According to a media report, Norway’s new government is planning a luxury tax on expensive electric cars. Specifically, the future cabinet plans to impose a 25 per cent value-added tax on the portion of the purchase price that exceeds 600,000 kroner (about 60,000 euros). According to a Reuters report, the introduction of the tax is […] More…

Renault is working on a new all-electric SUV model to be unveiled at the Paris Motor Show in 2022 and launched in 2023, according to a British media report. The new Renault BEV is to use the Alliance CMF-EV platform. As the magazine Auto Express reports, citing information from development board member Gilles Le Borgne, […] More…

The Chinese car company Geely wants to list its Swedish passenger car subsidiary Volvo Cars on the Stockholm stock exchange before the end of this year. New shares are expected to raise gross proceeds of around 25 billion Swedish kronor (2.5 billion euros). Geely wants to remain the largest shareholder. It is still only a […] More…

ABB has entered into a collaboration with Epiroc and Boliden, a mining equipment manufacturer and mining company from Sweden. The trio is working to develop and demonstrate a trolley truck system on a test track at the Kristineberg mine in northern Sweden. The system will be based on Epiroc’s zero-emission mine transport vehicle Minetruck MT42 […] More…

Tesla is now claiming that their employees who had migrated to Rivian were “caught red-handed” stealing core technology for next-generation batteries from Tesla. This is an expanded ongoing lawsuit that began last year when Tesla took Rivian to court for allegedly stealing trade secrets about poaching employees. A California state court judge in San Jose […] More…

In the UK, Westminster City Council (central London) and its waste contractor Veolia have unveiled a 60 strong fleet of new and ‘upcycled’ electric vehicles. This means that street cleaning services in London’s famous West End are now completely fully electric. The new electric fleet is made up of electric refuse collection vehicles  (e-RCVs) to […] More…

Hitachi and Hitachi Astemo are developing a compact and lightweight in-wheel drive system for electric vehicles that combines motor, inverter and brake in one unit. Hitachi Astemo plans to use the drive system in its electric vehicle product range. Hitachi Astemo (short for “Advanced Sustainable Technologies for Mobility”) is a joint venture between Hitachi Automotive […] More…

NASA has selected two US companies to support its Electric Powertrain Flight Demonstration (EPFD). It is about the development of electric aircraft engines in the megawatt class. The contracts will go to GE Aviation and MagniX. With the EPFD programme, NASA wants to develop electric propulsion technologies that could be used in US passenger aircraft […] More…

Ardian and FiveT Hydrogen have announced the beginning of Hy24, “the world’s largest investment platform focused exclusively on clean hydrogen infrastructure”. Hy24’s first fund is expected to have a volume of 1.5 billion euros. The investment platform is being set up by Ardian and FiveT Hydrogen as a joint venture. According to a statement by […] More…

The commodities group BHP and the Toyota-Panasonic joint venture Prime Planet Energy & Solutions have agreed on a memorandum of understanding on the supply of nickel. The material is to come from BHP’s new production facility in Western Australia. The third signatory to the memorandum of understanding between BHP and the battery joint venture established […] More…

The German aggregate plants of Mercedes-Benz are starting production of central components for the battery-electric eActros. These include the e-axle and the battery packs, which will be manufactured and assembled at the Gaggenau, Kassel and Mannheim locations. The components that are entering serial production in the German plants will then be used in the series […] More…

The Belgian national postal operator Bpost is procuring 1,200 electric vans to be delivered by the end of 2022. According to a Flemish media report, the first 400 of the electric transporters have already been ordered, with the tender for the remaining 800 to follow at the end of this month. According to the Flemish […] More…

The first production vehicles of the new Multivan presented in June have rolled off the production line at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. This is the first time a Multivan with a plug-in hybrid has been produced at the Hanover plant. As reported, the new Multivan is based for the first time on the VW Group’s MQB […] More…

The Stellantis brand Jeep has announced a new generation of the Grand Cherokee SUV, which will also be offered as a plug-in hybrid for the first time. A new platform makes this possible. The model is to be offered in North America in early 2022 and in other markets later in the year. Like Jeep’s […] More…

Spanish authorities and Nissan have started talks with Chinese manufacturer Great Wall Motors about a possible takeover of Nissan’s Barcelona plant. Great Wall could move into the largest of the three plants in Barcelona. However, the negotiations are said to be explicitly non-exclusive as yet. Overall, the future of the Zona Franca, Montcada i Reixac […] More…

In Norway, 13,946 new electric cars were registered in September. The share of electric cars in new passenger car registrations was 77.5 per cent last month. Norway’s most successful model across all drive types in September was the Tesla Model Y with 3,564 new registrations, ahead of the Tesla Model 3 with 2,218 registrations. Compared […] More…

In Japan, the charging infrastructure provider e-Mobility Power (eMP) has migrated and unified its entire network of more than 27,000 chargers onto the Driivz EV charging and smart energy management software platform. In April of 2021, eMP took over the Nippon Charge Service (NCS) in Japan. Software from the Israeli software specialist Driivz enables eMP […] More…

In the USA, five Midwest states gave announced that they will work together to increase the deployment of electric vehicle charging stations. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed by the governors of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin saying that the states will form the Regional Electric Vehicle Midwest Coalition, or “REV Midwest.” […] More…

Between July and September, Tesla built a total of 241,300 electric cars. A total of 237,823 units were delivered in the same period. As in the first two quarters of the current year, the Model 3 and Model Y were primarily responsible for the jump in production and delivery figures. Since the second quarter, Model […] More…

Volkswagen has just launched an analysis software called BattMan ReLife for batteries. The quick-check carried out by the software as an initial diagnosis is now being used in a pilot plant for battery recycling that Volkswagen Group Components has been operating at the Salzgitter site in Germany since the beginning of the year. According to […] More…