In true VinFast fashion, it doesn’t do anything small. Rather than opening its first showroom in the US today, the Vietnamese EV automaker is opening six VinFast stores at once – all in California. With over thirty locations planned for the Sunshine State alone and intentions to expand deeper into the US, VinFast is once again truly moving – fast. More…
Shimano’s New CUES Commuter E-Bike Drivetrain Offers Automatic Shifting
The new automatic transmission system is compatible with Shimano’s EP600 and EP801 motors.More…
Tesla is allowed to sell Model Ys produced during ‘test phase’ at Giga Berlin, potentially thousands of EVs
Tesla is now allowed to sell the Model Y vehicles it produced during the long “test phase” at Gigafactory Berlin. More…
Volvo Trucks to construct charging network throughout California for medium- and heavy-duty EVs
Volvo Trucks North America is joining forces with a bunch of other companies, including Shell Recharge, to implement a fast-charging network on the West Coast dedicated to supporting medium- and heavy-duty commercial EVs. The California Electrified Charging Corridor will combine several major metropolitan cities across Northern and Southern California with high-powered charging infrastructure. More…
New Volvo CEO Believes EVs Are The Future, There’s No Other Way
CEO Jim Rowan believes that rivals who don’t commit to EVs are likely to struggle.More…
Seven Cool And Unexpected Performance Upgrades Available For EVs Now
Plus a few more that are coming soon.More…
Hyundai Planning Dedicated EV Factory In South Korea, Says Union
Hyundai’s union learned amid wage negotiations that production at the future factory will begin by 2025.More…
Google Maps to offer energy-efficient routes tailored to electric vehicles, hybrids, more
Google Maps is preparing to expand its fuel-efficient routing options by specifically tailoring to electric vehicles, hybrids, and more. More…
Mate Rimac Shows Off 14 Prototypes As Nevera Production Begins
The first ever production example of the 1,914 hp Rimac Nevera electric hypercar was recently shown at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.More…
Pedestrians Attack Waymo Self-Driving Cars In Arizona, California
Two Jaguar I-Pace EVs from Waymo’s fleet were vandalized in two separate incidents in Tempe (AZ) and San Francisco (CA) last week.More…
Canoo to supply its Multi-Purpose Platform to the US Army for ‘analysis and demonstration’
EV startup Canoo continues its occupation of the news cycle this week with an announcement that the United States Army has selected Canoo’s Multi-Purpose Platform for analysis and demonstration as it looks to incorporate scalable EV technologies into its programs. More…
Ford Sued Related To Mustang Mach-E Battery Contactor Issue
Ford has issued a recall since the part could overheat and cause the EV to lose power or fail to restart.More…
General Motors And Pilot Announce Coast-To-Coast EV Fast Charging Network
The network will have some 2,000 charging stalls some of which will be able to supply up to 350 kW.More…
Elon Musk does the impossible and manages expectations on Tesla’s next Full Self-Driving update
Elon Musk, who is known to hype Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta software updates with adjectives like “fire” and “mind-blowing,” surprises by actually managing expectations on Tesla’s upcoming v11 FSD Beta software update. More…
Report: Panasonic anticipates 20% energy density boost for EV batteries by 2030
Panasonic expects to achieve a 20% boost in energy density for EV batteries by 2030, the company’s CTO said in an interview with Reuters published Wednesday. The interview preceded the company’s announcement to build the largest battery plant in the world in Kansas City. Increasing energy density—essentially increasing the amount of energy… More…
Tesla Giga Shanghai Has Growing Fleet Of Cars Ready For Export
Tesla is still playing catch-up after a lengthy shutdown in China, and it appears it’s having much success.More…
Tesla Head Of AI And Autopilot Vision Team Leaves The Company
Andrej Karpathy, who had been on a sabbatical since late March, provided no reason for leaving in the announcement he made on Twitter.More…
Customcells expands in Itzehoe
The German battery cell manufacturer Customcells is expanding its site in Itzehoe. Customcells has acquired a new plot of land with an area of around 10,000 square metres. The contract includes the option for an expansion by an additional almost 6,000 square metres within the next five years. The municipality and Customcells have agreed not […] More…
Panasonic to build battery cell factory in Kansas
Panasonic will probably build its new US battery factory, where the new 4680 cells for Tesla are to be produced, in Kansas. It is clear that Panasonic wants to build a battery factory there and that the funding application has already been approved – only which cells are to be built there is not yet […] More…
Allego purchases European charging network Mega-E
Allego has taken out a purchase option for the pan-European fast charging network Mega-E. This means that the 100 Mega-E sites with almost 770 charging points that have been set up so far will now belong to Allego. The announcement was made by the charging infrastructure operator when it presented its key figures for the […] More…
