[ad_1] According to the latest news, SK Innovation was selected by the Beijing Automotive Group (BAIC) as a battery supplier for a new electric car, scheduled for market launch in China in the second half of 2020. The lithium-ion cell  will be produced at SK...

[ad_1] Land Rover has announced that its two bestselling models are now available as plug-in hybrids, seeing the continued shift towards electrification for the company.The Range Rover Evoque and Land Rover Discovery Sport are now both available to order in plug-in...

[ad_1] Nearly 20 per cent of all new cars that joined UK roads last year were either fully electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles, an all-time record, new figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) show. While the number of vehicles on UK roads...

[ad_1] Gas and diesel pickup trucks have a huge disadvantage compared to electric trucks when it comes to deep water. The air intake often limits the wading depth for combustion-engined trucks. That's not the case with electric pickups like the Tesla Cybertruck...

[ad_1] Three YouTube channels? Yes, our good friend and colleague Kyle Conner would likely say, "go big or go home." Why not, right? When you have exclusive, full-time access to an incredible track, you make use of it as much as possible. We're talking about the...

[ad_1] Rich Rebuilds made his fame buying flood damaged Teslas and fixing them up, but that made sense when the rebuilt cars still had Supercharging capability. But now that Tesla is disabling Supercharging on most rebuilt Model S (and probably Model X as well)...

[ad_1] Apart from Steinbauer’s Power Enhancing Module, there’s not much you can do to improve the performance of your Tesla. If you have a Model S 75D, for example, your only official choice is selling it to get a P100D. The owner of the 75D above is not the regular...

[ad_1] Nissan licenses lithium-ion battery technology to APB Corporation Advanced technology will help consumers use low-cost and renewable energy more effectively YOKOHAMA, Japan – Nissan has licensed an advanced technology to APB Corporation that will allow mass...

[ad_1] HONDA HYBRID & EV BATTERIES GET ‘SECOND LIFE’ IN NEW RECYCLING INITIATIVE Honda Motor Europe is expanding its partnership with SNAM to recycle end-of-life batteries from hybrids and electric vehicles in Europe SNAM is investigating the possibility of using...

[ad_1] CEO of Tesla Elon Musk has teased that people who have purchased its CyberTruck can personalise the electric truck with custom wraps. According to a recent tweet from Musk, owners of the Tesla model will be able to wrap the truck, made from ultra-hard 30X...

[ad_1] According to the Chinese media, via Moneyball, the planned manufacturing capacity of the all-new BYD Blade Battery in 2020 will be 10 GWh. Moreover, the unofficial number of packs for the upcoming BYD Han model will be 130,000, which would translate to an...

[ad_1] The battery deployment for passenger xEVs (BEV, PHEV, HEV) in February 2020 amounted to 5.2 GWh, according to the latest report from Adamas Intelligence. Despite that February was actually a very weak month of xEV car sales in China, the market actually...

[ad_1] Machine learning could be used to predict the health of a battery with 10 times higher accuracy than the current industry standard, according to UK researchers behind a new method which demonstrates this. The researchers, from Cambridge and Newcastle...

[ad_1] With the UK pledging to reach carbon neutrality by 2050, and internal combustion vehicles alone accounting for just over 18 per cent of emissions, electric vehicles will need to become a big part of the future transport landscape. Even if widespread adoption is...

[ad_1] Atlis Motor Vehicles has plans to eventually produce a beautiful and utilitarian pickup truck, the XT, with as much as 500 miles of range. In order to achieve this lofty goal, it's going to need a large and capable battery that can charge pretty fast. The...

[ad_1] The Chinese battery and EV tycoon BYD officially launched its all-new Blade Battery, which within the next few months will debut in first electric models. The Blade Battery is essentially a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery, but in a new approach to...

[ad_1] First EIB loan to LG Chem Group and its Polish subsidiary will support the construction of manufacturing facilities for advanced lithium-ion cells and batteries for battery-powered electric vehicles The project will contribute to the clean energy transition and...

[ad_1] The South Korean media reports that LG Chem is significantly increasing (by 70%) the "productivity" of lithium-ion cell production at its plant in Wroclaw, Poland, which remains operational. The report is based on numbers of increased capacity of mixing...

[ad_1] Concerns that electric cars could actually worsen carbon emissions are not true in nearly all parts of the world, according to a study from the University of Exeter. While electric cars represent a pollution-free form of transport on a local level, the carbon...

[ad_1] Northvolt delivers largest order to date to Epiroc 2020-03-13 There are few better illustrations of the opportunities that battery-enabled electrification presents than those on display in Epiroc’s pioneering line up of electric mining machines. The logic is...

[ad_1] Receiving a Nobel prize definitely does not free you from criticism. And we do not even mention Literature prizes, but rather very technical categories, such as Chemistry. Check John B. Goodenough's case. His work with Maria Helena Braga has been presenting...

[ad_1] According to the unofficial reports from China, via the Moneyball, in February 2020 only LG Chem was supplying lithium-ion batteries for the Tesla Gigafactory 3. "LG Chem supplied all Tesla Model 3 February installed batteries, #China media reports citing #auto...

[ad_1] Most motorists would be happy to use smart charging schemes if it meant lowering the cost of their electricity bill, UK Power Networks has found. The utility operator, which owns and maintains electricity cables and lines across London and the South East,...

