Sweden’s e-boat maker X Shore has completed another funding round, raising 300 million Swedish kroner. That is a little over $29 million. The company will use the money to scale its production and reach profitability next year. SEB Investment Management AB led the funding, which also “several new shareholders,” X Shore says. “The X Shore […] More…

Westway Coaches is looking to speed up the electrification process of its fleet. To that end, it is working with the British electric drive specialist Equipmake to retrofit its coaches with electric drives. The system comprises a 545 kWh battery pack, an electric motor, an inverter and an efficiency-maximising HVAC system – all developed by […] More…

Swedish electric truck start-up Volta Trucks is receiving funding of 24.6 million euros from the German Federal Ministry of Transport to subsidize vehicle costs for 151 units of its Volta Zero. Volta Trucks plans to deliver the first of the funded electric trucks to customers before the end of 2023. Volta Trucks announces that “Customer […] More…

The General Motors brand BrightDrop has secured another major order for its electric transporters. Ryder, a US commercial vehicle fleet management company, plans to introduce 4,000 BrightDrop Zevo 600s and Zevo 400s to its fleet by 2025. The order for the first 200 EVs will already be placed this year. The EVs will be introduced […] More…

IBU-Tec Advanced Materials has won another customer for its LFP battery material. It signed a contract with an unnamed “renowned global automotive group for the development and production of battery material for electromobility.” Following the development phase, IBU-Tec will also produce “significant quantities” of the material at its Weimar site as early as the second […] More…

Strasbourg public transport operator CTS (Compagnie des Transports Strasbourgeois) has signed a framework contract with Portuguese bus manufacturer CaetanoBus for the delivery of up to 60 hydrogen buses over the next five years. In a press release sent to us by email, CaetanoBus says that it was awarded the contract after an “international and demanding […] More…

With a market share of 86.8 per cent, electric passenger cars saw a slight increase again in March in Norway, surpassing the result from March 2022. The Tesla Model Y was the best-selling EV by far. After an extremely weak January and a February, which saw only little growth compared to last year, EV registrations […] More…

Tesla reportedly plans a four million-unit production capacity for its future compact model. Half of these will be built in North America, one million in China and another million in Germany. According to kr36, the main production site will be the new factory announced in Mexico. However, the news portal also notes that this is […] More…

This year we have once again discovered the best April Fool’s jokes in the field of e-mobility and compiled them for you. For example, Opel is showing the Corsa Moon II, a solar-powered electric vehicle for space tourism based on the Corsa-e BEV model. According to Opel, the Corsa Moon II has a range of […] More…

Tesla now also sells beer – at the steep price of 89 euros per litre. The “GigaBier” is offered in a package with three 330 ml bottles, whose design is inspired by the Tesla Cybertruck. According to Tesla, it is a “limited edition pilsner-style beer brewed in Berlin with our exclusive strain of Cyberhops and […] More…

The British electric drive specialist Saietta is selling 3,000 of its electric drive systems to Ayro, a US manufacturer of so-called ‘low-speed electric vehicles’. The electric drive systems will be used in the new Ayro Vanish model, which will go into production later this year. Deliveries of the powertrains are scheduled to begin in the […] More…

AVL List wants to include a battery’s CO2 footprint in the battery passport. AVL says that it can already measure and optimise how much CO2 is produced during the manufacturing process in its Battery Innovation Center. Instead of relying on estimates and random checks, AVL says it uses sensors that measure how much energy is […] More…

As part of the TwinTRACE joint project, battery company Customcells and partners from industry and research want to digitise battery production. They will set up an intelligent battery factory at Customcells’ site in Tübingen, Germany – complete with a digital twin. The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA and acp systems are partners […] More…

Bus operator Arriva will integrate 50 battery-electric double-deckers into its fleet in London this year. The StreetDeck Electroliner BEV buses from the Northern Irish manufacturer Wrightbus are to be put into service between May and September 2023. After the depot in Brixton, Arriva will now also have the appropriate infrastructure for electric buses built by […] More…

Stellantis will manufacture electric vehicles in Portugal in the future. From early 2025, the production centre in Mangualde will be the first assembly plant in Portugal to build battery-electric vans for Citroën, Fiat, Opel and Peugeot in large-scale production. Specifically, the Citroën ë-Berlingo, Fiat e-Doblò, Opel Combo-e, and Peugeot e-Partner models will roll off the […] More…

The US Treasury Department has released the long-awaited conditions that electric vehicles must meet to qualify for tax incentives of up to $7,500 under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). There are no big surprises – though the eligibility of many EVs will be decided elsewhere. The rules apply to vehicles registered on or after 18 […] More…

Frank Mühlon is no longer CEO of ABB E-Mobility. The manager is moving to the role of chief commercial officer (CCO) with immediate effect. Michael Halbherr will take over as interim CEO of ABB’s e-mobility division with its charging pillar business. Mühlon had helped build and lead the charging pillar business of the Swiss-Swedish industrial […] More…

EV maker Electra Meccanica (EMV) will cease the production of its three-wheeled EV ‘Solo.’ Instead, EMV wants to focus on an electric car with four wheels. “We believe that major opportunities remain for an experienced maker of smaller, nimbler EVs with eye-catching design and personalized features,” CEO Susan E. Docherty writes in a blog post […] More…

Blue Current, a silicon elastic composite solid-state battery manufacturer, has a new investor on board. Umicore is investing a minority stake in the US-based start-up. The two companies signed a joint development agreement about a year ago. It allows Blue Current to use Umicore battery materials for its solid-state battery technology. Now, the two companies […] More…

In Morocco, companies in the electricity and automotive sectors have given the green light to APIME, the intersectoral association for electric mobility founded a few weeks ago, to install 2,500 new charging stations in the country over the next three years. These are to be installed in Morocco’s main cities such as Casablanca, Tangier and […] More…