Tesla has to install a software update in almost 1.1 million of its electric cars in the USA due to safety concerns. The safety authority NHTSA points to a malfunction of the automated window closing system in several Tesla models.
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VW is asking the owners of around 10,000 ID.3 and ID.4 electric cars worldwide to visit the workshops. Battery cells could show an increased self-discharge due to a manufacturing defect.
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Renault’s battery-electric R5 Turbo 3E show car is reminiscent of the Renault 5 Turbo and its successor Turbo 2. Inspired by video games, the reinterpretation has two electric motors that together produce 280 kW and an instant torque of 700 Nm.
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Kitty Hawk, the electric aviation startup backed by Google co-founder Larry Page is shutting down. The company said in a tweet and a LinkedIn post that it was winding down operations. “We’re still working on the details of what’s next”, the posts on social media read.
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For the first time, BMW will use plastic trim parts in the electric models of the ‘New Class’ from 2025 onwards, the raw material for which consists of around 30 per cent recycled fishing nets and ropes.
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Mercedes plug-in hybrids currently come without Mode 2 charging cables, which enable charging at household sockets. “There is currently a worldwide supply shortage of certain semiconductor components,” Mercedes confirmed. Mercedes could not say when customers would get their cables.
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In a new video, BMW shows the prototype of a purely electric off-roader. However, the 400 kW ‘Dune Taxi’ is apparently only a one-off for promotional purposes.
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The Chinese electric car manufacturer Aiways is bringing a special one-off of its electric SUV model U5 to Oktoberfest in Munich with a motto of a beer tap with a charging plug.
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The Max Adventure team drove an all-electric Kia EV6 from Oslo to Lisbon in 89 hours and 12 minutes as part of the ‘Driven To Extremes Euro EV Marathon’. The journey covered 5,109 kilometres through 16 countries. Thus, the team beat the original goal of 120 hours and added one country to their itinerary.
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At the ID. Meeting in Locarno, VW not only presented the off-road concept ID. XTREME, but also the ID.5 GTX Xcite. The show car is based on the ID.5 GTX with an 82 kWh battery and is a single body.
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Tesla has to improve its driver assistance system Autopilot in Germany once more. The Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) identified weaknesses in the system months ago. Tesla has since been able to resolve some of the complaints, but according to a KBA spokesperson, “further remedial measures are still being tested and validated”.
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Fastned has announced a four-part podcast called ‘Confessions of a Petroholic’. The series follows young petrolhead “Tom” exploring the twist and turns of maybe going electric in conversation with more (in)famous EV advocates.
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The GM subsidiary plans to launch the Electra EV next year and wants to sell only electric cars (and SUVs) by 2030. For dealerships wanting to walk in step with the change, this will entail some retooling, but for others, the company is offering buy-out.
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California is currently experiencing massive problems with its power grids due to a heat wave. Therefore, the transmission grid operator CAISO calls on the population to reduce their electricity consumption in the evening and avoid charging electric cars.
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This news is bizarre at best and outrageous at worst – French insurance company AXA faked a Tesla battery fire to “illustrate” the risk they see in electric cars. The insurer has since made a u-turn and delivered an apology that seems overdue.
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Roborace will be the world’s first racing series for autonomous electric vehicles. The electric racing vehicles are controlled by an AI and are operated without a driver in the vehicle.
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Two journalists from the British magazine What Car? say they set a new (unofficial) world record by driving a Porsche Taycan through 14 European countries within 24 hours. When the pair started out, Google Maps calculated that they could drive through 13 countries in 19 hours and 30 minutes.
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Renault has announced a purely electric camping van study for the Düsseldorf Caravan Salon starting at the end of August. Called the Hippie Caviar Hotel, the prototype offers a preview of the first purely battery-powered Renault Trafic, which will make its market debut later this year.
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The current heat wave in China, which marks the worst heatwave since 1961, is now also hampering car production accross the country. After extreme heat and drought led to power outages, the Sichuan province ordered most factories there to close for six days.
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Mazda has announced that its only electric model, the MX-30, is now sold out in the USA. Only 505 units of the BEV model were sold by the Japanese carmaker within ten months of availability there – and all of them in California.
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The Bank of Australia will stop granting new fossil fuel car loans from 2025. A post on their website explains, “We’ve chosen 2025 because the change to electric vehicles needs to happen quickly.”
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British coachbuilder Wilcox Limousines has converted the Nissan Leaf into a hearse. The conversion is based on the 62 kWh battery Leaf and costs £109,950. In July, the company delivered the first Leaf hearse to London-based funeral director Leverton & Sons.
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Geely’s electric car brand has broken two Guinness World Records with its first model. The Zeekr 001 secured the titles for the fastest drift ever achieved by an electric car (207.996 km/h) and the fastest electric car slalom (50 cones in 49.05 seconds).
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Norwegian tuner Zyrus Engineering announces a tuning kit for the VW ID.Buzz. For those who want to give their electric minibus a lowered look with a rear spoiler, rear diffuser, front splitter, mirror covers, side skirts and 22-inch wheels.
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A lawsuit filed by the German regulatory agency ‘Wettbewerbszentrale’ against Tesla for allegedly misleading advertising claims regarding the driver assistance system ‘Autopilot’ has failed.
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In the years-long legal dispute over the vehicle design of the German electric scooter manufacturer Kumpan Electric with the Italian Vespa manufacturer Piaggio has reached an important decision: Vespa’s copyright claim to the scooter’s design was not successful.
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Mercedes-Benz is recalling 7,810 units of the electric models EQE and EQS worldwide due to faulty threads of the towing devices. In Germany, 1,746 vehicles are affected.
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Last year we reported that the Mini EV, an extremely popular electric car from General Motors’ partner Wuling in China, was being brought to Europe as the FreZe Nikrob EV by Latvian company Dartz Motorz. The Mini EV is now to come to Europe as a convertible called FreZe Froggy EV.
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The smartphone refiner Caviar has presented the Thunderball electric kick scooter. It is partly made of 18-carat gold and is supposed to be able to reach speeds of up to 100 kph. The price stands at a hefty $49,000.
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The Russian Lada manufacturer Avtovaz is planning its first electric model – but don’t expect to see the electric Lada before 2024. That is at the earliest, if at all: after the sanctions imposed on Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine and the withdrawal of Renault, Avtovaz is having great difficulty keeping car production […]
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