CEO Elon Musk has sent an e-mail to his employees about Tesla’s financial situation and announced a new cost-saving initiative. Simultaneously, Tesla is losing another high-ranking manager as head of communications Dave Arnold leaves the company.
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Volkswagen’s plans for future plants are changing rapidly: from 2023, the purely electric small car for less than 20,000 euros is to be built in Eastern Europe instead of in Emden in Germany as originally planned. The Zwickau plant in Germany will probably hand over the production of the I.D. Crozz to Emden.
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Based on the Twizy, Renault presented a new micromobile for transporting people and goods over short distances called the EZ-POD. The concept vehicle is battery-powered and fully automated. The pods can also be joined together to form convoys for transporting larger groups.
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Honda’s first fully electric series model for the European market – the Honda e – can be reserved here in Europe with immediate effect. The reservation fee, which guarantees interested parties a place on the waiting list to order the electricity, is 800 pounds in the UK.
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The Australian startup ACE EV (Australian Clean Energy Electric Vehicle Group) is building a production facility in Adelaide to manufacture electric vehicles in cooperation with truck body makers Aldom Motor from 2020. The aim is to increase production to up to 15,000 vehicles per year by 2025.
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German logistics group DB Schenker is now using Einride’s fully electric autonomous T-Pod truck in Jönköping, Sweden, to transport goods on a public road. Swedish authorities recently gave their approval for the endeavour.
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Sensor-Technik Wiedemann (STW) is currently presenting its powerMELA duo280 drive package for commercial vehicles with an output of 160 to 280 kW at Power2Drive in Munich. This is a drive solution that is suitable for retrofitting.
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Evum Motors, the spin-off of the TU Munich for the commercialization of the all-electric commercial vehicle aCar, is back with some news. In Bayerbach, Bavaria, the site is currently being prepared for series production and a workshop with a showroom is being set up in Munich.
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Panasonic, in cooperation with SmartE and qQuick, has launched a new EV charging network for India named Nymbus. In the first phase, Panasonic will deploy the service on 150 SmartE electric three-wheelers and on 25 qQuick two-wheelers in the Delhi-NCR region.
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It is now official that an e-mobility alliance focused on user-friendliness is being formed in the Alpine nation: The eleven partner companies of the Federal Association for Electric Mobility (BEÖ) and the joint venture Smatrics are networking their charging stations in Austria.
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Hubject has turned their Open InterCharge Protocol (OICP) into an open source protocol to facilitate connectivity with their popular roaming platform. In addition to publishing OICP, Hubject will also allow connection to the platform via other roaming protocols.
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The energy group EnBW announces the construction of a further 2,000 fast charging points at up to 1,000 locations throughout Germany. Completion by the end of 2020 was named as the time window. The declared aim by the company is to provide customers with comprehensive rapid charging in the DACH region.
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Slovakian-based e-mobility company InoBat and Hungarian oil company MOL announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to develop hydrogen projects. The focus will be on activities in Central and Eastern Europe.
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The German automobile supplier Dräxlmaier, located near Stuttgart, is starting series production of the 800-volt total battery system for the Porsche Taycan. For this purpose, the Bavarian company built their first battery assembly plant on an area of 10,000 square meters.
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Tesla has formally completed the acquisition of energy storage specialist Maxwell Technologies announced in February. In order to take control of the company, which specializes in supercapacitors and batteries, Tesla is transferring shares worth around $235 million.
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A fleet of 43 new fully electric buses from Irizar have hit the roads in Amiens, France. Keolis is now operating the vehicles as part of their 136 vehicle fleet, which feature a rapid charge for when the buses are on the road.
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US heavy-duty vehicle manufacturer, Proterra Inc. has just launched Proterra Energy fleet solutions, a full suite of options that enable turnkey delivery of a complete energy ecosystem for heavy-duty electric fleets, including design, build, financing, operations, maintenance and energy optimization.
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Renault is cooperating with the French shopping centre operator Klépierre to offer customers a car-sharing service, including electric vehicles and charging stations. The launch is scheduled for June in various regions of France.
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The German Federal Council approved the Ordinance on Small Electric Vehicles (eKFV) today, which will soon allow electric kick scooters to be used on the road. However, the government will have to implement changes which had made a prerequisite for its approval.
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In the USA, Democrats are launching a new bill to end the sale of cars with internal combustion engines nationwide from 2040. As an interim goal, the draft stipulates that by 2030 half of all new sold vehicles must be emissions-free.
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The Swedish sharing provider Voi Technology has now presented its expansion programme for Europe. It includes 150 cities and municipalities and is associated with the roll-out of a number of improved electric scooters and e-bikes.
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The electric two-wheeler startup founded by designer Erik Buell together with Frederic Vasseur (Spark Racing), has been renamed Fuell and has started pre-sales for its first products.
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Lilium has presented their new electrically powered flying taxi prototype for the first time, which is designed to carry five passengers. At the beginning of May, the team also completed its maiden flight with the new aircraft.
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University of Illinois student researchers are leading a NASA-funded project to develop a novel approach to all-electric aviation. The team is investigating the use of fuel cells to power an all-electric aircraft.
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The Norwegian shipping company Hurtigruten is building the startup Brim Explorer, a battery-powered catamaran for polar water exploration. Starting in spring 2020, the ship will undertake various daily excursions under the Hurtigruten Svalbard brand.
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Swiss ABB has scored a contract from Niagara Falls tour operator Maid of the Mist to equip two passenger vessels with enough battery capacity to see the natural spectacle emission-free. The electric ships are set to launch this season.
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At INTERALPIN 2019 in Innsbruck, the international trade fair for Alpine technologies, Kässbohrer Geländefahrzeug AG, presented the first fully electric snow groomer, the PistenBully 100 E. The vehicle is just a study but has already concluded successful driving tests.
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