General Motors on Tuesday announced completion of its first BrightDrop EV600 electric delivery vans, and revealed a second version dubbed EV410. It’s a fairly quick turnaround considering that GM only announced the EV600, as well as plans to build it in Ontario, Canada, in January. The EV600 is the first model for BrightDrop, a new standalone… More…
Renault Electric Car Sales Decreased During Summer 2021
Renault ZOE sales slowed down to over 4,000 units a month. More…
Tesla Q3 2021 Deliveries: Bears & Bulls Predict New Record
Despite a chip shortage and plenty of other challenges, Tesla may set another delivery record in the coming days. More…
Motorsport Stats Relaunches With New Look And Features
Motorsport Stats has relaunched its industry-leading results website with a fresh design, new features and functionalities, and faster access to a rich stream of data from the world’s leading racing championships. More…
UK: Addison Lee Orders 450 Volkswagen ID.4
The company intends to switch its entire taxi fleet to electric by 2023. More…
Watch Rivian R1T Take On Hells Gate In Moab
A stock electric pickup truck demonstrates serious off-roading capability. More…
Foxconn announces supply agreement for LFP batteries
Foxconn, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer working for Apple, is cooperating with the companies Giga Solar Materials, Long Time Technology and China Steel Chemical to develop anode materials for lithium iron phosphate batteries. The new batteries are to be used for the first time in electric buses from 2023. The planned cooperation between the aforementioned players […] More…
Vulcan Energy presents first LHM sample and new plant in Germany
The German-Australian lithium producer Vulcan Energy announces that it has produced lithium hydroxide monohydrate using geothermal energy for the first time. The company also plans to move its planned central processing facility to the Höchst Chemical Park near Frankfurt. Vulcan Energy – more precisely, its German subsidiary Vulkan Energie Ressourcen GmbH – wants to extract […] More…
Lucid Air is in production, with first deliveries due in October
The U.S. electric vehicle maker Lucid leaped past several milestones on Tuesday. With an official commissioning ceremony for its Casa Grande, Arizona manufacturing plant featuring Arizona governor Doug Ducey, and presentations by CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson and manufacturing VP Peter Hochholdinger, it reported that it has produced the first… More…
Rolls-Royce Spectre Is The Brand’s First EV: Coming In Q4 2023
Company is also going all-electric after 2030. More…
Tesla Plaid Gets Into Crazy Fight With 1,000-HP McLaren 720S
Since this drag race is part of Hoonigan’s “This vs That” series, you know fun is guaranteed. More…
Volkswagen reveals PHEV plans with >100 km range
In the course of a presentation of its current plug-in hybrid models, Volkswagen has given an outlook on the PHEV strategy for the coming years. A new generation of plug-in hybrid drives is expected to be used from 2023. On the one hand, the 1.4 TSI combustion engine used so far will be replaced by […] More…
General Motors completes small-series BrightDrop production
General Motors has produced the first examples of its BrightDrop EV600 electric delivery vehicle. For the initial small series production, BrightDrop is cooperating with a partner; later, series production is to start in its own factory. Additionally, BrightDrop is introducing a smaller offshoot, the EV410. The EV600 is the young brand’s first electric delivery van. […] More…
Lucid launches production of the ‘Air’ electric sedan
Lucid Motors has officially started production of the first customer vehicles of its Air electric sedan at its plant in Casa Grande in the US state of Arizona. Deliveries are scheduled to begin at the end of October. According to the manufacturer, more than 13,000 reservations have been made so far. In the middle of […] More…
Elon Musk calls out Biden for ‘being controlled by unions’ after Tesla is snubbed at ‘EV summit’
Elon Musk called out President Joe Biden for “being controlled by unions” after Tesla was snubbed at a meeting about electric vehicles at the White House More…
Britain’s self-made fuel crisis
Because an estimated 100,000 truck drivers have gone back to where they came from because of Brexit, petrol is becoming increasingly scarce at British petrol stations. Panic buying has been going on for days. Now apparently soldiers are to help deliver the fuel. Prime minister Boris Johnson took to television to calm down the public, […] More…
UK Proposes Law To Switch Off EV Home Chargers During Peak Hours
Going into effect next year, a new law aims to protect the grid from excessive strain; it won’t apply to public chargers, though. More…
Hyundai Ioniq 6 Electric Sedan Spied Testing In Germany
Tesla Model 3 rival from Hyundai spotted still under heavy camouflage, although we can see the shape of its body and many details. More…
The Polestar 4 Will Be The Brand’s More Affordable Electric SUV
It will be positioned under the Polestar 3, which is set to launch next year. More…
Quick Charge Podcast: September 28, 2021
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…
