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The insolvent company Compleo Charging Solutions has found a buyer. The Kostal Group will take over the charging infrastructure manufacturer. All activities concerning stationary charging technology will continue under the Compleo brand name. That is according to a provision ...

New Skoda Enyaq iV (2025) to get big changes: What you need to know

Design Specifications Release date TopElectricSUV says Skoda has announced that it is working on a design refresh for the Skoda Enyaq iV, the first electric vehicle based on the Volkswagen Group’s MEB platform. This will take place in 2025, ...

California: Green light for combustion engine phase-out

California is getting serious and banning the sale of new trucks with combustion engines from 2036. This is provided for in the “Advanced Clean Fleets” regulation now passed by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). On Friday, CARB voted ...

BMW and E.ON offer smart charging for the home

BMW and E.ON have agreed to cooperate on smart charging. Initially, the aim is to charge EVs at home at times convenient for the grid. But bidirectional charging could also play a role in the long term. The ‘Connected ...

Inductive charging highway section to be built in Florida

The Norwegian company ENRX wants to inductively charge electric vehicles with 200 kW while driving on a section of highway in Florida. A one-mile section of a four-lane highway near Orlando is to be electrified. ENRX was founded in ...

StoreDot’s battery cells to be manufactured on three continents

The Israeli battery developer StoreDot has given more details about the planned production of its fast-charging battery cells. The cells are to be manufactured on three continents: in the USA, Europe and Asia. As previously announced, StoreDot is not ...

Plug Power presents stationary fuel cell system to charge BEVs

Plug Power is looking to secure high-power charging in remote niches of the world and has unveiled a stationary fuel cell system for charging commercial EV fleets. 18,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen combined with a new megawatt-scale fuel cell ...

Mercedes presents the new E-Class with several PHEV variants

Mercedes-Benz has presented the new E-Class. It is to be the manufacturer’s last new model on a pure combustion engine platform. From the market launch of the new E-Class in the autumn of 2023, Mercedes-Benz will offer three fourth-generation ...

Terberg secures eCollects order from Westminster City Council

It is the largest single order for electric refuse collection vehicles in the UK to date. Westminster City Council has ordered 40 eCollect from Dennis Eagle, part of the Terberg Environmental Group. According to the company’s press release, Veolia ...

Zeeba to electrify California fleet with Ford

The Californian fleet leasing provider Zeeba is procuring almost 250 electric vehicles from Ford. These are a mix of the Mustang Mach-E, F-150 Lightning and E-Transit models. Additionally, Ford will supply Zeeba with AC chargers at various locations in ...

BMW finalises suspension fine-tuning of the i5

The BMW i5 is entering the home straight of its series development process with the fine-tuning of its suspension control and driver assistance systems. According to BMW, the world premiere will take place in “a few weeks.” In its ...

Canada to double FLO charging network by 2027

In Canada, the public fast-charging network for electric cars is to be doubled in the next four years. The charging network operator FLO has received a loan commitment from the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) to build more than 2,000 ...

Lunaz to electrify Biffa’s refuse truck fleet

The UK-based companies Biffa and Lunaz signed a fleet electrification and upcycling agreement. Lunaz will help electrify Biffa’s diesel refuse truck fleet over the next decade to electric powertrains through its proprietary upcycling and electrification process and technology. The ...

UK charging providers set up lobby group ChargeUK

In the UK, 18 of the country’s leading charging infrastructure providers have joined forces in a new organisation called ChargeUK. The companies want to invest more than six billion pounds in developing and operating charging infrastructure in the UK ...

Avalue launching Intel Atom embedded industrial motherboards, EMX-EHLP, with Intel Celeron/Atom SoC BGA processor

Avalue Technology, a global industrial PC solution provider and an associate member of the Intel Internet of Things Solutions Alliance, is bringing the new Intel Atom Embedded Industrial motherboards, EMX-EHLP, with Intel Celeron/Atom SoC BGA Processor (Elkhart Lake Platform ...

Rosenbauer to deliver electric fire engine to Colorado

The city of Boulder, Colorado, has bought an electric fire engine from Rosenbauer. It is not just a first for the city, but also for the US state. The Rosenbauer RTX fire engine is an all-electric vehicle with a ...

Vitesco adds separately excited synchronous drive option for the EMR4

Vitesco Technologies added an additional option to the fourth generation of its fully integrated EMR4 electric axle drive platform: a new rotor without permanent magnets forms the heart of an externally excited synchronous electric machine that does not require ...

Motiv Power Systems starts selling its next-generation of EVs

Motiv Power Systems is launching the second generation of its electric trucks for medium-duty fleets. It will build on the previous generation will be “engineered to meet today’s fleet needs while embracing the latest EV technology.” It will thus ...

Toyota to supply electric drive systems for Joby

California-based electric aircraft start-up Joby Aviation has signed a long-term agreement with Toyota to supply powertrains and other components for its aircraft. These are Joby-developed parts that Toyota manufactures on a contract basis. However, it is not just contract ...

Stellantis orders raw battery materials in Australia

Stellantis has secured nickel and cobalt from Australia. The car company entered into a binding agreement with Alliance Nickel (formerly GME Resources) to supply 170,000 tonnes of nickel sulphate and 12,000 tonnes of cobalt sulphate over an initial period ...

Next-gen MINI electric SUV to complement the Countryman EV: Report

Neue Klasse Platform Mexican production To release around 2028 TopElectricSUV says MINI’s name no longer limits BMW Group’s ambitions, as it continues upsizing existing models with every new generation and launching bigger models that devout MINI enthusiasts would not ...

