Tesla is planing a “Sport” Version of the Model 3 with sportier seats, according to information coming out of Tesla’s latest software update. More…
24M’s Electrode-To-Pack Battery Doesn’t Have Individual Cells And Modules
The U.S.-based battery company says it maximizes energy density. But what about repairs? More…
Stellantis takes stake in Leapmotor
Stellantis has signed a deal with Leapmotor. The international carmaker will take around a 20 per cent stake in the Chinese EV startup, and the two will set up a joint venture to bring Leapmotor’s electric cars to Europe. Read more…
Volvo to build EX30 in Ghent for the European market from 2025
Volvo Cars has decided to produce its EX30 in Europe in the future. The all-electric compact SUV presented in June will come off the production line at the Ghent plant in Belgium from 2025. Until then, the EX30 will come from China. Read more…
Toyota Wants To Get Into Home EV Charging And Energy Management
“We want to step into new areas of business,” top executives confirmed at the Japan Mobility Show. More…
Tesla starts deliveries of revamped Model 3 in China
Model 3 retail sales in China were 2,079 units in September, contributing 4.78 percent to Tesla’s sales in the country, a new low since October 2021, likely due in part to potential customers waiting for the new Model 3. Read more…
Nio reaches 2,000 swap stations in China
Nio built its first battery swap station on May 20, 2018 and saw its 1,000th battery swap station go live on July 6, 2022. Read more…
Factbox: Who is Leapmotor?
Contents from Leapmotor’s Hong Kong IPO prospectus explain in detail the company’s business as well as its technologies. Read more…
LG Magna e-Powertrain to open new facility in Hungary
LG Magna e-Powertrain, the joint venture (JV) between LG Electronics and Magna, is opening a new facility in Miskolc, Hungary. The 284,000-square-foot plant will be in Miskolc’s industrial sector, which has well-developed infrastructure and is close to OEM customers and Magna operations. Scheduled for completion in 2025, the new facility will start production with e-motors… Read more…
Download the guide to using regenerative, bidirectional power supplies for battery testing
Sponsored by Kikusui. The testing and validation of batteries and fuel cells can be a large endeavor with a sizeable infrastructure including (but not limited to) environmental chambers (e.g., temperature or explosion-proof chambers), temperature sensors, racks of programmable DC power supplies, electronics loads, and measurement racks with the supporting I/O for the automated control and… Read more…
49% of Americans think climate change is mostly someone else’s problem
Nearly half of Americans think individuals can’t make much of an impact on climate change, according to a new survey from Pew Research Center – here’s why. More…
Quick Charge Podcast: October 25, 2023
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. More…
UAW declares victory as tentative agreement is met with Ford to end strike
The UAW has announced that it has reached a tentative agreement with Ford to end the UAW strike which started six weeks ago. Ford workers will immediately go back to work now that this tentative agreement has been met, though the strike will continue at affected GM and Stellantis facilities. More…
Toyota’s FT-Se sports car concept sets pulses racing
Toyota’s Gazoo Racing division unveiled the FT-Se concept car at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo. And if this is what the future electric Toyota MR2 is going to look like – sign us up! The GR sub-brand’s first electric sports car concept promises a driving sensation that, according to Toyota’s top man, Koji Sato, stands apart from anything else out there. The production version will be “small, low, light, and fun”, he adds. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard murmurs of such a concept. In late 2021, there was a reveal of an unnamed Toyota MR2-sized concept which seems to be the… More…
Stellantis to acquire 20% stake in Leapmotor with €1.5 billion investment, to form JV for international markets
Stellantis will form a joint venture with Leapmotor, Leapmotor International, which will begin export operations in the second half of 2024. Read more…
Pebble Flow electric travel trailer features self-propulsion, off-grid renewable energy
Pebble, a California-based startup, has unveiled a new 100% electric travel trailer. The Pebble Flow is designed to eliminate the range reduction caused by towing a trailer—it’s self-propelled, and includes its own battery, which can be recharged by regenerative braking and several charging options. The Pebble Flow is 25 feet long, and requires a towing… Read more…
Honda cancels plan to develop affordable EVs with GM
Back in April of last year, Honda and GM announced plans to develop a series of affordable EVs by 2027, which would use a new architecture based on GM’s Ultium batteries. They spoke about putting together production capacity for millions of such vehicles even. Today, Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe revealed that the entire aforementioned plan has been canceled. “After studying this for a year, we decided that this would be difficult as a business, so at the moment we are ending development of an affordable EV. GM and Honda will search for a solution separately. This project itself has been… More…
REE Automotive snags another huge EV order, books are now valued at over $40 million
One week after sharing that its EV order book had grown to over $25 million in binding purchases, many of which coming in since August, REE Automotive is touting another purchase commitment, sending its ledger over $40 million in value. More…
Tesla Model Y breaks record in Denmark on its way to being world’s best-selling car
Tesla Model Y has broken the record in Denmark for most sales ever in a year, and there are still two months to go. More…
Japan grants eVTOL maker SkyDrive $82M for AAM development
In a move reflecting the national interests in the race between next-generation aviation companies to bring advanced air mobility (AAM) vehicles to market, Japan’s SkyDrive has received 12.4 billion yen ($82.7 million) from the government to support the development of the startup’s electric vertical takeoff and landing craft (eVTOL).. More…
