06 Jan Carmakers report booming UK sales of electric vehicles
Booming electric car sales were a bright spot in a tough car market last year amid disruption to global supply chains hitting manufacturers, according to fresh data....
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21 Dec Audi boosting investments in future vehicle projects to 2026 to €37B, €18B for electrification and hybridization alone
With its investment planning for the next five years, Audi is accelerating the transition toward becoming a provider of networked and sustainable premium mobility. In particular, advance payments for future vehicle projects are being increased once again, with a sum total of about €37 billion....
08 Dec Europe reaches milestone of one million battery EVs sold in 2021
Western Europe has passed the milestone one million battery electric vehicles (BEV) sold in a year, with every tenth car a full BEV, and every fifth car a plug in of some sort, according to the latest data....
16 Nov Technology breakthrough as Northvolt produces first ever lithium-ion battery cell with 100% recycled nickel, manganese and cobalt
One of the criticisms of lithium-ion batteries has long been that they cannot be recycled, that each new battery therefore requires fossil-fuel-powered energy-intensive mining of metals such as lithium, nickel, manganese and cobalt....
19 Oct Ford to invest £230m in electric vehicle plant on Merseyside
Ford has announced it will invest £230m in a Merseyside transmission factory to upgrade it to make parts for electric vehicles, in a significant fillip for northern England’s automotive industry....
24 Sep Daimler expands European battery network with 33% stake in ACC venture
Daimler's (DAIGn.DE) Mercedes-Benz said on Friday it will take a 33% stake in battery cell manufacturer Automotive Cells Company (ACC), expanding its European sourcing of battery cells key to its EV ambitions and currently produced primarily in Asia....
03 Sep Opel battery cell plant to get $500 mln German govt grant
Opel will receive a 437 million euro ($518 million) government grant for its battery cell factory in Kaiserslautern, Germany’s economy ministry said on Thursday, as part of a wider European initiative to create a homegrown battery industry....
19 Aug Battery developers team up to solve electric car puzzle
The leading names in Britain’s development of electric car batteries, including Oxford University and Johnson Matthey, have formed a company to take the next generation of automotive energy storage out of the laboratory to produce power packs on an industrial scale....
28 Jul Rio Tinto to build $2.4bn lithium mine in green energy metals push
Rio Tinto Group has announced it will build a $2.4bn lithium mine in Serbia, in a bid to become the largest source of lithium supply in Europe for fifteen years....
21 Jul BASF, Porsche to develop high-performing lithium-ion batteries
Germany’s BASF said on Wednesday it has been chosen as the exclusive partner to develop high-performing lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles with Cellforce Group, a joint venture between Porsche and Customcells....