German electric car startup Sono Motors is launching its proprietary solar technology to public transport for the first time in partnership with the Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (Munich Transport Company, MVG). The novel solar bus trailer has been put into pilot operation in the Munich metropolitan area. This should test the energy yields as well as the […] More…

Green Cell, a Polish specialist in batteries and charging technologies for mobile devices and electric vehicles, has opened a new plant for e-bike batteries near Krakow. Up to 50,000 batteries per year are to be assembled at the plant in Balice. The company says that the first e-bike battery model assembled there is already available. […] More…

The car rental company Hertz and the electric car manufacturer Polestar have entered into a global cooperation. Hertz will purchase up to 65,000 Polestar electric cars over a five-year period. In Europe, the first vehicles are expected to be delivered in spring 2022, in North America as well as Australia at the end of 2022, […] More…

From June 2022, there will be a new tariff system for the approximately 300,000 charging points of the Mercedes me Charge network in Europe. In future, three new charging tariffs will be offered that are tailored to individual driving performance. Mercedes says tariffs are called S, M and L. Mercedes me Charge S is aimed […] More…

The Bavarian electric aerial taxi start-up Lilium has postponed its planned market launch by one year. Instead of 2024, the electric vertical take-off is now expected to be approved in 2025 and thus begin commercial operation. Lilium CEO Daniel Wiegand told Welt am Sonntag that there were several reasons for the postponement. These included slight delays […] More…

Rolls-Royce has completed winter testing of its first electric model, the Spectre, in the Arctic Circle in temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees, about a quarter of the 2.5 million test kilometres planned for the battery-electric car. There are also rumours about the BEV’s drive system. The winter testing took place in and around […] More…

Uber has announced that its passengers can now request an EV from anywhere in London, as its fully electric ride-hail option, Uber Green, has been expanded from Zone 1 to the whole of London. Since its EV-only option called Uber Green first launched in 2021, the company has tripled the number of EVs available on […] More…

Infrastructure investor Meridiam is implementing a large bus project in Africa with its partners Keolis and Fonsis. The concession contract now signed provides for a total investment of more than 135 million euros for the operation and maintenance of an exclusively electric bus public transport network in Senegal’s capital Dakar. The concession runs for a […] More…

Infrastructure investor Meridiam is implementing a large bus project in Africa with its partners Keolis and Fonsis. The concession contract now signed provides for a total investment of more than 135 million euros for the operation and maintenance of an exclusively electric bus public transport network in Senegal’s capital Dakar. The concession runs for a […] More…

Klaus Zellmer will become the new Chairman of the Board of Skoda Auto on 1 July 2022. The VW brand’s board member for marketing and sales succeeds Thomas Schäfer, who will take over as chairman of the board of the Volkswagen brand on 1 July. It was already clear that Schäfer would be moving from […] More…

A total of 13,983 new electric passenger cars were registered in March in Norway. This corresponds to a market share of 86.1 per cent of all new passenger car registrations in the month. In addition, there were 947 new plug-in hybrids. In terms of models, Tesla dominated in March. After a weaker start to the […] More…

BYD has announced they will only produce electric cars and plug-in hybrids from now on. Without much notice, the Chinese manufacturer has discontinued the production of petrol cars: The last pure combustion engine apparently rolled off the production line in February. BYD announced that it had stopped the production of fuel vehicles “in line with […] More…

Tesla delivered 310,048 electric cars in the first three months of the year, more than in any previous quarter. Production fell minimally from the fourth quarter of 2021 to 305,407 vehicles. But the second quarter is starting off with difficulties. Let’s first look at the figures for the first quarter: of the 310,048 deliveries, 295,324 […] More…

Novi Sad will be the first Serbian city with Solaris electric buses. The transport company JGSP Novi Sad has ordered ten Solaris Urbino 12 Electric buses from the Polish manufacturer, including the charging infrastructure. Solaris has also received another order from Poland. The Urbino 12 Electric vehicles ordered for Serbia will be equipped with 160 […] More…

Ireland’s first national EV Charging Infrastructure Strategy has been published and is now open for public consultation. The Strategy sets out a pathway for the period out to 2025, as Ireland works to realise its Climate Action Plan target of nearly a million EVs by 2030. In 2025, the Strategy will be reviewed and updated […] More…

In the USA, Flux Marine, a developer of all-electric outboard motors and battery systems for watercraft headquartered in Bristol, Rhode Island, announced it raised $15.5 million (14.03 million euros) in an oversubscribed Series A funding round led by Ocean Zero. Flux Marine says it will leverage the new funding to expand manufacturing, recruit additional talent, […] More…

Said to be the largest electric cruise ship in the world, the ‘Yangtze River Three Gorges 1’ has started its maiden voyage in Yichang in Hubei province. The ship is 100 metres long, 16.3 metres wide and has room for 1,300 passengers. According to a number of different publications reporting from Chinese media, the electric […] More…

In the USA, the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM) has just welcomed the State of Nevada as the 17th state to join the Multi-State Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicle (MHD ZEV) initiative. The initiative is a coalition of states and other jurisdictions actively working together through a ZEV Task Force to develop […] More…

In the USA, Nikola has signed an agreement with ENGS Commercial Finance to facilitate sales of Class 8 Nikola Tre battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) and Nikola Tre hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). Working directly through the Nikola dealer network, ENGS will offer customer finance solutions for the purchase of Nikola vehicles, charging assets and infrastructure requirements […] More…

Due to the risk of fire or possible electric shock in the event of a defective battery fuse, the Volkswagen Group has to recall around 118,000 plug-in hybrid vehicles of various brands worldwide. According to a spokesperson, Volkswagen has discovered during inspections “that a fuse in the drive system of some plug-in hybrid vehicles may […] More…