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Hyundai surprisingly stopped its fuel cell truck project in Switzerland. Hyundai wanted to bring 1,600 FC trucks to the Alpine nation by 2025. The Korean company handed over the first units at the end of 2020. Now the project ...

How much electric vehicle driving range is really enough?

Early EVs had short range for high cost Do second-hand older EVs stack up? How far do you drive most of the time? How much range is really enough for you? Image: Wilson Parking Returning recently to an early ...

Hyundai to help FIFA World Cup achieve carbon neutrality with electric vehicle and bus rides

Qatar plans to host the first carbon-neutral FIFA World Cup this year, aiming for a new trend in mega sporting events and the region. Hyundai, an official sponsor of the FIFA World Cup, announced it will help the organizers ...

TotalEnergies and Valeo partner to innovate battery cooling in electric vehicles and reduce their carbon footprint

TotalEnergies and Valeo announce that they have signed an agreement to develop an innovative way of cooling electric vehicle batteries using a new, very high-performance dielectric1 fluid

Electrify America installs first megawatt-level BESS

In the USA, Electrify America has unveiled its first application of a megawatt-level battery energy storage system (BESS) for electric vehicle charging stations. The Volkswagen subsidiary already has smaller, existing BESS installations at over 150 stations across the U.S. ...

Hyvia contracts Faurecia to supply tanks for Master H2-Tech

Faurecia has won a major contract from Hyvia, the joint venture between Renault and Plug Power, to supply hydrogen tanks. These will be used in the Renault Master H2-Tech production model unveiled at the Paris Motor Show. The hydrogen ...

ChargeNet opens fast charging stations at Taco Bell

In the USA, ChargeNet Stations has opened its first ultra-fast charging stations at a South San Francisco Taco Bell. More than 100 California Taco Bell restaurants are set to be “electrified” in the next year. At Taco Bell restaurants ...

NEFTON expands work on ultra fast charging for trucks

In Germany, the NEFTON project launched in 2021 to develop charging scenarios for heavy battery trucks based on the Megawatt Charging System (MCS) is now being expanded. The consortium around the Technical University of Munich is now focusing on ...

NASA science to improve charging technologies

A cooling technology developed by NASA for use in space could significantly speed up the charging of electric cars on Earth in the future. As NASA explains in a blog post, the cooling mechanism developed as part of the ...

Aiways U6 now available to register interest in Europe

Aiways has taken another step on the way to the market premiere of the U6 in Europe. As of now, interest in the Aiways U6 can be expressed in Europe on a newly established website. There are no prices ...

Mercedes to source lithium from Rock Tech

Mercedes-Benz and Rock Tech Lithium have signed an agreement for an annual supply of an average of 10,000 tonnes of lithium hydroxide. The Rock Tech plant in Brandenburg is to play a central role in this. The amount of ...

Vianode opens battery R&D centre in Norway

Vianode has opened a research and development centre for sustainable battery materials in Norway. The company sees the commissioning of the “Vianode Technology Center” in Kristiansand as an “important step towards establishing a complete battery value chain in Norway ...

US DoE announces funding for 20 battery companies

After the US Department of Energy announced funding of almost three billion US dollars for the development of a national battery supply chain in February, things are now getting concrete: 20 companies have been selected to receive a total ...

InoBat to build battery factory in Valladolid

InoBat Auto has signed a letter of intent with Spanish authorities to build a factory in Valladolid. At the same time, however, the Slovakian battery manufacturer itself relativises the significance of the document by affirming that other locations in ...

EU sets refuelling and charging infrastructure targets

The EU Parliament has adopted binding minimum targets for the expansion of infrastructure for zero tailpipe-emission transport. These stipulate a minimum density of EV charging and hydrogen refuelling stations that must be affordable and easy to use, and a ...

Tesla to design small EV platform

Elon Musk confirmed during the conference on the new quarterly figures that Tesla’s focus is now on the development of a new platform for smaller electric cars. The goal with Tesla’s third platform, following those for the Model S/X ...

BMW to source round cells from AESC in the USA

BMW is pumping 1.7 billion US dollars into the production of electric cars in the USA. The investment is to flow into the conversion of the plant in Spartanburg and the construction of a battery assembly centre. The cell ...

Stockholm legislates for more sustainable city transport

Stockholm has a new city government that has now outlined its plans for the future of transport in the Swedish capital. By 2030, all traffic in the city centre of Stockholm is to be emission-free, and car traffic is ...

Mullen takes over Electric Last Mile Solutions

After acquiring a majority stake in Bollinger Motors, the US electric car start-up Mullen has now also completed the takeover of the electric utility vehicle provider Electric Last Mile Solutions (ELMS). The takeover was not favourable, however, but should ...

Electric Vehicle Charging Levels: What You Need to Know

You learned how to operate a gas pump. You can learn how and wear to plug in your car.

