Prologis and Maersk company Performance Team announced the launch of a heavy duty EV charging depot in Southern California. It will be located near the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and powered by the nation’s largest EV truck microgrid. Read more…

The premium electric car brand HiPhi from Chinese manufacturer Human Horizons is about to be restructured with a financial injection of up to one billion US dollars. However, some questions remain unanswered. Read more…

Logistics provider DHL Group opened an EV Center of Excellence in Shanghai, the company’s first such establishment in China. These are not about delivery with electric vehicles, but about transport services for goods such as batteries. Read more…

North American EV charging company announces the start of production of the FLO Ultra charger in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The company considers this a milestone in its “continued commitment to deploying fast-charging EV infrastructure across the United States and Canada”. Read more…

ADS-TEC Energy and Porsche have signed a worldwide service agreement. The deal makes the manufacturer of battery-boosted fast chargers the “recommended and preferred service partner” for their joint charging platforms in Europe and North America. Read more…

Former Tesla CTO JB Straubel’s US battery recycling company Redwood Materials is joining forces with Ultium Cells, the battery cell joint venture between General Motor and LG Energy Solution. Redwood now has contracts with most battery cell manufacturers in North America. Read more…

Daimler Truck brand Rizon is expanding its electric truck portfolio. It introduced a new Class 4 and a Class 5 model at the 2024 Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo in Las Vegas, USA. Read more…

Tesla has published its Impact Report for the year 2023. The detailed report describes the environmental impact of the Tesla product ecosystem and operations over the past year and contains a number of interesting facts and figures. However, there is no longer a 2030 sales figure in it, unlike the previous reports. Read more…

The European Critical Raw Materials Act is now officially taking effect. The regulatory framework now in force is intended to secure the EU’s supply of critical raw materials for electric car batteries, among other things. At the same time, the Critical Raw Materials Board has now met for the first time. Read more…

A few days ago, the US government announced a massive increase in import duties on electric vehicles and other products from China. It is now also clear when these will apply. According to the Office of the US Trade Representative, the tariff increases are planned for 1 August 2024. Read more…

Volvo Cars launched the EX30, its new small SUV, in China last Sunday. Fully electric and manufactured locally, the new model has been priced affordably from approximately 25,500 euros and is crucial to the company’s growth in the country. Read more…

BYD has presented a new electric double-decker bus for the British market. The BD11features a next-generation chassis, but also is powered by BYD’s blade battery. With this move, BYD is leveraging synergies between its automotive and bus businesses. Read more…

The Finnish supplier Valmet Automotive presents the ‘Energy Pack’ battery system as an addition to its ‘Modular Battery Platform’ product family. With the ‘Energy Pack’, trucks, buses and off-highway machines can be retrofitted with electric drives. Read more…

Charging limits now apply to the batteries of electric cars and plug-in hybrids on Greek ferries. In other words, most ferries no longer take fully charged electric vehicles. Read more…

US-based EV charging startup Gravity wants to build up on-street charging network larger than Tesla’s. It now introduced its “DEAP Trees,” a universal on-street mounting and cable system. Read more…

Researchers at the Technical University of Braunschweig and INTIS GmbH have developed a stationary inductive charging system for electric vehicles with a charging capacity of 22 kW. They have now presented their initial results. Read more…

DHL and E.ON have entered into a partnership to expand the electric charging infrastructure for heavy commercial vehicles. Based on the framework agreement, fast-charging infrastructure will be set up at several DHL distribution centres in Germany. Read more…

According to Chinese media sources, the Chinese battery cell manufacturer CATL is sharpening its focus on its business abroad as domestic competition increases. Company boss Robin Zeng will now be personally responsible for the expansion. Read more…

Porsche Ventures, the venture capital arm of sports car manufacturer Porsche, is making a strategic investment in South 8 Technologies, a battery startup from San Diego. South 8 wants to make lithium-ion batteries with a liquid gas electrolyte more weather-resistant and cheaper. Read more…

The planned development of off-grid charging stations for electric vehicles in South Africa is taking shape. The first 15 car charging stations and seven electric truck stations should be ready in about a year. They will be powered by locally generated solar power. Read more…