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Month: January 2024

Mars Puts 300 Electric Trucks on The Road in Europe

Specifically, Mars has started electrifying its transport route between the Pet Nutrition factory and office location in Verden (Lower Saxony) and its logistics centre in Minden (North Rhine-Westphalia). Einride provided Mars with two Mercedes-Benz eActros 300s and two charging stations…

White House Vetoes Resolution Impacting Buy America Standards for Electric Vehicle Chargers

President Joe Biden has vetoed Senate Joint Resolution 38, a resolution aimed at disapproving of the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) action regarding “Waiver of Buy America Requirements for Electric Vehicle Chargers.” In a letter addressed to the Senate, President Biden…

Black Book, Recurrent Team up to Launch Industry’s First Battery Adjusted EV Valuations

On January 23, Black Book introduced the industry’s first electric vehicle (EV) valuations under Battery Adjusted Values. These values include battery modifications based on information from Recurrent, a leading authority in EV analytics. Battery Adjusted Values will apply an additional…

China Says EU’s ‘unfair’ EV Subsidies Probe Risks Damaging Ties

China’s ambassador to the EU, Fu Cong, criticized the EU’s probe into Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers, calling it unfair. Cong emphasized China’s cooperation with the investigation to avoid trade measures. He pointed out that the EU also subsidizes its own…

Transtector Introduces Level 2 Electric Vehicle Charging Cables

Transtector, an Infinite Electronics brand and a leading provider of end-to-end power and signal integrity solutions, has released a new line of electric vehicle (EV) charging cables. The cables are designed for the increasingly popular Level 2 charging application, and…

German EV Charging Company Plans $14.4M North American HQ in Corktown

Yet another electric vehicle charging company is targeting Southeast Michigan for operations. German EV charging company EcoG GMBH plans to invest $14.4 million and create a North American headquarters in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood, adjacent to Ford Motor Co.’s roughly $800…

The CEO Behind China’s leading Producer of EV Batteries Asks the Davos Crowd to Not let Geopolitics Get in the Way of Progress

Electric vehicles are quickly becoming a geopolitical hot potato. The U.S. and Europe are worried that cars made in China will soon flood their markets, outcompeting legacy automakers and leaving the West reliant on a country it increasing views as…

The US Postal Service’s New EV Chargers are Here

The US Postal Service debuted its first EV charging stations in Atlanta, Georgia, today, the first of many expected to be deployed at “hundreds” of new sorting and delivery centers this year. It’s a key step in the Postal Service’s…

CALIFORNIA INVESTING IN EV CHARGING RELIABILITY STATEWIDE WITH $63 MILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDING

In a boost for electric vehicle reliability, the U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded Caltrans more than $63 million in federal funds to fix and install more than 1,000 chargers at 300 sites statewide. The $63.7 million from the federal…

Europe Over-reliant on Chinese EV batteries, Warns South Korea’s SK On

Europe is in danger of becoming overdependent on Chinese electric-car batteries, said a leading South Korean industry executive, as the continent struggles to agree on a coherent strategy to boost domestic production. With European carmakers set to increase imports of cheap…