US manufacturer Blue Bird is expanding its production capacity for electric school buses. The ‘Electric Vehicle Build-up Center’, now open on site of the company’s primary US production facility in Georgia, will enable the company to increase its capacity to 5,000 electric school buses annually. Blue Bird considers the new centre’s opening an important milestone […] More…

French platform for charging locations and services Chargemap is cooperating with Allego. As part of this collaboration, Chargemap will update its app with real-time information about Allego’s charging stations. Electric car and van drivers will be able to charge at all publicly accessible charging stations on the Allego network, check their availability in real-time and […] More…

The payment specialist CCV and Bender, a supplier of charging controllers, will jointly implement open payment systems at EV charging stations throughout Europe. Their targets include installing around 300,000 open-loop terminals, including in the UK, over the next few years. CCV has won the tender of Bender Group, and ebee smart technologies, a subsidiary of […] More…

It is official – LG Electronics is entering the EV charging business. After the move leaked earlier this year in March, the South Korean company presented a new product portfolio comprising four models. LG Electronics launched two AC chargers delivering 7 kW as wall boxes or charging pillars. Two DC stations are capable of outputting […] More…

The Irish company Cool Planet Group will convert around 8,500 diesel-powered mining trucks into electric vehicles over the next three years. The order is reportedly worth around 50 million euros. According to the Irish Times, the order comes from a “world-leading mining company”, the name of which has not been disclosed.  Much of the refitting […] More…

Stellantis invests in lithium-sulphur battery developer Lyten, working on a novel three-dimensional graphene material platform. Stellantis wants to get in on what could be a breakthrough in the Li-S sector. Utilising Lyten developments, Stellantis aims for advanced Lithium-Sulfur based EV batteries, vehicle lightweighting, and enhanced vehicle sensing solutions. Li-S batteries could deliver more than twice […] More…

The Tesla Model Y was the world’s best-selling electric car for the first time in the first quarter of 2023. In 2022, the Model Y was still in third place behind two Toyota models. Now the Tesla SUV leads ahead of four of the Japanese company’s internal combustion and hybrid series. Sales figures were compiled […] More…

The American electric truck manufacturer Nikola Motor is threatened with exclusion from the US stock exchange Nasdaq. Because the share price was below one US dollar per share for 30 consecutive days, Nikola no longer complies with Nasdaq regulations. The company has been granted a grace period until 20 November 2023 to comply with the […] More…

A data leak suggests that Tesla has bigger technical problems with its Autopilot driver assistance system than previously thought. Insiders leaked 100 gigabytes of data to the German publication Handelsblatt, which are said to originate from Tesla’s IT system. Informants leaked over 23,000 files to the German paper, where a team of 13 journalists worked […] More…

A surprising cooperation is to begin in North America: Ford will install Tesla’s charging port in its new electric vehicles from 2025 onwards. In the interim, Ford vehicles with CCS ports will be able to use Tesla Superchargers by means of adapters. Yesterday, on Twitter Spaces, Ford CEO Jim Farley announced the cooperation in a […] More…