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Costco has no plans to add EV charging as a traffic-driver


Costco was one of the first retail chains to offer EV charging, but it has no plans to bring it back. “It’s not happening in the next few years,” Costco CFO Richard Galanti said during a recent company earnings call, as cited by The Street, after being asked if he was concerned that EV mandates might make Costco’s lucrative gas stations obsolete… More…

RWTH Aachen to cooperate with Indonesia’s battery industry

The Chair of Production Engineering of E-Mobility Components (PEM) at RWTH Aachen University is involved in establishing a battery industry and electromobility in Indonesia. This will also involve an electric vehicle and the electrification of public transport. Indonesia is known to have the world’s largest nickel reserves. The government has therefore been trying for some […] More…

Nikola recalls BEV trucks in the USA

Nikola recalls all of its battery-electric trucks manufactured since November 2021 in the US, 364 units in total. Due to a problem with a supplier’s electronic parking brake, there is a risk of the vehicles rolling away unintentionally. Dealers will replace the faulty part. According to the recall notes, if a driver notices the ‘Intellipark […] More…

Tesla data: Model S/X go 88% of original range at 200,000 miles


On average, the Tesla Model S and Model X lose less than 12% of range after 200,000 miles. That figure comes from a slide in the automaker’s just-released 2022 Impact Report, where Tesla also noted that it estimates most of its U.S.-market vehicles get scrapped when they reach that amount of mileage. In Europe, Tesla estimates most of its cars are… More…

USA: Blink Mobility acquires the shared EV service Envoy

Blink Charging’s subsidiary Blink Mobility, an all-electric carsharing service, announced the acquisition of Envoy Technologies, which offers shared electric vehicles as an amenity for real estate developers. Blink Mobility says the deal will create one of the largest all-electric carsharing companies in the United States. This is when combining Blink’s existing EV carsharing service with […] More…