Third quarter of 2022 shows Tesla balancing turnover and profit

Tesla has ironed out the dip in sales and profits from the previous quarter and generated a new record turnover of $21.45 billion in the third quarter. However, the profit is balanced by the discrepancy between vehicles produced and ...

Third quarter shows Tesla barely balancing turnover and profit

BMW invests $1.7 billion to build electric vehicles in U.S.

BMW AG said on Wednesday it will invest $1.7 billion to build electric vehicles in the United States, the latest announcement from a major automaker about plans to ramp up U.S. EV production. jQuery(function(){ if (typeof jwplayer_load == typeof indefined) ...

Clean Logistics announces three hydrogen truck orders

The truck and bus retrofitter Clean Logistics has received new orders for the delivery of hydrogen trucks. This involves a total of ten trucks with hydrogen fuel cells, which are to go to three projects in the first half ...

North Carolina gains e-school buses and EV charge points

In the USA, the purchase of around 160 electric school buses is being funded with $30.1 million from the Volkswagen Settlement Program for North Carolina. The funding is being managed by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). ...

New York’s MTA orders electric buses from Nova Bus

In the USA, the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has ordered five LFSe+ electric buses from the Volvo Group subsidiary Nova Bus. The first delivery is expected by the fourth quarter of 2023. The buses will be ...

Tata Motors wins tender for 200 buses for Jammu & Srinagar

India’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturer Tata Motors announced that it has won the tender of 200 electric buses floated by Jammu Smart City Limited, for Jammu and Srinagar. For the deployment of the 200 electric buses, Tata Motors has ...

Opel launches design contest for teenage BEV

Opel wants to build a very special one-off of the battery-electric Rocks-e. The light vehicle enables young drivers from the age of 15 to enter the world of individual electric mobility – which is why Opel is now inviting ...

BYD to bring two more BEV models to Europe

BYD wants to rapidly expand its electric car range in Europe. The electric car trio with which the Chinese manufacturer plans to launch in many European markets could be expanded to a quintet as early as next year. BYD ...

VW & Xanadu to utilitize quantum computing for battery development

Volkswagen and Canadian company Xanadu have launched a multi-year research program to optimize the computing power of quantum algorithms for battery materials simulation. This is expected to reduce computational costs and accelerate Volkswagen’s use of quantum computers to develop ...

Daimler Truck & Gehring announce electric truck cooperation

Daimler Truck and Gehring Technologies have agreed on a strategic partnership for the commercial vehicle-specific application of electric motors. This includes the prototypical construction of so-called “truck-e-fied” electric drives as well as the further development and testing of new ...

Cellforce plans to significantly expand battery production capacities

The Cellforce Group, the battery joint venture between Porsche and Customcells, has laid the foundation stone for its development and production facility near Reutlingen-Kirchentellinsfurt. In the course of this, it was also announced that production capacity is to be ...

Foxconn introduces three new BEV models

The Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn presented prototypes of two new electric models at its Tech Day. Foxconn also showed the production version of the Model C, which was presented as a concept last year. First, about the two new ...

DS changes teams from Techeetah to Dragon

DS Automobiles has parted company with the Techeetah team in Formula E and will be working with the US team Penske Autosport (Dragon) in the ‘Gen3’ era of the all-electric racing series from the coming season. In addition, the ...

Here’s how US electric vehicle sales by maker and EV model through Q3 2022 compare

US electric vehicle sales through Q3 2022 by make and model Electrek’s Take 2022 has been the biggest year for electric vehicles in the United States on record as automakers go head to head to claim their position in ...

Tesla handily controls electric vehicle market in Germany

Tesla is handily controlling the electric vehicle market in Germany, registering around 6,000 vehicles more than second-place Volkswagen through the first three quarters of 2022. Tesla has registered 38,458 electric vehicles in Germany so far in 2022, data from ...

Rolls-Royce Spectre performance data revealed

Rolls-Royce has unveiled its first ever purely electric model headed for production, the Spectre. A year after announcing the car and plans for full electrification, the company now provides performance data, albeit with extensive testing ongoing. In fact, the ...

Danfoss receives UK grant to electrify construction machinery

Hydraulics and electric powertrain systems supplier Danfoss Power Solutions has secured a grant worth £407,112 from the UK government to accelerate the electrification of construction machinery. With the new funding, Danfoss plans to combine electrification with its Digital Displacement ...

VinFast & Infineon to cooperate on EV platform

VinFast and the German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon are building a joint application competence centre for electromobility in Hanoi. The opening in the Vietnamese capital is planned for the first quarter of 2023. According to a joint press release, the ...

Shell quietly closes all hydrogen filling stations in the UK

Shell has closed down all its hydrogen filling stations in the UK, saying “prototype tech had reached its end of life”. However, this is not the whole story, and the oil and gas corporation now wants to refocus. Instead ...

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