News aggregator on electric cars and electric vehicles (cars, motorcycles, boats, planes).

News aggregator on electric cars and electric vehicles (cars, motorcycles, boats, planes).

Quantron wants to establish stronger brand identity

By electrive.com 10/21/2021 - 13:19 10/21/2021 Electrive

Quantron AG has announced that in future it will manufacture commercial vehicles in-house. In the first step, the specialist for trucks and buses with battery-electric and fuel cell drives wants to develop a characteristic product and brand identity. As part of this strategy called “Quantron Vision 2025”, the company now wants to first create design-oriented […] More…

Tesla 4680 Battery Cells To Debut In Production In Early 2022

By insideevs.com 10/21/2021 - 12:50 08/29/2023 Insideevs (en)

There’s a strong chance they will debut as part of structural battery packs in Model Ys built in Austin and Berlin. More…

Vingroup is getting ready to build a battery plant

By electrive.com 10/21/2021 - 12:29 10/21/2021 Electrive

Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup plans to start building a battery cell factory for its electric car offshoot VinFast in Vietnam’s Ha Tinh province this year. A Vingroup spokesperson confirmed the plan in principle, without giving details. According to Reuters, the plant is to start production in the third quarter of 2022 with an annual capacity of […] More…

Coventry Gigafactory targets 60 GWh capacity

By electrive.com 10/21/2021 - 12:25 10/21/2021 Electrive

West Midlands Gigafactory, the public-private joint venture between Coventry City Council and Coventry Airport Ltd, has revealed more targets for the envisioned battery production hub. Their pitch now includes a 60-GWh output with production to start in 2025, but one issue remains. The plans to install a Gigafactory scale battery production in the West Midlands […] More…

Tesla announces plans to triple the size of Supercharger network within 2 years

By electrek.co 10/21/2021 - 11:55 08/28/2023 Electrek

Tesla has announced plans to triple the size of the Supercharger network within the next two years. More…

Tesla Achieves Annualized Production Rate Of Over 1 Million EVs

By insideevs.com 10/21/2021 - 11:43 08/29/2023 Insideevs (en)

The growth has been driven primarily thanks to further ramping of the Model Y at the Shanghai factory. More…

VW Trinity EV to get extra production hall in Wolfsburg?

By electrive.com 10/21/2021 - 11:41 10/21/2021 Electrive

According to a media report, Volkswagen is considering building an entirely new production hall at its main plant in Wolfsburg to manufacture the future electric flagship Trinity there. However, the development of the model already appears around a year behind schedule. To recapture: VW had announced a new electric flagship in December 2020 and, in […] More…

Check out this working prototype lunar electric motorcycle for NASA’s moon exploration

By electrek.co 10/21/2021 - 11:31 08/28/2023 Electrek

Lunar rovers are typically four-wheeled electric vehicles, but a new prototype shows how a two-wheeled electric motorcycle may have serious advantages on the moon. More…

Tesla Making Progress On The Cybertruck’s “Industrialization”

By insideevs.com 10/21/2021 - 10:11 08/29/2023 Insideevs (en)

Electric pickup will enter production at Giga Texas after the Model Y; the casting of the Cybertruck’s initial exoskeleton has begun. More…

Tesla achieves annual run rate of 1 million electric cars – incredible milestone

By electrek.co 10/21/2021 - 02:36 08/28/2023 Electrek

Tesla has confirmed that it has achieved an annual run rate of 1 million electric cars per year at the end of last quarter. More…

Tesla reaches balance between profit and investment over Q3

By electrive.com 10/21/2021 - 02:08 10/21/2021 Electrive

More vehicles delivered, more revenue, more profit: Tesla demonstrates its growth ambitions in the third quarter of 2021 – without losing profitability. In addition, the Californian company has published an interesting piece of news in its latest annual report: Tesla is making a global switch for standard range models to LFP batteries. First, the latest […] More…

Elon Musk’s Boring Company ‘Tesla in Tunnels’ in Las Vegas to expand throughout the city

By electrek.co 10/21/2021 - 00:37 08/28/2023 Electrek

The Boring Company’s first commercial loop, deployed in Las Vegas, has officially been approved for expansion throughout the city. More…

The real reason Joe Manchin is sabotaging the US clean energy plan

By electrek.co 10/21/2021 - 00:03 08/28/2023 Electrek

US Senator Joe Manchin III (D-WV) opposes his own political party’s clean energy program. And since not a single Republican will support the infrastructure bill that contains the program, Manchin has disproportionate power to sink the US plan to decarbonize in order to slow global warming and meet the Paris Agreement target of net-zero by 2050. Why does he oppose it? The Charleston Gazette-Mail spelled it out yesterday. More…