In Germany, WeShare, Volkswagen’s all-electric free-floating car-sharing service, has renewed its Berlin fleet and added the all-electric ID.4 to its range of vehicles. Initially, around 100 ID.4s will be successively added to the fleet. The carmaker’s car-sharing service reports it is also moving forward with the replacement of the Berlin e-Golf fleet with the new […] More…
Tesla Ordered To Pay $137M To Former Contract Worker Over Racial Abuse
Owen Diaz, a former contracted elevator operator, said during the trial that he faced “daily racist epithets,” including the “N-word.” More…
Hummer EV: An Example Of How GM Will Speed Up Product Development
The Hummer EV’s development timeline was just two years compared to the usual three to four years. More…
US: Audi BEV Sales Drop In Q3 2021 Despite e-tron GT Launch
We assume that it is related more to supply constraints than demand. More…
Volvo Recharge Share Expands To 27% In September 2021
The company has been hit hard by the shortage of semiconductors. More…
New GM Battery Plant In Michigan Tipped To Lower EV Costs
The Wallace Battery Cell Innovation Center will accelerate the development and commercialization of longer range, cheaper batteries. More…
Piech GT Electric Grand Tourer Enters Testing Phase, Here In 2024
Its design is clearly retro-inspired, but under the skin it’s all cutting edge, according to its makers. More…
Cree rebrands to ‘Wolfspeed’ & announces cooperation with GM
Cree, a manufacturer of silicon carbide semiconductors, has renamed itself Wolfspeed. Under the new name, the company has also entered into a cooperation agreement with General Motors. The agreement provides for the development and supply of silicon carbide semiconductors for GM’s future electric cars. Cree had increasingly focused on silicon carbide semiconductors in recent years […] More…
ElectReon to install wireless charging in Tel Aviv
In Israel, ElectReon, a company specialising in inductive charging of electric vehicles, has signed a 5-year contract with the Dan Bus Company. The contract provides for an expansion of the wireless charging network for public electric bus lines in Tel Aviv and the wider area. The establishment of the network will enable the inductive charging […] More…
Tevva receives multi-million £ budget for truck development
UK electric truck manufacturer Tevva has secured a £4.2 million (just under €5 million) grant from the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) to develop the next generation of medium-duty electric trucks with fuel cell range extenders and gross vehicle weights between 7.5 and 19 tonnes. Only a few days ago, Tevva unveiled a 7.5-tonne truck as […] More…
Tesla is ordered to pay ex-worker $137 million in racial abuse lawsuit, releases blog about verdict
Tesla has been ordered by the court to pay $137 million to an ex-contract worker at its Fremont factory in a racial abuse lawsuit. More…
Norway considers introducing luxury EV tax
According to a media report, Norway’s new government is planning a luxury tax on expensive electric cars. Specifically, the future cabinet plans to impose a 25 per cent value-added tax on the portion of the purchase price that exceeds 600,000 kroner (about 60,000 euros). According to a Reuters report, the introduction of the tax is […] More…
Renault to introduce electric Kadjar successor in 2022
Renault is working on a new all-electric SUV model to be unveiled at the Paris Motor Show in 2022 and launched in 2023, according to a British media report. The new Renault BEV is to use the Alliance CMF-EV platform. As the magazine Auto Express reports, citing information from development board member Gilles Le Borgne, […] More…
Volvo Cars to hit the stock market end of 2021
The Chinese car company Geely wants to list its Swedish passenger car subsidiary Volvo Cars on the Stockholm stock exchange before the end of this year. New shares are expected to raise gross proceeds of around 25 billion Swedish kronor (2.5 billion euros). Geely wants to remain the largest shareholder. It is still only a […] More…
Quick Charge Podcast: October 4, 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…
China: Volkswagen Sold Over 10,000 ID. In September
Volkswagen ID.4 and ID.6 sales take off. More…
Canadian group satirizes Saskatchewan’s dumb EV tax by suggesting a sidewalk tax
The province of Saskatchewan in Canada has joined a growing number of regions around the world in levying punitive taxes against electric cars while letting gas cars continue to get away with murder. But a local group has come up with a creative way to show just how dumb their EV tax is: by demanding a tax on people who use sidewalks. More…
ABB develops trolly-truck system for mining
ABB has entered into a collaboration with Epiroc and Boliden, a mining equipment manufacturer and mining company from Sweden. The trio is working to develop and demonstrate a trolley truck system on a test track at the Kristineberg mine in northern Sweden. The system will be based on Epiroc’s zero-emission mine transport vehicle Minetruck MT42 […] More…
Tesla adds new claims to old case against Rivian
Tesla is now claiming that their employees who had migrated to Rivian were “caught red-handed” stealing core technology for next-generation batteries from Tesla. This is an expanded ongoing lawsuit that began last year when Tesla took Rivian to court for allegedly stealing trade secrets about poaching employees. A California state court judge in San Jose […] More…
Westminster streets to be cleaned with EVs
In the UK, Westminster City Council (central London) and its waste contractor Veolia have unveiled a 60 strong fleet of new and ‘upcycled’ electric vehicles. This means that street cleaning services in London’s famous West End are now completely fully electric. The new electric fleet is made up of electric refuse collection vehicles (e-RCVs) to […] More…
