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eMobility update: Nissan & Honda lineups get electric in Europe ++ VW confirms 3rd gigafactory ++ BYD & Shell to deal in EV charging

BMW reveals data on the iX1 e-SUV

eMobility update: VW won’t make any EVs until April ++ Porsche confirms electric 718 ++ Maserati to go all-electric by 2030

Volvo Cars to assemble XC40 in Malaysia

Maserati Grecale Folgore to release in 2023

Honda presents the Civic e:HEV

Nissan to focus on electric vehicles in Europe

Tesla plans to build more models in Germany

Mini launches arctic testing for the three-door variant

VW details MEB software 3.0 updates

Leap Motor announces plans for 8 new BEV models by 2025

Aiways expands to further European markets

eMobility update: 7 Ford EVs in Europe, Northvolt Factory in Germany, 2nd-Life for Jaguar i-Pace batteries

Tesla to pause production in Shanghai for two days

According to an agency report, Tesla is suspending production at its Shanghai plant for two days. The background is likely a Covid 19 outbreak in China, leading to strict movement controls in some cities, including Shanghai. Reuters reports this, ...

Porsche confirms electric 718 successor

Porsche has now officially confirmed that it intends to offer its mid-engine 718 sports car exclusively in all-electric form by the middle of the decade. The sports car brand will also invest in its own HPC infrastructure. Porsche did ...

Maserati to go fully electric by 2030

With the Italian car manufacturer Maserati, another Stellantis brand has announced its transformation into an all-electric car manufacturer. By 2025, Maserati will offer a fully electric version for all of its models and from 2030 will only sell electric ...

VW delays MEB production in Zwickau until April

Volkswagen’s electric car plant in Zwickau will not resume production until the beginning of April. The reason for this is the lack of cable harnesses from Ukraine, which could not be delivered due to Russia’s invasion of the neighbouring ...

Mini to bring back the Paceman as an electric crossover model

The BMW brand Mini is planning a revival of the Paceman as an electric crossover for 2024. However, the name is the only thing the new Paceman will share with the combustion model built between 2013 and 2016. The ...

Tesla secures water supply in Brandenburg

Tesla can continue with the production ramp-up at Giga Berlin as planned. According to media reports, the Strausberg-Erkner Water Association (WSE) will not terminate the supply contract as threatened in the meantime. As the Berliner Zeitung writes, there was a ...

BMW presents additional data for the i7

BMW will present its electric flagship i7 at Auto China in Beijing on 20 April – and with it the new 7 Series. In advance, the manufacturer has shown the first teaser images of the uncloaked i7 and revealed ...

Hyundai opens automobile plant in Indonesia

Hyundai has opened its first vehicle plant in Indonesia. The factory in Cikarang is the first Hyundai plant in Southeast Asia to also produce battery-electric vehicles. Specifically, this will initially be the Ioniq 5, with a battery cell factory ...

BMW aims to sell over 2 million electric vehicles by the end of 2025

BMW announced that it is ramping up its e-mobility targets, “confirmed by the success of its all-electric models to date”. Initially, this refers primarily to the growing range of electric vehicle models, but electric sales are expected to increase ...

Hankook presents specially developed EV tyres

The tyre manufacturer Hankook is launching its first tyre family, iON, on the market from May 2022, which has been specially developed for electric vehicles. Among other things, these will not only have a reduced rolling resistance and low-noise ...

Sono Motors to enter test phase for the Sion

Munich-based solar car developer Sono Motors has announced that it will soon start the series testing phase for its Sion. The company is currently building a fleet of series validation vehicles for the Sion’s testing programme. The final design ...

Mercedes has started accepting orders for EQE variants

Mercedes-Benz has opened the order books for the first variants of the EQE, which will be in dealerships from the end of April. The electric sedan can be ordered now as the Mercedes-Benz EQE 350+ as well as the ...

Magna loses CEO to Rivian

Contract manufacturer Magna Steyr is losing its CEO. According to media reports, Frank Klein is moving to the US electric car manufacturer Rivian as the new COO to get the struggling production back on track. Frank Klein had been ...

First eMobility update: XPeng exports P5 to Europe, Rivian ramps-up, Daimler delivers battery recycling strategy

Welcome to the first eMobility update – your comprehensive guide to this week’s happenings in the electric transport industry. Today: Xpeng is exporting the P5 electric sedan to European markets ++ Rivian is investing heavily to ramp up production ...

SiC supplier Rohm delivers on-board charging for Lucid Air

Rohm Semiconductor has announced that Lucid Motors is a client. The EV maker from California will use Rohm’s silicon carbide semiconductor (SiC MOSFET) in the Lucid Air. The semiconductors, silicon carbide metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors to be precise, will sit ...

MG Motor plans to introduce Mini EV outside of China

SAIC’s MG Motor brand is set to launch an electric microcar for global markets based on the platform of the SAIC-GM-Wuling joint venture’s Mini EV, which is extremely popular in China. The first foreign market is to be in ...

