You don’t need to understand it or have stats or specs to see that the Rivian electric pickup truck is impressive. More…
Tech Reporter ‘Not A Car Guy’ Drives & Reviews Rivian R1T
A Path For Increasing EV Sales In A Skeptical Market: J.D. Power
People simply must experience an EV firsthand, and we must convince them that EVs deliver an amazing experience. More…
Bjørn Nyland Range Tested The Mercedes-Benz EQS 580 4MATIC
The range is great in cold weather, but the car appears to be a little bit thirsty. More…
Umicore Will Supply Cathode Materials For Volkswagen Group
They will start from a volume sufficient for 20 GWh per year in 2025 and proceed forward, reaching up to 160 GWh by 2030. More…
Volkswagen Group Announces Partnership With 24M Technologies
The goal is to industrialise the 24M technology of battery manufacturing. More…
Meritor announces release of the 14Xe ePowertrain & first customers
US vehicle supplier Meritor announced its 14Xe ePowertrain is now available and will be in production this month. A number of first customers for the new electric drive system have already been found. Additionally, a collaboration has been signed with BAE Systems. First, to the actual 14Xe ePowertrain, which has just begun serial production. Meritor […] More…
US plans to drive transport electrification becoming concrete
The Biden administration is driving plans to increase electric transport across the US. Advances such as replacing all Government vehicles with electric ones have resulted in a new executive order. The President demands all light-duty vehicles acquired by the government to be emission-free by 2027. And there is more – by 2035, this will affect […] More…
First dealership opens for GM’s BrightDrop electric vans
General Motors on Tuesdays announced the opening of the first dealership for BrightDrop, a new standalone business that’s initially focused on electric vans for commercial fleets. Located in Fontana, California, the BrightDrop Greater Los Angeles store will be operated by an existing franchised dealer, GM confirmed in a press release. The… More…
Audi Confirms R8 Successor Will Be All-Electric
We don’t know whether Audi Sport’s next halo car will still be called R8, but it will definitely be battery-powered. More…
Hubject & DCS launch Plug&Charge cooperation
Hubject and Digital Charging Solutions (DCS) have partnered to offer Plug&Charge to the ISO 15118 standard to their customers in the European market. By offering Plug&Charge, Hubject and Digital Charging Solutions say they will “together further enhance the EV driver experience and make the charging process as convenient as possible towards seamless, autonomous and secure […] More…
Production start for the fuel cell Opel Vivaro
Opel has started production of the fuel cell variant of its Vivaro van model based on the battery-electric Vivaro-e in Rüsselsheim. The first unit of the fuel cell van has already been delivered. Stellantis had announced the fuel cell version of the three van models in April 2021. Subsequently, first Opel, then Citroën and Peugeot […] More…
SVOLT to increase battery production capacity t0 600 GWh by 2025
The battery cell manufacturer SVOLT, which emerged from the Chinese carmaker Great Wall, wants to significantly increase its production capacities planned for 2025 – from the previously announced 320 GWh to 600 GWh per year by this deadline. Chinese media report this with reference to official statements made by SVOLT in the course of a […] More…
LG Energy Solution plans to hit the stock market in January
LG Energy Solution plans to complete its planned initial public offering in South Korea in January 2022. The battery maker expects to offer 42.5 million shares at a price between 257,000 to 300,000 won each, a regulatory filing said. LGES was spun off from LG Chem about a year ago, and the battery maker’s IPO […] More…
First Ever BMW i3 Sedan, The Electric 3 Series, Shown In China
It seems to be based on the long wheelbase 3 Series and it appears to feature a facelift too. More…
Tesla doubles down on system to prevent gas cars ‘ICEing’ Superchargers, integrates it in its app
Tesla is doubling down on a system to prevent people from blocking or “ICEing” Supercharger stalls and even integrates it into its mobile app. More…
Ford stops accepting F-150 reservations to begin with orders
Ford is no longer accepting reservations for the all-electric F-150 Lightning and will instead convert existing reservations into firm orders from January 2022. Most recently, Ford CEO Jim Farley had mentioned that the number of pre-orders was approaching the 200,000 mark. Ford’s reservations page literally says: As we prepare to make history together, we’ve closed […] More…
China marks another NEV sales increase
In November, sales figures for New Energy Vehicles reached a new high for the year. Over the course of the month, 429,000 NEVs were sold, which significantly exceeds the previous record from October (368,000 vehicles). The NEV market share – which in China includes PHEVs, BEVs and FCEVs – was 20.8 per cent of the […] More…
Renault & Dacia fail crash tests
Euro NCAP, the crash test organisation, has slammed the two latest electric cars from Renault and Dacia in its latest tests. Renault’s Zoe is not awarded a single star and Dacia’s Spring only receives one star out of a possible five. Secretary-General Michiel van Ratingen comments that “safety has become collateral damage in the group’s […] More…
Biden Orders US Govt To Buy Only Zero-Emission Vehicles From 2035
As of 2019, the US federal fleet included 645,000 vehicles, only 3,215 of which were electric. More…
Quick Charge Podcast: December 8, 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…
