Chinese EV automaker XPeng Motors has officially launched its new P5 sedan in China, ahead of deliveries in October. With the P5, XPeng looks to enter one of the largest vehicle segments in China currently dominated by ICE competitors, and introduce a technologically advanced EV that is competitively priced. From what XPeng has now shared, the P5 has the advanced features and affordable pricing to find success in multiple markets More…
Tesla starts testing its Full Self-Driving Beta software on Canadian roads
Tesla has started testing its Full Self-Driving Beta software on Canadian roads ahead of the wider release in the US More…
EGEB: California bill, headed to governor, will ramp up offshore wind deployment
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Iveco & Nikola getting closer to truck plant in Germany
Nikola & Iveco gear up for truck production in Germany at the Iveco plant in Ulm as planned. The factory has now been officially presented with the production of the Nikola Tre to begin there this year. The pilot customer in Europe is the Port of Hamburg that will work up to 25 trucks next […] More…
Battery manufacturer e.battery systems founds US branch
e.battery systems, based in Vorarlberg, Austria, has founded its own branch in Silicon Valley. Just a few weeks ago, the Austrian company announced an order for at least 10,000 batteries for electric motorcycles from the Swedish manufacturer RGNT. According to e.battery systems, the team in Silicon Valley should quickly comprise a double-digit number of employees […] More…
Porsche & Customcells close in on battery plant site
According to media reports, the Porsche Board of Directors wants to decide where to build the planned 100 MWh battery cell factory in the next few weeks. So far, Tübingen, Gärtringen or a location near Heilbronn are being considered. Initially, the two German daily newspapers Stuttgarter Nachrichten and Stuttgarter Zeitung had reported on the approaching conclusion […] More…
Beijing-led city cluster to demonstrate hydrogen economy
A Beijing-led city cluster has been appointed an FCEV demonstration cluster. Starting this year and running throughout 2025, at least 5,300 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles will be deployed in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region to play out ten scenarios designed to exhibit global influence. The most prominent use case will likely be the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, […] More…
Tesla Model Y Is A Moose Test Champ, No Surprise Here
Tesla’s cars typically fare quite well in the challenging moose test. More…
Billionaire Investor Ron Baron: 300% Return On Tesla Over Next Decade
Baron isn’t the only successful investor who’s extremely bullish about Elon Musk’s companies. More…
Hyundai delays Ioniq 5 electric car launch in the US
Hyundai confirmed that it is delaying the launch of the Ioniq 5 electric car in the US by a few months More…
Redwood Materials wants to expand beyond recycling
Redwood Materials, founded by ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has announced an expansion of its business beyond pure battery recycling. Starting from next year, Redwood itself wants to produce battery materials on a large scale from recycled materials. A concrete location for such a production facility is to be announced by the beginning of 2022, as […] More…
UK: InstaVolt targets installing 10,000 EV chargers by 2030
EV charging company InstaVolt has published a pledge to install 10,000 electric vehicle chargers across the UK by 2030. So far, however, InstaVolt has a thousand chargers either active or in development and yet set ambitious intermediate targets. Speaking of the commitment, InstaVolt CEO Adrian Keen said the company is already on track to deliver […] More…
Tesla co-founder’s company focuses on “less sexy” key for US-made EVs: Battery materials
As United States battery manufacturing increases to support greater EV production, battery materials could become a potential choke point. It’s this “less sexy” element that Tesla co-founder J.B. Straubel aims to address with his new company, Redwood Materials. As detailed in a recent Bloomberg profile, Straubel aims to move more of the… More…
Hyundai More Than Doubled Electric Car Sales In August 2021
Rechargeable cars reached a record share out of Hyundai’s total volume. More…
Deloitte places largest Mini Electric order in Europe so far
The auditing and consulting firm Deloitte has ordered 140 all-electric Mini Cooper SE. The new electric cars complement 100 Mini EVs the company had already added to its fleet in Belgium in August. For BMW, this is the largest order of electric Minis in Europe to date. At Deloitte Belgium, the branch that placed the […] More…
MAN announces future electrification strategy ‘NewMAN’
In future, MAN Truck & Bus will focus primarily on the areas of electromobility, autonomous vehicles and digital solutions. These are the cornerstones of a new strategy called ‘NewMAN’, which the commercial vehicle manufacturer from Munich, part of the Traton Group, has now presented. The most important product news in the course of the strategy […] More…
MAN announces new electrification strategy plans
In future, MAN Truck & Bus will focus primarily on the areas of electromobility, autonomous vehicles and digital solutions. These are the cornerstones of a new strategy called ‘NewMAN’, which the commercial vehicle manufacturer from Munich, part of the Traton Group, has now presented. The most important product news in the course of the strategy […] More…
Rivian completes first production vehicle
After the US electric car start-up Rivian had twice postponed the start of deliveries for its R1T electric pickup, the time has apparently come: According to founder and CEO RJ Scaringe, the first customer vehicle has now rolled off the production line. Scaringe confirmed the news on Twitter: “After months of manufacturing pre-production models, the […] More…
A Tesla Roadster will drive across Britain to make a point about battery longevity
This weekend, a Tesla Roadster will make the journey from Lands End to John O’ Groates, an 870-mile drive spanning the full length of the island of Great Britain. This drive has been done by EVs many times before, but in this case, it’s in a special vehicle: the very first car that ever did the drive, the same 2010 Tesla Roadster, still on its original battery, to make a point about EV battery longevity More…
Polestar reveals details to electric SUV Polestar 3
Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath revealed some information about the Polestar 3 at the IAA Mobility. According to this, the brand wants to offer the electric SUV with one as well as two engines. Ingenlath also gave new details about the interior. The electric SUV, which will reportedly go into production in 2022, will only be […] More…
