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The Swedish industrial group Sandvik has received a major order from the Canadian mining company Torex Gold Resources to supply a fleet of mining machines for the Media Luna project in Mexico, including 15 battery-electric vehicles. The order is ...

Candela raises 20 million dollars to launch hydrofoil water vessle

Swedish tech company Candela has secured an additional 210 million Swedish Krona ($20 million) to bring its hydrofoil water vessel to mass production. The P-12 is said to launch this summer. Candela is working on a low-energy use water ...

Elsälerhetverket imposes sales ban on Easee wall boxes in Sweden

Earth leakage circuit breaker may not always trip when and how it should What to do with an Easee wall box? Easse appeals against the sales ban Can the Easee argument hold? The dispute around Easee wall boxes is ...

Evergrande subsidiary NEVS lays off almost all employees

The lights threaten to go out at National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS), the Swedish electric car subsidiary of the Chinese real estate group Evergrande. NEVS is laying off 320 of its 340 employees. The company is taking steps to ...

Chalmers researchers reveal 500 kW induction technology

Researchers at Chalmers University in Sweden have developed an induction technology that can reach nearly 100% efficiency and charges with 500 kW – effectively putting it on par with wired solutions. The team says the system was so complete ...

Germany’s car fleets electrification slower than neighbours

How is it going with the electrification of company car fleets in Germany, and how does this compare to its Northern European neighbours, the Netherlands and Sweden? To answer that question, a comparative study was commissioned by the energy ...

Allego to build seven charging parks in Sweden

Charging specialist Allego has won a new contract from Sweden. As part of a cooperation with the real estate company Trophi, Allego will build publicly accessible fast-charging infrastructure at seven supermarkets and urban grocery stores. Depending on the size ...

Fisker Ocean could launch in Europe this year

According to carmaker Fisker, its first model, the Fisker Ocean, is getting ready to hit the streets in over 20 countries before the end of the year. Homologation testing for Europe and the US is said to be completed ...

Sandvik scores record order for electric mining equipment in Norway

Sandvik, an engineering firm from Sweden, announces a major deal worth more than €33 million (SEK 370 mn). The order comes from Rana Gruber, which is on course to decarbonise its iron ore mine operations in Storforshei in northern ...

Ionity to double the number of its high-power chargers in Sweden

Ionity and the Swedish real estate company Regio have joined forces to build twelve new ultra-rapid charge parks offering 108 public charging stations before the year’s end. This time, the selected sites include shopping centres at major motorway junctions. ...

BYD to deliver 52 electric buses for Transdev

BYD has received an order for 52 electric buses from public transport operator Transdev in Sweden. The order includes 44 15-metre electric buses and eight 12-metre buses for use in the province of Gästrikland on the east coast of ...

15 chargers for e-trucks in Gothenburg commissioned

It is one of Swedens largest charging stations for electric trucks and was put into operation by E-Mobility, a subsidy of the Soltech Group. The 15 fast-charging points are located at Göteborgs Lastbilscentral (GLC) hub in the Swedish city. The ...

Mellor scores another e-bus order from Sweden

British bus manufacturer Mellor has received an order from Sweden. Public transport operator Connect Bus orders 42 elecztic buses of the Sigma line, which Mellor debuted in 2021. The minibuses on order are headed for Gothenburg. Gothenburg is the ...

Nio starts deliveries of its EL7 SUV in Europe

Chinese electric car manufacturer Nio has started deliveries of its EL7 SUV model in Europe. The first cars went to customers in the Netherlands. Deliveries of the EL7 in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway will follow soon. The first ...

Xpeng moves forward again in Europe

Chinese electric car manufacturer Xpeng has announced plans to open four delivery and service centres in Europe. These are scheduled to open in the first half of 2023 after the company’s European plans were temporarily halted last year. The ...

Volvo CE invests into electric vehicle production capacities

Construction equipment manufacturer Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) is investing in the production of electric vehicles. This involves the production of electric wheel loaders and articulated haulers with electric drive systems. 65 million Swedish kronor (about 5.8 million euros) ...

Polestar to deliver batteries and charging systems for Candela

The electric car manufacturer Polestar will supply battery and charging systems for the electric boats of the Swedish company Candela. The aim of the cooperation is to rapidly increase the production of Candela’s electric hydrofoils. The agreement is one ...

Electric trucks on the roll in Gothenburg port

Skaraslättens Transport now employs two electric trucks for container transport at the port of Gothenburg. A third electric truck is to be added soon. But this is only the beginning: in 2023, more electric trucks from a second freight ...

Consortium to build truck charging network in Sweden

A consortium of three Nordic companies wants to implement a nationwide fast-charging network for electric trucks in Sweden. The aim is to provide infrastructure for some of the 85,000 heavy trucks currently using Swedish roads, that will need charging ...

