Around half a year after the start of pre-sales, the ID. Buzz and the ID. Buzz Cargo are now available at VW dealers throughout Germany. The first customer has also taken delivery of his ID. Buzz Cargo at the customer centre in Hanover. The first unit delivered is a white ID. Buzz Cargo, which went […] More…

Pelican Bus and Coach, the sole UK and Ireland importer and distributor for electric bus manufacturer Yutong, has secured £60m funding from HSBC UK. Pelican says the money will help them supply up to 250 new e-buses to operators and confirmed first contracts. According to Pelican, they will mostly offer electric single-deck buses and an […] More…

Bosch and IBM want to jointly research materials using quantum computers. Bosch is contributing concrete use cases from e-mobility in which quantum computers should soon have a decisive advantage over conventional computers in discovering and developing new materials. For the new partnership, Bosch joins the IBM Quantum Network. It has over 200 organizations, including Fortune […] More…

The Australian scheduled and charter airline Northern Territory Air Services (NTAS) has signed a letter of intent with Eviation Aircraft for the purchase of 20 electric aircraft. The aircraft in question is the nine-seat Alice model. The Alice made its maiden flight in September. Alice is an electric aircraft for nine passengers and two crew […] More…

Torqeedo, the company specialising in marine electric drives, has opened a new 8,300 m2 building near Munich. The new headquarters now houses all business activities, including research, development, and production, under one roof. As became clear when Torqeedo reportedly laid the foundation in 2021, the new HQ is near the company’s initial base in the […] More…

The Chinese joint venture BMW Brilliance Automotive (BBA) has announced an investment of around 10 billion yuan (1.38 billion euros) in the expansion of its electric car battery production in the city of Shenyang. This is to supply the vehicle plants there. The production capacities for batteries in the capital of the Chinese province of […] More…

The Norwegian company Freyr has acquired a site for its first battery cell factory in the USA called Giga America. The factory will be built in Coweta County in the state of Georgia and is expected to launch with an annual capacity of about 34 GWh. The US factory, which was announced last year, will […] More…

We tested the MG4 Electric in the Munich area on a sunny day, much too warm for November with 17 degrees. MG’s platform is inspired by Volkswagen’s modular electric vehicle (MEB) platform known from the ID.3 but is significantly cheaper. So how technically solid is this potential bang for the buck? *** When tested on […] More…

Irish utility SSE Airtricity is investing €35 mn in installing 30 high-power charging hubs across Ireland over the next four years. Parent company SSE, a British energy group, plans 300 such hubs in the UK and Ireland by 2027. In Ireland, SSE Airtricity expects six sites to go online under the project’s first phase running […] More…

Royal Schiphol Group plans to install 10,000 charging stations for electric vehicles at its airports by 2030. The Dutch airport operator has already completed the tenders awarding the project to local companies Ecotap and FIMIH. Royal Schiphol Group says the initiative will “significantly increase capacity” for EV charging, first adding to the 400 EV charging […] More…

The Chinese car company Geely is bringing the Geometry C to market in Eastern Europe. While the compact electric car will continue to be sold in China under the Geometry brand, it will apparently be marketed in Europe as the Geely Geometry C directly under the name of the parent company. This is reported by […] More…

Ambition is in total supply at Tesla. The company wants Supercharger technology to become standard in North America and opened the design to third parties. Calling it the North American Charging Standard (NACS), Tesla is also set to go right up against CCS. While CCS (and Type 2 as CCS2) have effectively become the fast-charging […] More…

Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn has laid the foundation stone for an electric car plant in Thailand as part of its joint venture with Thai energy company PTT. It is scheduled to start operations in 2024 with an initial annual capacity of 50,000 electric vehicles. The joint venture, founded last year, is called Horizon Plus and […] More…

The electric car manufacturer Polestar achieved a turnover of 420.8 million euros in the third quarter of 2022. Compared to the same quarter of the previous year (205.7 million euros), Polestar more than doubled its revenue. In the current year, Polestar was also able to (almost) double its turnover, from 723 million euros in 2021 […] More…

Porsche has confirmed the first technical details for the upcoming all-electric Macan. The electric SUV will have all-wheel drive with one electric motor per axle as expected yet Porsche now published initial data on the battery and charging power. It is clear that the battery will be made of prismatic cells: after all, the Premium […] More…

According to a new Greenpeace study, the car industry’s sales plans for more passenger cars with combustion engines are incompatible with the climate target of 1.5 degrees. According to the study, Toyota, VW and Hyundai/Kia want to sell at least twice as many diesel and petrol cars as their remaining CO2 budget would allow. The […] More…

The Terra 360 fast-charging station with a maximum power of 360 kW, which was introduced by ABB last year, has now also been installed and is in use in Austria and England. Shell commissioned one Terra 360 charging station in the Austrian Mariazeller Straße before the slip road to the highway in St. Pölten and […] More…

The TU Munich presents LiBCycle, a company spun off in 2021, in more detail, which takes care of used electric car batteries. The start-up has developed a transport box that should significantly facilitate handling with the battery packs – and built an additional business model from it. It all started with the idea of a […] More…

The Japanese small car manufacturer Daihatsu is cooperating with the Chinese battery giant CATL and wants to stock up on battery cells for future electric models through its new partner. Both sides have now signed a memorandum of understanding on strategic cooperation. CATL is to supply Daihatsu with cells and battery management systems for the […] More…

English bus manufacturer Mellor presented its new all-electric Sigma 8 bus for the first time at EuroBus Expo. The midi bus can transport 54 passengers with 27 seated places and standing room. The eight-metre battery-electric bus is the latest in a six-model Sigma range (from seven- to 12-metres) to hit the UK market, joining seven […] More…