Ford plans to release 7 new BEVs in Europe by 2024

Ford has announced plans to introduce three new electric passenger cars and four new electric commercial vehicles in Europe by 2024. The goal is to sell more than 600,000 electric vehicles annually in Europe from 2026. There are also ...

Volkswagen confirms plans for Trinity factory

Volkswagen’s supervisory board has given the go-ahead for plans to build a new electric car plant in the Warmenau district of Wolfsburg. The company says it will invest around two billion euros in the new factory, where the electric ...

Tesla confirms Giga Berlin delivery launch for 22 March

Tesla has confirmed the planned date for the delivery of the first customer vehicles from the factory in Grünheide: According to invitations sent out by Tesla, the ‘Delivery Day’ will take place on 22 March at 3 pm. This ...

Rivian marks billions in losses for Q4 2021

Rivian has presented its business figures for the fourth quarter and the 2021 fiscal year. Due to the expenses for the production ramp-up, the loss increased enormously. As deliveries are still at a manageable level, sales are still low. ...

Xpeng has started accepting orders for the P5 in Europe

Chinese electric car manufacturer Xpeng has opened reservations for its third production model, the P5, in four European countries. Xpeng’s smaller electric sedan is now available for pre-order in Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Xpeng had presented the ...

BMW is winter testing the iX5 in Sweden

BMW has begun winter testing the iX5 Hydrogen in Sweden before going into small series production later this year. The focus is particularly on the performance at temperatures below freezing. Before entering a possible large-scale production, however, BMW has ...

SAIC-GM-Wuling aims to double NEV sales

SAIC-GM-Wuling is aiming for annual sales of one million new energy vehicles (NEVs) as early as 2023. To achieve this, the Chinese joint venture also wants to invest heavily in development and also its own battery plant in China. ...

World premiere of the ID. Buzz: VW presents the ‘Bulli for a new era’

The long-awaited VW ID. Buzz has celebrated its premiere. Volkswagen praises the “first purely electric bus and van series in Europe” in the highest terms. With the premiere, further data on the electric bus has been announced. In the ...

Updates to the ADAC Opel e-Rally Cup

For the second season, the organizers have announced some changes for the ADAC Opel e-Rally Cup. For the season starting in May 2022, there will be some improvements in detail and significantly more international orientation of the electric racing ...

Mazda presents the hybrid crossover CX-60

Mazda is launching its first model with a plug-in hybrid drive, the CX-60. Pre-orders for the CX-60 e-Skyactiv PHEV are now possible at prices starting at £43,950, with deliveries expected in autumn. Mazda first announced the PHEV crossover in ...

China’s February NEV sales rise by 189%

In February, 317,000 New Energy Vehicles were sold in China. Compared to the same month last year, sales increased by 189 per cent. The ratio of plug-in hybrids and battery-electric cars within the NEV category remained nearly constant. While the ...

Brandenburg to make water extraction allowances for Gigafactory

Following the environmental approval of the Gigafactory on Friday, a court ruling on the same day had jeopardised the water supply to the Tesla plant in Grünheide. The state of Brandenburg is now trying to defuse the conflict. After ...

SAIC & Alibaba EV joint venture launches production

The joint venture between SAIC and Alibaba has started serial production of its first electric model in China. IM Motors’ first product is a luxury sedan called IM7, scheduled for delivery from April. IM Motors (Zhiji Motor in Chinese) ...

Polestar expands their supervisory board

Before its planned listing on the US stock exchange Nasdaq in the second half of this year, the electric car manufacturer Polestar has announced that it will expand its supervisory board. Some heads from Volvo will join the board ...

Saietta Group developing diesel-EV conversion kit

The UK-based e-mobility propulsion specialist Saietta Group is intensifying its efforts for an overhaul operation to convert “existing high-polluting diesel-engine-powered buses and coaches into zero-emission vehicles”. Saietta is looking to achieve this technological feat by working with its RetroMotion ...

Environmental approval granted for Giga Berlin

Brandenburg’s Minister President Dietmar Woidke has given Tesla the final environmental permit for Giga Berlin in Grünheide. The permit states that production can only start when Tesla fulfils the conditions set out in a 536-page document. Woidke announced the ...

Volvo presents updated XC40

Volvo Cars has given its XC40 Recharge electric SUV a facelift. Among other things, a new front bumper and a frameless radiator grille ensure that XC40 Recharge is visually aligned with the Volvo C40 Recharge. In addition, the C40 ...

Volkswagen is realigning their technical development

Volkswagen has announced that it is realigning the focus and working methods of Technical Development (TD) to shift towards electromobility and digitization. According to Chief Development Officer Thomas Ulbrich, this will also have a massive impact on future electric ...

Equipmake announces next-gen silicon carbide converter

British electric drive specialist Equipmake has launched a next-gen silicon carbide inverter, which can deliver a step-change in the performance of electric vehicles. Equipmake advertises that the new HPI-800 inverter delivers such efficiency gains that not only does it ...

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