VW dealers sued Scout and Volkswagen on Tuesday in an attempt to block the brand’s direct-to-consumer sales strategy. Lire la suite…
Scout Motors Gets Hit By Another Volkswagen Dealer Lawsuit
Barcelona offers €600 subsidy for electric moped purchases
The Barcelona city administration has launched a four-year subsidy program to replace combustion-engine mopeds with electric mopeds. Funded with a budget of 15 million euros, the program aims to introduce up to 20,000 new e-mopeds and establish a network of battery-swapping stations. Read more…
Lexus discontinues UX 300e electric SUV
Toyota’s luxury brand Lexus has discontinued the all-electric UX 300e in numerous markets. While the UX series remains available, it is now only offered with hybrid powertrains—including in Germany. Read more…
Webinar: Centralized and flexible—scalable measurement at your desk
Two things are important for calibrating control units and performing analog measurements in the workplace or laboratory: it should be compact yet have many ports. The VIO system offers exactly that. Depending on the requirements, a rack can be equipped with 12 slots that can be fitted with different measurement cards as required. Join this… Read more…
Sensata’s new FaultBreak combines EV fuse and contactor functions, clears 16 kA faults at 1 kV
Sensata Technologies has launched its FaultBreak high-voltage contactor for EV power systems, a passive, resettable fault-protection device that combines the functions of a fuse and a contactor in a single component, simplifying high-voltage fault management for more efficient, higher-voltage EV architectures. Sensata says FaultBreak’s fault-clearing capability has been validated up to 16 kA at 1… Read more…
Car Debt Is Crushing American Buyers
The average negative equity on a trade-in hit an all-time high last quarter. Again. How are we going to get out of this? Lire la suite…
Wales compares electric and hydrogen refuse trucks
Wales has launched a trial comparing hydrogen and battery-electric refuse collection vehicles. The demonstration in South East Wales will collect real-world data on energy use, range and operational performance to support future decisions on zero-emission municipal fleets. Read more…
NFI opens Winnipeg facility for fully Canadian-built electric buses
NFI Group has opened a new Customer Acceptance and Delivery (CAD) facility in Winnipeg, enabling full domestic production of heavy-duty transit buses – including battery-electric models – in Canada for the first time in 15 years. The site is set to expand production capacity and support the rollout of zero-emission buses. Read more…
Musk claims Tesla will ‘make AGI’ after years of wrong AI predictions
Elon Musk declared today that Tesla will be “one of the companies to make AGI” and “probably the first to make it in humanoid/atom-shaping form.” It’s the latest in a long string of grand AI predictions from the Tesla CEO. Read more…
BYD’s new Blade EV Battery 2.0 unlocks 1,000+ km pure electric range and ultra-fast charging
BYD’s ultra-luxe electric sedan, the Yangwang U7, will be the first to feature the new Blade Battery 2.0. The new EV battery boasts a pure electric range of 1,006 km (625 miles) under CLTC conditions. Read more…
Fleet EV charging as a service: how ABM designs, builds and operates depots
EV charging becomes an essential corporate service. “Focus on your core business” is a tried-and-true business maxim. Companies large and small rely on service providers to take care of logistical tasks so they can concentrate on whatever it is they do to generate profit. That’s what ABM is all about—it provides a vast array of services for… Read more…
VinFast’s New Ultra-Luxury Models Look Great
The designs of the “Lac Hong” models are fantastic. We’ll see how they feel and drive in the real world, though. Lire la suite…
Variscite says its system-on-module platform cuts EV charger development timelines by 50%
A US-based EV charging station manufacturer cut its development timeline by about 50% after adopting a system-on-module (SoM) platform from Variscite, according to a case study published by the embedded computing vendor. Variscite is pitching its SoMs as a faster path to production hardware for EVSE makers, with pin-compatible module families that let developers upgrade… Read more…
We ‘Totally Would’ve Done It Differently’: Ford CEO On The Failure Of The F-150 Lightning
“I mean, look, we didn’t know what we didn’t know,” he says. The F-150 Lightning was a lesson the company had to learn the hard way. Lire la suite…
FedEx deploys 14 Mercedes eSprinter vans in the UAE
As part of its transition to zero-emission vehicles, FedEx has deployed 14 Mercedes-Benz eSprinter vans in the UAE. This marks the first time the company has introduced the German electric van in the Middle East. Read more…
Changan subsidiary develops detachable range extender
Changan’s subsidiary Hunan Tianyan is developing a retrofittable Power Turbine Generator (PTG) to equip pure electric vehicles with a range extender—flexibly attachable as needed. Read more…
The BYD Song Ultra arrives with laser eyes and a folding bed
BYD finally revealed the production version of the Song Ultra EV. We have seen drawings and camouflaged test cars for months, and now the real thing is finally here. This new SUV is a big step forward for the brand, especially when it comes to technology that helps the car drive itself. One of the first things people noticed during… Read more…
Aptera builds first solar EV on validation production line
California-based solar EV developer Aptera Motors has built the first vehicle on its validation assembly line. The company says the milestone marks an important step towards regulatory certification and the start of initial customer deliveries. Read more…
EU unveils Industrial Accelerator Act to boost ‘Made in Europe’ clean tech
EU Industry Commissioner Stéphane Séjourné has unveiled the long-awaited ‘Industrial Accelerator Act.’ With this industrial strategy, the EU Commission aims to boost domestic production, create jobs, and make the EU less dependent on the USA and China. This will impact numerous sectors—including the automotive industry. Read more…
MAN invests €300 million in service network with focus on e-mobility
MAN Truck & Bus plans to invest around €300 million in the expansion of its European service network by 2030. According to the company, this represents the largest investment programme of its kind in its history, with €100 million earmarked specifically for electric mobility and digitalisation. Read more…
