While many certainly wish for spring at this point, winter is an important season for Daimler Truck. To put its eActros 300 electric truck and the recently introduced LongHaul variant through their paces even in icy and cold conditions, the fleet headed some 3,000 kilometres north. The tests themselves are nothing special for Mercedes-Benz. Engineers […] More…

US battery recycler Cirba Solutions is investing $300 mn in a new recycling factory in South Carolina. The company, which counts GM among its customers, plans to start construction near Columbia in Richland County this year and begin operations by the end of 2024. The South Carolina plant will be the eighth factory by Cirba […] More…

The Dutch public transport operator Qbuzz has placed an order with Belgium’s Van Hool. The bus manufacturer shall deliver 54 electric buses from the new A-series. This is the second significant e-bus order QBuzz has placed in less than a week. The Van Hool buses are scheduled for delivery in Q4 2024 to enter regional […] More…

US speciality chemicals company Albemarle has announced the location of its new lithium processing plant in the US. The plant will be built in Chester County, South Carolina. Construction is scheduled to begin at the end of 2024. Albemarle plans to invest a total of 1.3 billion dollars (equivalent to 1.2 billion euros) in the […] More…

ABT e-Line wants to offer inductive charging for electric cars in the European aftermarket together with WiTricity. The VW ID.4, which will be upgraded by ABT e-Line for wireless charging with WiTricity technology, will be the first to be launched at the beginning of 2024. Other electric cars from the VW Group are to follow. […] More…

NextETRUCK is the latest EU Horizon project looking to decarbonise transport. Nineteen partners from eight countries are looking to develop electric trucks with medium freight haulage by the end of 2025. Targets include increased efficiency as well as seamless management. NextETRUCK has the declared goal to utilise EV drives being at least ten per cent […] More…

The drive supplier Vitesco Technologies surpassed the one billion euro mark in turnover with electrification products for the first time in 2022. With electric drives and other components, Vitesco turned over around 1.1 billion euros, compared to 0.9 billion euros in 2021. According to the supplier, electrification products are becoming increasingly important and will soon […] More…

PowerCo, the battery company of the Volkswagen Group, and the Belgian materials technology group Umicore have received all regulatory approvals for their joint venture announced in September 2022. The partners can now swiftly begin preparations for large-scale industrial production of cathode materials (CAM) and precursor materials (PCAM) in Europe, according to Volkswagen. However, the search […] More…

The Irish government has announced a reduction of its subsidy for privately purchased electric vehicles. From 1 July 2023, the purchase premium will drop from 5,000 to 3,500 euros. The reduction of the registration tax will remain unchanged. Buyers of electric cars with a list price below 40,000 euros will receive up to 5,000 euros. […] More…

Copenhagen has completed a tender calling for bids to install 1,000 new AC charge points. The Danish capital selected three suppliers, Clever, OK and E.ON, out of seven companies that had applied. This is to first step in a plan to build 4,100 new charging stations in Copenhagen by late 2025. Clever will receive the […] More…

The Austrian Ministry for Climate Action has published the first call from the Emission-free Commercial Vehicles and Infrastructure (ENIN) funding programme. This scheme supports companies in procuring non-fossil fuel commercial vehicles and infrastructure. In German, ENIN is short for “emissionsfreie Nutzfahrzeuge und Infrastruktur”. When Austria announced the scheme a year ago, the first call worth […] More…

Surrey County Council and EV charge point provider Connected Kerb is teaming up for the largest deployment of EV chargers by a local authority in the UK. They announced a plan for 10,000 new public chargers to be installed across the county by 2030. The rollout will see Connected Kerb install their on-street charge points […] More…

Volkswagen plans to produce a total of three million fully electric small cars at its Spanish plants in Martorell and Pamplona between 2025 and 2030. The total number is likely to be even higher with the entry-level model announced for 2027 – even though it may not be built in Spain. This was announced by […] More…

To promote its electric model Lyriq, Cadillac is using cold call methods at Tesla charging stations in China. A case has now come to light in which Cadillac employees offered Tesla owners test drives with the Lyriq during their waiting time at the Supercharger. Incidentally, this approach is not new: Audi pulled a similar stunt […] More…

The US-based Aptera Motors says it has received a pre-order for 101 of its solar electric cars. The deal is valued at $3.35 million. The company says this is just the beginning. The reservations come from the company SustainabilitySooner, which also stipulates that it could add more than 100,000 solar electric cars to its fleet […] More…

Tesla has opened many more of its Superchargers in Europe to other brands. The number of European countries with approved Superchargers has not changed, but the number of stations that can be used by electric cars from other brands has. When the first stations were made available for all brands in Italy last November, selected […] More…

Xing Mobility, a developer of immersion cooling for batteries, has entered a strategic partnership with Nordic Booster. The Norwegian company specialises in batteries for construction equipment and mobile charging systems for heavy industrial vehicles. The cooperation brings Xing Mobility’s Immersio XM25 battery system, which the Taiwanese company introduced last year, to the Northern European vehicle […] More…

Unico, and EV test solution provider from Florida, launches its new Quantum Drive Platform. While the name may be misleading, it is actually is designed to help companies develop and validate batteries for electric vehicles and reduce installation costs and operating expenses. Unico claims that its new Quantum Drive Platform allows multiple pack, module, and […] More…

Volkswagen’s charging subsidiary Electrify America has agreed upon a deal with Hyundai to provide first-time owners of the Ioniq 6 EV with two years of complimentary charging sessions at Electrify America’s network of DC fast chargers. The sessions are free for half an hour of charging and independent of the kWh charged. Hyundai Ioniq 6 […] More…

The Munich-based battery analytics company Twaice has opened the joint Munich Battery Lab together with R&D service provider Vispiron Systems. The new battery lab is a centre of excellence designed to analyse battery behaviour and optimise battery development. The focus of the new “unique laboratory in Munich” is on testing lithium-ion batteries. With an area […] More…