Quantron AG has announced that in future it will manufacture commercial vehicles in-house. In the first step, the specialist for trucks and buses with battery-electric and fuel cell drives wants to develop a characteristic product and brand identity. As part of this strategy called “Quantron Vision 2025”, the company now wants to first create design-oriented […] More…

Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup plans to start building a battery cell factory for its electric car offshoot VinFast in Vietnam’s Ha Tinh province this year. A Vingroup spokesperson confirmed the plan in principle, without giving details. According to Reuters, the plant is to start production in the third quarter of 2022 with an annual capacity of […] More…

West Midlands Gigafactory, the public-private joint venture between Coventry City Council and Coventry Airport Ltd, has revealed more targets for the envisioned battery production hub. Their pitch now includes a 60-GWh output with production to start in 2025, but one issue remains. The plans to install a Gigafactory scale battery production in the West Midlands […] More…

According to a media report, Volkswagen is considering building an entirely new production hall at its main plant in Wolfsburg to manufacture the future electric flagship Trinity there. However, the development of the model already appears around a year behind schedule. To recapture: VW had announced a new electric flagship in December 2020 and, in […] More…

More vehicles delivered, more revenue, more profit: Tesla demonstrates its growth ambitions in the third quarter of 2021 – without losing profitability. In addition, the Californian company has published an interesting piece of news in its latest annual report: Tesla is making a global switch for standard range models to LFP batteries. First, the latest […] More…

LiNa Energy, a spin-off from Lancaster University working on solid-state battery technology, has closed a £3.5m funding round. The company wants to use the fresh capital to expand its lab and to accelerate the commercialisation of its sodium-based technology. The seed funding from existing and new investors comes at a late stage, given that LiNa […] More…

At the Milipol trade show in Paris, BMW Motorrad put a police version of its CE 04 electric scooter on display for the first time. It is not just an eye-catcher however but will join the company’s existing range of police motorcycles with combustion engines. The CE 04, which BMW Motorrad debuted in July, then […] More…

Ireland’s Department of Transport announced details of electric car subsidies in the coming year: 100 million euros will be made available for this purpose in 2022, almost twice as much as in 2021. Purchase subsidies for fully electric cars and vans will continue at existing levels. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the new regulation […] More…

Porsche is recalling 11,827 examples of its Taycan electric model in the USA. The reason is a problem with the emergency braking software, which can lead to the automatic hazard warning lights being activated even in non-emergency situations. This could confuse other road users and increase the risk of accidents. This is not the first […] More…

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…