The Chinese electric car manufacturer Nio has presented the ET5 Touring, the estate version of its ET5 electric sedan. The ET5 Touring was presented in China and Europe at the same time. The second new Nio model for Europe ...
In a pilot project, users of electric vehicles in Germany may soon have the freedom to apply their own tariffs and energy mix at public charging stations. The collaboration between four key players could decouple the operators from pricing ...
Telo Trucks, a new electric vehicle manufacturer based in California, has unveiled an all-electric compact pickup truck. It runs on a 380 kW dual-motor AWD and prices start at $49,999. In terms of technical specifications, the Telo Truck is ...
Einride is expanding its operations in Norway by building on its partnership with PostNord. The postal provider manages 35% of all mail deliveries in Scandinavia and began electrifying its service fleets with Einride in Sweden last year. Now, both ...
In Germany, the Munich-based e-mobility start-up EcoG will present its standard-compliant technology for bi-directional charging with its cooperation partner Infineon at the Power2Drive industry trade fair in Munich this week. EcoG is offering a solution tested with vehicle manufacturers ...
Nio has presented its balance sheet for the first quarter of 2023. The Chinese electric car manufacturer delivered 31,041 vehicles between January and March and also announced that it would reduce the base prices for all its models in ...
Lucid Motors is making moves to enter the Chinese market. The US electric car manufacturer has hired Zhu Jiang to head its business in China. Zhu Jiang previously worked for Nio, Ford and Jidu Motor, the electric car division ...
Sales of electric cars and plug-in hybrids in China increased again in May. Around 717,000 of the so-called New Energy Vehicles (NEV) were sold, according to data published by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM). As reported, 636,000 ...
Mercedes-Benz has signed a supply contract with the Swedish start-up H2 Green Steel (H2GS) for around 50,000 tonnes of virtually CO2-free steel per year for its European press plants. The steel is to be used in various series models ...
As part of the RailCharge project at Graz University of Technology, a new solution is being worked on to use the railway as a mobile charging station for electric cars. The premise of the project is to load electric ...
In Egypt, more than 100,000 internal combustion vehicles are to be converted to electric drives. As a local media news site has reported, the country’s Supreme Council for Vehicle Construction has approved initiatives by two national electric mobility companies. ...
The US electric carmaker Lucid Motors wants to raise about $3 billion through a stock offering. The majority will come from the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF), which already has a stake of more than 60 per cent ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Belgium has welcomed a new player in the EV infrastructure sector as startup Sparki emerges with ambitious plans to establish the country’s largest High-Power Charging (HPC) network. Sparki aims to achieve this feat in less than three years, supported ...
US-based battery swap startup Ample has revealed its latest station design, marking the second generation of its technology. The new design enables Ample to halve the times it takes to swap a battery, and the company says, the new ...
US electric car manufacturer Lucid Motors announced pricing for two more Lucid Air luxury sedan variants for Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Norway. These are the Air Pure AWD and the Air Touring, which feature the smaller 92 kWh ...
Tron Future Tech, a Taiwan-based startup specialized in active electronically scanned array (AESA) for drone and space applications, recently announced success in delivering the prototype of T.SpaceRouter, its automotive user terminal for low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication. In a ...
The Swedish electric truck start-up Volta Trucks wants to accelerate its market launch in its home country. The company plans to put its vehicles on the roads in Sweden as early as the middle of this year instead of ...
Charging infrastructure specialist Mer and Chinese EV manufacturer Nio joined forces to develop more than 15 sites in Germany and Austria by 2025 that feature Mer’s charging stations and Nio’s battery swap stations. Mer says the companies already began ...
The Swedish service provider Einride, which specialises in electric transport, wants to order 50 electric trucks from the Dutch manufacturer DAF Trucks. The two companies have signed a memorandum of understanding to this effect. According to DAF, the first ...
LNG Electric wants to equip more than 13,000 hotels in the US AC and DC charging infrastructure. To that end, the company now announced a partnership with the design firm MD7. The goal is to equip 10 to 15 ...
Sono Motors GmbH has filed an application with the Munich District Court to open protective shield proceedings. Sono wants to restructure itself with the help of Dentons’ restructuring experts. The reason given for the application is indirectly a consequence ...
Following the restructuring, Dutch solar EV start-up Lightyear is sticking to its plan to bring the Lightyear 2 to series production at a price of less than €40,000. According to a media report, the 2025 market launch is not ...
The RWTH Aachen and spin-off e.Volution have developed a circular economy electric vehicle that is expected to last 50 years thanks to modular upgrades. It is already their second model. The founder of e.Volution GmbH is Professor Günther Schuh, ...
As some carmakers want to go big, Liux focuses on the smaller things. The Spanish EV start-up has put plans for its debut model Animal on ice and is looking to launch the Geko. However, if this urban EV ...
German grocery retailer Rewe is cooperating with the Swedish freight technology company Einride to supply its supermarkets in the Berlin area. It will use a connected fleet of seven Mercedes-Benz eActros 300s. The seven fully electric trucks will deliver ...
Sales of electric cars and plug-in hybrids in China fell slightly in April. According to data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), 636,000 new energy vehicles (NEVs) were sold in April – 17,000 fewer than in March. ...
Nikola will interrupt its truck production in Coolidge (Arizona) to convert the assembly line so that both fuel cell and battery electric vehicles can be produced on the same line in the future. After that, the focus will increasingly ...
Iveco Group has announced plans to acquire Nikola’s electric truck joint venture in Europe, established in 2019. The deal will cost Iveco $35 million and will effectively buy out Nikola from the European markets. Nikola says it will focus ...
The US electric car manufacturer Lucid Motors has reported higher losses again in the first quarter, and sales also fell compared to the fourth quarter of the previous year. In addition, Lucid is lowering its production target for this ...
Panasonic will invest in Ubiden, which provides charging services for electric vehicles. Together, the companies want to expand the number of EV chargers in Japan. The amount that Panasonic is investing was not disclosed. Instead, the Japanese company focuses ...
BluSmart Mobility, an Indian EV-only ride-hailing startup, has raised $42 million. Investors include BP Ventures, the investment arm of the British oil and gas company BP. The funds will strengthen BluSmart’s presence in India and more than double the ...
Nio has started deliveries of its new EC7 model in China. It has still not been decided whether the EC7 will also come to Europe. The all-electric SUV coupé, which was presented at the turn of the year, will ...
The US commercial vehicle dealer group Randy Marion Automotive (RMA) has ordered 1,000 electric trucks from Mullen Automotive. Deliveries are scheduled to begin as early as August. Specifically, the order is for the Mullen Three, a Class 3 low ...
WattEV, the Californian specialist for truck charging stations, has ordered 14 Nikola Tre BEV. WattEV will provide the corresponding charging infrastructure at the Californian port of Long Beach. In addition to building the charging infrastructure, WattEV also acts as ...
In a filing to the SEC, electric vehicle start-up Lordstown Motors warns that it may go bankrupt against the backdrop of contract manufacturer Foxconn walking away from a crucial deal. And there is also Lordstown own share price. Lordstown ...
Nikola Motor says it received an order for over 50 fuel cell trucks and plans to build 50 hydrogen refuelling stations in North America. First, to the vehicles: AJR Trucking, a carrier for the United States Postal Service (“USPS”) ...
The German electric flying taxi start-up Lilium has announced a 250 million US dollar capital increase. The young company says it needs around 226 million euros to last until the first manned flight in the first half of next ...