Stuttgart-based plant engineering company Exyte has received an order from Volkswagen to build the dry room for the group’s first battery cell gigafactory in Salzgitter. The dry room is known to be the heart of cell production. Read more…
Geely offers financing and leasing in Europe through BNP Paribas
Geely’s electric car brand Zeekr is partnering with BNP Paribas Personal Finance and Arval in Europe to offer customers financing, leasing and insurance services. The first offers are already available. Read more…
China: Second Avatr EV rolls off the production line
The Chinese electric car brand Avatr by Changan and CATL has started production of its second model. Meanwhile, Avatr is still not commenting on its export plans. Read more…
GM’s Ultium Cells Battery Joint Venture Facing $270K In OSHA Fines
Investigators found multiple serious violations that affect job safety and workers’ health at the company’s Ohio plant. More…
Spain launches third round of funding with PERTE
The third funding pot under the subsidy scheme will open early next year. Meanwhile, the Spanish government awarded around 87 million euros to four companies as part of the second tender. Read more…
Average Price Of New EVs Drops By Almost $15,000 In A Year: KBB
Thanks to Tesla’s aggressive pricing strategy, the average transaction price (ATP) for a new EV is now less than $51,000. More…
Dieseko Woltman pile-driller/driver
Peter Donaldson reports on how this zero-emissions version of a diesel piling rig has been designed and developed Drilling piles into the ground has been a crucial task in building for thousands of years. Whether they’re made from timber, reinforced concrete, steel or aluminium – and whether in column or sheet form – they help to stabilise the ground and make it more able to support heavy structures. More…
Quick Charge Podcast: October 12, 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…
Kia EV9 gets EPA-estimated range numbers, tops out at 489 km
Kia is continuing its slow-drip launch of the EV9 in the US. First, there was an announcement. Then, actually detailed pricing information. Today, we get EPA-estimated range numbers for all the versions. The €55,200 EV9 Light Long Range RWD gets the most EPA-estimated range, at 489 km, up from a targeted 483 km. Next up are both the €59,500 Wind e-AWD and the €65,100 Land e-AWD, at 451 km, up from a target of 435 km for the former and 407 km for the latter. The €68,900 EV9 GT-Line e-AWD scored 435 km of EPA-estimated range, up from the initial target of 391 km. Finally, the model… More…
Man who swindled 5 free cars from Tesla gets 4 years sentence
A man who managed to swindle Tesla into give him one car for free after the other has received a 4-yea sentence for the fraud. More…
Tesla’s latest funky product is 2 bottles of beer for $150
Tesla has started selling a limited edition “CyberBeer + CyberStein” product, the latest in a line of funky products, and like many others, this one isn’t cheap. More…
Tesla takes on Android Auto and CarPlay, opens its cars to third-party apps
Tesla’s software ecosystem has so far been limited to mostly apps created by the car maker and it didn’t support either Apple’s CarPlay or Google’s Android Auto. That’s finally changing, as Tesla released an official API documentation for developers to start creating apps. Some third-party apps are running in Teslas today, but they rely on the unofficial API and are pretty basic in terms of functionality. Most of them are mobile and browser-based apps. Now the API is finally official, but there’s a catch. The new API documentation is quite limited and is tailored toward enterprise… More…
Electric vehicle sales hit 7.9% of US market as Volvo, Mercedes, and Hyundai post sizable gains
EV sales surged past 300,000 for the first time in the third quarter, a nearly 50% increase over last year. As automakers like Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, and Hyundai ramp production, Tesla’s market share is slipping.. More…
ZEEKR to move EU headquarters from Sweden to the Netherlands, grow staff by end of year
Young and promising Chinese EV brand ZEEKR announced it is moving its current European headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden to a new spot closer to the action in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Following the move, ZEEKR plans to expand its staff overseas and it continues to expand into new markets. More…
New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm just gave a $100M promise to be online by 2025
Danish offshore wind giant Ørsted just put up a $100 million guarantee that it will have New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm, Ocean Wind 1, online by December 2025. More…
Honda and Mitsubishi team up to explore ways to improve value for EV owners
Japanese automakers Honda and Mitsubishi Corp are teaming up to help EV owners get the most out of their vehicles and batteries. More…
Tesla’s New V4 Superchargers In The US Get CCS Adapter, Credit Card Reader
Tesla’s already getting ready for lots of new customers. More…
The Kia EV6 Will Be The First Kia To Get Tesla’s NACS Plug
Charging Kia’s quickest car is about to get much easier soon. More…
Kia unveils two more concept vehicles at its EV Day
At the latest Kia EV Day in Korea, the buzzing atmosphere was palpable. Kia Corporation didn’t hold back in its unveiling of three fresh electric models, pointing to the brand’s electrifying future. Instead of merely relying on its previously launched EV6 and EV9 models, the automaker is pushing ahead with a renewed fervor to expand its electric offerings. Kia’s overarching message during the event echoed a commitment to their vision of ‘EVs for all’. This isn’t just a lofty declaration. Kia laid out plans to flesh out its EV lineup with models priced between €28,000 and €75,000. This… More…
2024 Kia EV9 range: 3-row EV tops 300 miles on less than 100 kwh
Kia on Thursday confirmed final EPA range estimates for its 2024 EV9 electric SUV—and they’re better than originally targeted. The 2024 Kia EV9 will return up to 304 miles of EPA range with its 99.8-kwh battery pack, Kia revealed, in the EV9 Light Long Range. And the base EV9 Light, with its 76.1-kwh battery, will return 230 miles… More…
