BYD is considering entering competitive motorsports, including F1 and endurance racing, to boost its global brand appeal, Bloomberg reported.
A potential entry would face high financial costs and strong resistance from existing F1 teams.
Carrar says its immersion-cooled battery architecture stops thermal runaway even with a cell above 800 °C
Carrar says testing at its R&D lab showed its Two-Phase Immersion Architecture can prevent thermal propagation between high-energy NMC pouch cells even under extreme failure conditions. In the test, a 72 Ah pouch cell was driven into thermal failure with a temperature rise exceeding 15 °C per second, and the triggered cell rose above 800… Read more…
US Aviation Authority approves eight pilot programmes for air taxis
The US aviation authority, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), has approved eight pilot projects allowing prominent air taxi developers such as Archer, Beta Technologies, and Joby Aviation to commence intensive testing of their electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft this summer. Read more…
Renault Bets On Next-Gen EVs And EREVs For Its Future
The French automaker is already doing great in the European EV market. But it wants more. Lire la suite…
Donut Lab’s Latest Solid-State Battery Test Proves It Isn’t A Supercapacitor
The startup’s third test evaluates whether its solid-state battery is actually a supercapacitor. Here’s what the results say. Lire la suite…
Volkswagen unveils the interior of the ID.Unyx 08
Volkswagen showed for the first time the inside of its newest big electric car, the ID.Unyx 08. This SUV is a big deal because it is the first in its specific series to use a very fast charging system. Volkswagen is a German company, but it made this specific model just for drivers in China. On the outside, the car… Read more…
Commodity trader Trafigura secures access to lithium from US project
Dutch commodity trading company Trafigura has signed a binding offtake agreement with Smackover Lithium for the supply of battery-grade lithium carbonate from the South West Arkansas Project. The agreement covers 8,000 tonnes annually. Read more…
15 new electric buses for Gloucestershire
Pulhams, a Gloucestershire-based bus operator and GoAhead subsidiary, is set to deploy 15 new electric buses on public transport routes. The electric fleet expansion follows significant investment into a Pulhams depot. Read more…
DKV Mobility offers Rheinmetall pavement charging solution in Germany
DKV Mobility and Rheinmetall have announced a partnership centred around Rheinmetall’s sidewalk charging solution. It can now be integrated into the DKV charging system and is thus available to all DKV Mobility customers in Germany. Read more…
Nio ties CEO pay to long-term strategy with 2026 share plan
Nio board has approved 2026 share incentive plan capped at 248 million Class A ordinary shares, representing 10% of outstanding stock.
William Li receives 248 million restricted share units tied to specific performance targets and continued service.
Nio Q4 2025 earnings call: Live updates
The 2026 ET5, ET5 Touring, ES6, and EC6 will also hit the market in the second quarter. The Onvo L80 will launch during the same quarter. Read more…
TU Braunschweig strengthens battery research centre
The Battery Labfactory Braunschweig (BLB) research center at TU Braunschweig has commissioned three new systems for the production of future-oriented battery cell technologies. These focus on dry coating, solid-state electrodes, and battery recycling. Read more…
Malaysia: Tesla begins opening its charging network to other EVs
Tesla has quietly started opening its charging network in Malaysia to other EVs. The company now allows customers to charge their non-Tesla EVs with a CCS charging port at Superchargers at four locations in and around Kuala Lumpur. Read more…
Brussels welcomes 50 new Mercedes E-Buses
Brussels’ public transport company MIVB/STIB has put the first units of a new delivery of electric buses into operation. These are 36 new solo electric buses from Mercedes-Benz. An additional 14 articulated electric buses bearing the star will follow later this year. Read more…
2027 Chevy Bolt EV Charging Test Proves GM Understood The Assignment
The new Bolt EV delivers a huge charging boost compared to its predecessor, and shows that small EVs can go the distance. Lire la suite…
Ford updates its smallest electric SUV with better range and hands-free tech
Even though the Ford Puma Gen-E only started appearing on roads a year ago, the company decided it was already time for a change. This small electric vehicle is a big deal in Europe – it fills the spot left behind by the Ford Fiesta, which was one of the most popular small cars for a very long time. Now,… Read more…
Porsche introduces third variant of the Cayenne Electric
At the world premiere, Porsche unveiled the Cayenne Electric and the top model Cayenne Turbo Electric. Now, the manufacturer is introducing a third powertrain variant with the Cayenne S Electric – featuring an all-wheel drive system with up to 490 kW of power. Read more…
Nio reports Q4 net profit of $40.4 million, achieving 1st ever quarterly profitability
Nio Inc recorded a net profit of 282.7 million yuan ($40.4 million) in the fourth quarter of 2025, compared to a net loss of 7.1115 billion yuan in the fourth quarter of 2024 and a net loss of 3.4805 billion yuan in the third quarter of 2025. Read more…
Scout CEO expects first deliveries in 2028
Originally, Volkswagen intended to revive the US brand Scout as early as 2027. However, Scout CEO Scott Keogh has now confirmed that the first deliveries will take longer than expected. In an interview with US media, he stated that the first customers will likely not receive their vehicles until sometime in 2028. Read more…
Lotus to leverage reduced EV import tariffs in Canada
Geely subsidiary Lotus is set to become the first Chinese electric car brand to enter the Canadian market under the significantly reduced tariff rate of 6.1 percent, according to CEO Feng Qingfeng. The Canadian market is expected to offset Lotus’ business in the Middle East, which has become weakened by the US-Iranian war. Read more…
