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German EV developer ElectricBrands has won Dutch car manufacturer VDL Nedcar as a contract manufacturer for its XBUS and Evetta models. The light electric vehicles will be produced at the VDL Nedcar plant in Born, the westernmost point of ...

MagREEsource to recycle rare earth magnets in France

The French start-up MagREEsource has developed an environmentally friendly process for recycling rare earth magnets based on patented hydrogen technology and wants to commercialise it. MagREEsource has closed a five-million-euro financing round for its pilot plant in Grenoble with ...

Tesla has received no subsidies for Grünheide plant so far

Tesla has likely not yet collected a cent of the subsidies for its vehicle plant in Grünheide in Brandenburg, according to local media. Tesla models have been rolling off the production line in Grünheide for a year now. According ...

VW rumoured to turn the ID.2 into ID. Golf

According to a British media report, VW’s small electric car planned for 2025 will be called the ID. Golf and be the first model to use the MEB+ platform. Apparently, there will be a new study of the model ...

Ford pauses F-150 production due to battery issues

Ford has paused production of its all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck and deliveries of new vehicles due to a possible problem with the battery. However, there is currently no sales stop. According to a Ford spokesperson, the potential battery ...

Mini to offer limited series Cooper Convertible

In the summer, the topless electric runabout was presented in the USA as a one-off, but now the Mini will manufacture the Cooper SE Convertible from April. However, according to the manufacturer, only 999 units will be built. BMW ...

Ram presents their first electric pickup

Ram Truck, the US commercial vehicle subsidiary of the Stellantis Group, unveiled the design of the production version of its electric pickup truck ‘Ram 1500 REV’ during the Super Bowl. Ram is also now accepting pre-orders for the 1500 ...

Kia Sorento PHEV: Lots of space and high consumption

Space, space and more space High consumption lowers the range – even in petrol mode The petrol engine dampens the driving pleasure Conclusion Until the market launch of the all-electric EV9, Kia’s flagship SUV is still the Sorento, and ...

Ford prepares for major layoffs in Europe

Ford has confirmed that it will cut around 3,800 jobs in Europe over the next three years, mainly in the area of product development. The Cologne site, as the European development centre, is particularly affected. According to Ford, the ...

BorgWarner announces new inverter technology

BorgWarner is expanding its 400V inverter business with a major global OEM by now supplying 800V silicon carbide-based (SiC) inverters. The high-voltage inverters are destined for BEV platforms. BorgWarner announces that two variants of the new inverters will be ...

Rheinmetall Polycharge JV wins first customer

One year after it was founded, the joint venture Rheinmetall Polycharge landed its first customer: an unnamed international supplier to the automotive industry. The order was for two different DC link capacitors for applications in the 900V range. According ...

Zeekr raises 750 million dollars in funding

Geely’s premium electric car brand Zeekr has raised 750 Million dollars from external investors. The cash from five strategic investors puts the carmaker at a value of 13 billion dollars. Just as during the pre-A financing, one of the ...

Lunaz fits rarest classic car with electric drive

The British vintage EV conversion company Lunaz Design made the Bentley S2 Continental into an electric car. According to Lunaz, this specific model is one of only four examples built in 1961 and has now been given a second ...

Porsche Formula E Team takes the lead

Following the fourth Formula E race in Hyderabad, the Tag Heuer Porsche Formula E team leads the season 9 ranking. This comes after its team members António Félix da Costa and Pascal Wehrlein took third and fourth palace in the race ...

Mercedes to release first PHEV Maybach

Mercedes-Maybach is introducing its first model with a plug-in hybrid drive. This is essentially the Maybach variant of the plug-in hybrid of the Mercedes S-Class. The first fully electric model from Maybach is also to be presented before the ...

China’s NEV sales drop over January

The year is also off to a weak start in China, where around 408,000 new energy vehicles (NEVs) were sold in January 2023, almost 50 per cent fewer than in December 2022 and 6.3 per cent fewer than in ...

