Iveco wants to produce and market battery-electric and fuel-cell trucks under its own name. The news comes as little surprise, as the company had been working with electric trucks on the road since 2019, albeit originally not on its own. The news comes after Iveco unveiled the Iveco Heavy Duty BEV on the sidelines of […] More…

As this year’s Formula E season draws to a close, electrive interviewed Dirk Kesselgruber, the Chief Technology Officer at GKN Automotive, who provided an outlook on where the company’s technology stands, and where it wants to be heading. Fans of the electric racing series will know that the technical requirements change from season to season, […] More…

According to a new investigative report from Reuters, Tesla has rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge. Because of Tesla’s range visuals suddenly dropping and not delivering the range promised in the cold, drivers think there is something wrong with […] More…

Charging software provider ev.energy has closed a Series B funding round of US$33 million, bringing the company’s total capital to US$46 million. The company says it will use the equivalent of €30 million in Series B funding to advance the integration of electric vehicles into the power grid in North America and Europe. According to […] More…

In Canada, BC Transit, the public transport operator for British Columbia, will procure up to 115 battery buses and install 134 charging points throughout the province. The total investment garnered for the project is 395 million Canadian dollars (272 million euros). The Government of Canada is contributing just under 170 million CAD (117 million euros), […] More…

The charging network operator ChargePoint has secured a credit line totalling 150 million US dollars from four banks (JP Morgan, HSBC, Citi and Goldman Sachs). ChargePoint intends to use the funds to accelerate its commercial growth. As ChargePoint itself reports, no funds from the credit line have yet been drawn down. On the one hand, […] More…

Japanese trading company Marubeni is investing in Skeleton Technologies, a developer and manufacturer of supercapacitors, to expand Skeleton’s production capacities in Germany. This apparently involves a double-digit million euro amount. Marubeni sells Skeleton’s technology in Asia and wants to support the expansion of production to meet demand for Skeleton’s so-called SuperBattery. This is a new […] More…

Vietnamese electric car manufacturer VinFast has started building its first factory in the US. Announced in March 2022, the factory in Chatham County, North Carolina, will produce electric cars, electric buses and batteries for them. The start of operations was originally planned for July 2024, but was later postponed to 2025. In the first phase, […] More…

General Motors will begin producing battery modules at its plant in Ingersoll, Canada, in the second quarter of 2024 to support the company’s increasing production of electric vehicles. Currently, the battery supply is a bottleneck for the plant. The new approximately 37,000-square-foot facility (original specification had been 400,000 square feet) will assemble battery cells into […] More…

Austrian-based automotive supplier Magna will be integrating SiC semiconductors from US-American manufacturer Onsemi in its drive systems for electric vehicles. The two companies have signed a long-term agreement for Onsemi’s EliteSiC silicon carbide power module. Magna will incorporate Onsemi semiconductors into its traction converters to improve the efficiency of electric vehicle motors and therefore their […] More…

The Supervisory Board of Mercedes-Benz has prematurely extended the contract with Chief Executive Officer Ola Källenius by a further five years until 21 May 2029. In addition, the supervisory board extended the contract of Chief Technology Officer Markus Schäfer. When the first reports emerged at the beginning of July that CEO Ola Källenius’ contract was […] More…

Transport for Ireland has announced that driver training, vehicle testing and route piloting have commenced with the first battery-electric buses arriving in Dublin. Wrightbus delivered the first nine electric buses out of the 120 ordered by the National Transport Authority (NTA) in June 2022. Testing, commissioning, and driver familiarisation will continue through August and September […] More…

In Europe, the Chinese battery cell manufacturer Sunwoda plans to build a factory for electric vehicle batteries in Hungary. According to the company’s stock exchange announcement, Sunwoda plans to invest the equivalent of around 250 million euros in the plant. The Hungarian investment promotion agency HIPA has confirmed the location of the Sunwoda plant in […] More…

Ford’s Model e electric car division significantly increased its sales and revenue in the second quarter of 2023, but also widened its losses. Ford is also pushing back a key production target by a year. Specifically, Ford sold about 34,000 electric vehicles from April to June, nearly three times as many as in the first […] More…

Chinese battery cell manufacturer Eve Energy is planning a joint venture to build a factory in Thailand with an annual capacity of at least 6-gigawatt hours. The joint venture for this is to be established together with the Thai energy company Energy Absolute. Energy Absolute is to hold 51 per cent of the joint venture […] More…

After the announcement of the electric car cooperation between VW and Audi with the Chinese manufacturers Xpeng and SAIC, Group CEO Oliver Blume gave more details. He spoke about the opportunities for the VW brand with the Xpeng cooperation, and what Audi plans to do with the SAIC technology. During a conference call with journalists […] More…

The Japanese technology company Asahi Kasei has started licensing design and manufacturing technology for lithium-ion capacitors (LiCs) as next-generation energy storage devices. The novel method enables LiCs to be manufactured cost-effectively using commonly available materials and equipment used to make lithium-ion batteries (LiBs). At the same time, it enables the development and production of LiCs […] More…

Safety problems with vehicles using hydrogen tanks from the Norwegian manufacturer Hexagon Purus have been reported in two unrelated incidents, one in the US and one in Europe. Hexagon Purus is investigating. The news website Hydrogen Insight issued a special report about the two cases this week, which it has since adjusted. Upon publication in […] More…

The Swedish company X Shore has announced on social media networks that it has started delivery of the first X Shore 1. To commemorate the social media launch the company also physically launched an X Shore 1 purely electrically. The Swedish company presented the X Shore 1 model in late summer 2022 for 99,000 without […] More…

The German state of Lower Saxony wants to take its diesel trains completely off the rails by 2037 and replace them with battery-powered trains. A total of 102 new multiple-unit trains are to gradually be acquired from 2029. The tender for the vehicles will be released this year. The battery trains can travel on lines […] More…