Mary Barra speaks next to the new Chevrolet Silverado EV at CES 2022. General Motors Co. Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra showed off the company’s electric Chevrolet Silverado at the Continue Reading
General Motors Co. GM -4.56% showed off an electric Chevy Silverado. The Chrysler brand is ditching gas engines and going to an all-electric lineup. And Japan’s Sony Group Corp. SONY 0.02% plans to jump into the electric-vehicle fray, creating its Continue Reading
Airline fuel efficiency stayed high in 2021 due to pandemic lull Airline traffic in Europe is expected to recover to 70%-90% of pre-pandemic levels in 2022, according to the European Continue Reading
Sony Group Corp. said it would create a car unit and explore entering the electric-vehicle market, in another sign of how the electronics and car businesses are overlapping. At the CES Continue Reading
Deere & Co. said Tuesday that it has developed a fully autonomous tractor designed for large-scale farming and that it plans to sell the machine later this year. The vehicle has Continue Reading
Sometime after 3 a.m. Tuesday, as an epic 48-mile winter traffic jam on Interstate 95 in Virginia dragged on, a long-haul trucker from Canada heard a knock at the door of his cab. It Continue Reading
The Biden Administration recently unveiled an ambitious plan to build a network of electric vehicle charging stations across the country. Fast chargers are needed, because the amount of time it Continue Reading
Ford Motor Company plans to raise production of the F-150 Lightning pickup at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn to 150,000 trucks per year to meet high demand, Beginning Continue Reading
Tesla Inc. TSLA -1.27% annual vehicle deliveries surged 87% in 2021, growing at their fastest pace in years, as the company leveraged its Silicon Valley roots to overcome computer-chip shortages that have plagued the global auto Continue Reading
Tesla smashed its own production and delivery records in the final months of last year, shrugging off supply chain and other problems to hand customers the keys to more than Continue Reading
The biggest names in the auto industry are racing to build battery plants in the United States. The Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technologies Office has listed 13 new battery plant Continue Reading
Commissioning, upscaling of Ett gigafactory to continue through into 2022 Company to boost output capacity at Ett to 60 GWh/year over next few years Swedish battery maker Northvolt assembled its Continue Reading
The full New Jersey state Senate approved legislation Monday that would require the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) to develop and implement an electric school bus program. The Continue Reading
The City of New York will invest $420 million in electric vehicles, charging infrastructure, and alternative fuels to accelerate the transition to an all-electric municipal vehicle fleet. The new investments, Continue Reading
The airline industry was battered during Covid due to global travel restrictions and then, as the world began to open up, by rising jet fuel prices Airlines celebrated last month Continue Reading
The last puzzle piece needed for a complete recovery in oil demand is falling into place with air travel consumption showing the first signs of sustained growth since the pandemic. Continue Reading
Passengers watch inflight entertainment during a flight from Los Angeles International Airport. A rebound in global airline capacity should accelerate in the second half of next year, but trans-Atlantic traffic Continue Reading
The key to the momentous global energy transition is what Goldman Sachs calls the “great battery race”, and while attention has been absorbed by lithium, one critical mineral in the Continue Reading
National carrier Malaysia Airlines has completed its first flight using sustainable aviation fuel and plans to make SAF a greater part of its fuel choice for regular flights by 2025, Continue Reading
Experts are predicting that air taxis could be closer to becoming a reality as battery tech and autonomous flight becomes more advanced. Electric aircraft startups are already making major waves Continue Reading
Ford is launching a new sustainable charging program that allows plug-in electric vehicle owners in California to opt into carbon-neutral charging at home, reducing their carbon footprint from energy used Continue Reading
General Motors has begun deliveries of its first next-generation electric vehicles, the GMC HUMMER EV Edition 1 Pickup and BrightDrop EV600 light commercial vehicle, both built on the Ultium Platform. Continue Reading
The rapid growth of the hybrid and electric vehicle segment could potentially cause demand for electrical steel to outpace supply from 2025, according to a new report by a team Continue Reading
For the second time this year, the UK is slashing the grants available to buyers of electric vehicles (EVs) as it looks to curb spending and targets less expensive models. Continue Reading
The world’s biggest automakers are planning to spend over a half a trillion dollars on electric vehicles and batteries over the next decade. Toyota, Nissan and Volkswagen are all recently Continue Reading
