• News aggregator on electric cars and electric vehicles (cars, motorcycles, boats, planes).

Outlook: The electric cars coming in 2023

Always. More. Choice. The boom in battery-electric cars continues, despite subsidies dropping slightly around Europe. We dare to look ahead: what’s coming, what’s missing and what are we particularly looking forward to? *** 2023 will be the year when subsidies subside. Countries across Europe have been making changes. More mature markets are moving away from […] More…

Tesla to expand Austin gigafactory

Tesla has applied to the US state of Texas to expand its factory in Austin this year. Investments of more than 700 million US dollars are planned for the construction of new facilities for the testing and manufacture of battery cells, the production of cathodes and drive units. Tesla officially opened its Austin factory in […] More…

Norwegian royalty goes electric

After their country has been the most electric nation on the continent for a few years, the Norwegian Royal Family has added three electric vehicles to its official fleet, including a Mercedes EQS, a BMW i7 and a Mercedes EQV. After several members of the royal family had already driven electric cars privately before, these […] More…

Battery testing


The inside story  Nick Flaherty explains the various non-invasive methods of analysing the workings  of battery cells and their materials Testing battery cells, modules and packs presents a series of challenges. First of these is that taking measurements of the current and voltage changes the state of charge (SoC) of the cell and has an […] More…

Stellantis CEO: Ram range-extended electric pickup to outrun regulations


Stellantis is going about electrifying trucks in a different way than Ford or GM. Rather than only rolling out a line of full battery electric trucks to keep selling alongside its gasoline models, it will also produce a range-extended Ram electric truck to fit into a middle ground that could get more people to plug in. In a Q&A session last… More…