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UKIB boosts the second British battery factory by AESC

The UK Infrastructure Bank has granted battery cell manufacturer AESC a loan of £200 million (€234 mn) for its factory in the North East of England. The bridging loan will support the 15.8 GWh gigafactory in Sunderland, right next to Nissan.

BMW to release new drive options for the i5 & iX2

Commercial Vehicles

DNTA, Volvo Trucks and Navistar to push for heavy-duty chargers

Hyundai & BAIC want to establish a new EV brand for China

InstaVolt & Plugsurfing announce charging partnership

Toyota Industries finds fault in diesel engine data

LionVolt wants to build cells for solid-state batteries in Scotland

Commercial Vehicles

Solaris reports orders for over 700 fuel-cell electric buses in Europe

ZSW & partners announce sodium-ion battery research project

TotalEnergies buys into Spanish high-power charging network

Volkswagen is putting stock market plans for PowerCo on hold

Servotech chargers coming to BPCL pit stops across India

Chery doubles its research and design team in Europe

Kia EV3 likely will arrive sooner, EV4 delayed

Volkswagen hands over its largest ID. Buzz fleet to date to Helion

Commercial Vehicles

Stellantis launches industrial series production of H2 vans

Commercial Vehicles

Isuzu is making massive investments in electric vehicles

Renault cancels IPO of electric car subsidiary Ampere

Commercial Vehicles

Mercedes eEconic on the road for road safety in Stockholm

Shell installs around 500 charging stations at Carrefour locations in Belgium

NYC: Tesla Superchargers overwhelmed by growing EV taxi fleet