Tesla is opening ten Supercharger locations in the Netherlands for drivers of electric vehicles from other brands. The move is intended as a test scenario to gain experience with demand. The ten locations are initially only accessible to BEV drivers who are registered in the Netherlands. Rumours about opening up Tesla’s proprietary Supercharger network have […] More…

Forsee Power is introducing a new range of particularly thin batteries for use in electric vehicles for the construction and agricultural sectors as well as in light electric vehicles. The French battery manufacturer puts the width of the batteries at just 128 millimetres. At the beginning of the year, Forsee Power had already announced the […] More…

The fire brigade of the canton of Basel-city has ordered four all-electric fire fighting vehicles of the RT model series from Rosenbauer. This is the first fleet order for the electric vehicle. Independently of this, Rosenbauer announces that it will now also present the first aerial ladder with an electric drive system. First to Switzerland: After […] More…

Volkswagen is the third car manufacturer to defend itself against the demand of environmental associations for a forced phase-out of internal combustion engines by 2030. “Volkswagen will not issue the cease-and-desist declaration you demand,” reads a letter from Volkswagen to Greenpeace. Martin Kaiser, executive director of Greenpeace Germany, reacted by saying “Volkswagen has today missed […] More…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing €41.5 million to Portuguese energy company Galp to support the roll-out of a charging network in Spain and Portugal. The project envisages the introduction of 5,500 charging points by 2025. Galp plans for 55 per cent of the charging stations to be installed in less developed regions and […] More…

Torqeedo and Italdraghe have announced the joint development of a retractable electric propulsion system for commercial vessels in inland and urban waters. The system combines Torqeedo’s Deep Blue high-voltage electric propulsion system with Italdraghe’s Azimuth thrusters. It is designed to “provide emission-free propulsion and directional thrust for manoeuvring on environmentally sensitive waterways”. Torqeedo’s Deep Blue […] More…

The supplier BorgWarner has received an order to supply electric drives for a new electric truck from a German OEM. The unnamed manufacturer intends to use the technology in electric trucks for heavy distribution transport. The trucks are to be equipped with two HVH250 motors per axle, each of which will “achieve a peak power […] More…

Amazon has now increased its stake in electric vehicle start-up Rivian to around 20 per cent. This became known via a notification from the e-commerce giant to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The online retailer is known to be both an investor and a major customer of Rivian. According to the official disclosure, […] More…

Amazon has now increased its stake in electric vehicle start-up Rivian to around 20 per cent. This became known via a notification from the e-commerce giant to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The online retailer is known to be both an investor and a major customer of Rivian. According to the official disclosure, […] More…

BYD plans to raise the equivalent of around €1.53 billion in fresh capital by issuing 50 million new shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Meanwhile, the Group is expanding sales of its Han electric sedan to a number of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. First to the stock market news: BYD finalised […] More…

The US government is sticking to its plan to increase the tax credit for electric vehicles assembled by union workers in the US to $12,500. The increase is part of the revised “Build Back Better” plan now presented. There is opposition to the proposed measure abroad. “Build Back Better” is a massive social package that […] More…

More than half of local councils in the UK have not made use of funds towards bolstering public charging infrastructure in the last year despite the ongoing boom in EV sales. 52 per cent of 216 authorities said they had spent no money on chargers in the previous 12 months. “In the next ten years, […] More…

The Welsh government has launched a new e-mobility strategy and presented the ‘EV Charging Action Plan’. It envisions infrastructure investments, including the private sector, to install charging points every 20 miles at trunks crisscrossing Wales by 2025. The new strategy builds on announcements in December 2020 when the Welsh government stated it would ensure that […] More…

Solaris has received the first order of its latest and longest electric model. The Urbino 24 in MetroStyle is a 24-metre “bi-articulated” e-bus. Tide Bus Danmark, active in the city of Aalborg, expects to see 14 of these all-electric buses enter service. According to Solaris, the extra-long electric buses were specially designed for BRT (Bus […] More…

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed and successfully applied an innovative concept for the simultaneous coating and drying of two-layer electrodes. This should significantly accelerate battery production. The process developed in the Thin Film Technology (TFT) research group could reduce drying times to less than 20 seconds, KIT said. This means […] More…

SK On, the battery division of SK Innovation that was spun off at the beginning of October, is now also developing LFP batteries for electric vehicles. The company also expects its battery business to be profitable next year. The cheaper and more stable LFP batteries are receiving more and more attention, among other things due […] More…

Mitsubishi has unveiled the new edition of its Outlander PHEV. The SUV will go on sale in Japan in December, followed by Australia and New Zealand in the first half of 2022 and North America in the second half of 2022. Sales in Europe are not planned. Going forward, the SUV will come with a […] More…

The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has announced the launch of a government battery replacement pilot programme for electric vehicles. This involves not only electrically powered cars, but also trucks. The first eleven cities to be included in the pilot are Beijing, Nanjing, Wuhan, Sanya, Chongqing, Changchun, Hefei, Jinan, Yibin, Tangshan and […] More…

The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has announced the launch of a government battery replacement pilot programme for electric vehicles. This involves not only electric cars but also trucks. The first eleven cities to be included in the pilot are Beijing, Nanjing, Wuhan, Sanya, Chongqing, Changchun, Hefei, Jinan, Yibin, Tangshan and Baotou, […] More…

The Taiwanese solid-state battery cell manufacturer ProLogium has closed a financing round of 326 million US dollars. ProLogium plans to invest the capital to expand its production capacities in Asia, Europe and the USA between 2023 and 2025. New Epoch Capital, SBCVC Navitas Limited and Carna Investments Holding Limited participated in the financing round, which […] More…