Mobility Tech Sees VC Interest Despite Global Immobility
At a time when human mobility has been severely curtailed by a global pandemic, VC funds are witnessing an opportunity in the challenge. A new report on funding activity during the second quarter of 2020 indicated that micro-mobility was one…
Mitsubishi Announces Large-Scale Investment In New EV Kei Cars
Mitsubishi announced that a large-scale investment is coming to its Mizushima Plant in Kurashiki city, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, to produce new electric kei-cars. The company was one of the first established carmakers to jump into the EV bandwagon over 10…
Nissan Accepting Electricity As Payment For Parking
Nissan is giving customers yet another reason to love their electric cars: the ability to pay for parking with electricity. In a global first, electric vehicle drivers will be able to discharge power from their car’s battery pack to pay…
Green Hydrogen Transport To Get Boost With Australian Refuelling Station Network
Australia may see a rapid expansion of hydrogen refuelling infrastructure, with a new partnership that will see green hydrogen for heavy vehicles situated alongside EV charging stations across Australia. Hydrogen project developer Infinite Blue Energy says it will partner with…
Toyota’s Quick-Charging Solid-State Battery Coming In 2025
Toyota has chosen to focus on hybrid and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles as the cornerstones of its green strategy, but that doesn’t mean the automaker is forgoing an electric vehicle altogether. In addition to an EV crossover coming from the automaker…
ARENA Funds One Of World’s Largest Electric Vehicle To Grid Pilots
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has issued $2.4 million in funding to ActewAGL for the implementation of an electric vehicle to grid (V2G) pilot in Canberra. ActewAGL will partner with the Australian National University, JET Charge, Evoenergy, SG Fleet,…
Nissan And Sunwoda Join Hands For Battery Development
Japanese carmaker Nissan Motor Co. Ltd has partnered with Sunwoda Electric Vehicle Battery Co. Ltd. for joint development of next-generation vehicle batteries for Nissan’s e-POWER models. The two companies will also discuss the development of an efficient production system to…
KOGAS, Hyundai Motor Join Hands In Hydrogen Production, Charging, And Sales
Korea Gas Corp. (KOGAS) and Hyundai Motor Group have joined hands to build integrated hydrogen charging stations that can also serve as a hydrogen production facility. They signed a business agreement at a hotel in Seoul to cooperate in enhancing…
Electreon Is Making The First Electrified Road That Can Charge EVs On-The-Go
Apart from the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, our Earth is suffering from heavy global warming for quite a long time now. As a result, electric vehicles are becoming more and more essential in several countries. However, one critical issue of EVs…
Power Pioneer Invents New Battery That Is 90% Cheaper Than Lithium-Ion
Lithium-ion batteries play a central role in the world of technology, powering everything from smartphones to smart cars, and one of the people who helped commercialize them says he has a way to cut mass production costs by 90% and…
