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Geely Auto Group has announced the formation of a new company, Zeekr Company Limited, a new electric mobility technology and solutions company, based in China, that will serve the growing global demand for premium electric vehicles. The first Zeekr ...

A Milestone For NIO as Its 100,000th Vehicle Rolls Off The Production Line in China

NIO’s 100,000th mass-produced vehicle has rolled off the JAC-NIO Hefei Advanced Manufacturing Centre’s production line in China. At the roll-off ceremony, representatives of the early ES8, ES6, and EC6 users joined together to welcome the user of the 100,000th NIO ...

Piaggio Group Creates Swappable Batteries Consortium For Motorcycles And Light Electric Vehicles

Italy’s Piaggio Group (PIA.MI) has signed a letter of intent with KTM AG, Honda Motor Co., Ltd, and Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd, to set up a Swappable Batteries Consortium for Motorcycles and light Electric Vehicles. The Consortium says it ...

Fisker & Foxconn Sign Framework Agreements For Project PEAR; Confirm Manufacturing to Start From Q4 2023

Fisker and China’s Foxconn have signed framework agreements supporting joint development and manufacturing related to Project ‘PEAR’ (Personal Electric Automotive Revolution), a program to develop a new breakthrough electric vehicle. This new segment vehicle will be jointly developed and sold ...

Two-Wheel EV Brand Yadea to Invest Over US$150 million in Electric Mobility R&D in 2021

Yadea Technology Group Co., Ltd., a leading two-wheel electric vehicle brand, has announced it will grow its R&D investment to at least $150 million in 2021. Yadea is developing and manufacturing electric two-wheel vehicles including electric motorcycles, electric mopeds, ...

REE Automotive Unveils REEcorners – New And Improved Commercial EV Platforms

REE Automotive (REE) has revealed five new and improved REEcorner architecture designs and the technology behind its EV platforms designed to support the broadest range of commercial electric vehicles. The Israeli start-up’s technology packs traditional vehicle drive components (steering, braking, ...

India’s Hero MotoCorp And Gogoro Announce EV Battery-Swapping Partnership

Hero MotoCorp Ltd. and Taiwan’s Gogoro Inc. have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the shift to sustainable electric mobility in India. The partnership brings together Hero, the world’s largest manufacturer of motorcycles and scooters, and Gogoro, a leader ...

SUBARU Announces Name And Details of Its All-New Global Battery Electric SUV

SUBARU Corporation has announced that its all-new global battery electric SUV will be named ‘SOLTERRA’ and it is scheduled to go on sale in 2022. The C-segment-class SUV will be the first Subaru vehicle to be built on the battery ...

Japan’s Hino Motors And REE Automotive Sign Business Alliance Agreement

Hino Motors Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, and REE Automotive Ltd. (REE), an innovator in e-mobility, have announced the signing of a strategic business alliance agreement. The two companies will combine Hino’s knowledge and technologies as a ...

Supercharging India’s Electrification Plans: MG Motor India’s CCO on Partnerships & Urban Mining

MG Motors has been playing a pivotal role in furthering India’s electrification agenda, and if you’re thinking that’s only limited to the launch of its gorgeous electric vehicle, the ZS EV, let me assure you that’s not all. The British ...

China’s NIU Technologies to Launch First Ever Electric Kick Scooter For U.S. & Europe

China’s NIU Technologies (NASDAQ: NIU), a leading provider of urban mobility solutions, has announced its first ever electric kick scooter. The NIU KICK SCOOTER will be available to customers this summer in the U.S. and Europe. The NIU KICK SCOOTER Pro will be connected via ...

Bosch And Qingling Motors Announce Fuel Cell Joint Venture For The Chinese Market

Bosch and Qingling Motors have established a joint venture in China, named Bosch Hydrogen Powertrain Systems (Chongqing) Co. Ltd, that will develop, assemble and market fuel cell systems for the Chinese market. The goal is to pool the technology ...

NIO Inc. Expects Record Deliveries of Over 20k Vehicles in The First Quarter of 2021

China’s NIO Inc. has announced it delivered 43,728 vehicles in 2020, compared with 20,565 vehicles delivered in 2019. It also recorded sales of US$946.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2020, representing an increase of 130.0% from the fourth ...

