New EU laws make Volkswagen ramp up on EVs

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In the light of new EU laws on CO2 emissions for passenger cars, Volkswagen has had to rethink its electrification policy and produce more EVs than planned. This means more EV models and more manufacturing plants. As we reported new EU regulations on CO2 targets were announced early this week. CO2 emissions from new cars will […]

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Opel Wants 1,300 EV Chargers In Its “Electric City”

One public charging point will fall on just 72 inhabitants Opel has announced a new initiative (in partnership with Rüsselsheim and the RheinMain University) to convert its hometown – Rüsselsheim am Main in Germany – to an “Electric City” through installing up to 1,300 charging points by 2020. The federal government approved a €12.8 million grant for the […]

BMW and Daimler allowed to merge on mobility services

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After the approval of EU competition authorities, the US antitrust authorities have now also approved the merger of the mobility services of Daimler and BMW. This means that nothing stands in the way of the merger.  The planned merger should enable the automotive giants to form a joint venture that will allow both car-makers a sizable chunk […]

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Solaris Scores Electric Bus Order From Germany

First private bus company order for an electric bus in Germany In most cases, electric bus orders are driven by public transport agencies with some incentives or special programs. As the market matures and EV value proposition improves, also private companies are placing orders. Recently Josef Ettenhuber GmbH ordered three Solaris Urbino 12 electric, as […]

All-Electric Car Sales In Germany Hit New High In November 2018

Germany is on track for over 68,000 sales in 2018 at 1.9% market share Passenger plug-in electric car sales in Germany were in November about the same as a year ago at 6,266 and 2.3% market share. And there is a reason behind it. While the all-electric sales hit an all-time record, the plug-in hybrids […]

Audi confirms: e-tron electric car delayed until 2019

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The year 2018 is almost over, yet the Audi e-tron is still a long time coming. An inquiry by electrive.net finds that there are problems getting type approval and that Audi has to postpone the start of deliveries. Customers are impatient. There had been signs of a delay of the start of series production of […]

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ChargePoint To Equip M-B Dealerships With Charging Stations For EQC

ChargePoint will be supplying Mercedes-Benz dealers with chargers ahead of the launch of the EQC Daimler selected ChargePoint to deploy charging solutions for retailers in Germany (Mercedes-Benz Cars, Vans and Trucks), which sounds reasonable as the German manufacturer has been a shareholder of ChargePoint since March 2017. Daimler is gearing up for the launch of Mercedes-Benz EQ […]

Audi agrees to assemble battery packs in Germany

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It has taken them some wrestling but now the Audi management and worker’s council agreed on installing a battery assembly in Ingolstadt. The site thus builds up “competence for future technologies” says the union, that had before managed to convince Audi to build two upcoming electric SUVs here. The timeline has 2021 and 2022 respectively […]

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FastCharge Pumps Over 400 kW Of Juice Into Prototype Porsche

For when 350 kW charging is not enough… The industry consortium (Allego GmbH, BMW Group, Phoenix Contact E-Mobility, Porsche AG, Siemens AG) involved in the research project “FastCharge”, started a year ago, launched an ultra-fast charging station rated for 450 kW and at up to 920 V. This special prototype charger puts the Combined Charging […]