The Italian railway operators Azienda Regionale Sarda Trasporti (ARST) and Ferrovie della Calabria (FdC) have awarded Stadler two framework agreements for supplying and maintaining up to 25 hydrogen-electric trains. The first twelve vehicles have already been ordered. In the case of ARST, the framework agreement provides for the delivery of ten narrow-gauge hydrogen trains in […] More…

The Chinese electric car subsidiary brand Avatr from Changan, Huawei and CATL is preparing the launch of its second model, which is planned to hit the local market later this year. First pictures and information about the new electric car are now available from the registration application submitted to the Chinese authorities. China’s Ministry of Industry […] More…

Automotive supplier Magna International will invest 790 million dollars in three new facilities in the US state of Tennessee to support the production of Ford’s next electric pickup truck – including battery cases. As reported, Ford plans to produce up to half a million next-generation all-electric pickup trucks at its BlueOval City plant in Tennessee […] More…

SAIC has commented on the rumour that Audi is negotiating with SAIC to source an electric car platform from IM Motors. SAIC told the Chinese medium Jiemian that it had reached an agreement with Audi to jointly accelerate the development of electric cars. Bloomberg also reports on the agreement. SAIC chief engineer Zu Sijie told China […] More…

The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) will increase the budget for the environmental bonus this year. It had initially earmarked 2.1 billion euros for this purpose in 2023. It will now be increased to at least 2.5 billion euros. That is according to a report by Tagesspiegel. The ministry states: “To […] More…

Another inglorious example of weird fossil-fuel industry campaigns against electric vehicles is provided by ExxonMobil. In an advert for gasoline, the US oil company draws a dystopian scenario in which people are burdened with vast amounts of cables in everyday life. EVs are only indirectly addressed, but the message is clear: combustion engines mean freedom. […] More…

Up to 40 electric motorcoaches can plug in at the 3.5-acre campus in Newark, California. According to operators ABC Companies and Proterra, it is North America’s largest charging facility for motorcoaches. The facility is equipped with 20 charging stations with two cables each. These are provided by Proterra. The total charging power across all stations […] More…

Westminster City Council and Veolia announce the full-scale rollout of the UK’s largest electric refuse collection fleet. Westminster Council has invested £20m in the 45 new electric trucks built by Dennis Eagle which will be introduced over the coming weeks. In terms of charging the new electric vehicle fleet, the fleet operator Veolia was also […] More…

The Hungarian government has put out a tender for the procurement of 18,500 vehicles, including 3,500 electric vehicles. The acquisition is planned to cost around €508 million, and the tender will remain open until mid-August. As mentioned above, the 48-month framework contract put out to tender includes three lots for the purchase of a total […] More…

The Skoda Group has received orders from two Czech cities for up to 16 trolleybuses. The manufacturer will build ten 12-metre Skoda 32 Tr trolleybuses for Pardubice and four 18-metre Skoda 27 Tr units for Ostrava. The city of Pardubice, with a population of 90,000, is located on the Elbe River. The public transport operator […] More…

After four years of development, a 25-member team consisting of scientists from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), as well as engineers from Stellantis and Saft, and other researchers presented a battery prototype with integrated inverter and charging functions. According to the researchers, this integration of the inverter and charging functions enables a […] More…

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of the US Department of Energy is investigating how the dry coating of electrodes affects the structure of battery materials and their electrochemical properties with industrial partner Navitas Systems. ORNL is also a cooperation partner of Volkswagen. So far, a number of companies and research institutions around the world […] More…

US government agencies plan to buy 9,500 electric vehicles in 2023 alone. That is nearly three times as many as in 2022. They will spend 770 million dollars on vehicles and charging infrastructure. Citing a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, Reuters reports that 26 agencies with approved plans to purchase electric vehicles estimated they would […] More…

Battery recycling company Redwood Materials, founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, is well on its way to raising another 700 million dollars in capital to fund its expansion. This is apparently to finance another recycling plant in Nevada. Talks with investors are well advanced but not yet concluded, reports the Financial Times. The new […] More…

Volvo Group delivered 1,442 electric trucks in the first half of 2023, up from 409 in the same period last year. However, the majority do not bear the Volvo logo. 687 of the 1,442 electric trucks were from the Volvo brand, but 748 units were from Renault Trucks – plus seven from the US brand […] More…

For the second quarter of the year, Tesla has steadily followed its income trend: the US electric carmaker’s second-quarter 2023 revenue nearly reached $25 billion, but at the same time, the company posted its lowest operating margin in a long time at 9.6 per cent. Both metrics from the Q2 financials are a testament to […] More…

Nissan recalls almost 1.4 million vehicles in the USA, Europe and Japan. The electric Leaf and the Note, Kicks, and Serena models run as hybrids on the e-Power drive are affected. News agencies report Nissan identified “several problems”. These include cars suddenly accelerating after exiting cruise control and a short circuit that can cause motors […] More…

For the first time, more electric cars than diesel cars were newly registered in the EU in June. This was reported by the European manufacturers’ association ACEA. Registrations of new BEV passenger cars rose by 66.2 per cent in the EU in June compared to the same month last year, to 158,252 cars. This represents […] More…

US automotive supplier BorgWarner and semiconductor manufacturer Onsemi are expanding their collaboration for silicon carbide (SiC), making the total agreement worth over $1 billion in lifetime value. BorgWarner plans to integrate Onsemi’s EliteSiC 1200 V and 750 V power devices into its power modules for traction inverters. Inverters control electric drive motors and are part […] More…

The fast-charging provider Atlante, linked to the Stellantis automotive group, will set up 87 HPC charging points in France. Specifically, it will install them at four Vinci Autoroutes service stations. All chargers have a power output of up to 150 kW. The locations are Chavanon on the A89 (25 HPC charging points), Saint-Léger Ouest and […] More…