Ford drops nearly all of their Rivian shares

Ford has sold off a large part of its Rivian shares. According to a notification from Rivian to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Ford’s stake in Rivian is now only 1.15 per cent. The sale comes a ...

Lucid introduces new offer for the Air in the USA

US electric car manufacturer Lucid Motors announced that it will offer its own $7,500 credit for select configurations of Lucid Air Touring and Air Grand Touring models purchased by the end of March 2023. The reasoning behind the move ...

Hyundai introduces vehicle subscription in the USA

Hyundai Motor America announced its new Evolve+ electric vehicle subscription service, providing flexibility to consumers who want to drive Hyundai’s newest EVs without committing to a purchase or longer-term lease. The Evolve+ subscription service operates on a month-to-month basis, ...

Toyota decreases prices for the bZ4X in China

Toyota has significantly reduced the price of its electric SUV bZ4X in China, only four months after the official sales launch. The move is seen as a reaction to the wave of price cuts initiated by Tesla in January. ...

Mahle integrates DC charger to climatic wind tunnel

The automotive supplier Mahle has now equipped its climatic wind tunnel in Stuttgart with a DC fast charging system. The test engineers can charge electric vehicles there with up to 350 kilowatts – under all climatic conditions, even in ...

VinFast delays customer deliveries in the USA

VinFast has said that it will delay the first deliveries to its customers in the United States until the second half of February after it finishes updating the vehicles with the latest software. VinFast started to ship its first ...

Porsche plans electric seven-seater for 2027

Porsche’s new electric flagship should be launched in 2027 and will be a seven-seater, off-road-capable luxury crossover. Porsche previously announced that it is working on an electric SUV positioned above the familiar models. Now, the first possible technical data ...

BMW could get financial boost to built electric Mini in the UK

BMW ist reportedly negotiating with the British Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to receive a 75 million pound (about 84.5 million euros) grant in order to continue production of the electric Mini at its plant in ...

BMW presents updated X5 PHEV

BMW has unveiled model updates for its X5 and X6 SUV models, which will be launched worldwide in April 2023. In the course of the updates, the drive system for the plug-in hybrid variant of the X5 has also ...

Geely introduces an electric Panda in China

The Chinese manufacturer Geely has launched its latest model: the all-electric Panda Mini. There are a total of four variants of the small electric car, which will cost between 39,900 and 53,900 yuan (around 5,500 to 7,400 euros) in ...

Virtual testing: Porsche Engineering cuts development time of electric drives

In order to shorten development time, Porsche Engineering is testing electric drives in real-life as well as in a virtual environment. According to Porsche, these test methods are specifically adapted to the requirements of high-voltage technology. At the locations ...

Canoo issues further shares

California-based electric car start-up Canoo is looking to raise around 52.5 million dollars through share sales at a steeply discounted rate. Agreements with several investors have already been reached, but the deals have yet to be completed. Investors will ...

Faraday Future secures funds, gets ready for production

Faraday Future announced that it received 135 million dollars in financing commitments in the form of convertible secured notes – enough to kick off production of its FF 91 model at the end of March. If all funds are ...

Great Wall Motors extends retail network in the UK

The Chinese carmaker Great Wall Motors (GWM) announced three new Sales and Service Centers for its Ora brand in the UK in Belfast, Chorley, and Exeter. The first showroom to feature the Ora model will be the Charles Hurst ...

Ford to return to the Formula 1 in 2026

Ford will return to Formula 1 from 2026 after more than two decades – as Red Bull’s technical partner. Red Bull Powertrains and Ford will collaborate on the development of the next-generation hybrid powertrain for the Oracle Red Bull ...

Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi strengthen worldwide cooperation on EVs

The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance unveiled more details about their partnership and new direction for the next 15 years. Plans include joint activities in Latin America, India and Europe – with talk of a joint 800-volt architecture in the latter case. ...

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