Technology and services group, Technotrans, will be supporting the Chinese electric car manufacturer Nio with its battery exchange stations for Europe. The German company has installed the prototype of a cooling solution in a Nio station in Oslo. Technotrans‘ cooperation partner is Swap, a Shanghai-based company that is part of the Nio Group that specialises […] More…

Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha are setting up a new company in Japan on 1 April together with the energy company Eneos: Gachaco is to offer a sharing service for standardised exchangeable batteries of electric motorbikes and develop the infrastructure for this service. The Mobile Power Pack from Honda is to be used for this. […] More…

An electric Scania Heavy Tipper will operate in the LKAB mine in Malmberget, in northern Sweden, alongside an electric crane truck specially adapted for these mining operations. This is also to be used as a test for the BEVs in the “demanding underground mine environment”. The heavy tipper has a total weight including the load […] More…

Budding British battery cell manufacturer Britishvolt has agreed to set up a joint venture with VKTR, part of the Indonesian conglomerate Bakrie & Brothers. A memorandum of understanding initially provides for the construction of a nickel sulphate plant in Indonesia. The planned plant will supply Britishvolt’s battery factory in the northern English county of Northumberland. […] More…

General Motors has received more reservations than expected for its GMC Hummer electric pickups and SUVs, according to a report: more than 65,000 in total so far. Orders for the Hummer pickup are unlikely to be fulfilled before 2024. Duncan Aldred, GMC’s global vice president, commented on reservations and delivery of the vehicles to US […] More…

New Zealand has legislated a major reform to light vehicle CO2 policy with strict targets and financial incentives and disincentives and mandatory labels on vehicles for sale commencing April 2022. Starting from 1 April 2022, charges will be imposed on high emitting vehicles, and rebates given to low-emitting ones. This will be done on a […] More…

Kia revealed a large electric SUV concept based on the Electric Global Modular Platform (E-GMP) at the LA Auto Show in November 2021 named Concept EV9. Now the manufacturer has officially confirmed that the production version of the EV9 will also be available in Europe from 2023. As a large seven-seater SUV, the EV9 Concept […] More…

The Vietnamese electric car manufacturer VinFast has announced the construction of its first factory in the USA. The factory in Chatham County in the state of North Carolina will produce electric cars, electric buses and batteries for them on an area of 800 hectares. Construction of the first phase of the factory will begin this […] More…

Lotus has presented the Eletre, its second electric model after the Evija hypercar. The new model is called a ‘hyper SUV’ in PR-speak and is based on an 800-volt platform. Following the start of production in Wuhan, deliveries are scheduled to begin in China and Europe in 2023. Let’s look at the technical specifications first: […] More…

Nearly 8,000 eSprinters and eVito from Mercedes-Benz worldwide have to go to the workshop due to a software problem. A fault in the battery management system can lead to loss of drive power. The recall affects 7,996 eSprinter vehicles worldwide and 2,511 eVito vehicles in Germany. Mercedes also recently had to issue a recall in […] More…

Battrion, a battery technology spinoff from the Swiss university ETH Zurich, has teamed up with German production specialist Jagenberg Converting Solution. The two companies intend to supply anode pilot and GWh production lines that use Battrion’s Aligned Graphite technology for the lithium-ion battery industry. Jagenberg’s electrode coating lines, which feature Aligned Graphite technology, enable the […] More…

A few days after the start of series production, Nio has now officially started deliveries for its ET7 electric sedan in China as planned. The first ET7 vehicles were handed over to customers at the Nio headquarters in Hefei. In February this year, Nio announced its flagship sedan ET7 for which the Chinese carmaker is […] More…

The Dutch fast-charging provider Fastned recorded 70 per cent more charging transactions at its stations last year, breaking the one million charging transactions mark in one year. Fastned continues to be profitable in its operating business. This was made possible because of the growing number of electric cars in Europe and the expansion of the […] More…

The Swedish company Anodox Energy Systems wants to build two factories in Latvia to produce batteries for electric vehicles. According to Latvia’s Ministry of Economy, a plant for the assembly of battery packs will be built first in the port of Riga. The second plant, which will focus on cell production, is to follow shortly […] More…

All electric car owners in the UK will be able to use Tesla’s Superchargers much sooner than expected, according to a government minister. Transport Minister Trudy Harrison confirmed the move. The move would not come as such a surprise. In February just passed, after a test phase lasting several months, Tesla has already made all […] More…

Wattif EV and Smart Parkering Sverige want to make it possible to charge electric cars in 250,000 parking spaces in Sweden. Thousands of charging stations for electric vehicles are to be put into operation this year. This is provided for in a recently signed cooperation agreement between the two companies. The planned parking spaces are […] More…

The French automotive supplier Plastic Omnium is accelerating its strategy for electromobility with two investments: Plastic Omnium wants to take over Actia Power, as well as investing 20 million euros in the French battery manufacturer Verkor. The investment and industrial partnership with Verkor will enable Plastic Omnium to develop and manufacture battery modules, according to […] More…

In Germany, the government-funded hydrogen filling station operator H2 Mobility has received an investment of 110 million euros to enable its next phase of growth. The primary investor is the French finance company Hy24. The expansion goals are accompanied by a focus on hydrogen-powered commercial vehicles of all sizes. Hy24 is contributing 70 million euros, […] More…

Tesla has confirmed that it is planning another stock split. According to the electric car manufacturer, it will ask its shareholders for approval for this at the next annual general meeting. Tesla had already split its stock in 2020. The company value does not change due to the stock split – but since the company […] More…

Shortly after Nio, another Chinese electric car manufacturer, Xpeng, has now presented its business figures for 2021. Xpeng was able to outperform its competitor Nio in terms of deliveries. However, while Nio was able to stem its losses over the year, the situation is different for Xpeng. Xpeng delivered 98,155 electric cars last year, 263 […] More…