Chinese Smartphone Giant Xiaomi Corp. Enters Smart EV Market

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp has announced its entry into the smart electric vehicle market. In a stock market filing, the company said it will make an initial investment of RMB 10 billion ($1.52 billion). Ove ten years, it’s estimating ...

China’s Baidu Announces Plans to Establish Intelligent EV Company With Geely

Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU), a leading Chinese internet platform and AI company, has announced plans to establish a company to produce intelligent electric vehicles (EV), and that it has entered into a strategic partnership with multinational auto manufacturer Zhejiang ...

The Next Big Thing in India’s E-Mobility Space? The Extinction Comes Alive…

There’s a brand new entrant in India’s e-mobility sector, one that has the potential to create ripples in the mobility scene as we know it. We’re talking about Bengaluru-based start-up, Pravaig Dynamics, whose new electric car, the Extinction, is much ...

E-Week – The Growth of E-Mobility in India With Sohinder Gill, SMEV’s Director General

Just last year, the conversation around electrification in India just got louder by a few decibels. The reason – the introduction of a piece of legislation that had, for the first time piqued everyone’s interest, end customers included. But, right ...

Faraday Future And China’s Geely Holding Group Sign Cooperation Agreement; Geely Takes Stake

Faraday Future, a global shared intelligent mobility ecosystem company and China’s largest privately owned automotive group, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, have jointly signed a framework cooperation agreement. The two sides will cooperate in technology and engineering support, and will explore ...

NIO Inc. Achieves Record Deliveries in Q4; Unveiling New Sedan Model on January 9th

NIO Inc. (NYSE: NIO) has announced it delivered 17,353 vehicles in the fourth quarter of 2020, representing an increase of 111% year-over-year and exceeding the higher end of the company’s quarterly guidance. As of December 31, 2020, 43,728 vehicles ...

Volkswagen Kicks Off Climate-Friendly MEB Production in China

The Volkswagen Group has entered a new era of e-mobility in China, following the premiere of the first two China-specific models; the FAW-Volkswagen’s ID.4 CROZZ and SAIC VOLKSWAGEN’s ID.4 X, both built on the innovative MEB platform. With market ...

China’s Xpeng Announces Next-gen Autonomous Driving Architecture; Adopts Lidar

At Auto Guangzhou 2020, Xpeng Inc., a leading Chinese smart electric vehicle company, has announced it’s significantly upgraded its autonomous driving software and hardware systems for the 2021 production models. The company says it’s become the first car manufacturer ...

Australia’s Alauda unveils Airspeeder Mk3 – The World’s First Flying Electric Racing Car

Australian start-up Alauda Aeronautics has revealed the world’s first fully functioning electric flying racing car. The Airspeeder Mk3, is a full-sized remotely-operated electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle (eVTOL). It will compete in an upcoming remotely-piloted Airspeeder racing series that ...

NIO Launches First Autonomous Driving Model ET7 Sedan; Partners With Qualcomm

China’s NIO (NYSE: NIO) has launched its first autonomous driving model, the smart electric flagship sedan NIO ET7. It features NIO’s latest NAD (NIO Autonomous Driving) technology based on NIO Aquila Super Sensing and NIO Adam Super Computer. With a ...

Hyundai Reveals First Dedicated EV Platform

Hyundai has unveiled its new Electric-Global Modular Platform (E-GMP), a dedicated battery electric vehicle (BEV) platform. Revealed online today during an ‘E-GMP Digital Discovery’ event, the platform will serve as the core technology for Hyundai Motor Group’s next-generation BEV ...

Nissan Sets Carbon Neutral Goal For 2050; Expanding EV Range in Key Markets

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. has set the goal to achieve carbon neutrality across the company’s operations and the life cycle of its products by 2050. As part of this effort, by the early 2030s every all-new Nissan vehicle offering in ...

Lime and Citymapper Announce Global E-Mobility Partnership

Lime and Citymapper have announced a global partnership, allowing users to locate Lime e-bikes and scooters on the Citymapper App across 21 major cities this month, including London, San Francisco, Paris and Berlin. The real-time integration will roll out ...

