HPC sites on motorways in Flanders. These 14 new sites complement two motorway sites for which Allego was already selected by the Flemish Agency for Roads and Transport in 2020. In the first phase, Allego plans to install two HPC columns and two AC chargers at each of the […] More…

Hybrid cars will be used in the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) from this year onwards. At the start of the hybrid era at the Rally Monte Carlo, Schaeffler will present the drive system of its subsidiary Compact Dynamics, which will be used as a standard component in the WRC cars. The decision to run […] More…

Redwood Materials, founded by ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel, plans to start up its anode copper foil production facility at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center in Nevada in the first half of 2022 and begin shipping to customers. It had already become apparent that Redwood would soon start producing such foils from recycled material. At the […] More…

The US manufacturer Winnebago Industries presented its concept for a future motorhome with electric drive at the Florida RV Super Show. The e-RV Concept is based on the Ford Transit, the drive comes from Lightning eMotors. The e-RV Concept was developed over a period of two years by the company’s Advanced Technology Group. It is […] More…

Cadillac has started pre-series production of its first electric model, the Lyriq, at GM’s Spring Hill assembly plant in the state of Tennessee. The first deliveries of the electric car are expected to take place “in a few months”. Mark Reuss, the president of General Motors, shared this on LinkedIn. “Fifteen months ago, we announced […] More…