In terms of volume, it was the best quarter ever. More…
US: Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car Sales Improved In Q2 2023
VinFast Breaks Ground On Its EV Plant In North Carolina
VinFast’s first EV factory outside Vietnam will build three electric crossovers from 2025, a year later than originally planned. More…
Toyota plans to build ‘competitive’ local EVs in China as it looks to play catchup
As Japanese automakers fall behind in the surging Chinese EV market, Toyota looks to turn things around. Toyota announced Monday it will boost local development of tech and software in China to produce “electrified vehicles that are competitive” where EVs are taking over the market. More…
Close look at Tesla’s massive Megacharger for its Tesla Semi electric truck
We get a closer look at Tesla’s Megacharger and its massive charge connector for the Tesla Semi electric truck as the automaker deploys a mobile station. More…
Austrian Post deliveries all-electric in Salzburg by 2024
In Salzburg, letters, parcels and other postal items are to be delivered CO2-free from the beginning of next year. To this end, Austrian Post is adding 120 new electric vehicles to its fleet at three depots in the region. By the end of this year, 220 electric vehicles from the Austrian Post fleet will be […] More…
Ora to update the Funky Cat to cover safety issue
Ora wants to give all Funky Cat stock vehicles a software update. Vehicles that are already on the road will be returned to the workshop for this. The background to this is the elimination of an alleged safety defect that the German automobile association ADAC had installed. During the charging process, the charging plug of […] More…
Super73 Presents Custom E-Bikes Based On Barbie And Oppenheimer
Super73’s e-bikes are totally into the Barbenheimer craze. More…
Luxembourg funds 264 fast charge points
The Luxembourg government is funding the expansion of the charging infrastructure with an additional five million euros. In a second tender, 20 fast-charging projects from 17 companies have now been selected. Not all of the fast chargers will be open to the public. A total of 246 new fast-charging points are to be built and […] More…
Mob’Hy to procure fuel cell trucks from Quantron
Quantron has entered into a strategic collaboration with Mob’Hy, a French specialist in the production and distribution of green hydrogen. As part of this, both companies signed a letter of intent for the procurement of 253 hydrogen-powered Quantron vehicles by Mob’Hy. According to Quantron, the purchase of the vehicles is planned for the period from […] More…
Mazda MX-30 EV cut from US lineup, rotary version too
Mazda on Friday afternoon revealed that its MX-30 lineup will not be returning for U.S. sales after the 2023 model year. For longtime Mazda fans, that piece of news also means that Mazda’s Wankel rotary engine won’t be coming back to America anytime soon. The MX-30 EV arrived for first deliveries in late 2021, and with its 100-mile EPA… More…
400 new HPC points in Romania, Slovakia and Hungary
Bucharest-based energy company OMV Petrom has announced the construction of more than 400 new HPC points. Each of these will have a capacity of 150 kW at will be installed at 98 locations in Romania, Slovakia and Hungary by the end of 2025. OMV Petrom has said that 328 charging points will be installed at […] More…
Archer Aviation snags eVTOL purchase contract from US Air Force worth up to $142 million
eVTOL developer Archer Aviation continues to build and expand upon existing relationships with its partners and customers. Today’s news includes an expanded partnership with the United States Department of Defense in which the Air Force is planning to acquire a number of Midnight eVTOLs from Archer Aviation. More…
350 kW V4 Tesla Supercharger Emerges In Planning Documents
Is it the new target level? More…
Kia EV5 To Be Revealed In Full Next Month
The EV5 will be unveiled at the Chengdu Motor Show in China. More…
Ford F-150 Lightning Pro SSV Starts Reporting For Duty Across US
This Ford F-150 Lightning Pro SSV police truck was donated to Claremont PD by local dealer Ford of Claremont. More…
Mazda is withdrawing the MX-30 from the US market
Mazda is discontinuing sales of its only all-electric model in the US. The Mazda MX-30 will not receive a new model year – instead, the Japanese are going all-in on hybrids for electrification in North America. The automaker announced in a terse statement. “Mazda will discontinue MX-30 EV for the US market following the 2023 […] More…
Why people are taking their plastic trash to electric scooter stores
Gogoro’s electric scooters with swappable batteries have always been focused on environmental responsibility. But now the company is teaming up with leading household consumer goods brand MUJI to take things even further. And it involves your plastic waste. More…
Wiferion now belongs to Tesla
Tesla has just completed the planned acquisition of German inductive charging technology specialist Wiferion announced in June. According to its website imprint, the Freiburg-based company now operates as Tesla Engineering Germany GmbH. Last month, we reported the confirmation from two of the German startup’s investors that the company’s founders had made an exit and shareholders […] More…
Stellantis joins fuel cell joint venture Symbio
Stellantis has officially joined Symbio as the third shareholder in the fuel cell joint venture. The company announced that it now holds 33.3 per cent of the shares. Other shareholders are Faurecia and Michelin. Stellantis had announced its intention to take a stake in Symbio at the end of last year. In May 2023, the […] More…
Jake Dennis is the Formula E world champion
The new Formula E world champion is Jake Dennis. The British driver from the Porsche customer team Avalanche Andretti finished on the podium in both races of the season finale of the electric racing series in London and took the driver’s title with 229 points. After the penultimate event of the season in Rome, Dennis […] More…
