The Norwegian battery company Freyr has concluded a licence and service agreement with Aleees, a Taiwanese manufacturer of LFP cathode materials. A  previously planned joint venture now seems to be off the table. According to Freyr, the agreement provides the company with a worldwide licence to manufacture and sell LFP cathode material based on Aleees‘ […] More…

Canada’s battery manufacturer Electrovaya has chosen New York State as the location for its first factory in the USA. Electrovaya will build the US plant in Chautauqua County and produce cells worth over one-gigawatt hour for commercial vehicles when fully operational. Electrovaya wants to open the New York factory in several phases beginning by late […] More…

The German truck maker and conversions specialist Quantron AG will soon be offering its zero-emission commercial vehicles and retrofit packages in North America. The company has founded an offshoot named Quantron US and appointed Richard Haas as its CEO. Focus will be accorded to fuel cell trucks. The company based in Augsburg intends to implement […] More…

Audi is considering building a factory to make electric vehicles in the US. Oliver Hoffmann, responsible for Technical Development, said Audi would make a decision early next year. The move naturally comes amid new funding regulations for electric vehicles. Speaking to Automotive News, Hoffmann said: “We are currently looking left and right, with our VW […] More…

Nissan and Renault are currently negotiating the future of the alliance and, more specifically, the Japanese carmaker’s participation in Renault’s planned electric car division. The announcement was made by both manufacturers in a short joint statement, without disclosing further details. Renault reportedly wants to remain the majority shareholder of the French-based electric car division Ampère, […] More…

The Transport Company of the Czech city of Ústí nad Labem has ordered 33 trolleybuses from Skoda Group. These are based on the Skoda 27Tr model, which already transports residents in the north Bohemian city. Only a technological difference exists. Compared to the vehicles already in service, the newly delivered trolleybuses will have two traction […] More…

China has set a new record for new energy car sales in the past month. 675,000 NEV passenger cars were sold in September 2022, 43,000 more than the previous record month of August 2022, of which 507,000 were BEVs and 168,000 were PHEVs. Unsurprisingly, the positive sales trend for New Energy Vehicles in China continues […] More…

Zerova Technologies, founded by Taiwan’s Phihong, made its European at the eMove360° Europe show in Berlin. The company presented a prototype 480-kW charger that promises to charge up to four EVs in ten minutes. Zerova will offer the new charging station as a standard version with 360 kW and 480 kW extended. It is currently […] More…

The Renault mobility brand Mobilize has presented the Twizy successor Duo and its cargo offshoot Bento in detail before the Paris Motor Show. The Duo city car will be available for subscription or long-term rental from the end of 2023. The cargo version Bento for commercial drivers will follow in 2024. The Mobilize Duo was […] More…

The Brussels regional government has decreed that all car parks in and around the Belgian capital region with ten parking spaces or more must offer charge points for electric cars from 2025. How many depends on the size of the car park and will gradually increase until 2030. According to a report in the Brussels […] More…

General Motors announces expanding its ‘Ultium Charge 360’ service into a holistic ecosystem. The new Ultium Home and Ultium Commercial brands combined with EV charging now form the dedicated business unit GM Energy which integrates all charging with the grid as far as electricity generation. GM Energy is bringing the company closer to a mission […] More…

Dutch shipbuilder Holland Shipyards has received an order from Swedish transport authority Trafikverket to supply four automated electric ferries and the relevant charging infrastructure. According to the contract now signed with Holland Shipyards, Trafikverket have been made for two ferries with four auto mooring facilities, two charging stations, a simulator facility and a remote control […] More…

Stellantis has signed a non-binding agreement with GME Resources for the purchase of nickel and cobalt sulphate products from the NiWest project in Western Australia. The NiWest project is not yet in operation and a final decision has yet to be made. NiWest is a development project that is expected to produce about 90,000 tonnes […] More…

Chinese battery manufacturer CALB (China Lithium Battery Technology) has started production at its new 50 GWh factory in Hefei and said it will increase capacity there to 150 GWh. CALB is also now listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The new factory was first announced in the plant in Hefei in September 2021 where […] More…

In China, the car company SAIC, the battery manufacturer CATL and the two oil companies Sinopec and China National Petroleum (CNPC) have founded a joint venture to promote the spread of electric cars with replaceable batteries. SAIC wants to produce vehicles capable of battery-swapping under several brands at once. The joint venture, called Shanghai Jieneng […] More…

In China, the car company SAIC, the battery manufacturer CATL and the two oil companies Sinopec and China National Petroleum (CNPC) have founded a joint venture to promote the spread of electric cars with replaceable batteries. SAIC wants to produce vehicles capable of battery-swapping under several brands at once. The joint venture, called Shanghai Jieneng […] More…

The BMW Group has just revealed that it sold 128,196 fully electric vehicles of the BMW and Mini brands this year up to and including September, more than doubling BEV sales compared to the same period last year (+114.8 per cent). In the third quarter, the two brands delivered 52,306 all-electric vehicles  (+121.6 per cent). […] More…

An electric aircraft called e-Sling has managed its maiden flight at Dübendorf airfield in Switzerland. Developed by students at ETH Zurich, the four-seater plane with roots in Africa carries a unique propulsion system designed in Zurich, enabling battery swaps during stopovers. A kit for small aircraft from the South African manufacturer Sling Aircraft served the […] More…

This month, the EU Parliament will vote in October on possible sanctions for member states and charging network operators that do not sufficiently promote the expansion of the charging infrastructure. The parliamentarian in Charge of the EU Parliament’s Transport and Tourism Committee, Ismail Ertug has told to the German publication Der Spiegel that many EU […] More…

BYD has started supplying electric semitrailer tractors to Mexican transport company Marva. The Chinese manufacturer has already handed over five units of the Q3MA to Marva, which expects to receive 120 semis before the year’s end. They will form the first all-electric tractor fleet in Latin America. BYD specifies a curb weight of 12 tons […] More…