Bolt Technology Invests In London Electrification
The Estonian ride-sharing company Bolt Technology plans to channel £250,000 into measures to encourage UK drivers from their network to transition to electric vehicles, including the installation of 500 new charging points in London. In the eyes of the ride-hailing…
Germany To Extend Electric Car Subsidies To 2025
Germany will extend its enviromental subsidy for electric cars until 2025. A source informed, a day ahead of a German auto industry summit in Berlin. The existing tax incentive scheme – often referred as an environmental bonus (Umweltbonus genannt) is…
UK Startup Britishvolt Picks Site For $3.5 Billion Vehicle Battery Plant
Electric vehicle battery startup Britishvolt said it had selected a site in northern England to build a £2.6 billion ($3.5 billion) factory that should start production in 2023. The company, which so far has said it has raised about £10…
Alstom To Supply Italy’s First 6 Hydrogen Trains
Alstom will supply six hydrogen fuel cell trains, with the option for eight more, to FNM (Ferrovie Nord Milano), the main transport and mobility group in the Italian region of Lombardy, for a total amount of approximately €160 million. The…
Tougher Battery Standards Sought By EU In Shift To Electric Cars
Europe plans to impose stricter environmental requirements for batteries as it begins a radical economic overhaul set to boost electric vehicles and clean energy. The European Union will aim at setting a global standard in the fast-growing market when it…
Mercedes To Source Cobalt And Lithium With “Standard For Responsible Mining”
In future, Mercedes-Benz will only buy battery cells with cobalt and lithium from certified quarries. The Stuttgart-based automaker also intends to reduce the cobalt content of the next generation of battery cells to less than ten per cent and, in…
Volvo To Build Electric Motors In-House For Its Next-Generation EVs
Volvo makes no secret of its plans to become a fully electric carmaker and wants to be able to build as many of the necessary components in-house. The company has announced significant investments to “allow for the in-house design and…
Polestar Recalls Almost All Polestar 2 Electric Cars Over Inverter And Battery Issues
Polestar announced today that it is recalling almost all Polestar 2 electric cars that it has delivered globally over an issue with its power inverter and its battery pack coolant heater. It’s not easy to be an EV startup. Polestar…
Aston Martin Gets Access To Mercedes EV Tech In Exchange For Bigger Stake
Mercedes-Benz will increase its stake in Aston Martin to up to 20 percent from 2.6 percent as part of an expanded technology partnership between the automakers. Aston Martin will get access to advanced Mercedes technologies, including next-generation hybrid and electric…
TÜV & ConAC To Open Test Lab For EV Batteries
The German certification service provider TÜV Rheinland and the Aachen-based start-up ConAC have announced a test laboratory for electric car drive batteries. The laboratory, which is to become one of the “largest and most modern independent battery test centres in…
