Hyundai and Kia are recalling more than 91,000 newer vehicles in the USA due to fire hazards and are asking their owners to park the cars outside. One might assume that this refers to electric cars, however, one would be mistaken: this recall only affects internal combustion engines. Specifically, about 52,000 units of the Hyundai […] More…

With a range of almost 600 kilometres and low energy consumption, BMW’s i4 eDrive40 is a good electric car. But does the concept of the electric 4 Series Gran Coupé still work if the size of the battery is reduced? And is it even worth it? *** One thing right up front: a catchy model […] More…

The Chinese charging infrastructure manufacturer XCharge is setting up a production facility in the USA, specifically in the city of Kyle in Texas, through its subsidiary XCharge North America. DC fast chargers are to be manufactured there. According to the announcement, the Kyle facility will initially offer an area of around 325 square metres (original […] More…

Rwanda plans to put the country’s first electric buses into operation this year. The first examples are to roll out onto the streets of the capital Kigali as early as October – financed via a kilometre-based leasing model. The vehicles will come from the company BasiGo, a company that supplies and assembles BYD buses in […] More…

Nexeon, a UK-based developer of silicon-based anode materials for lithium-ion batteries, has announced the location for its first commercial production facility in the South Korean industrial city of Gunsan. Construction is expected to begin this year, with production scheduled to start in 2025. The plant is expected to supply “tens of thousands of tons” of […] More…

Ford is developing a heavy fuel cell truck prototype as part of an EU project. This was revealed by the Canadian fuel cell specialist Ballard Power Systems, which will supply the technology for this before the end of the year. The 44-tonne Ford F-MAX of the Turkish joint venture Ford Otosan is to be converted […] More…

Volkswagen Group of America has appointed Lyndon Lie as its new Chief Engineering Officer. He worked for General Motors and for Nikola before joining Volkswagen. At Nikola, Lyndon Lie was the global head of product development for the US manufacturer’s BEV and FCEV trucks. At Volkswagen, Lie will oversee the group’s development of future vehicles […] More…

The SAIC brand MG Motor is considering building the electric compact model MG4 in the planned European plant. While there is no concrete location for the factory yet, but the decision is expected to be made in the next two or three years. At the beginning of July, there were first reports that the Chinese […] More…

Tesla is apparently about to switch production of the Model 3 to the revised version. Observers from China report that production of the current Model 3 at the Tesla factory in Shanghai will cease in a few days on 14 August. The first examples of the new Model 3, which has been under development since […] More…

The French government has been given the go-ahead from the EU Commission to subsidise research and development of solid-state batteries for electric vehicles with the Taiwanese company ProLogium. The European Commission has approved funding of €1.5 billion under EU state aid rules. The R&D project is called “Prometheus” and will run until the end of […] More…

At an event in Huntington Beach, California, Fisker presented its future electric cars that will be on the market by 2026. The models include the Pear compact SUV, the Ronin five-seater sports car and a pickup model that goes by the name Alaska. The Alaska is a four-door pickup truck based on an adaptation of […] More…