VW Slashes 7,000 Jobs to Refocus on Electric Cars
Volkswagen AG plans to cut as many as 7,000 administrative positions over the next five years amid an industrywide scramble to slash costs and make room on the balance sheet Continue Reading
Volkswagen Group now planning 22M EVs in ten years; 70 new electric models by 2028
The Volkswagen Group is now planning to launch almost 70 new electric models in the next ten years instead of the 50 previously planned. As a result, the projected number Continue Reading
Tesla introducing V3 Supercharging; up to 250 kW per car
Tesla announced that it is introducing V3 Supercharging, which will support peak rates of up to 250 kW per car. V3 represents a new architecture for Supercharging. A new 1MW Continue Reading
Volkswagen Launches $50B EV Race To Challenge Tesla
One of the world’s largest carmakers, Germany’s Volkswagen AG, is betting big on electric vehicles and e-mobility with a war chest of around US$50 billion to challenge Tesla, which, for Continue Reading
Are Semi-Solid State Batteries A Gamechanger?
The EV battery race intensified this week with the announcement that a startup financially supported by the U.S. Department of Energy had released a lithium ion battery that stores more Continue Reading
Adamas Intelligence: EV market is growing fast, the EV itself is evolving even faster
In 2018, 4.28 million BEVs, PHEVs and HEVs were sold globally—an increase of 28.6% over the year prior—amounting to 5.2% of total global passenger vehicle sales, according to Adamas Intelligence. Continue Reading
JATO: 2018 record year for EVs; sales up 74% to 1.26M units; overall market stable, as SUVs rule
2018 marked a record year for the sale of battery-powered electric vehicles, according to data from JATO Dynamics. Passenger electric cars recorded 1.26 million sales throughout the year, up by Continue Reading
As More Electric Cars Arrive, What’s The Future For Gas-Powered Engines?
Most American automobiles are powered by internal combustion engines: Gas or diesel goes in, tiny explosions power pistons and turn a crankshaft, the car moves forward, and carbon dioxide goes Continue Reading
BMW seeking quiet cooling technologies for fast charging of EVs
BMW is seeking alternative cooling technologies for vehicle batteries to further improve peak cooling capacity during fast charging while reducing cooling components’ vibration and noise emission. Solutions that meet the Continue Reading
DOE launches its first Li-ion battery recycling R&D center: ReCell; driving toward closed-loop recycling
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has launched its first lithium-ion battery recycling center, called the ReCell Center . Recycled materials from lithium-ion batteries can be reused in new batteries, Continue Reading