Cupra will produce the all-electric Tavascan in China and export it from there to sales markets such as Europe. However, with production in China for world markets, the Tavascan is likely to remain a one-off within the VW Group. Volkswagen told Bloomberg that the SUV coupe, planned for 2024, will be manufactured at the MEB […] More…

Mercedes-Benz wants to double its production capacities for electric drives at the Untertürkheim plant. Previously, up to 500,000 units per year were to be produced there, but now the Stuttgart company is aiming for output in the order of up to one million units per year. This was first reported by the German publication WirtschaftsWoche […] More…

The General Motors brand BrightDrop now also produces electric vans in Canada. Following the conversion of the plant in Ingersoll, the Zevo 600 will be produced there with immediate effect and the Zevo 400 from the end of 2023. BrightDrop also presents its first Canadian launch customer: DHL Express Canada. By 2025, production at Ingersoll […] More…

The US automotive supplier BorgWarner has acquired DriveTek AG as of 1 December 2022. The Swiss company offers engineering and product development services for inverters, electric drive solutions, and power electronics. The transaction is worth CHF 35 million. DriveTek’s competencies include designing and developing power electronics and electrical machines, system engineering, and control software states […] More…

Opel is recalling 16,605 units of its Corsa small car worldwide due to a software error, causing prescribed compliance test bench measurements with the exhaust emission regulations to not be able to be carried out. Curiously, the recall also affects the all-electric variant of the Corsa. “In accordance with legal requirements, it must also be […] More…

Canoo has delivered its new Light Tactical Vehicle (LTV) to the United States Army for Analysis & Demonstration in fulfilment of a contract awarded in July 2022. The LTV is engineered for extreme environments and can be converted from a pickup to a flatbed truck, a cargo vehicle and more. The new Light Tactical Vehicle […] More…

Stellantis is introducing EV certification for its US dealers and wants outlets to be ready by 2024, when many of the first all-electric vehicles become available to US customers. Stellantis plans to roll out 25 EVs in North America within the decade. The Detroit News broke the new demand on dealerships. The report relies on […] More…

Stellantis is introducing EV certification for its US dealers and wants outlets to be ready by 2024, when many of the first all-electric vehicles become available to US customers. Stellantis plans to roll out 25 EVs in North America within the decade. The Detroit News broke the new demand on dealerships. The report relies on […] More…

The Bavarian Centre for Battery Technology (BayBatt) at the University of Bayreuth has celebrated the inauguration of its new premises. Covering an area of around 7,000 square metres, the building offers plenty of space for researching and developing batteries for mobile and stationary applications. To this end, BayBatt, which was announced in 2018, combines basic […] More…

Ultium Cells, the battery cell joint venture between General Motors and LG Energy Solution, is investing further money in its second plant in Spring Hill in the US state of Tennessee even before the start of operations in order to expand production capacities from the previously planned 35 GWh to 50 GWh per year. In […] More…

The Swiss bus manufacturer Hess has placed the winning bid in a tender for Geneva’s public transport company TPG (Transports Publics Genevois). TPG now commissioned Hess to deliver 119 extra-long and tram-like electric buses. TPG expects 65 articulated and 54 double-articulated buses of type lighTram TOSA to enter service in the first half of 2025. […] More…

Evergrande New Energy Vehicle, the electric car division of the Chinese real estate group Evergrande, has apparently suspended series production of its only model, the Hengchi 5, due to a lack of new orders. This is according to a report by Reuters. The news agency bases its report on statements by two insiders. According to […] More…

The Italian city of Bologna and public transit operators TPER and Srm are launching one of Europe’s largest fuel cell bus projects worth 90 million euros. The first 34 buses shall enter service in 2024, with the remaining 93 to follow by mid-2026. The City Council has secured funding through the Next Generation EU fund, […] More…

BMW has launched preparations to produce the next generation of electric drive systems at its engine plant in Steyr from 2025. In concrete terms, BMW has begun to set the course in terms of personnel and organisation. Meanwhile in the USA, the plug-in hybrid SUV BMW XM is now rolling off the production line. Against […] More…

Ford Pro will equip Deutsche Post DHL Group with more than 2,000 electric delivery vans worldwide by the end of 2023. The German Group will use the new vans for last-mile logistics in various countries, including the UK. Deutsche Post DHL has received the first Ford Pro vans and detailed Bulgaria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Mexico, […] More…

Alstom has received a further order from Irish Rail, locally known as Iarnród Éireann (IE), for 18 more battery-electric trains under an existing framework agreement. It is part of a greater plan to procure up to 750 electric rail cars for the new regional DART+ network set to open in the Dublin area in 2025. […] More…

Alstom has received a further order from Irish Rail, locally known as Iarnród Éireann (IE), for 18 more battery-electric trains under an existing framework agreement. It is part of a greater plan to procure up to 750 electric rail cars for the new regional DART+ network set to open in the Dublin area in 2025. […] More…

Exactly 15,915 electric cars were newly registered in Norway in November. Battery-electric cars thus achieved a share of 81.6 per cent of all new passenger car registrations in the month. The best-selling model came from Tesla. The 15,915 new electric cars are a whopping 6,188 more vehicles than in October. EV registrations were also up […] More…

Volvo has extensively revised the drive systems of its electric models XC40 and C40. In the all-wheel drive models, an asynchronous motor replaces the previously used permanent synchronous motor on the front axle. The new motor layout of the all-wheel-drive models also has consequences for the single-motor models. Until now, the single-motor variants have simply […] More…

The new VW Group CEO Oliver Blume and Brand CEO Thomas Schäfer continue to readjust the plans of their predecessors. According to a media report, the design draft for the new electric flagship Trinity has fallen through – the model will be redesigned. As reported by German publication Automobilwoche, the previous body design of a […] More…