electrive – the industry's leading emobility media

BYD celebrates market launch in Switzerland

BYD has hit the road in Switzerland. The Chinese carmaker will initially offer the battery-electric models Seal and Sealion 7 there, as well as the plug-in hybrid Seal U DM-i. A first point of sale has already opened in Zurich, with 14 more to follow by the end of 2025.

Ecobat now has three lithium recycling plants

German researchers use AI to optimise battery cell production

Lotus presents MY25 line-up for the Eletre and Emeya

Image: Sunwoda

Thailand approves large investment by battery firm Sunwoda

LiveWire brings its range of S2 electric motorcycles to Berlin

Skoda introduces the Elroq vRS

Commercial Vehicles

Addis Ababa puts 100 electric buses on the road

Commercial Vehicles

Eurobus tests near-series Mercedes eIntouro

Oakland to install nearly 250 new AC chargers

India could reduce customs duty on US-built EVs

UK: Paua signs deal with Milence

35.3% of newly registered cars in the Netherlands are electric

Hyundai presents new Nexo and revised Ioniq 6

Fraunhofer ITWM launches project to optmise battery ageing

Volvo Trucks North America partners with Greenlane

New US tariffs for the automotive industry go into effect

solaris urbino 18 electric spak szczecin 1

Commercial Vehicles

Solaris signs supply deal with Traktionssysteme Austria

Image: Bodensee-Airport Friedrichshafen

Charging operators form Spark Alliance, Europe’s largest charging network

Tesla delivers only 337,000 vehicles over Q1 of 2025

Commercial Vehicles

Founder Andreas Haller takes over Quantron following insolvency