Mining company BHP has ordered eleven electric vehicles from Sandvik for its Jansen potash mine in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. These are ten battery electric vehicles and one wired electric loader, which are to be delivered between 2023 and 2025. With delivery by 2025 at the latest, Sandvik would be very much on schedule: […] More…
Tesla Owner Suggests Enhanced Autopilot Return To US, Musk Agrees
Tesla just started offering Enhanced Autopilot in Australia and New Zealand, and fans and owners are taking notice. More…
Hyundai and Michelin partner to make EV tires more environmentally friendly
Hyundai and Michelin on Monday announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding to partner on environmentally friendly EV tires. Joint research between the two companies aims to increase use of sustainable materials while optimizing tires for EVs, Hyundai said in a press release. The partnership also encompasses a real-time tire monitoring… More…
Renault & Minth to build battery factory in France
Renault, together with automotive supplier Minth, is planning a joint venture based in France for the production of battery housings for future electric models. The joint venture, which is expected to be established by early 2023, will assemble the battery cases at Renault’s Ruitz plant. From Ruitz, the Renault plants in Douai and Maubeuge will […] More…
Union Claims Tesla’s Low Wages Are Hindering Hiring At Giga Berlin
IG Metall, Germany’s largest union, has received reports from employees complaining about pay. More…
New Electric Renault Megane E-Tech Priced At £35,995 In UK
The electric SUV will cover up to 280 miles on a single charge. More…
Mercedes-Benz Trucks Teases eActros LongHaul Concept Prototype
The 40-ton semi with a range of 500 km (311 miles) will be powered by LFP batteries and support “megawatt charging.” More…
BASF to build battery recycling facility in Brandenburg
BASF will build a plant for recycling black mass from batteries on an industrial scale in Schwarzheide, Brandenburg – where BASF’s pilot recycling plant is also located. Commissioning of the large plant is planned for early 2024. The annual processing capacity is to be 15,000 tonnes – old electric car batteries and material that does […] More…
Tesla’s Retractable Door Handles Leave Road Rage Aggressor Baffled
Not so fast! Turns out having hidden door handles in a road rage incident is a brilliant, if unintentional, self-defense feature. More…
Delfast Debuts New TOP 3.0i Electric Bike
Delfast claims that its new e-bike is the smartest e-bike in the market. More…
Honda starts construction of another electric car plant in China
The Chinese joint venture GAC Honda has started construction of a new electric car plant in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. In addition, GAC Honda’s electric SUV e:NP1 has gone on sale in China. As leaked last year, the plant will have an annual capacity for 120,000 electric cars and is scheduled to start production in 2024. […] More…
Volvo Trucks presents FC truck with 1,000 km range
Volvo Trucks has presented an electric long-haul truck that is supposed to have a range of up to 1,000 kilometres with a hydrogen fuel cell. The Swedish company is not yet sure when such a vehicle could go into series production – but the first test vehicles are already on the road. It has long […] More…
Silence introduces new range-topping model in the UK
The Spanish electric scooter manufacturer Silence has added the new range-topping S01+ model to its range in the UK. Based on the S01 Connected, the S01+ features a 5.6 kWh battery and a 7.5 kW motor. The S01+ is capable of reaching a speed of 40mph in 3.9 seconds and has a limited top speed […] More…
Iveco to build electric buses in Italy
Iveco has announced its intention to resume bus production in Italy. Among other things, battery and fuel cell buses will be assembled at the Iveco plant in Foggia and engineering and production capacities for batteries will be set up in Turin. Iveco stopped producing buses in Italy in 2011 – at that time the manufacturer […] More…
Rosenbauer presents electric rescue vehicle lineup
The Austrian fire brigade supplier Rosenbauer presented a complete range of electric emergency vehicles at the Interschutz trade fair. This includes the AT Electric based on an EV chassis from Volvo Trucks, but also an airport fire engine with an electrified Rosenbauer chassis and a turntable ladder. First of all, the AT Electric: until now […] More…
Elon Musk moves Tesla layoff target from 10% to 3% of employees
Elon Musk has now moved the target for the new wave of layoffs at Tesla from 10% reduction of the workforce to 3% of employees. More…
Porsche to fix Taycan production issues in the USA
Porsche has to make improvements to 12,490 vehicles in the electric Taycan model series in the USA. In certain Taycans of the production years 2019 to 2022, the display screens may fail. The problem is to be solved with a software update. This is not the first recall for the Taycan in the USA, as […] More…
Electric bike motor maker Bafang unveils new 3-speed automatic shifting hub transmission
Chinese manufacturer Bafang is a titan of the electric bike motor industry, and thus news swirling around the company generally trends toward new motor announcements. But the latest headline-grabbing product unveiling from Bafang isn’t a motor at all, but rather an internally geared hub designed to provide automatic shifting on both electric and non-electric bikes. More…
Quick Charge Podcast: June 20, 2022
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…
BASF is going to build a commercial battery-recycling, black-mass plant
Global chemical giant BASF is going to build a commercial battery-recycling, black-mass plant in Schwarzheide, a town in Brandenburg, eastern Germany. More…
