Disposing of thousands are cars that are potentially usable would be wasteful and go against emissions control laws.More…
Tesla Gets Permission To Sell Early Model Y Builds At Giga Berlin
NHTSA says no to EV driver-selectable pedestrian sounds
New rules require electric cars and hybrids to emit warning sounds at low speeds, but federal regulators won’t let drivers choose their own sounds. The rules were created to address the lack of engine noise in so-called “quiet cars,” mandating alternative artificial sounds at speeds below 18.6 mph to make these cars easier for pedestrians… More…
Volkswagen boosts BEV deliveries by 27%
The Volkswagen Group increased its deliveries of fully electric vehicles by 27 per cent in the first six months of 2022 compared to the same period last year. A total of 217,100 all-electric vehicles were handed over to customers in the first half of the year, up from 170,900 in the same period last year. […] More…
US: Mercedes-Benz Sold Almost 2,000 EQS In Q2 2022
It’s pretty popular compared to the Mercedes-Benz S-Class.More…
Mini Cooper SE Convertible One-Off Shows The Way Forward
The manufacturer doesn’t plan to put it into production, but it signals a fundamental change for the brand.More…
Tesla allowed to sell test Model Y units in Germany
Tesla is now allowed to sell vehicles that were manufactured during the plant tests at the factory in Grünheide and thus before the final approval decision. This is what the Brandenburg State Office for the Environment (LfU), as the responsible licensing authority, told RBB when asked. In a preliminary approval from January 2022, Tesla had […] More…
VW launches HPC park with 2nd life batteries in Zwickau
Volkswagen has commissioned a fast-charging park at its electric car plant in Zwickau, which draws a large part of its energy from a so-called Power Storage Container (PSC). In future, the solution will also be used in residential areas, for example, as no medium-voltage transformer needs to be set up for the HPC. The power […] More…
Check Out Jeep’s Fat Tire E-Bike By QuietKat
It packs a 750-watt punch and promises up to 40 miles of range.More…
VinFast Gets $1.2B In Incentives From North Carolina, Opens First US Stores
Vietnamese automaker has secured the largest economic incentive package in the history of the State of North Carolina.More…
1,500 Tesla Powerwall owners have already joined the new virtual power plant in California
PG&E announced that more than 1,500 Tesla Powerwall owners have already decided to joined the new virtual power plant it launched in partnership with Tesla in California. More…
GM & EVgo expand charging network in the USA
General Motors has announced the development of a fast charging network at Pilot Company car stations in the US. It will include 2,000 stations with charging capacities of up to 350 kW at up to 500 locations across the country and will be installed, operated and maintained by GM partner EVgo. Installations will begin immediately, […] More…
Iveco plans to use Hyundai’s fuel cell systems for buses
Iveco will use Hyundai fuel cell systems in its future hydrogen buses for Europe. The FC systems will come from HTWO, the standalone Hyundai brand announced at the end of 2020. The decision to collaborate with the Italian manufacturer in this area extends HTWO’s provision of its technology to other companies. The fuel cell systems […] More…
Pininfarina starts production of the electric hyper GT ‘Battista’
Italian luxury carmaker Automobili Pininfarina has begun production of its all-electric GT supercar, the Battista. The Battista is now being hand-built in a 2,300 square metre hall in Cambiano in the Italian region of Piedmont. A maximum of 150 examples will be built and deliveries will begin at the end of summer 2022. The Battista, […] More…
2023 Polestar 3 Electric SUV To Cost Between €75,000-€110,000: CEO
Thomas Ingenlath said US prices will be similar because of the exchange rate parity between the dollar and euro.More…
Fisker hires new manufacturing head
Fisker has appointed Alpay Uguz as Senior Vice President of Global Manufacturing with immediate effect. Prior to joining the electric car manufacturer, Alpay Uguz worked at BMW’s Spartanburg plant in South Carolina as general manager for the brand’s SUVs. t Fisker, he will now oversee the company’s global manufacturing and is expected to realise the […] More…
BMW likely to drop combustion models with ‘New Class’
BMW has apparently decided that the next generation of models based on the ‘New Class’ platform planned for 2025 will be built exclusively with pure electric drive systems. In addition, another rumour about the battery cells for the new architecture is confirmed. The German publication Manager Magazin reports on this change of strategy. As recently […] More…
Hyundai N Shows Ioniq 6-Based RN22e And N Vision 74 Fuel Cell Concepts
The manufacturer also confirmed that the hot Ioniq 5 N would debut sometime next year.More…
The real reason Joe Manchin is sabotaging the US clean energy plan [update]
Coal investor and US Senator Joe Manchin III (D-WV) opposes his own political party’s clean energy program. And since not a single Republican will support the infrastructure bill that contains the program, Manchin has disproportionate power to sink the US plan to decarbonize in order to slow global warming and meet the Paris Agreement target of net-zero by 2050. Why does he oppose it. More…
Quick Charge Podcast: July 14, 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…
VinFast receives $1.2B in incentives from North Carolina to build US plant, the largest economic package in state history
Earlier today, before its simultaneous opening of six stores in California, VinFast announced it has received a massive incentives package to build its EV manufacturing facility in North Carolina. $1.2 billion (with a “b”) to be exact – the largest incentive package in the history of The Old North State. More…