Toyota said it will pour $35bn into a shift towards electric vehicles as the world’s biggest carmaker sets itself up for direct rivalry with Tesla and joins other groups in Continue Reading
In a media briefing in Tokyo, Toyota Motor president Akio Toyoda said that Toyota Motor will roll out 30 battery EV models by 2030, globally offering a full lineup of Continue Reading
Toyota Motor (7203.T) will make another major strategic shift in the coming months. The $250 billion Japanese carmaker in December dramatically increased its electric-vehicle ambitions. But the company run by Continue Reading
As it moves closer to commercialization of its hydrogen-electric technology, ZeroAvia ( earlier post ) has secured a new raise of $35 million to help develop its 2-5MW zero-emission powertrain Continue Reading
Honda Research Institute USA is conducting a pilot program in Ohio to evaluate a system that uses GPS coordinates and sensors such as cameras to collect real-time road condition information Continue Reading
The White House unveiled Dec. 13 a plan to increase access to electric vehicle charging infrastructure as part of President Joe Biden’s goal for electric vehicles to account for half Continue Reading
Toyota Motor Corp. TM -3.42% on Tuesday stepped up its commitment to battery electric vehicles, saying it would have 30 EV models available by 2030 and aimed to sell 3.5 Continue Reading
The Biden administration released an ambitious federal strategy Monday to build 500,000 charging stations for electric vehicles across the country and bring down the cost of electric cars with the Continue Reading
German carmakers have criticized US president Joe Biden’s plans to offer bigger subsidies to buyers of American electric vehicles from unionized manufacturers than to those purchasing imported models or those Continue Reading
General Motors Co. GM 6.02% plans to invest more than $3 billion to make electric vehicles in Michigan, people familiar with the matter said, a potential win for the car maker’s home state after Continue Reading
Electric passenger vehicle sales are on a tear. In the first quarter of 2010, 395 EVs were sold worldwide. Last quarter, more than 1.7 million were sold — of those, Continue Reading
bp took its first major step into electrification in the US with the acquisition of AMPLY Power, an electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management provider for fleets that operate Continue Reading
Toyota Motor North America has selected Greensboro-Randolph Megasite as the location for Toyota’s new $1.29-billion automotive battery manufacturing plant, to be named Toyota Battery Manufacturing, North Carolina (TBMNC). When it Continue Reading
The electric revolution is the biggest change the auto industry has seen since Ford invented the assembly line in 1913. But an impending supply shortage has put one critical resource Continue Reading
British Airways and Phillips 66 Limited have entered into a multi-year supply agreement for sustainable aviation fuel produced at the Phillips 66 Humber Refinery, making the airline the first in Continue Reading
Half a million jobs would be at risk under EU plans to effectively ban combustion-engine cars by 2035, according to European auto suppliers, the latest in a series of stark Continue Reading
Aemetis, Inc., a renewable fuels company focused on negative carbon intensity products, has an offtake agreement with American Airlines for 280 million gallons of blended fuel containing sustainable aviation fuel Continue Reading
British Airways and US-based refiner Phillips 66 signed a multi-year supply agreement which will provide the airline with sustainable aviation fuel produced at the Humber refinery, according to a joint Continue Reading
Highlights Marathon Petroleum’s Virent provides key components World Energy produced SAF used as fuel Jet demand impacted from omicron variant United Airlines is flying a jet with more than 100 Continue Reading
You can save your prized Aston Martin DB6, Porsche 911 or Mustang from the museum of combustion engine history. Or your Fiat 500 and Renault Clio, for that matter. That’s Continue Reading
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that from 2022, new homes and commercial buildings will be required to install EV charging points. This new regulatory framework has sparked a debate Continue Reading
Nissan NSANY -3.55% Motor Co. said Monday it plans to spend $17.6 billion over the next five years as it adds 20 new battery-powered vehicles to its lineup. The company hopes to recapture Continue Reading
Honda Motor recently unveiled its work on two key advanced future safety technologies being developed with the goal of realizing “zero traffic collision fatalities involving Honda motorcycles and automobiles globally Continue Reading
Car-rental customers could soon see more electric-vehicle options on airport lots and other places where they are looking to reserve a ride. The rental-car industry, long a big bulk-purchaser of Continue Reading
Electric vehicle sales have soared by 160% over the past year, and the trend is showing no sign of slowing. More than 300 million new EV charging ports will be Continue Reading
