Consumers who are planning to purchase an electric car have different priorities than current EV owners, according to a recent Plug In America study (via Charged EVs). Results from 8,000 United States respondents including both current EV owners and EV “intenders,” defined as those that do not currently own an EV but plan on acquiring one within… More…
Northvolt places nickel order with Vale Canada
The Swedish battery cell manufacturer Northvolt has concluded a multi-year agreement with the mining company Vale Canada for the supply of low-carbon nickel products. Vale did not provide more details about the delivery volume and the time schedule in its announcement, but it does announce further cooperation with Northvolt in various areas. The areas in […] More…
World’s First Race-Prepped Mini Cooper SE Receives Evo Upgrades
This one of a kind hillclimb special from Romania is getting the Evo treatment. More…
World’s First Race-Prepped Mini Cooper EV Receives Evo Upgrades
This one of a kind hillclimb special from Romania is getting the Evo treatment. More…
Blackstone announces plans for 3D printed sodium-ion batteries
Swiss commodities company Blackstone Resources has announced that its German battery division Blackstone Technology could begin bringing 3D-printed sodium-ion batteries to market from 2025. To this end, Blackstone Technology will lead a German industry and research consortium to take the previously validated laboratory results of 3D-printed solid-state batteries “to the stage of demonstration in a […] More…
Arriva opts for Hitachi fleet charging solution at Brixton depot
Arriva, one of London’s biggest bus operators, recently replaced half of the 44 double-decker buses at its Brixton Tramshed depot in south London with new electric vehicles. Zenobē, Arriva’s solution provider, chose Hitachi Energy’s Grid-eMotion Fleet system to charge the 22 e-buses. The task was a tough one. Since the Tramshed at Brixton dates back […] More…
Xiaomi’s new 40-mile range NAVEE N65 electric scooter heads west to Europe and North America
Xiaomi rocketed the NAVEE N65 electric scooter to a successful launch late last year on its Xiaomi Youpin crowdfunding platform. Now the scooter is making its way westward toward European and North American customers. More…
Check Out Europe’s Largest EV Battery Gigafactory In Poland
This single plant supplies EV batteries for most of the plug-in car brands in Europe. More…
ZEBRA: UK Gov’ funds nearly 1,000 zero-emission buses
The British Government, through its Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas (ZEBRA) scheme, has granted £198Mn to twelve towns and cities. The money will fund 943 battery-electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric buses and associated infrastructure and brings the total funded e-buses in England to 2,000 so far. The new funding round through ZEBRA is the […] More…
Tesla’s Elon Musk Is Getting The Attention Of German Automakers
Some automakers may not agree with Tesla’s handling of the chip shortage, but it’s certainly working. More…
ACM Adaptive City Mobility faces its end
The end for the electric car start-up ACM Adaptive City Mobility from Munich now seems to be confirmed. After the company filed for insolvency at the responsible district court last year, according to a media report, investor Karl-Thomas Neumann no longer has any hope of a sale and continued operation. The automotive manager confirmed on […] More…
Stellantis and LG partner for first large-scale battery plant in Canada
Stellantis and LG Energy Solution on Wednesday announced plans for a Canadian joint-venture battery plant—the automaker’s first large-scale battery venture for North America. To be located in Windsor, Ontario, $5 billion Canadian ($4.1 billion U.S.) plant is scheduled to start producing batteries in 2024, and will have an annual… More…
USPTO Makes Tesla Windshield Laser Cleaner Patent Public
This patent was granted in 2021, but it had not been publicly viewable in full until now. More…
Nio’s new business figures show growth over 2021
The Chinese electric car manufacturer Nio has presented its preliminary business figures for 2021. Annual sales amounted to approximately 36.1 billion yuan (5.2 billion euros), an increase of 122.3 per cent compared to the previous year. The company was also able to reduce its losses. The net loss in 2021 was around 4.0 billion yuan […] More…
Nikola kicks off production of the Tre
Nikola has started series production of its Tre battery-electric truck at its Coolidge plant in Arizona. The first deliveries are scheduled for the second quarter of 2022. Shortly before Christmas 2021, Nikola had delivered the first examples of the BEV version of the Tre to logistics company Total Transportation Services (TSSI). However, the vehicles were […] More…
Tesla (TSLA) announces another stock split; shareholders to vote later this year
Tesla (TSLA) announced today that it is planning a new stock split, and it is going to put it to a shareholder vote later this year. More…
Tesla (TSLA) announces a new stock split; shareholders to vote later this year
Tesla (TSLA) announced today that it is planning a new stock split, and it is going to put it to a shareholder vote later this year. More…
Tesla suspends production at Shanghai gigafactory
Tesla has to suspend production at its Shanghai plant again, this time for four days. The production pause will run from Monday morning until Friday morning this week. The city government had announced on Sunday that it was sending the metropolis into a harsh lockdown in two phases to conduct Covid 19 tests and get […] More…
VW restarts MEB production in Zwickau
Production of the MEB models at the VW plant in Zwickau has started again – a few days earlier than planned. Production of the MEB SUV Skoda Enyaq in the Czech Republic, on the other hand, will be paused for a little longer, which will also affect the orderability of some variants. Volkswagen had originally […] More…
Tesla halts production at Gigafactory Shanghai as the city shuts down due to surge in COVID-19 cases
Tesla is reportedly halting production for four days at Gigafactory Shanghai as the city is going into a lockdown due to a surge in COVID-19 cases. More…
