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Amsterdam’s public transit operator GVB is extending smart charging technology across its depots in the Dutch capital. Using technology by The Mobility House, GVB will charge its growing electric bus increasingly intelligently before the year’s end. In concrete terms, ...

Tesla will open Superchargers to other EVs in Canada

Tesla continues opening its formerly proprietary charging network to third-party EVs. The latest market is Canada, where the government expects to see 750 Tesla Superchargers becoming publicly available by the end of 2025. The news can be found in ...

Power X is working on zero-emission container ships

Japanese battery startup PowerX unveils the design of a large electric ship to be completed by 2025. Vessel ‘X’ will be the first in a line of “Battery Tankers” and is scheduled for field tests in 2026. The zero-emission ...

Comau develops automatic 2nd life storage line

Italian automation specialist Comau, part of the Stellantis Group, is developing a fully automated system for sustainable battery recycling and second-life reuse as part of the EU’s Flex-BD project. Flex-BD is a robotic system that automates the entire process ...

Mercedes EQE SUV goes on sale in China

Mercedes-Benz has started selling its EQE SUV in China. About half a year after its market launch in Europe, four versions of the new electric model are available there from 486,000 yuan (about €64,000). The EQE SUV thus costs ...

Daimler Truck and Toyota plan to merge Fuso and Hino

Japanese commercial vehicle manufacturers Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus and Hino Motors are planning to merge and cooperate in commercial vehicle development, procurement and production – also with a view to electrification. Daimler Truck and Toyota, which own the above-mentioned ...

Volkswagen said to be planning battery factory in Indonesia

The Volkswagen Group is allegedly planning a battery factory for electric cars in Indonesia. Citing Ikmal Lukma, Secretary of the Indonesian Ministry of Investment, local media report that Volkswagen intends to invest around €4.7 billion in the factory. Construction ...

Blumind utilizes analog semiconductor architecture to facilitate AI inferencing

(CTA interview, please don’t lock the story) Artificial intelligence development and adoption have encountered serious energy efficiency hurdles with current computer architectures. To solve this challenge, Canadian startup Blumind has invented an analog architecture for semiconductors that will process ...

Best electric family cars of 2023

Best electric family cars in 2023 Peugeot e-2008 MG 4 Tesla Model 3 Kia Niro EV Skoda Enyaq Hyundai Ioniq 5 Mercedes-Benz EQB Porsche Taycan Sport Turismo VW ID.Buzz Why buy an electric family car? ► CAR’s list of ...

Hyundai and LGES to build battery factory in Georgia

Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution have announced a joint venture to produce battery cells for electric cars in the USA. The Korean companies will invest over $4.3 bn and hold the JV equally. The selected site is ...

Volvo Cars invests into home energy systems by dcbel (V2X)

Volvo Cars steps into the smart home business with an investment in an energy company based in Montreal, Canada. The Swedish car manufacturer has chosen to support dcbel’s R&D endeavours through its venture capital arm, the Volvo Cars Tech ...

SAIC wants to launch its first solid-state model in 2025

SAIC appears to be taking up solid-state battery development again. Local news outlets now see the first series EV with the new technology rolling off the assembly lines in China in two years. CN EV reports from a recent ...

Daimler Buses to produce e-buses in France

Daimler Buses will also produce its eCitaro electric bus in France in the first quarter of 2024. The German manufacturer will invest around 50 million euros in the French location of Ligny-en-Barrois by 2030 for this purpose. Since Daimler ...

ZeroAvia enters the cargo drone space with Natilus

Natilus, a developer of autonomous cargo aircraft, has entered into a strategic partnership with ZeroAvia. Specifically, Natilus wants ZeroAvia’s hydrogen-electric powertrain to help its Kona cargo drone lift off. The companies inform that ZeroAvia’s ZA600 will be the sole ...

Osprey opens two fast charging hubs in England

British charge point operator Osprey Charging has opened what it says is the largest ultra-rapid EV charging hub in the South West of England. The company has also opened a charging hub in Essex. The 16-bay charging station is ...

Chargemap & Allego team up on charging in the EU

French platform for charging locations and services Chargemap is cooperating with Allego. As part of this collaboration, Chargemap will update its app with real-time information about Allego’s charging stations. Electric car and van drivers will be able to charge ...

Blue Bird lays foundations to produce 5,000 ZEV school buses a year

US manufacturer Blue Bird is expanding its production capacity for electric school buses. The ‘Electric Vehicle Build-up Center’, now open on site of the company’s primary US production facility in Georgia, will enable the company to increase its capacity ...

Bender & CCV cooperate to offer open payment systems

The payment specialist CCV and Bender, a specialist for charging controllers, will jointly implement open payment systems at EV charging stations throughout Europe. Their targets include installing around 300,000 open-loop terminals, including in the UK, over the next few ...

