Following entry into the North American market and plans for an HQ on American soil, Vietnamese EV automaker Vinfast, announced that North Carolina will be its new home for US manufacturing. The site in Chatham County, North Carolina, will soon house both an automotive assembly and battery manufacturing plant for Vinfast to build North American EVs like its VF 9 and VF 8. More…
Rivian R1T Vs Ford F-150 PowerBoost Towing Costs Compared
The result is closer than you might think. More…
Lotus pulls the sheet off its new 100% electric Eletre hyper-SUV, fka Type 132
UK-based sports car manufacturer, Lotus Cars, has officially unveiled details of its long-teased “Type 132” electric SUV. Today, the brand announced the EV will be dubbed the Eletre (pronounced “El-etra”) – calling it the “world’s first hyper-SUV.” We now have a slew of new specs and features to ponder. More…
GMC: We Received More Than 65,000 Reservations For Hummer EVs
The company intends to increase production beyond its initial plan. More…
Tesla Co-Founder JB Straubel Says EV Batteries Should Last 15 Years
The former Tesla chief technology officer believes people will keep the batteries in their electric cars for a long time. More…
Polestar 2 gets Android Automotive 11, its third major Android version
The first electric vehicle to go on sale with Android Automotive is getting another major update, as Polestar 2 is rolling out its Android 11 update. More…
Kia EV9 Electric SUV Coming To Europe Next Year
It will become Kia’s largest and most expensive Euro offering, with its sights set on premium rivals. More…
US school bus maker Blue Bird receives its largest-ever order of electric school buses
Macon, Georgia-based bus maker Blue Bird Corporation (Nasdaq: BLBD) has received the single largest order of electric school buses from a school district in its history. More…
GMC has gotten over 65,000 Hummer EV reservations, pickup version sold out into 2024
General Motors marque GMC recently shared that it has received over 65,000 reservations for its electrified Hummer pickup and SUV, much higher than the American automaker’s initial expectations. As a result, GMC is expediting Hummer EV production to keep up with the growing consumer demand. That being said, the SUV version of the Hummer is not scheduled to deliver until 2023, and new pickup orders won’t be fulfilled until 2024 under current production timelines. More…
US: Volvo Trucks Receives Record Orders For VNR Electric Trucks
The Volvo VNR Electric has been selected by WattEV and Maersk. More…
Sandy Munro Is Proud Owner Of A Rivian R1T: He Sold His Wrangler 4xe
Sandy and his wife Sue couldn’t bear to tear down the Rivian R1T, so they decided to keep it as their own. More…
Court orders Tesla to buy back car from customer who felt Autopilot was like ‘a drunk first-time driver’
A court in Germany has ordered Tesla to buy back a Model 3 vehicle from a customer who filed a complaint over how disappointed he was with the Full Self-Driving package – which includes Autopilot features – that he felt it was driving like “a drunk first-time driver”. More…
Battrion & Jagenberg to supply aligned graphite production lines
Battrion, a battery technology spinoff from the Swiss university ETH Zurich, has teamed up with German production specialist Jagenberg Converting Solution. The two companies intend to supply anode pilot and GWh production lines that use Battrion’s Aligned Graphite technology for the lithium-ion battery industry. Jagenberg’s electrode coating lines, which feature Aligned Graphite technology, enable the […] More…
Solid State Porsche 911 EV Reportedly In The Works
Porsche has said in the past that the 911 will live on with ICE power – is this a sign of a plan change? More…
Nio starts ET7 deliveries in China
A few days after the start of series production, Nio has now officially started deliveries for its ET7 electric sedan in China as planned. The first ET7 vehicles were handed over to customers at the Nio headquarters in Hefei. In February this year, Nio announced its flagship sedan ET7 for which the Chinese carmaker is […] More…
Poll finds bipartisan support for policies supporting EV adoption
The increasingly partisan divide in Congress over electric-vehicle-related policy spending may be disconnected from reality. That’s one of the potential conclusions from a national poll released Monday by the Zero Emission Transportation Association (ZETA), a policy and advocacy trade group representing the industry around EVs. The poll… More…
Fastned marks over a million charging sessions in 2021
The Dutch fast-charging provider Fastned recorded 70 per cent more charging transactions at its stations last year, breaking the one million charging transactions mark in one year. Fastned continues to be profitable in its operating business. This was made possible because of the growing number of electric cars in Europe and the expansion of the […] More…
Anodox Energy to build two battery plants in Latvia
The Swedish company Anodox Energy Systems wants to build two factories in Latvia to produce batteries for electric vehicles. According to Latvia’s Ministry of Economy, a plant for the assembly of battery packs will be built first in the port of Riga. The second plant, which will focus on cell production, is to follow shortly […] More…
UK drivers soon to have Supercharger access
All electric car owners in the UK will be able to use Tesla’s Superchargers much sooner than expected, according to a government minister. Transport Minister Trudy Harrison confirmed the move. The move would not come as such a surprise. In February just passed, after a test phase lasting several months, Tesla has already made all […] More…
Is The Success Of The Lucid Air Simply Beginner’s Luck?
Lucid says no one gets it on the first try, though it seems the EV startup did just that. More…
