Charging software provider ev.energy has closed a Series B funding round of US$33 million, bringing the company’s total capital to US$46 million. The company says it will use the equivalent of €30 million in Series B funding to advance the integration of electric vehicles into the power grid in North America and Europe. According to […] More…
Tesla adds demo drives to its referral program
Tesla has added sign-ups to demo drives to its owner referral program; it now reward owners for singing up people to test drive Tesla vehicles. More…
British Columbia ready to add 115 electric buses to fleets
In Canada, BC Transit, the public transport operator for British Columbia, will procure up to 115 battery buses and install 134 charging points throughout the province. The total investment garnered for the project is 395 million Canadian dollars (272 million euros). The Government of Canada is contributing just under 170 million CAD (117 million euros), […] More…
E-Bikes Under Fire At Burning Man Festival
Numerous reports of speeding and reckless riding by e-bike riders have raised safety concerns. More…
ChargePoint receives $150 billion credit line
The charging network operator ChargePoint has secured a credit line totalling 150 million US dollars from four banks (JP Morgan, HSBC, Citi and Goldman Sachs). ChargePoint intends to use the funds to accelerate its commercial growth. As ChargePoint itself reports, no funds from the credit line have yet been drawn down. On the one hand, […] More…
Report: Tesla has allegedly been suppressing EV range complaints
Tesla allegedly equipped its electric cars with misleading range displays and then suppressed owner complaints, according to a Reuters report published Thursday. Citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter, the report alleges that, about a decade ago, Tesla began equipping cars with range-estimating algorithms that showed “rosy” projections… More…
Buying An ICE Vehicle Is “Like Building A Horse Barn In 1910”: Rivian CEO
RJ Scaringe says traditional gas stations will slowly disappear in the future, so buying a combustion car doesn’t make much sense. More…
Solar-powered towable electric bike camper includes bedroom and dinette
Bike campers were once novelties, often thrown together as simple DIY affairs, but recent models are bringing a new level of quality and professionalism to these quirky trailers. The Finnish-designed Hupi trailer is the latest offering to showcase a surprisingly high-end design. More…
The InsideEVs Podcast Is Under Construction
Join us back here in mid-August for your electrically powered podcast fix. More…
Marubeni invests in Skeleton to ramp production
Japanese trading company Marubeni is investing in Skeleton Technologies, a developer and manufacturer of supercapacitors, to expand Skeleton’s production capacities in Germany. This apparently involves a double-digit million euro amount. Marubeni sells Skeleton’s technology in Asia and wants to support the expansion of production to meet demand for Skeleton’s so-called SuperBattery. This is a new […] More…
VinFast starts construction of EV factory in the USA
Vietnamese electric car manufacturer VinFast has started building its first factory in the US. Announced in March 2022, the factory in Chatham County, North Carolina, will produce electric cars, electric buses and batteries for them. The start of operations was originally planned for July 2024, but was later postponed to 2025. In the first phase, […] More…
GM to install battery assembly at Ingersoll factory
General Motors will begin producing battery modules at its plant in Ingersoll, Canada, in the second quarter of 2024 to support the company’s increasing production of electric vehicles. Currently, the battery supply is a bottleneck for the plant. The new approximately 37,000-square-foot facility (original specification had been 400,000 square feet) will assemble battery cells into […] More…
Porsche hints a future EV may utilize 400-kw fast-charging
Porsche earlier this week revealed more than just a first look at its lounge-like road-trip fast-charging stations, to be laid out along some top routes in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Within details for these design-savvy charging oases there was a bigger technology reveal: Its EVs in the future, it hinted, may charge above 300 kw and… More…
Magna sources SiC semiconductors from Onsemi
Austrian-based automotive supplier Magna will be integrating SiC semiconductors from US-American manufacturer Onsemi in its drive systems for electric vehicles. The two companies have signed a long-term agreement for Onsemi’s EliteSiC silicon carbide power module. Magna will incorporate Onsemi semiconductors into its traction converters to improve the efficiency of electric vehicle motors and therefore their […] More…
Mercedes Supervisory Board extends contracts with Källenius and Schäfer
The Supervisory Board of Mercedes-Benz has prematurely extended the contract with Chief Executive Officer Ola Källenius by a further five years until 21 May 2029. In addition, the supervisory board extended the contract of Chief Technology Officer Markus Schäfer. When the first reports emerged at the beginning of July that CEO Ola Källenius’ contract was […] More…
Electric buses arrive in Dublin, driver training begins
Transport for Ireland has announced that driver training, vehicle testing and route piloting have commenced with the first battery-electric buses arriving in Dublin. Wrightbus delivered the first nine electric buses out of the 120 ordered by the National Transport Authority (NTA) in June 2022. Testing, commissioning, and driver familiarisation will continue through August and September […] More…
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles BEV Sales Reached A New Record In Q2 2023
BEV sales have increased by an order of magnitude since thanks to the ID. Buzz model. More…
Sunwoda to build battery plant in Hungary
In Europe, the Chinese battery cell manufacturer Sunwoda plans to build a factory for electric vehicle batteries in Hungary. According to the company’s stock exchange announcement, Sunwoda plans to invest the equivalent of around 250 million euros in the plant. The Hungarian investment promotion agency HIPA has confirmed the location of the Sunwoda plant in […] More…
Ford Model e Q2 shows growth in sales and losses
Ford’s Model e electric car division significantly increased its sales and revenue in the second quarter of 2023, but also widened its losses. Ford is also pushing back a key production target by a year. Specifically, Ford sold about 34,000 electric vehicles from April to June, nearly three times as many as in the first […] More…
Eve Energy & Absolute Energy to build battery plant in Thailand
Chinese battery cell manufacturer Eve Energy is planning a joint venture to build a factory in Thailand with an annual capacity of at least 6-gigawatt hours. The joint venture for this is to be established together with the Thai energy company Energy Absolute. Energy Absolute is to hold 51 per cent of the joint venture […] More…
