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Daimler Buses to build a new electric bus depot for German transit agency

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Daimler Buses has won a contract to plan and construct a complete electric bus depot and associated charging infrastructure as a general contractor. The client is the newly founded transit agency MOIN (Mobilitätsinfrastruktur und -betriebs Landkreis Lüneburg) in Lüneburg, Germany. The depot will be built on a greenfield site in the industrial area at the… Read more…

Ampcera and Xponential Battery Materials to develop sulfur solid-state EV battery

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Ampcera, a US-based developer of solid electrolyte materials and battery technology and Xponential Battery Materials (XBM), have signed an agreement to collaborate on the production of a high-energy density, low weight and cost-effective sulfur solid-state battery for EVs. The collaboration establishes a lithium and sodium solid-state battery development partnership that aims to leverage both companies’… Read more…

UL Solutions launches Advanced Battery Testing Center in Germany

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US-based safety and certification organization UL Solutions has opened its Europe Advanced Battery Testing Laboratory in Aachen, Germany to test batteries used in electric vehicles, expanding the company’s battery technology testing capabilities and its European footprint. The lab provides testing, simulation and certification services addressing automotive and stationary battery research, safety and performance. Driven by… Read more…

Tesla execs confused by Elon Musk’s recent statement about the $25,000 EV cancellation

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Last year, Reuters came out with a report confirmed by three different sources within Tesla and internal documents that Musk had abandoned plans to build an affordable $25,000 EV. The CEO was quick to refute the claims and said Reuters was lying. However, this sparked concerns within the company. At the time, some senior executives knew for a fact that… Read more…

Lectric Father’s Day Sale takes up to $723 off e-bike bundles, Anker PowerCore Reserve $90, EGO bundle, EcoFlow flash sale, more

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Leading today’s Green Deals is Lectric’s newly launched Father’s Day Sale with up to $723 in savings on e-bike bundles and select Dad-centric accessories, with options like the off-roading XPeak 2.0 e-bikes getting up to $316 in free gear and starting from $1,499, among others. There’s also Anker’s PowerCore Reserve 60,000mAh Power Station back at $90, as well as EGO’s 56V 16-inch Cordless Electric String Trimmer bundle with 4.0Ah and 2.5Ah batteries back at its $300 low for the first time in over a year. Lastly, we have a one-day-only flash sale from EcoFlow on its Smart Home Panel 2, as well as its Smart Dual Fuel Generator 4000, both of which are down at $1,499 through the rest of the day. Plus, there’s all the rest of the hangover Green Deals in the links at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s first post-launch savings on Segway’s Xafari and Xyber e-bikes, the latest sale from EcoFlow, and more.. Read more…

Lectric Father’s Day Sale takes up to $723 off e-bike bundles, Anker PowerCore Reserve $90, EGO bundle, EcoFlow flash sale, more

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Leading today’s Green Deals is Lectric’s newly launched Father’s Day Sale with up to $723 in savings on e-bike bundles and select Dad-centric accessories, with options like the off-roading XPeak 2.0 e-bikes getting up to $316 in free gear and starting from $1,499, among others. There’s also Anker’s PowerCore Reserve 60,000mAh Power Station back at $90, as well as EGO’s 56V 16-inch Cordless Electric String Trimmer bundle with 4.0Ah and 2.5Ah batteries back at its $300 low for the first time in over a year. Lastly, we have a one-day-only flash sale from EcoFlow on its Smart Home Panel 2, as well as its Smart Dual Fuel Generator 4000, both of which are down at $1,499 through the rest of the day. Plus, there’s all the rest of the hangover Green Deals in the links at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s first post-launch savings on Segway’s Xafari and Xyber e-bikes, the latest sale from EcoFlow, and more.. Read more…

Comemso’s Easy Chester Gen. 2 EV charging station test device is now VDE-compliant and supports power levels up to 60 kW

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Germany-based test and measurement specialist comemso electronics has released a new version of its Easy-Chester EVSE testing device. The Easy Chester is a mobile functional test device for AC and DC charging stations that fully simulates the communication of an EV—with no need for a real vehicle. The Easy Chester intelligently detects the connected plug… Read more…

Off-grid EV fleet charging specialist SparkCharge raises $30.5 million in new capital

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SparkCharge, the creator of a mobile off-grid EV charger, has closed a $15.5-million Series A-1 funding round led by Monte’s Fam and a $15-million venture loan facility provided by Horizon Technology Finance. SparkCharge will use the funding to expand its mobile EV charging services throughout the US, Mexico and Canada. It will continue to work… Read more…