Mercedes-Benz has invested a high double-digit million euro amount in the solid-state battery cell manufacturer ProLogium and agreed to jointly develop next-generation battery cells with the Taiwanese company. For Mercedes, it is not the first deal in solid-state batteries. The first jointly developed solid-state batteries could already be used in Mercedes-Benz test vehicles in the […] More…
VW launches series production of the ID.5 in Zwickau
VW has now officially started production of the ID.5 and ID.5 GTX in Zwickau and has thus completed the transformation of the vehicle plant into a pure electric car plant, as announced last November. The 2022 production will exceed the 180,000 electric cars VW made here last year. As Volkswagen states, this makes Zwickau the […] More…
Joe Rogan Reportedly Takes Tesla Cybertruck For A Quick Drive
It appears Rogan was onsite at Tesla’s Giga Austin. Rogan has been a very vocal Cybertruck fan for some time now. More…
Bentley secures plans for first EV in 2025, carbon-neutrality in 2030
Bentley on Wednesday confirmed that its first electric car will roll off an assembly line at the automaker’s existing factory site in 2025. The automaker previously said it would unveil an all-electric model by that year, but now says it will actually start building the car in 2025 and is making investments to upgrade its Crewe, England, factory… More…
Scotland aims to double public EV charging network
The Scottish Government has published a new draft outlining its vision to double the availability of public electric vehicle charging. The country intends to launch a dedicated fund to attract investment from the private sector and to provide up to £60 million to local authorities over the next four years. The private sector is expected […] More…
Elon Musk Foundation Donates $2.5 Million To Texas Schools
The CEO used his charitable organization to provide money to the Brownsville Independent School District in Texas. More…
Tesla Model Y UK Deliveries Will Reportedly Start In February
The source says a handover ceremony will be held in Southampton. More…
Walmart orders 1,100 Ford E-Transit vans
US retailer Walmart has ordered 1,100 units of the E-Transit from Ford. In total, Ford says it already has 300 customers for the electric van in the USA, who have placed orders for more than 10,000 units. According to Ford, the 300 customers include “businesses of all sizes” – from one-person operations to municipalities like […] More…
Polestar Reports Strong Start In South Korea: 4,000 Reservations
It took just one week to receive several thousand reservations with substantial deposits. More…
Zeekr completes 10,000th 001 BEV
Only about three months after the start of production, Geely’s premium electric brand Zeekr has reported the production of the 10,000th unit of its debut BEV 001. In addition, further details about the production technology at the Ningbo plant have been revealed. Production of the Zeekr 001 only started in mid-October at Geely’s Ningbo plant. […] More…
Tesla Production Sites By Model Assignment, Capacity: January 2021
“We plan to grow our manufacturing capacity as quickly as possible.” More…
SsangYong confirms UK prices for the Korando e-Motion
SsangYong confirmed UK prices and specifications for the Korando e-Motion SUV. Orders are not officially open yet and the SsangYong UK website is still asking customers to register interest. However, SsangYong’s latest UK price list contains full prices and equipment for the new model, suggesting that sales are due imminently. Prices for the Korando e-Motion […] More…
H2 Mobility Austria aims for 2,000 fuel-cell trucks by 2030
H2 Mobility Austria, a consortium of eleven Austrian companies, aims to put around 2,000 hydrogen trucks on the roads of the Alpine Republic by 2030. An accompanying study estimated the deployment would bring Austria an added value of 475 million euros. Through the consortium, the partners commissioned the consulting firm Deloitte to prepare the study […] More…
Bentley to release five EV models by 2030
Shortly after Bentley confirmed the production of its first electric car at its main plant in Crewe, the British VW subsidiary presented an update of its ‘Beyond100’ strategy. According to the update, the first model will be followed by another electric model every year from 2025 onwards – i.e. five model series by 2030. In […] More…
Ola plans electric scooter and electric car R&D center based in the UK, investing $100M
India-based Ola Electric made a splash with its high performance and low cost S1 Pro electric scooters, which are now taking India by storm. With its sights set on global expansion, the company announced today that it is opening a new R&D center in the UK for both two-wheeled and four-wheeled electric vehicle development. More…
Elon Musk: Tesla is prioritizing product development of Optimus humanoid robot in 2022
Elon Musk announced that Tesla is going to be shifting its product development to make Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot also known as Optimus, a priority in 2022. More…
Varla Pegasus review: Flying at 28 mph on a full-suspension electric scooter
The Varla Pegasus is one of those rare electric scooters that strikes a nice balance between higher-than-average performance and a reasonable price tag. And having spent a couple weeks so far putting the scooter to the test, I can confirm that it has the right combination of performance and value to fit a wide range of riders.. More…
Hyundai Europe launches special Ionity tariffs
In Europe, Hyundai has released new packages offering preferential tariffs for the Ionity network in which the company holds a stake. Two Ionity packages, Premium and Lite, offer better charging rates. At the same time, drivers opting for the new Ioniq 5 receive up to two years of the Ionity Premium for free. As a […] More…
Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi kicks up a gear in e-mobility planning
The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance has unveiled a joint electromobility roadmap until 2030, which envisages investments of a further 23 billion euros over the next five years. The roadmap thus goes beyond what had been leaked in advance. On Monday, the news agency Reuters reported with reference to insiders that the alliance would invest an additional 20 […] More…
Feinmetall launches high-current contacts for battery testing and production
As currents produced by EV batteries get higher, the demands placed on the contacts in the systems used to check cell, module and general battery performance in testing and production are also increasing. High-performance contact probes are therefore growing in importance (writes Peter Donaldson). To that end, contacts manufacturer Feinmetall has launched a family of […] More…