Porsche Taycan rounds up its records

The all-electric Porsche Taycan has set another Guinness World Record, this time for the most consecutive doughnuts (spins) in an electric car on ice. Stunt driver Terry Grant managed 69 doughnuts in a row in Sweden in a production ...

Three Amazing Builds From Elmia

Introduction By now you have probably seen our main coverage of the 2022 Bilsport Performance & Custom Motor Show (Elmia) held in Jönköping, Sweden. If you haven’t, you can read all about it here. The bar has certainly been raised since the ...

Welcoming Back The Bilsport Performance & Custom Motor Show

Early Start It’s that time of the year for Swedish car enthusiasts. After a two year hiatus, the Bilsport Performance & Custom Motor Show (aka Elmia) in Jönköping returned, bigger and better than ever. For those of you that don’t know, ...

Updated Polestar 2 features new colours and improved range

Polestar has updated the all-electric Polestar 2 fastback. The improvements to the Standard range Single motor model have increased its range from 470 to 474km (WLTP). It can also be charged via direct current at 130kW, up from 116kW ...

Rimac completes winter tests for the Nevera

Rimac Automobili has completed the final winter tests with the production version of the Nevera ahead of the first customer deliveries. The electric hypercar has already passed registration tests in the US and EU and is scheduled for delivery ...

Batteryloop builds energy storage from old forklift batteries

Batteryloop, a subsidiary of Stena Recycling, has installed an energy storage system at Stena Metall Group’s head office in Gothenburg, using batteries from the industrial truck manufacturer Toyota Material Handling in the connected load. The storage system has a capacity ...

Inductive charging: Smartroad Gotland to be extended

The Israeli company ElectReon, which specialises in inductive charging of electric vehicles, has announced the extension of the Smartroad Gotland pilot project in Sweden by one year and its upgrade. The two million euro budget for the extension of ...

Uniti files for insolvency

The Swedish electric car start-up Uniti has filed for insolvency. The company announced on LinkedIn that it had not been able to raise enough capital. The move does not come as a surprise. Uniti had already warned of possible ...

A Visit To Sweden’s Kaiser Classic

The History I love that the world is being made better for future generations by vehicles going electric; it’s the right thing to do. But I also love the past and, to be frank, I sometimes wish I was born a bit earlier ...

Northvolt battery cells will power all-electric Volvo XC60 successor

The all-electric successor to the Volvo XC60 set for 2024 will be the first series model to use battery cells from the joint venture between Volvo and Northvolt. The SUV has been the Swedish brand’s best-selling car running for ...

Rolls-Royce completes winter testing for the Spectre

Rolls-Royce has completed winter testing of its first electric model, the Spectre, in the Arctic Circle in temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees, about a quarter of the 2.5 million test kilometres planned for the battery-electric car. There ...

Scania sends electric trucks to LKAB mine in Sweden

An electric Scania Heavy Tipper will operate in the LKAB mine in Malmberget, in northern Sweden, alongside an electric crane truck specially adapted for these mining operations. This is also to be used as a test for the BEVs ...

Wattif EV & Smart Parkering Sverige plan chargers for 250,000 parking spaces in Sweden

Wattif EV and Smart Parkering Sverige want to make it possible to charge electric cars in 250,000 parking spaces in Sweden. Thousands of charging stations for electric vehicles are to be put into operation this year. This is provided ...

Awake presents electric hydrofoil surfboard

The Swedish company Awake specialises in electric surfboards and has introduced an electric hydrofoil surfboard that allows you to “float” over the water. The Awake Vinga comes in two variants for people under and over 80 kilos body weight, ...

Xpeng has started accepting orders for the P5 in Europe

Chinese electric car manufacturer Xpeng has opened reservations for its third production model, the P5, in four European countries. Xpeng’s smaller electric sedan is now available for pre-order in Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Xpeng had presented the ...

BMW is winter testing the iX5 in Sweden

BMW has begun winter testing the iX5 Hydrogen in Sweden before going into small series production later this year. The focus is particularly on the performance at temperatures below freezing. Before entering a possible large-scale production, however, BMW has ...

Volvo tests inductive charging in Gothenburg

Volvo Cars is working with partners to test wireless charging of electric cars: In Gothenburg, a small fleet of Volvo XC40 Recharge cabs equipped with an inductive charging solution from Momentum Dynamics is now on the road. The electric ...

ABB to supply Scania with robots for battery assembly

Volkswagen’s commercial vehicle brand Scania has signed a contract with ABB to supply comprehensive robotics solutions for its new battery assembly plant in Sweden. The commercial vehicle manufacturer is investing more than one billion Swedish kronor in the new ...

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