Gridserve is building its ultra-rapid charging hubs in the UK, following plans announced last summer. There are already eleven charging parks under construction, each with six to twelve high power charging points, according to Gridserve. The company expects to finish 20 so-called Electric Hubs by Q2 2022. Gridserve locates these Electric Hubs along major trunk […] More…

US vehicle supplier Meritor announced its 14Xe ePowertrain is now available and will be in production this month. A number of first customers for the new electric drive system have already been found. Additionally, a collaboration has been signed with BAE Systems. First, to the actual 14Xe ePowertrain, which has just begun serial production. Meritor […] More…

The Biden administration is driving plans to increase electric transport across the US. Advances such as replacing all Government vehicles with electric ones have resulted in a new executive order. The President demands all light-duty vehicles acquired by the government to be emission-free by 2027. And there is more – by 2035, this will affect […] More…

Hubject and Digital Charging Solutions (DCS) have partnered to offer Plug&Charge to the ISO 15118 standard to their customers in the European market. By offering Plug&Charge, Hubject and Digital Charging Solutions say they will “together further enhance the EV driver experience and make the charging process as convenient as possible towards seamless, autonomous and secure […] More…

Opel has started production of the fuel cell variant of its Vivaro van model based on the battery-electric Vivaro-e in Rüsselsheim. The first unit of the fuel cell van has already been delivered. Stellantis had announced the fuel cell version of the three van models in April 2021. Subsequently, first Opel, then Citroën and Peugeot […] More…

The battery cell manufacturer SVOLT, which emerged from the Chinese carmaker Great Wall, wants to significantly increase its production capacities planned for 2025 – from the previously announced 320 GWh to 600 GWh per year by this deadline. Chinese media report this with reference to official statements made by SVOLT in the course of a […] More…

LG Energy Solution plans to complete its planned initial public offering in South Korea in January 2022. The battery maker expects to offer 42.5 million shares at a price between 257,000 to 300,000 won each, a regulatory filing said. LGES was spun off from LG Chem about a year ago, and the battery maker’s IPO […] More…

Ford is no longer accepting reservations for the all-electric F-150 Lightning and will instead convert existing reservations into firm orders from January 2022. Most recently, Ford CEO Jim Farley had mentioned that the number of pre-orders was approaching the 200,000 mark. Ford’s reservations page literally says: As we prepare to make history together, we’ve closed […] More…

In November, sales figures for New Energy Vehicles reached a new high for the year. Over the course of the month, 429,000 NEVs were sold, which significantly exceeds the previous record from October (368,000 vehicles). The NEV market share – which in China includes PHEVs, BEVs and FCEVs – was 20.8 per cent of the […] More…

Euro NCAP, the crash test organisation, has slammed the two latest electric cars from Renault and Dacia in its latest tests. Renault’s Zoe is not awarded a single star and Dacia’s Spring only receives one star out of a possible five. Secretary-General Michiel van Ratingen comments that “safety has become collateral damage in the group’s […] More…

BP took its first major step into electrification in the US with the acquisition of Amply Power, an EV charging and energy management provider for fleets that operate trucks, transit and school buses, vans and light-duty vehicles. Richard Bartlett, senior vice president, future mobility and solutions, bp: “As we continue to invest in new forms […] More…

BYD has been given an order for the delivery of ten ETM6 electric trucks from Top Delivery Services (TDS). The vehicles will be used in logistics for Ikea in Amsterdam. The deal was made through BYD’s newly appointed electric truck dealer Bluekens EV. Top Delivery Services is a joint venture of logistics service providers (Holwerda […] More…

Swiss-Swedish technology group ABB is aiming to spin off its electric mobility division with its charging station business in the first half of 2022 and list it on the Swiss stock exchange. The company made the announcement on its capital markets day. ABB says that the legal separation should be completed in the first quarter […] More…

EKPO Fuel Cell Technologies, a joint venture between ElringKlinger and Plastic Omnium, has agreed a partnership with German-Chinese system integrator DR Powertrain System to jointly develop fuel cell systems with EKPO stacks for the Chinese market. DR Powertrain Systems intends to integrate the German-made stacks into systems from local manufacturers for automotive and non-automotive applications. […] More…

The Chinese battery cell manufacturer and Volkswagen partner Gotion High-Tech has begun construction of a new production facility in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei, which will be built in two phases and will have an annual capacity of 50 GWh when completed. The announcement is not surprising, as Gotion wants to increase its annual […] More…

The Volkswagen Group has concluded three further strategic partnerships in the field of electric car batteries. The new partners are the materials technology group Umicore, the battery specialist 24M Technologies and the lithium supplier Vulcan Energy Resources. According to Volkswagen, the partnerships are independent of each other but serve a common goal: “The industrialization of […] More…

Volvo and Polestar are each working on an all-electric compact SUV, according to a British media report. However, according to the report, these will not be based on the same platform, but will each be independent. However, questions remain. As the British magazine Autocar reports, Volvo’s compact electric vehicle is to be positioned in the […] More…

The chemical company BASF has announced that in future it will focus more on its electromobility offering. For this purpose, up to 4.5 billion euros are to be invested in battery materials and recycling by 2030 – in return, the business with exhaust gas catalysts is to be spun off. The spin-off as a new […] More…

Polaris and Zero Motorcycles have revealed their first vehicle, an all-electric utility task vehicle (UTV) called the Ranger XP Kinetic, which will arrive in US dealerships in summer 2022 and is also bound for the UK and European markets. In September last year, Zero Motorcycles teamed up with power sports outfit Polaris to come up […] More…

BMW plans to introduce Saturday shifts at its Munich plant in the first quarter of 2022 to keep up with the high demand for the new i4 electric model. The waiting time for the electric sedan is currently said to be around nine months, but could soon climb to a year. This is reported by […] More…