SAIC Hongyan, a heavy-duty truck subsidiary of SAIC Motor, has commissioned a fuel cell truck production facility in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, and manufactured the first vehicles. The plant is designed for a production capacity of 3,000 trucks per year. The plant was built as part of a project for the industrial deployment of 10,000 fuel […] More…
Ducati confirms its upcoming racing electric motorcycle to lead to electric Ducati street bikes
Ducati’s upcoming racing electric motorcycle designed for the FIM MotoE racing series will be used to further develop the company’s street offerings for consumers. More…
GM Secures Tax Break For Expansion Of Orion Assembly Plant
It’s expected, but not yet confirmed, that the company will invest $1.3 billion in the EV-related projects. More…
Ford Mustang Mach-E Proves Incredibly Safe In Crash
It’s not only Tesla’s electric cars that save lives, this Mach-E did its job just the same. More…
Tesla Factory In Fremont Shows Signs Of Strong Start In 2022
Hundreds of cars are piling up. More…
Elon Musk: Tesla could play a role in Artificial General Intelligence, decentralize Tesla Bot to avoid Terminator scenario
Elon Musk announced that he is thinking about involving Tesla in the creation of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). More…
Ford Mach-E May Go Crazy If You Stop Traction Control When Slippery
Owners say they got a slew of errors after disabling TC to either have fun or just to try to get the vehicle unstuck. More…
Analysis Shows Going Electric Will Cost UK Treasury £5 Billion
The move to electric cars means fewer people will be paying fuel duty. More…
Tesla’s Big Secret To Overcoming Challenges: Vertical Integration
Tesla started from a clean sheet, and it has fewer components and more streamlined processes than rivals. More…
BorgWarner launches high-altitude charging station
With charging capacity increasingly seen as a limiting factor in the growth of EV markets around the world, BorgWarner Systems has been sharing more details about its new Iperion 120, a 120 kW charging station designed to form the heart of its efforts to create modern charging infrastructures (writes Peter Donaldson). A key feature […] More…
Easelink raises €8.3 million for charging pad expansion
Easelink, the Austrian developer of the automated conductive charging solution Matrix Charging, has raised 8.3 million euros in its Series A funding round. The funding has been raised to further expand Easelink’s product team, deepen cooperation with the automotive and infrastructure industries and continue the implementation of a global charging standard. Although the round was […] More…
VW Reportedly Bringing Back The e-Up As Demand For Cheap EVs Soars
Reports from Germany claim the VW e-Up is coming back in mid-February with a starting price of around €17,000 after local incentives. More…
Yamaha launches striking new electric scooter that uses Gogoro’s swappable batteries
It’s been a big few days for Gogoro, with Yamaha announcing a new electric scooter using the company’s swappable batteries just hours after a big funding announcement.. More…
VW to take over 25% of 24M Technologies
Volkswagen and the US battery start-up 24M Technologies have concluded their announced strategic partnership. The German carmaker is taking a stake in 24M and will have access to 24M’s SemiSolid technology for the next generation of its lithium-ion batteries. Volkswagen had announced three strategic partnerships in the battery sector in December 2021 – in addition […] More…
Koenigsegg Now Making Carbon Fiber Aero Parts For Teslas
You can buy them from Unplugged Performance, which has struck a manufacturing partnership with Koenigsegg Advanced Manufacturing. More…
V2X Suisse: Seven companies launch field trial for bidirectional charging
In Switzerland, seven companies have joined forces to test bidirectional charging. The initiators hope to make a big statement about the future of technology in Switzerland and beyond. At the centre of V2X Suisse are 50 Honda e from the car-sharing company Mobility. Specifically, the seven partners say they want to find solutions for how […] More…
Porsche Taycan Sport Turismo to launch for €86,495
About two months after the premiere of the Taycan GTS Sport Turismo, Porsche has also presented the estate body for the other drive versions of the Taycan. The GTS Sport Turismo is to be launched at the end of February, the other versions – from the rear-wheel-drive to the Turbo S – will follow in […] More…
Bosch & VW look to establish battery venture
The Volkswagen Group and Bosch want to examine the establishment of a European supplier to equip battery cell factories. This does not involve joint production of battery cells, but rather the development and construction of production facilities with which battery cells are manufactured. Both companies plan to supply integrated battery production systems and to support […] More…
Fire statistics confirm EVs are safer
Even though burning electric cars often get a lot of attention in the media, the fire of an electric car is significantly less likely than that of a vehicle with an internal combustion engine. This not-so-new finding was confirmed by a recent analysis of car fires in the US. The findings went beyond simply comparing […] More…
Western Europe: BEVs Outsold Diesels In Dec. 2021 For First Time
Schmidt Automotive Research data from 18 western European countries reveal 176,000 sales for BEVs compared to 160,000 for diesels. More…
