Logistics company Maersk has opened a storage facility specifically for electric car batteries in Teplice, Czech Republic. According to Maersk, the 14,000-square-metre warehouse has extensive safety equipment to ensure optimal handling of electric car batteries. In Teplice, the new battery storage facility from Maersk is located in the north of the Czech Republic, close to […] More…
IONIQ 6 EV scores Hyundai highest five-star safety rating
Hyundai’s second dedicated electric vehicle, the IONIQ 6, is due for its world premiere tomorrow, November 17, but the EV is already making big headlines. The IONIQ 6 EV earned the top five-star safety EURO NCAP rating, joining the IONIQ 5 as one of the safest models to drive in Europe. More…
Designwerk long haul e-truck sports 1000 kWh batteries
The Swiss eMobility specialist Designwerk has presented an all-electric tractor unit with a battery capacity of 1,000 kilowatt-hours. This should also make long-distance and heavy transport possible – at least in some countries. The high-voltage battery systems with NMC technology installed in the truck come from the Swiss company’s in-house battery production. Of the 1,000 […] More…
Flywheel energy will help charge rental EVs in New York
Israel-based Zooz Power will use its flywheel technology to charge electric rental cars at New York City’s LaGuardia airport. Formerly known as Chakratec, Zooz recently announced a memorandum of understanding with an unnamed car rental company to pilot flywheel energy charging at LaGuardia beginning in the second quarter of 2023. The partner… More…
Tesla reports two new fatal crashes involving Autopilot or FSD Beta
Tesla has reported two new fatal crashes involving Autopilot or Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta to NHTSA, but the automaker is not releasing a lot of details. More…
KYMCO unveils new high-performance SuperNEX and RevoNEX electric motorcycles
KYMCO unveiled updated versions of its two high-performance electric motorcycle prototypes at the EICMA Milan Motorcycle Show, giving riders a taste of what’s to come from the major two-wheeler manufacturer. More…
ElectReon & Eurovia to launch charging project on German ‘Autobahn’
The Israeli company ElectReon Wireless, which specialises in inductive charging of electric vehicles, and the road construction company Eurovia are planning a joint project in Germany. In northern Bavaria, a short section of motorway is to be equipped with the inductive charging solution. ElectReon and Eurovia had signed an agreement in 2020 to build wireless […] More…
Panasonic & Redwood Materials expand recycling partnership
Panasonic has reached an agreement with Redwood Materials to source cathode materials and copper foil for electric car batteries. Redwood’s recycled cathode active materials will be used in battery cells at Panasonic’s planned plant in Kansas. Construction of the battery factory in De Soto near Kansas City has already been underway for several weeks, with […] More…
Tesla Reduces Model Y And Model 3 Delivery Times In China
Is this Tesla pulling more demand levers, just trying to stay ahead, or something else? More…
CEO Jim Farley: Ford To Produce EV Components In-House For Success
The CEO has announced a new strategy that Ford feels will allow it to keep its employees and better compete with rivals. More…
Zoom Work Meetings Integrated Into Your Tesla: Coming Soon
Zoom has officially announced that video conferencing will soon be added to Tesla’s growing feature list. More…
Hyundai Motor Plug-In Car Sales In October 2022 Hit New High
Sales reached almost 20,000 BEVs, including a few thousand of the all-new Hyundai Ioniq 6. More…
Tesla Has A Production Target Of 100 Semi Electric Trucks This Year
The EV maker also announced that the December 1 Tesla Semi delivery event will take place at Gigafactory Nevada. More…
Toyota has presented the 5th-gen Prius
Toyota has unveiled the fifth generation of its hybrid pioneer Prius and is adapting the drive concept, at least for Europe. From next year, the Prius will only be offered as a plug-in hybrid in Europe. However, the full hybrid concept will not be completely discarded; outside Europe, the Prius will continue to be available […] More…
Focus Bikes Drops The Fancy JAM² SL Electric Mountain Bike
This sleek and athletic 29er has a carbon frame and a Fazua Drive 60 system. More…
Volvo Trucks expands HPC network with Pilot Company
In the USA, Volvo Group and the Pilot Company, the largest operator of truck stops in North America, have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a public charging network for electric trucks. Pilot Company plans to install HPCs at an unspecified number of locations that will be open to heavy-duty vehicles of all brands. […] More…
Milan launches tender for 340 electric buses
Milan’s public transport company ATM has invited tenders for the procurement of 340 low-floor battery buses worth around 330 million euros. The tender is comprised of three different lots for different electric bus lengths, floor and door configurations The largest lot of the ATM Milan tender is for 205 battery-electric buses with a length of […] More…
Varta pauses EV battery factory construction
Varta has put the construction of a factory for electric car battery cells on hold for the time being for cost reasons, as the company announced in its current annual report. The construction of the new factory for the V4Drive battery is to be continued only after binding customer commitments. However, the operation of the […] More…
Tesla announces ‘delivery event’ for the Semi
Following the start of production of the Tesla Semi in October, Tesla has now confirmed the date for the start of deliveries of the electric truck: Tesla will host a special “delivery event” on 1 December at its factory in Nevada. Elon Musk had already mentioned this date in a tweet in October when he […] More…
Tesla exec pleads guilty to insider trading
A former Tesla executive has pled guilty to charges of insider trading in Australia after he bought stock in a lithium mine before a deal with the automaker was announced. More…
