SEA Electric, originally from Australia and now based in Los Angeles, has booked the largest order in the company’s history in the US. GATR EV, a division of GATR Truck Centers, has ordered 1,150 electric trucks from SEA Electric. Based on the Toyota Hino model and equipped with SEA’s electric drive system, the first 40 […] More…
Daimler opens R&D centre in Beijing
Daimler has put its new ‘R&D Tech Center China’ into operation in Beijing. The research and development centre is to combine development and testing capacities under one roof and is intended to accelerate the localisation of new models, including electric cars. The carmaker says it has invested 1.1 billion yuan, the equivalent of about 145 […] More…
Foxconn considers manufacturing EVs in India, Europe and Latin America
Foxconn is planning to produce electric vehicles in Europe, India and Latin America. Chair of the board Liu Young-way hinted at this in a conversation with reporters at a business forum in Taipei. While he could not give any details about the plans yet, the timetable foresees production in Europe first and then in India […] More…
BlackRock could pump half a billion euros into high power charging
The US investment firm BlackRock is to lead a capital increase of 750 million euros by the Ionity joint venture, which intends to use the money to expand further its high power charging network, German media reports. There is also an indication of the next expansion stage. Manager Magazin refers to people involved saying BlackRock […] More…
Rogues gallery: Leaked documents reveal lobbying to gut COP26 climate and carbon audit
With the opening of the UN-sponsored COP26 climate summit less than two weeks away, a trove of leaked documents obtained by Greenpeace is revealing efforts by of a group of nations furiously lobbying to gut language critical of their carbon-spewing economic interests from a report to be released during the Glasgow conference. More…
Tesla Says Safety Score Users Are 30% Less Likely To Crash
There are currently 150,000 cars using the Safety Score, a key feature that determines Tesla Insurance rates. More…
Quantron wants to establish stronger brand identity
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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”
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
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
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
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
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…
Tesla Increases 4680 Battery Pack Production For Test Purposes
The test results meet the manufacturer’s expectations. More…
