Chery will run its German business from Frankfurt am Main and start selling cars there in the first half of 2027. The Chery Q, its first EU electric model, lists a 41 kWh battery…
Carmakers quote range in different test standards. Enter a figure and see what it means in WLTP, EPA, NEDC and CLTC.
EV Realty bought an industrial site in Ontario, California, for its next electric semi truck charging hub. We run the diesel-versus-electric arithmetic per 100 miles and look at…
InsideEVs tested New York's first lamppost EV charger in Brooklyn: $0.39/kWh, about 30 miles of range in an hour, 9.6 kW from a streetlight pole. We ran the cost per 100 km and…
Bucharest will buy 40 battery-electric buses, 45 trolleybuses and 10 trams using €87.44 million of non-repayable EU money. The city covers only VAT, about €18.4 million at…
The EU-funded EV4EU project has finished four years of work on bidirectional charging. In Portugal, household charging costs fell by 8.6% on average. Here is what the pilots found…
Honda will start testing inductive charging built into a 300-metre stretch of public highway in Chiba prefecture in 2027. The system sends up to 150 kW to a vehicle moving at 120…
France and Germany have agreed to back a plan that would lower the EU's 2035 emissions cut for new cars from 90% to 80%. The proposal goes to Brussels on 15 October. Six member…
Nio's network completed 1,192,221 battery swaps from October 1 to 7, 2026, across 4,168 stations. That is 286 swaps per site and 6.5% more per station than during the May holiday.
Chalmers researchers modelled battery packs that switch weak cells out of the circuit. Best case in simulation: over 20 per cent more pack life. Nothing is in production, and the…
Voltix has opened a truck charging site in Vierzon with four points at up to 1.5 MW each, with CCS and MCS connectors. We ran the energy cost per 100 km against a diesel tractor.
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BP Pulse gets ultra-fast charging at more than 30 Roadchef motorway service areas from 2027. Roadchef takes over 12 BP forecourts, and targets 1,000 charging bays by 2030.
FedEx has ordered 2,000 Harbinger electric box trucks in the US for more than $300M. The stated $800M lifetime diesel saving implies a 7.5-year payback, but depot charging and…
A viral video from Nanning shows two children swinging on the overhead cable of a 1 MW BYD flash charger. The electrical risk in standby is small; the mechanical stress on a…
Water, the charging brand of Brite Energy Partners, is adding 123 chargers at 23 South Korean highway sites, 62 of them at 400 kW. The promotional price of €0.19 per kWh undercuts…
Suzuki has unveiled the e-Sky, its first passenger kei-car EV, from ¥2.12 million (about €11,600) before subsidies. BYD supplies the 26 kWh LFP battery; WLTP range is 310 km and…
Toyota opened a 2,800 m² battery development centre in Saline, Michigan on 5 October. Engineers there will test packs for hybrids, plug-in hybrids, hydrogen cars and EVs.
BYD's CNIPA application CN 122868832 A describes a storage cabinet with cell modules submerged in dielectric fluid below and electrical equipment in a dry upper chamber, with…
BMW has started series production of Gen6 batteries in Irlbach-Straßkirchen. The €1 billion plant runs two shifts and supplies 108.7 kWh packs for the new i3, quoted at 906 km…
Kia's US arm is offering up to $10,000 in customer cash on the EV9 and Niro EV, $5,000 on the EV6 and $1,500 on every EV3 until 2 November 2026. We converted the discounts into…
BYD delivered 456,713 passenger cars in September 2026, Geely Galaxy 130,479 and Leapmotor 105,656. More interesting than the ranking itself is how much of that volume already…
Boston is suing the US Department of Transportation over a cancelled $20 million grant for the Roxbury project, where EV charging made up less than one per cent of the budget.
Geely pays 640 million yuan (about €84 million) plus its Yiyi Power subsidiary for 30% of Nio Power, and Nio takes 10% of Geely's Haohan Energy. The pair will interconnect…
EU electric car sales hit 1.64 million in the first eight months of 2026, up 45%. Five of the twenty best-selling EVs now start below €30,000, and running costs widen the gap with…
Kia is Europe's fastest-growing top 10 car brand after eight months of 2026, with electric registrations up 58% and a 4.1% market share. What the ACEA figures mean for family…
Norwegian food wholesaler ASKO hands operation and maintenance of its e-truck charging network to ABB E-Mobility. Our maths: 5.5 GWh a year, roughly 92 MWh per charger — and about…
Washington has finalised a 34.9 mpg fleet standard for 2031, down from 50.4 mpg under Biden, and kills CAFE credit trading from 2028. Our conversion: 6.74 l/100 km instead of 4.67…
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