General Motors has kicked off the implementation of its “Dealer Community Charging Program” announced a year ago to build up to 40,000 AC charging stations by dealers in the US and Canada. The first of these charging stations have now been installed in Wisconsin and Michigan. So far, nearly 1,000 GM dealers have signed up […] More…

UK retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) has signed an agreement with BP to build charging points at its sites. Over the next two years, BP Pulse will install 900 new fast charging points at around 70 M&S shops in the UK. M&S has said that the charge points will have a charging capacity of at […] More…

Barcelona will soon be using 73 Renault Trucks electric trucks for city cleaning and waste disposal. The capital of Catalonia stipulated the use of zero-emission vehicles in the tender for the city cleaning and waste collection services. The contracts for the city cleaning were then awarded to several subcontractors – specifically to CLD Sorigué, Urbaser […] More…

The US airline United Airlines has made a strategic investment in Natron Energy. However, United is not interested in electrifying its aircraft, instead focusing on the ground vehicles that travel for the airline. Natron Energy is a US developer of sodium-ion batteries. United Airlines’ investment, of an undisclosed amount, comes primarily against the backdrop of […] More…

In its current analysis of battery prices, BloombergNEF has recorded the first increase since the start of the evaluations in 2010. The experts attribute this to the increased prices for raw materials and battery components as well as high inflation. Prices for lithium-ion battery packs had risen to an average of 151 US dollars per […] More…