Honda and GS Yuasa to build battery factory in Japan

The two Japanese companies Honda and GS Yuasa are planning a joint battery factory in Japan. Production is said to kick off in 2027. The cell factory is to be built and operated by a joint venture between the ...

BYD increase quarterly profit significantly

BYD earned more than five times as much in the first quarter of 2023 as in the same period last year. BYD’s net profit rose by 411 per cent to 4.1 billion yuan (about $592 million). Renvenue increased by ...

USA: Daimler Truck launches new electric truck brand Rizon

Daimler Truck announced a new brand for medium-duty electric trucks in the US called Rizon. Production start and first deliveries are scheduled for later this year. The company also announced a new joint venture for setting up charging and ...

Tesla & Fastned challenge Germany over charging station monopoly

The Higher Regional Court in Düsseldorf is hearing a case today that is crucial for the future of fast-charging infrastructure in Germany. Tesla and Fastned are challenging the federal government over essentially extending Tank & Rast’s monopoly at motorway ...

General Motors will stop producing the Chevrolet Bolt

General Motors has announced plans to stop production of the Chevrolet Bolt electric model at the end of this year, as company CEO Mary Barra told investors. So far, the Chevy Bolt EV and its larger offshoot Bolt EUV ...

Scania secures first order in Latin America from Grupo Bimbo

Grupo Bimbo, a baking company, has ordered seven electric trucks from Scania. Once the vehicles arrive in Mexico, they will form Scania’s first electric fleet in Latin America. Grupo Bimbo opted for seven 25P B4x2 rigid electric trucks from ...

Leoni focuses on EV charging cables in new division

Automotive supplier Leoni announces a new business unit. ‘Charging & Power Solutions’ will unify the company’s cable business and focus on electromobility. The product suite ‘EcoSense’ covers cables for all types of charging, including new liquid-cooled solutions for HPC. ...

Arabia Taxi adds 269 Tesla cars to its cab fleet in Dubai

The taxi company Arabia Taxi has put 269 Tesla Model 3 in service in Dubai. As reported, Dubai will only permit electrified taxis in the emirate from 2027. Arabia Taxi operates 6,000 vehicles throughout the United Arab Emirates, 83 ...

Skeleton & Martinrea want to build batteries for refuse trucks

Skeleton Technologies and the Canadian automotive supplier Martinrea International are cooperating to equip refuse collection vehicles for use in Paris and New York with Skeleton’s so-called ‘SuperBattery’ technology. Martinrea International develops and produces electric vehicle technologies for heavy-duty commercial ...

Fortum opens large-scale battery recycling plant in Finland

Fortum has completed its lithium-ion battery recycling factory in Harjavalta, Finland, on time. Announced in 2021, Fortum says this is the largest recycling plant in Europe in terms of capacity and also the first commercial-scale facility for hydrometallurgical recycling. ...

Stagecoach orders 48 EV double-deckers for London

Wrightbus has secured a new order to deliver 48 zero-emission buses for Stagecoach in London. The British public transport operator expects delivery of the all-electric double-deckers before the year’s end. Plus, these are not the only zero-emission models coming ...

BMW i Ventures leads investment into rare earth recycling

BMW’s investment arm BMW i Ventures announced an investment in Cyclic Materials, a Canadian company focused on recycling rare earth elements (REE). Regarding e-mobility, Cyclic Materials cooperates with Polestar to recover magnets for electric motors. As for BMW i ...

Veeam named No. 1 data protection and recovery solution worldwide

Veeam Software, the leader in Modern Data Protection and Ransomware Recovery, announced that it has been ranked the #1 global provider by International Data Corporation (IDC) in its latest IDC Semiannual Software Tracker, 2022H2 for Data Replication & Protection ...

Porsche & Hydro are working on sustainable aluminium

Porsche is cooperating with the Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro to significantly reduce the CO₂ footprint of aluminium in the automotive supply chain. By 2030, the aluminium supplied to Porsche and its suppliers should even be CO₂-free. As early ...

Fisker Ocean now available in Europe

The first electric car from the American manufacturer Fisker is allowed to roll on the roads in Europe. The Fisker Ocean has received sales approval for the European market and is to be delivered to customers as early as ...

VinFast secures fresh capital and launches deliveries of the VF 5

Vietnamese electric car maker VinFast is securing up to $2.5 billion in fresh capital to fuel its global expansion. 1.5 billion dollars comes in the form of grants from parent company Vingroup and its chairman Pham Nhat Vuong. Another ...

Kia presents full-sized Lego EV6 model

Kia had the Italian company BrickVision build a 1:1 model of its EV6 electric car out of Lego bricks. It took more than 800 working hours and 350,000 Lego bricks. The model was recently presented at the Design Week ...

Nigeria targets introducing 12,000 electric buses in Lagos State

In Nigeria, the energy company Oando Clean Energy Limited (OCEL) has announced a partnership with China’s bus builder Yutong to put 12,000 electric buses on the roads over the next seven years and build the infrastructure for them. Starting ...

STMicroelectronics releases 1Q23 financial results

STMicroelectronics (ST) has released its first-quarter 2023 financial results. According to the company, net revenue was US$4.15 billion, a 19.8% YoY increase, and gross margin was 49.7%. Net income also saw a 39.8% YoY increase to US$1.04 billion. Jean-Marc ...

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