LG Electronics launches EV charger suite

It is official – LG Electronics is entering the EV charging business. After the move leaked earlier this year in March, the South Korean company presented a new product portfolio comprising four models. LG Electronics launched two AC chargers ...

Cool Planet Group scores order to convert 8,500 trucks

The Irish company Cool Planet Group will convert around 8,500 diesel-powered mining trucks into electric vehicles over the next three years. The order is reportedly worth around 50 million euros. According to the Irish Times, the order comes from ...

Stellantis buys into Li-S battery developer Lyten

Stellantis invests in lithium-sulphur battery developer Lyten, working on a novel three-dimensional graphene material platform. Stellantis wants to get in on what could be a breakthrough in the Li-S sector. Utilising Lyten developments, Stellantis aims for advanced Lithium-Sulfur based ...

Nikola threatened with stock market delisting

The American electric truck manufacturer Nikola Motor is threatened with exclusion from the US stock exchange Nasdaq. Because the share price was below one US dollar per share for 30 consecutive days, Nikola no longer complies with Nasdaq regulations. ...

Tesla Model Y the most sold car in Q1

The Tesla Model Y was the world’s best-selling electric car for the first time in the first quarter of 2023. In 2022, the Model Y was still in third place behind two Toyota models. Now the Tesla SUV leads ...

Data leaked on errors in Tesla’s Autopilot functions

A data leak suggests that Tesla has bigger technical problems with its Autopilot driver assistance system than previously thought. Insiders leaked 100 gigabytes of data to the German publication Handelsblatt, which are said to originate from Tesla’s IT system. Informants ...

Ford & Tesla enable Ford drivers access to Superchargers

A surprising cooperation is to begin in North America: Ford will install Tesla’s charging port in its new electric vehicles from 2025 onwards. In the interim, Ford vehicles with CCS ports will be able to use Tesla Superchargers by ...

BMW to launch i7 with rear-wheel drive in July

BMW will add a new base model to its all-electric i7 range from July onwards. According to the German carmaker’s announcement, the new BMW i7 eDrive50 offers a maximum output of 335 kW and comes with a range of ...

A long wait is over for Volkswagen employees

Volkswagen employees can now, finally, order electric cars as company cars again. The company has insisted employees wait two years before they can get electric vehicles from their own company as company cars. Back in 2021, the group informed ...

Easee temporarily restricts wall box sales on its own account

After Sweden banned the sales of Easee wall boxes due to potential safety deficiencies, authorities in other countries have become active. In Austria, Easee is now temporarily restricting the sale of two products itself, and the situation also appears ...

Caterham EV Seven: Lightweight electric sports car concept

British sports carmaker Caterham has made progress on its all-electric Seven series announced two years ago. The company just presented what it calls a technology development showcasing a future electric Caterham Seven that delivers the first performance data. The ...

Nio launches new ES6 edition in China

Nio has launched a new edition of its ES6 in China. The ES6 is the company’s best-selling model on the Chinese market and has now been converted to the new NT 2.0 platform. In February this year, Nio said ...

Italian HPC specialist Alpitronic opts for new HQ in North Carolina

The Italian charging station manufacturer Alpitronic has chosen Charlotte in the US state of North Carolina for its North American headquarters. Alpitronic will invest $9.3 mn there and create 300 jobs. This is according to an announcement by the ...

Sakuu unveils 3D printed batteries for licensing

Sakuu, a Californian developer of 3D-printed solid-state batteries, has unveiled a market-ready lithium metal cell chemistry that battery manufacturers can now license. Sample 5 Ah pouch cells are available at Sakuu’s battery pilot plant in Silicon Valley. Sakuu, which ...

Electrify America and BMW deepen their bond over the new i5

BMW of North America today announced an agreement with Electrify America to provide first-time owners of the incoming BMW i5 with two years of complimentary 30-minute charging sessions. This agreement expands on the included charging offered for other electric ...

Econ launches electric gritter truck in the UK

Yorkshire-based company Econ Engineering has launched a new electric gritter truck. The company says the truck can be operated year-round thanks to a range of demountable body options, which allow it to switch between fleet roles. The truck’s flexibility ...

India: Uber Green launches in three major citites

Ride-hailing company Uber will launch its Uber Green service in three cities in India starting this June, namely bringing the EV-only option to Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru. Uber also shared a slew of new EV partnerships in India. Staying ...

Infineon heads semiconductor project with gallium nitride

The new EU research project ALL2GaN, led by Infineon Austria, aims to exploit the energy-saving potential of highly efficient power semiconductors made of gallium nitride (GaN) so that they can be easily and quickly integrated into many applications. The ...

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