Nikola Motor has received a new order from the USA. The freight forwarder J.B. Hunt wants to purchase 13 zero-emission trucks, which include ten battery-electric and three fuel cell-powered vehicles. The first heavy-duty truck is expected to be delivered this month. The vehicles will be used in the Los Angeles, California, metropolitan area and in […] More…
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Kostal completes Compleo acquisition
The Kostal Group has now successfully completed the acquisition of the entire operating business of the German company Compleo Charging Solutions. Compleo is to remain independent as a brand and company under the umbrella of the internationally active Kostal Group. With the granting of the last outstanding approvals, the acquisition is now complete. In June, […] More…
Chevrolet announces final Blazer EV prices for the USA
Chevrolet has released the final prices for the Blazer EV in the US, which are now expected to be delivered from the factory in Mexico and available to customers to start immediately. The Blazer EV 2LT AWD will start from $56,715, while the Blazer EV RS AWD from $60,215 and the Blazer EV RS RWD […] More…
Li-Cycle opens battery recycling plant in Germany
The North American battery recycling specialist Li-Cycle has started operating its first European recycling plant for lithium-ion batteries in Magdeburg, Germany. The first expansion stage is to follow later this year. Announced in March, the plant, called Germany Spoke, can process 10,000 tons of material, with the first main line now in operation. Li-Cycle says […] More…
Archer signs $142 million deal with U.S. Airforce
California-based electric aircraft startup Archer Aviation has signed contracts with the U.S. Air Force worth up to $142 million. Archer says its electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL) could represent a paradigm shift in military aviation. The contract includes delivery of up to six examples of the Midnight eVTOL aircraft, sharing of flight test […] More…
Ballard takes order for 18 H2 fuel cell modules for trains
Ballard Power Systems has received an order for additional fuel cell modules from Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC). These eighteen 200 kW fuel cell engines are planned for delivery in 2023 and will support the expansion of CPKC’s Hydrogen Locomotive Program. Ballard supplied CPKC with 20 fuel cell engines for use in three different types […] More…
Toyota is planning to accelerate drive development in China
Toyota is fine-tuning its electric car strategy in the Chinese market. The aim is to accelerate the local development of electric drives and “smart technology” and to focus more on the needs of Chinese customers. To achieve this, Toyota announces five points. The first two fall more under “PR strategy”, as the Japanese carmaker wants […] More…
QuantumScape to bring solid-state batteries to market “as quickly as possible”
US solid-state battery specialist QuantumScape has revealed it is already “working closely with a potential launch customer from the automotive industry” for its planned first commercial product. The company has also revealed more about its solid-state battery cell. In a letter to investors, QuantumScape, who is already partnered with Volkswagen, revealed that it has found […] More…
Subaru to source cylindrical cells from Panasonic
The Japanese companies Subaru and Panasonic have announced that they have entered into talks about a medium to long-term partnership. If an agreement is reached, it would be Panasonic’s second cylindrical cell order from a Japanese carmaker. The stated aim of the negotiations is for Panasonic to supply Subaru with cylindrical cells that the Japanese […] More…
BMW opens R&D lab in Shanghai
BMW has opened a new research and development centre in Shanghai. The focus at the new BMW Group Tech Office Asia-Pacific in Shanghai is on the integration of hardware and software and technologies, including for the electric cars based on the New Class. China already had the BMW Group’s largest R&D presence outside Germany with […] More…
Austrian Post deliveries all-electric in Salzburg by 2024
In Salzburg, letters, parcels and other postal items are to be delivered CO2-free from the beginning of next year. To this end, Austrian Post is adding 120 new electric vehicles to its fleet at three depots in the region. By the end of this year, 220 electric vehicles from the Austrian Post fleet will be […] More…
Ora to update the Funky Cat to cover safety issue
Ora wants to give all Funky Cat stock vehicles a software update. Vehicles that are already on the road will be returned to the workshop for this. The background to this is the elimination of an alleged safety defect that the German automobile association ADAC had installed. During the charging process, the charging plug of […] More…
Luxembourg funds 264 fast charge points
The Luxembourg government is funding the expansion of the charging infrastructure with an additional five million euros. In a second tender, 20 fast-charging projects from 17 companies have now been selected. Not all of the fast chargers will be open to the public. A total of 246 new fast-charging points are to be built and […] More…
Mob’Hy to procure fuel cell trucks from Quantron
Quantron has entered into a strategic collaboration with Mob’Hy, a French specialist in the production and distribution of green hydrogen. As part of this, both companies signed a letter of intent for the procurement of 253 hydrogen-powered Quantron vehicles by Mob’Hy. According to Quantron, the purchase of the vehicles is planned for the period from […] More…
400 new HPC points in Romania, Slovakia and Hungary
Bucharest-based energy company OMV Petrom has announced the construction of more than 400 new HPC points. Each of these will have a capacity of 150 kW at will be installed at 98 locations in Romania, Slovakia and Hungary by the end of 2025. OMV Petrom has said that 328 charging points will be installed at […] More…
Mazda is withdrawing the MX-30 from the US market
Mazda is discontinuing sales of its only all-electric model in the US. The Mazda MX-30 will not receive a new model year – instead, the Japanese are going all-in on hybrids for electrification in North America. The automaker announced in a terse statement. “Mazda will discontinue MX-30 EV for the US market following the 2023 […] More…
Wiferion now belongs to Tesla
Tesla has just completed the planned acquisition of German inductive charging technology specialist Wiferion announced in June. According to its website imprint, the Freiburg-based company now operates as Tesla Engineering Germany GmbH. Last month, we reported the confirmation from two of the German startup’s investors that the company’s founders had made an exit and shareholders […] More…
Stellantis joins fuel cell joint venture Symbio
Stellantis has officially joined Symbio as the third shareholder in the fuel cell joint venture. The company announced that it now holds 33.3 per cent of the shares. Other shareholders are Faurecia and Michelin. Stellantis had announced its intention to take a stake in Symbio at the end of last year. In May 2023, the […] More…
Jake Dennis is the Formula E world champion
The new Formula E world champion is Jake Dennis. The British driver from the Porsche customer team Avalanche Andretti finished on the podium in both races of the season finale of the electric racing series in London and took the driver’s title with 229 points. After the penultimate event of the season in Rome, Dennis […] More…
Mining rare earths to start in Greenland in 2024
The company Tanbreez Mining wants to mine rare earths in Greenland from 2024 onwards, as reported in German media. The supply of these essential elements for electric motors is currently dominated by China. The Greenland mining project should supply Europe’s needs more locally from next year onwards. The German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche reported that North […] More…
