Glasgow-based taxi and hire car company GlasGo Cabs has ordered 360 Nissan Leafs to replace existing internal combustion models with its fully electric vehicles. The 360 electric cars are to be delivered over a period of three years, the first eleven of which will arrive this year. For GlasGo Cabs, these are the first electrically […] More…

NewMotion and its US counterpart Greenlots, will be rebranded as Shell Recharge Solutions. The rebranding will be implemented in early 2022 and will bring together Shell’s international range of charging solutions under one identity. Shell acquired the Dutch company NewMotion in autumn 2017 and US company Greenlots in early 2019. With the unified identity, the […] More…

The Aachen-based electric car manufacturer Next.e.GO Mobile has introduced its own battery exchange solution. The first two of the stations called ‘e.Pit’ are already in operation. However, there is a big difference to other battery exchange solutions. While the Chinese manufacturer Nio wants to establish battery exchange as an alternative to fast charging with its […] More…

Volkswagen has taken a stake in energy investor EIT InnoEnergy and hopes that closer cooperation in future will lead to joint innovation and investment activities, which are to be driven primarily by the involvement of promising start-ups. The official announcement of Volkswagen’s new participation states that the aim is to “help technologies and business models […] More…

Renault has released further details of the Kangoo Rapid E-Tech Electric, which will be launched in Europe in spring 2022. Like its predecessor, the compact van will be offered in two length variants that offer the same storage volume and payload as their conventionally powered counterparts. The French manufacturer presented the new Kangoo Rapid in […] More…

According to a South Korean media report, Hyundai is already planning an upgrade for its electric model Ioniq 5, which was launched on the market only a few months ago, to be offered from the beginning of 2022. The upgrade will apparently focus on the larger of the two battery options. As the Korean portal […] More…

The BMW brand Mini has presented its strategy for the future. This reaffirms the previously announced goal of the BMW Group to have exclusively purely electrically powered models in the Mini range by the beginning of the 2030s. Now Mini is detailing just how it intends to achieve this goal. Mini also reaffirms the statement […] More…

The BMW brand Mini has presented its strategy for the future. This reaffirms the previously announced goal of the BMW Group to have exclusively purely electrically powered models in the Mini range by the beginning of the 2030s. Now it has been specified how Mini intends to achieve this goal. Mini also reaffirms the statement […] More…

Tesla is recalling around 2,800 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles in the USA. The worry is that the affected vehicles may develop loose wishbones of the front wheel suspension. The issue itself is that the front suspension lateral link on Model 3 and Model Y vehicles is attached to the sub-frame using two fasteners. Some […] More…