Westminster City Council and Veolia announce the full-scale rollout of the UK’s largest electric refuse collection fleet. Westminster Council has invested £20m in the 45 new electric trucks built by Dennis Eagle which will be introduced over the coming weeks. In terms of charging the new electric vehicle fleet, the fleet operator Veolia was also […] More…

The Hungarian government has put out a tender for the procurement of 18,500 vehicles, including 3,500 electric vehicles. The acquisition is planned to cost around €508 million, and the tender will remain open until mid-August. As mentioned above, the 48-month framework contract put out to tender includes three lots for the purchase of a total […] More…

The Skoda Group has received orders from two Czech cities for up to 16 trolleybuses. The manufacturer will build ten 12-metre Skoda 32 Tr trolleybuses for Pardubice and four 18-metre Skoda 27 Tr units for Ostrava. The city of Pardubice, with a population of 90,000, is located on the Elbe River. The public transport operator […] More…

After four years of development, a 25-member team consisting of scientists from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), as well as engineers from Stellantis and Saft, and other researchers presented a battery prototype with integrated inverter and charging functions. According to the researchers, this integration of the inverter and charging functions enables a […] More…

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of the US Department of Energy is investigating how the dry coating of electrodes affects the structure of battery materials and their electrochemical properties with industrial partner Navitas Systems. ORNL is also a cooperation partner of Volkswagen. So far, a number of companies and research institutions around the world […] More…

US government agencies plan to buy 9,500 electric vehicles in 2023 alone. That is nearly three times as many as in 2022. They will spend 770 million dollars on vehicles and charging infrastructure. Citing a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, Reuters reports that 26 agencies with approved plans to purchase electric vehicles estimated they would […] More…

Battery recycling company Redwood Materials, founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, is well on its way to raising another 700 million dollars in capital to fund its expansion. This is apparently to finance another recycling plant in Nevada. Talks with investors are well advanced but not yet concluded, reports the Financial Times. The new […] More…

Volvo Group delivered 1,442 electric trucks in the first half of 2023, up from 409 in the same period last year. However, the majority do not bear the Volvo logo. 687 of the 1,442 electric trucks were from the Volvo brand, but 748 units were from Renault Trucks – plus seven from the US brand […] More…

For the second quarter of the year, Tesla has steadily followed its income trend: the US electric carmaker’s second-quarter 2023 revenue nearly reached $25 billion, but at the same time, the company posted its lowest operating margin in a long time at 9.6 per cent. Both metrics from the Q2 financials are a testament to […] More…

Nissan recalls almost 1.4 million vehicles in the USA, Europe and Japan. The electric Leaf and the Note, Kicks, and Serena models run as hybrids on the e-Power drive are affected. News agencies report Nissan identified “several problems”. These include cars suddenly accelerating after exiting cruise control and a short circuit that can cause motors […] More…

For the first time, more electric cars than diesel cars were newly registered in the EU in June. This was reported by the European manufacturers’ association ACEA. Registrations of new BEV passenger cars rose by 66.2 per cent in the EU in June compared to the same month last year, to 158,252 cars. This represents […] More…

US automotive supplier BorgWarner and semiconductor manufacturer Onsemi are expanding their collaboration for silicon carbide (SiC), making the total agreement worth over $1 billion in lifetime value. BorgWarner plans to integrate Onsemi’s EliteSiC 1200 V and 750 V power devices into its power modules for traction inverters. Inverters control electric drive motors and are part […] More…

The fast-charging provider Atlante, linked to the Stellantis automotive group, will set up 87 HPC charging points in France. Specifically, it will install them at four Vinci Autoroutes service stations. All chargers have a power output of up to 150 kW. The locations are Chavanon on the A89 (25 HPC charging points), Saint-Léger Ouest and […] More…

The German automotive supplier Mahle provided insights into its developments in the field of e-mobility at a ‘Tech Day’. In the eMobility business, the company is increasingly relying on its system competence – and not just the sale of individual components. The new electric drive system is a new modular technology system for electric motors […] More…

Dachser has delivered details on the scheduled expansion of the ‘Dachser Emission-Free Delivery’ scheme. The company now designates twelve, and not ten, more major cities in Europe to roll out deliveries with electric vehicles throughout 2025. Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dublin, Hamburg, Cologne, London, Malaga, Rotterdam, Stockholm, Toulouse, Warsaw and Vienna all made it to the list, […] More…

Stellantis is adopting a diversified strategy for sourcing semiconductors for its future electric car platforms. The carmaker has already signed direct partnerships for the supply of semiconductors with a purchase value of more than ten billion euros by 2030 with several manufacturers. For its STLA platforms, the carmaker cooperates with strategic partners from the semiconductor […] More…

Volkswagen reports progress in research at its US innovation centre in Tennessee. The German carmaker’s developers are working on increasing the range of electric vehicles via material improvement and further developing inductive charging there, among other things. The relevant research projects are taking place at the Knoxville Innovation Hub of the Volkswagen Group of America, […] More…

European fleet giant ALD | LeasePlan announces plans to buy 15,000 electric and plug-in hybrid cars over the next three years. The total budget of over half a billion euros is coming in equal parts through ALD and the Europan Investment Bank (EIB). The investment breaks down into a €300m credit granted by EIB, on […] More…

The EU has signed a raw materials agreement with Chile. Although the word “lithium” does not appear in the accompanying EU communication, from a European perspective, the deal is likely to be primarily about securing lithium reserves. According to the official wording, both sides want to “deepen cooperation in the field of sustainable raw materials […] More…

The Tata Group will build its first battery cell factory outside India in the UK. The British government has now officially confirmed what had already become apparent. At the beginning of February, it was leaked that Tata Motors was looking for a location for its European battery cell factory in Spain and the UK. However, […] More…