Ford has launched its new ‘Ford Charge Station Pro,’ a bi-directional home charging station that works with the upcoming F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck. More…
Hyundai Increased Sales Of Plug-Ins In January 2022 By 53%
The Hyundai Ioniq 5 wholesale volume barely exceeded 2,000. More…
Cummins Announces $3.7B Deal To Buy Meritor
Cummins had already started launching its own electric powertrains, but with Meritor on-board, this trend will be accelerated. More…
Charge myHyundai now using 100% green energy
Hyundai relies entirely on renewable energies for its Charge myHyundai service with immediate effect. Using Digital Charging Solutions’ (DCS) green charging option, the company will ensure all charging activity is “counteracted” by 100 per cent wind energy. After every charge, the corresponding amount of green electricity is fed into the grid from one of the […] More…
Major Hotel Chain Rolls Out EV Charging Stations
Installing charging stations is a good way to attract customers. More…
Lucid Confirms Saudi Arabia Plant, Construction To Start In H2 2022
The facility is expected to be completed in 2025 and produce up to 150,000 vehicles per year at full capacity. More…
UK: DS9 To Go PHEV Only Amid Slow Gas Version Sales
The existing PureTech 225 petrol and E-Tense 225 hybrid will be phased out, replaced by two E-Tense hybrids. More…
Market analysis: Electric buses keep booming in Europe
The electric bus boom in Europe continues, as the registration figures in 2021 show. After 2,210 electric buses in 2020, a further 3,282 electric buses (in each case excluding trolleybuses) were newly registered in 2021, with manufacturers competing for market shares. So who is leading the charge? * * * In contrast to coaches, business […] More…
BMW announces fresh details for the ‘New Class’
The first models of BMW’s ‘New Class’ planned for 2025, which will be designed primarily for electric cars, will be an SUV-like model and a flatter sedan based on the three-series, according to media reports. Planned production start in Hungary is 2025. Last fall, the internal designation NK1 was already circulating for the “electric three”; […] More…
Nio expands into Europe and beyond
The Chinese electric car manufacturer Nio has concretised its expansion plans in Europe and beyond. By 2025, Nio plans to expand its presence to over 25 countries and regions worldwide. Nio already briefly mentioned the 2025 goal in December at “Nio Day 2021”. At that time, however, the focus was on the premiere of the […] More…
Mullen Technologies to use solid-state batteries from 2025
California-based electric car startup Mullen Technologies plans to equip the second generation of its ‘Five’ electric SUV with solid-state batteries and is aiming for initial vehicle tests with the technology in 2025. The first-generation Mullen Five, planned for 2024, on the other hand, will still use conventional lithium-ion cells – in other words, liquid electrolyte. […] More…
Li-Metal & Blue Solutions sign development agreement
Li-Metal, a Canadian developer of lithium metal anodes, has signed a development and marketing agreement with Bolloré subsidiary Blue Solutions for battery anodes. A joint anode production plant is also planned. Blue Solutions itself manufactures solid-state batteries, which are used in the Mercedes eCitaro, among other vehicles. The aim of the cooperation agreement concluded by […] More…
Chinese startup ChingTao to build solid-state battery plant
Chinese startup ChingTao Energy Development has begun constructing a solid-state battery production facility in Kunshan, in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province. The new factory is designed for an annual capacity of 10 GWh and is the company’s second battery plant. It is not yet known when construction will be completed. As reported by the CN EV […] More…
Lucid confirms factory plans in Saudi Arabia
Lucid Motors plans to start building its announced factory in Saudi Arabia before the end of the first half of 2022. The US electric car manufacturer has also confirmed the location officially – the same goes for production capacity. Lucid says that the plant, which was only announced this January, will be wholly owned by […] More…
Lucid Delivered 125 Cars In 2021, Lowers 2022 Production Forecast
Besides missing its delivery target for 2021, Lucid has lowered the 2022 production forecast from 20,000 to 12,000-14,000 vehicles. More…
Lightning Strike electric motorcycle targets 250 mph land speed record, and it just may succeed
Richard Hatfield’s electric motorcycle company Lightning Motorcycles is no stranger to speed. The company’s LS-218 bike got its name from a 218 mph (351 km/h) run when it snatched the long-held electric motorcycle land speed record in 2012. But now Hatfield is hoping to push the envelope even further to break his own record with an astounding 250 mph (402 km/h) showing. More…
SEC looking into Musk family insider trading
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating whether share sales by Elon Musk and his brother Kimbal Musk “violated insider trading rules”. What exactly happened, was that Kimbal Musk sold Tesla shares worth 108 million US dollars exactly one day before Elon Musk let Twitter users vote on whether he should give up […] More…
New Tesla Cybertruck prototype spotted with bed cover
A new Tesla Cybertruck prototype has been spotted at Tesla’s Fremont factory, and it featured a bed cover – something that was missing in other recently spotted prototypes. More…
Quick Charge Podcast: February 28, 2022
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. More…
Lucid Motors’ Q4 earnings: 125 Air deliveries in 2021, 2022 production estimates slashed as much as 40% due to ‘supply chain constraints’
Lucid Motors shared 4Q and 2021 financial earnings with investors today, alongside a 2022 outlook. While the automaker only delivered 125 of its flagship Air sedan in 2021, it has already surpassed that number in 2022. However, overall output is expected to be quite a bit lower than originally anticipated. Lucid now expects to produce 12,000–14,000 EVs this year, down quite a bit from previous estimates of 20,000. More…
