India’s central government has approved the new electric bus programme ‘PM-eBus Sewa’, which aims to deploy a total of 10,000 electric buses in 169 Indian cities within ten years and to create the infrastructure, including charging technology, to operate the electric buses. The programme is worth a total of around 576 billion rupees (approx. 6.9 […] More…

ABB and Northvolt are expanding their long-standing collaboration. ABB has been providing electrification and automation technology for the Northvolt Ett battery cell factory in Skellefteå, Sweden, since 2017, which started operation in early 2022. The partnership will now also include battery recycling in the future: ABB will supply the process electrification for the operation of […] More…

British electric truck manufacturer Tevva and Canadian electric car maker ElectraMeccanica will merge their companies to jointly focus on the electric commercial vehicle market – first in the UK and then in continental Europe and the US. The new company will be called Tevva, Inc. and based in the US state of Delaware. Tevva will […] More…

Stellantis will invest over 100 million dollars in Controlled Thermal Resources’ (CTR) project Hell’s Kitchen in California, the world’s largest geothermal lithium project. In the course of this, the previously agreed off-take volume will also be significantly increased. The carmaker is already associated with CTR’s Hell’s Kitchen project: In June 2022, both companies concluded a […] More…

CATL has unveiled a particularly fast-charging LFP battery for electric vehicles that is expected to go into mass production as early as the end of 2023. According to CATL, the battery, called Shenxing, can store enough energy for a range of 400 kilometres during a ten-minute charging process thanks to a series of optimisations. Briefly […] More…

Ionity is lowering its charging prices in Germany, France and Norway. With immediate effect, the price for spontaneous charging will drop by ten cents per kilowatt hour in Germany and France and by 1.14 NOK/kWh in Norway. In Germany, Ionity customers on the ‘Ionity Direct’ tariff without a contract now pay 69 cents per kilowatt […] More…

The US state of Massachusetts is updating its rebate programme to support greater EV adoption in the state. It now also includes used electric vehicles in some cases. The so-called Massachusetts Offers Rebates for Electric Vehicles Programme (MOR-EV) provides rebates for light-, medium, and heavy-duty battery-electric vehicles of up to 3,500 dollars. With the programme’s […] More…

Honda’s Acura brand has unveiled its first all-electric model. Like the Honda Prologue, the Acura ZDX uses General Motors’ Ultium platform and is due to be delivered to customers from early 2024. Acura presented the electric SUV as the Precision EV Concept a year ago. The production model will be called the ZDX A-Spec or […] More…

On its way to becoming an all-electric brand in 2925, JLR wants to get rid of its only electric model so far: the Jaguar I-Pace. It is a change in strategy, as the carmaker was previouly looking to keep the EV on offer. JLR CEO Adrian Mardell confirmed this to Autocar, saying that the EV […] More…

Ford, battery cell manufacturer SK On, and cathode material company EcoProBM are investing 1.2 billion Canadian dollars (about 885.6. US dollars) in a new cathode material plant in the province of Quebec. Once operational in early 2026, it will have an annual capacity of 45,000 tonnes of CAM/year. Construction is already underway. The facility, called […] More…