Ford on Wednesday announced plans to partner with Tesla co-founder J.B. Straubel’s Redwood Materials on battery recycling. The plan is for recycled materials to be fed back into the United States EV battery supply chain, creating a so-called “closed loop,” according to a Ford press release. This reduces costs, as well as the overall environmental… More…
Michigan joins the race for inductive charging road
Michigan is planning to build the first public road in the United States where electric vehicles can charge wirelessly while driving. However, the competition is on, since Indiana has already begun the first phases of such a project. The ‘Inductive Vehicle Charging Pilot’, announced by Governor Gretchen Whitmer, aims to embed inductive charging technology into […] More…
Xpeng P5 On Navigation Guided Pilot 3.5 Is At Home In The City
This new longer NGP demonstration video shows a surefooted and reliable autonomous driving solution that works in town too. More…
Volkswagen launches construction of battery plant in China
Volkswagen is starting to build a production plant for battery systems in Hefei, China. The factory will initially supply between 150,000 and 180,000 high-voltage battery systems for Volkswagen Anhui’s all-electric MEB vehicles from the second half of 2023. In Hefei, capital of the Chinese province of Anhui, Volkswagen operates an electric vehicle production plant together […] More…
Norway bans gas car sales in 2025, but trends point toward 100% EV sales as early as April
Norway is ahead of the game in EV sales, with gasoline’s share of the new car market vanishing more and more every month, faster than almost anyone outside of Electrek‘s Slack channel could have predicted. This has led Norway to have the earliest target for the phaseout of new gas vehicle sales in the world – 2025 More…
Norway bans gas cars in 2025. But trends point toward 100% EV sales as early as April
Norway is ahead of the game in EV sales, with gasoline’s share of the new car market vanishing more and more every month, faster than almost anyone outside of Electrek‘s Slack channel could have predicted. This has led Norway to have the earliest target for the phaseout of new gas vehicle sales in the world – 2025 More…
Wrightbus presents electric & fuel cell single-decker buses
The Northern Irish bus manufacturer Wrightbus is introducing a new single-deck bus with battery and fuel cell propulsion. The new models of the GB Kite series in the Hydroliner FCEV and Electroliner BEV variants can each accommodate up to 90 passengers and are scheduled to go into series production in 2022. The new duo increases […] More…
Aura Electric Roadster Envisions The Driver’s Car Of The Future
Built by four UK companies with funding from the British government, the street-legal Aura prototype is an enticing 400-mile range EV. More…
Porsche considers releasing electric 718 in 2024
Porsche wanted to decide by this summer whether the next generation of the 718 series (Cayman and Boxster) would have an all-electric drive. According to media reports, the decision has now been made in favour of a purely electric 718 in 2024. However, official confirmation is still pending. The portal Car and Driver reports, citing […] More…
Mercedes-AMG EQS 53 Leaves Room For Even Quicker 63 Model
We checked the EQS 53 out at IAA 2021 and found it very similar to non-AMG models. More…
Ford & Redwood announce strategic recycling partnership
Ford and Redwood Materials are forming a strategic partnership to drive the recycling of electric vehicle batteries in the US and create a closed battery loop. Ford has also invested 50 million US dollars in Redwood. Ford and Redwood say they will work together to integrate battery recycling into Ford’s battery strategy. In the longer […] More…
Ford faces it’s own quality problem recall
Ford has to recall 5,000 Mustang Mach-E in Canada because of two different problems: one because of a windscreen that may not be properly attached and another because of a panoramic roof glass that may not be properly attached. The irony of the story is that Darren Palmer, chief developer of the electric car division […] More…
This Tesla Plaid Owner Calls The Build Quality Trash, Do You Agree?
Is he being nitpicky or reasonable? More…
Cadillac’s EV Ambitions Gains New Dealers, But Many Were Lost
Cadillac’s electric future turned off many dealerships while attracting new ones in crucial markets. More…
Tesla (TSLA) breaks ground on new ‘Megafactory’ to produce Megapack batteries
Tesla announced that it has broken ground on a new facility called ‘Megafactory’ in Lathrop, California More…
Lucid Will Build More Dream Edition Cars To Celebrate Range Record
The company will produce a total of 520 units to match the 520-mile EPA range rating. More…
Quick Charge Podcast: September 22, 2021
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…
Watch XPeng’s NGP system autonomously navigate a busy city
Chinese automaker XPeng Motors has shared beta testing footage of its City Navigation Guided Pilot (NGP), one of the upcoming features of its advanced driver assistance system. The footage shows XPeng’s upcoming P5 EV weaving its way through congested traffic in Guangzhou, China where the automaker is headquartered. We have footage of the beta testing video below More…
A UK collective says it can now accurately predict an EV battery’s life span – here’s how
In the UK, two electric vehicle manufacturers, academics, and a battery analytics specialist company are collaborating on an electric vehicle battery research program designed to predict battery life span – and they say they’ve succeeded More…
Beware: Older Tesla Model S Motor Might Fail If Driven In Rain
And Tesla doesn’t seem to want to honor the 8-year motor warranty either. More…