[ad_1] The number of petrol stations is falling in the UK, but climate change action has little to do with it. Instead, it is a business conscious decision. There was a time when arriving at a petrol station was part of the romance of driving. Many of them were even...

[ad_1] Volkswagen Kassel accelerates the design process for electric motors by building and distributing simulation applications that evaluate the strength of rotor laminations. As more consumers express concern for the environment, electric vehicles are on track to...

[ad_1] Electric car batteries could be damaged from commercial fast-charging stations which subject them to high temperatures and high resistance, potentially causing them to crack, leak and lose storage capacity. Engineers at the University of California, Riverside...

[ad_1] Sunak emphasised the importance of “investing in ideas” and continuing the UK’s historic track record of world-leading science and engineering. “To help our businesses lead the next generation of high productivity industries, we also need to invest now in the...

[ad_1] General Motors (GM) has unveiled a “modular” electric car battery that boasts fast charging, higher capacities and will power the firm's upcoming range of electric vehicles. The automaker, which owns successful brands Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC and Buick, teased...

[ad_1] With global sales of EVs soaring in 2019 to nearly double the previous year, German automaker Volkswagen has warned that owners of new vehicles may be caught unawares as temperatures drop. Range In the depths of winter, range can reduce by up to 50 per cent...

[ad_1] A report from the University of Birmingham published in Nature recently which looked at the recycling of lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles raised concerns that a mountain of waste may be accumulating. The paper, which focused on the challenge of...

[ad_1] The UK government is to accelerate the phase-out of petrol and diesel cars, bringing forward a ban on new vehicles from 2040 to 2035. In 2017, the government announced that it would ban the sale of all new cars with internal combustion engines (ICEs), by 2040...

[ad_1] Its partner, Wright Electric, announced that it was working to develop electric systems that were big enough for a commercial flight of easyJet’s 186-seat electric aircraft, named the Wright 1. The US firm said that it hopes to begin test flights using its...

[ad_1] General Motors (GM) has used a sneak peek of its upcoming Super Bowl ad to tease the return of the Hummer in all-electric form. Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported that GM had purchased some ultra-expensive Super Bowl commercial airtime to...

[ad_1] The ride sharing firm currently wants to go fully electric in the Capital by 2025, which would require converting all of its 45,000 drivers to EVs. The fleet of 40kWh Nissan Leafs, which can travel up to 270km on a single charge and are manufactured in...

[ad_1] The Government has said it is doubling funding for electric chargepoints to £10m next year, in the hope it will convince more drivers to invest in EVs. The money could fund up to another 3,600 chargepoints across the country and make charging at home and...

[ad_1] Electric taxis in Nottingham will be the first vehicles to make use of the technology as it will be installed in taxi ranks in the city as an alternative to plugs and chargepoints, with multiple taxis being able to charge at once. The DfT also said that as...

[ad_1] The upstart EV company has opened up recruitment for its planned design, research and development centre in Shanghai - its first such facility in China. Tesla began Model 3 production at its first Chinese ‘Gigafactory’ (Shanghai’s’ Gigafactory 3) last autumn...

[ad_1] Tesla cars could soon be talking to pedestrians, asking them to hop in or get out of the way on congested roads, the company's CEO Elon Musk has hinted. Sharing a video via Twitter, in which a Tesla car can be seen talking to pedestrians, Musk said the feature...

[ad_1] Engineering consultancy Drive System Design (DSD) is the lead partner in the 12-month project, with the National Composites Centre (NCC) as partner. They will investigate the use of composites in the integrated electric drive unit (EDU) to enable increased...

[ad_1] An Airbus-backed air racing tournament has unveiled an electric-powered sports aircraft at the Dubai Air Show this weekend, billed as the world’s first, as the European planemaker seeks to boost its green aerospace technology. Several companies, including US...

[ad_1] The Morris JE, as it will be known, is the first vehicle from the company, which has purchased the Morris Commercial naming rights. The original vehicle was produced from 1949 until 1961, during which time over 48,600 were made. Many were bought by the British...

[ad_1] Tesla CEO Elon Musk has selected the German capital Berlin as the site for the luxury EV company’s first European factory - its second outside the US - citing Germany’s strong reputation for engineering and the UK’s upcoming exit from the EU as the main reasons...

[ad_1] As Formula E gears up for its upcoming season, we delve into the progress the adolescent motorsport has taken since its inaugural series five years ago and how it has helped pave the way for an electric vehicle future. The 2019/20 Formula E season is just...

[ad_1] Nasa, most prominent for its many Florida-launched exploits into space, has showcased an early version of its first all-electric experimental aircraft, the X-57 ‘Maxwell’, at an aeronautics lab in the California desert. Adapted from an Italian-made Tecnam...

[ad_1] Recycling technologies to dispose of end-of-life batteries for electric cars are not keeping up with the increasing numbers of vehicles produced, a study has found. Researchers at the universities of Newcastle and Leicester said that mounting numbers of old...

[ad_1] The German government has said it wants a million electric vehicle charging points across the country by 2030, an approximately 50-fold increase from the 20,000 points already available. Germany is attempting to 'greenify' its economy – no small feat, given its...