In Balingen, dynamic wireless charging technology for electric vehicles is being tested in practice for the first time in Germany. The main actor of the pilot project is a shuttle bus for the Garden Show 2023, which is to charge its vehicle battery while driving. The Israeli company ElectReon, which specialises in inductive charging of […] More…
CATL & Ford are looking at jointly operating a battery factory
CATL and Ford are considering jointly building a US factory for LFP batteries. According to an agency report, the production facility will be fully owned by Ford but operated by CATL. This could make the plant eligible for subsidies from the US government under the Inflation Reduction Act. This is reported by Bloomberg with reference […] More…
Toyota starts to see how its EVs can aid the power grid
Toyota is the latest automaker to work with an electrical utility on ways to use EVs to aid the grid. The automaker on Thursday announced a pilot project with Texas-based utility Oncor for vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology, which allows EVs to discharge power back into the grid. Other automakers and utilities have already expressed interest in V2G… More…
Ford Gives A Peek At VW MEB-Based EV Coming To Europe In 2023
Unsurprisingly, it’s yet another crossover, which looks like it’s going to be about the same size as a VW ID.4. More…
Tesla looks to Mexico for their next gigafactory
Tesla wants to build its next North American factory in Mexico. According to a local media report, Tesla has already bought a plot of land in Santa Catarina in the Mexican state of Nuevo León against this background. If the report by the Mexican newspaper Milenio is true, Tesla will make the planned investment in […] More…
Nissan UK Builds 250,000th Leaf, Uses It To Light Up Christmas Tree
It has taken Nissan almost a decade to build 250,000 Leaf EVs at its plant in Sunderland, UK. More…
Polestar And CAKE Join Forces For Limited Edition Makka Electric Bike
The CAKE Makka Polestar Edition flaunts a sky-blue paint job and glistening gold Öhlins suspension. More…
Seat’s factory in El Prat to manufacture EV components in future
Seat announces that in future it will also produce components for electric cars at its transmission plant in El Prat De Llobregat near Barcelona. Together with Martorell and Barcelona, the Seat Components plant is one of the Spanish brand’s three production centres. From 2025, five components for the Volkswagen Group’s planned BEV small car family […] More…
Ebusco has presented an articulated version of the Ebusco 3.0
Ebusco presents an 18-metre articulated bus version of its Ebusco 3.0 electric model. Just like the 12-metre variant already available, the long Ebusco 3.0 is also supposed to score with a particularly low weight. The manufacturer claims to have already received several orders for the articulated bus. The 18-metre version will have the same electric […] More…
Carwow Sets Road Car Acceleration Record In McMurtry Spierling EV
The 1,000-horsepower Spierling was the quickest vehicle to go up the Goodwood hillclimb this year. More…
Tesla Cybertruck gets a $24K camper option
A company called Space Campers has launched a $24,000 bed-embedded camper for the Tesla Cybertruck. It’s one of now several companies already developing accessories for the electric pickup truck even though it’s not even on the market yet. More…
Elon Musk Sells $3.6 Billion Of Tesla Stock As TSLA Is Down 60% YTD
He has offloaded almost $40 billion of Tesla stock since late last year. More…
Elon Musk Sells $3.6 Billion Of Tesla Stock, TSLA Down 55% In 2022
He has offloaded almost $40 billion of Tesla stock since late last year. More…
McLaren Applied subsidiary unveils electric scooter
Micro-mobility company Lavoie, a subsidiary of McLaren Applied, has announced its debut product, the Series 1 electric scooter. The scooter features Lavoie’s patented one-touch Flowfold system, in which a single press of a button folds the front and rear wheel hinges and collapses the stem. A 2-hour charge on a domestic three-pin plug provides up […] More…
SONDORS Metacycle electric motorcycles now delivering to over half of US
A single electric motorcycle has been responsible for the majority of hype around a growing wave of budget e-motos. The SONDORS Metacycle, which has seen more than its fair share of ups and downs during a lengthy development process, is now touting deliveries currently in progress to 27 states in the US. More…
Quick Charge Podcast: December 15, 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…
Kia’s ultra-fast-charging EV6 GT costs half the price of Porsche GTS and will beat it in a race
Kia changed many perceptions with the release of its high-performance EV6 GT electric crossover. But how does it stack up against Porsche’s electric sports car, the Taycan GTS. More…
Tesla (TSLA) offers 10,000 free Supercharging miles to buyers as it tries to create urgency
Tesla has authorized its sales staff to offer 10,000 free Supercharging miles to customers who take delivery by the end of the month as it tries to create some urgency for buyers to take delivery. More…
Tesla Gigafactory Texas achieves impressive annual rate of 150,000 Model Ys
Tesla announced that Gigafactory Texas has achieved a production rate of 3,000 Model Y vehicles per week – an impressive annual rate of 150,000 Model Ys. More…
$300K Cadillac Celestiq, the brand’s second EV, is generating significant interest
Cadillac’s electric vehicles are generating significant attention, sending shockwaves through the auto industry. The company says its $300,000 Cadillac Celestiq is already starting to attract significant interest as buyers line up to get their hands on one.. More…