Porsche Taycan Launches in Korea

Porsche’s first all-electric sports car, the Porsche Taycan, has been unveiled in Korea with a spectacular hologram display. The futuristic light show, which was designed by experts in kinetic art to highlight the car’s design credentials and state-of-the-art technology, ...

Audi And FAW Unveil New Company For The Future Production of Electric Vehicles in China

Audi AG is deepening its partnership with China’s FAW. It’s confirmed that Changchun, in the northeast of China, will be the headquarters of the newly founded Audi-FAW company. Audi AG and Volkswagen Group China will receive a 60-percent share, making ...

Ford is Bringing the Mustang Mach-E to China

Ford has announced that its Mustang Mach-E, its first global pioneering SUV built on an all-new, all-electric platform, will be manufactured in China by Changan Ford for local customers. A breakthrough vehicle in Ford’s electrification strategy, Mustang Mach-E will ...

Nissan Launches All-New Note in Japan With Electrified Powertrain

Nissan has launched the all-new Note compact car in Japan, with sales planned to begin Dec. 23rd. The new Note will come exclusively with Nissan’s e-POWER electrified powertrain. Earlier in 2020, Nissan launched the Kicks e-POWER in Japan, Thailand and Indonesia. ...

India’s Ola to Set up World’s Largest Scooter Factory; 10,000 Jobs Created

India’s leading mobility platform, Ola, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to set up its first factory in the state of Tamil Nadu. Upon completion, the factory will create almost 10,000 jobs and will be the world’s largest ...

Volocopter Commits to Launching Air Taxi Services in Singapore Within 3 Years

Volocopter, a pioneer in Urban Air Mobility (UAM), announced its commitment to launch air taxi services in Singapore within the next three years. The German company has been working for two years, in close collaboration with the Economic Development ...

Hyundai Shows First Glimpse of New Electric Vehicle with “5 Minute Charge” Capability

Hyundai has unveiled the first teaser image of the highly anticipated IONIQ 5 midsize CUV, the first model in its IONIQ dedicated BEV lineup brand. IONIQ 5 will be the first vehicle mated with Hyundai’s Electric-Global Modular Platform (E-GMP), an ...

China’s BYTON And Foxconn Technology Group Announce Strategic Partnership For EV Production

BYTON, Foxconn Technology Group and Nanjing Development Zone have officially signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement to jointly accelerate the production of BYTON’s 1st model M-Byte by the first quarter of 2022. According to the agreement, Foxconn will provide its ...

Introducing the ET7: High Range Autonomous Luxury – NIO European Vice President Hui Zhang

Following a huge spike in the Chinese electric vehicle market, NIO capitalises on its very positive market position as it enters 2021 and launches its first autonomous driving model, the smart electric flagship sedan, NIO ET7. Revealed at ‘NIO Day’ ...

Toyota Teases All-New Battery Electric SUV Based on e-TNGA Platform

Toyota has announced that it will preview a brand-new model for its European battery electric line-up – a mid-sized battery-electric SUV. The un-named preview model will be based on Toyota’s new e-TNGA platform. e-TNGA can also be defined with front, ...

Hyundai to Ramp up Electrification in 2021 with New Model and Sales Growth Plan

After successfully strengthening its future mobility strategy last year, Hyundai Motor will further ramp up its electrification activities in 2021. The company aims to achieve both quantitative and qualitative growth in Europe, growing its sales volume as well as ...

Hyundai Redesigns Kona for 2022

Hyundai has provided details for its significantly redesigned and enhanced 2022 Kona and Kona Electric SUVs for the U.S. market. The new Kona receives a variety of updates driven by U.S. customer research. The fresh design, including an all-new sporty ...

Bringing Robo-Trucks to a Road Near You Soon – China’s Inceptio Technology

China’s Inceptio Technology is one of the very few companies in the world that is developing technology that can make autonomous trucking a reality. Back in April 2020, the start-up made two major announcements – it had raised $100 million ...

Audi And FAW Establish New Company to Produce Electric Vehicles in China

Audi and FAW, its partner in China, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly produce electric vehicles based on its Premium Platform Electric (PPE). The MoU was signed during the Germany-China Automobile Conference, in Changchun, northern China. The ...

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