The city of Paris has asked its citizens to vote on the proposed ban on electric rental scooters in the city – with a clear result: 89 per cent of those who voted were in favour of banning rental scooters from the streets of the French capital. It is important to note that less than […] More…

BYD has announced a partnership with Evera, a New Delhi-based electric taxi service, to deliver a fleet of 100 e6 electric cars. The 100 BYD e6 units will be delivered to Evera over the next few months. “With BYD All-New e6, we are excited to continue our electric vehicle fleet operation with our shared value […] More…

In the KOSEL project, the Fraunhofer Institute IWU and partners have developed an open-source construction kit for electric vehicles that contains particularly durable and reusable modules. This should allow certain parts to be used over several vehicle life cycles. Specifically, the project initiators have developed the basic concept for a light electric utility vehicle with […] More…

Production at the Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide, Germany, now runs in three shifts. Additional shifts are already being considered to increase output further. In addition to the Model Y, the carmaker could start building a second model there. Jochem Freyer from the employment agency in Frankfurt (Oder) spoke to the local radio- and TV station […] More…

Quantron AG and Norwegian Hydrogen, a producer of green hydrogen and operator of hydrogen refuelling stations, have agreed on a five-year strategic collaboration to introduce hydrogen-powered heavy-duty trucks in Scandinavia. Norwegian Hydrogen is to be Quantron’s preferred hydrogen supplier in the Scandinavian countries, providing green hydrogen through its production facilities. The H2 filling stations there […] More…

Sweden’s e-boat maker X Shore has completed another funding round, raising 300 million Swedish kroner. That is a little over $29 million. The company will use the money to scale its production and reach profitability next year. SEB Investment Management AB led the funding, which also “several new shareholders,” X Shore says. “The X Shore […] More…

Westway Coaches is looking to speed up the electrification process of its fleet. To that end, it is working with the British electric drive specialist Equipmake to retrofit its coaches with electric drives. The system comprises a 545 kWh battery pack, an electric motor, an inverter and an efficiency-maximising HVAC system – all developed by […] More…

Swedish electric truck start-up Volta Trucks is receiving funding of 24.6 million euros from the German Federal Ministry of Transport to subsidize vehicle costs for 151 units of its Volta Zero. Volta Trucks plans to deliver the first of the funded electric trucks to customers before the end of 2023. Volta Trucks announces that “Customer […] More…

The General Motors brand BrightDrop has secured another major order for its electric transporters. Ryder, a US commercial vehicle fleet management company, plans to introduce 4,000 BrightDrop Zevo 600s and Zevo 400s to its fleet by 2025. The order for the first 200 EVs will already be placed this year. The EVs will be introduced […] More…

IBU-Tec Advanced Materials has won another customer for its LFP battery material. It signed a contract with an unnamed “renowned global automotive group for the development and production of battery material for electromobility.” Following the development phase, IBU-Tec will also produce “significant quantities” of the material at its Weimar site as early as the second […] More…

Strasbourg public transport operator CTS (Compagnie des Transports Strasbourgeois) has signed a framework contract with Portuguese bus manufacturer CaetanoBus for the delivery of up to 60 hydrogen buses over the next five years. In a press release sent to us by email, CaetanoBus says that it was awarded the contract after an “international and demanding […] More…

With a market share of 86.8 per cent, electric passenger cars saw a slight increase again in March in Norway, surpassing the result from March 2022. The Tesla Model Y was the best-selling EV by far. After an extremely weak January and a February, which saw only little growth compared to last year, EV registrations […] More…