Electric car startup Fisker has announced its service partner for France and Germany. The Bridgestone Group will provide after-sales service and maintenance for Fisker customers in both countries.
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Hubject has announced a cooperation with Free To X, a startup of Autostrade per l’Italia Group founded in March 2021. Free To X says it will extend its HPC infrastructure along Italian highways to a large number of electric car drivers within Hubject’s Intercharge network.
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Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn has suspended its plans to cooperate with the struggling Chinese electric car start-up Byton. Insiders say this is due to Byton’s deteriorating financial situation.
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Xpeng has now officially launched its third series model, the P5, on the Chinese market and published the technical specifications and prices in detail. Rumour has it that the high-tech electric car could also be launched in Europe.
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Padmasree Warrior, chief development officer of electric car start-up Nio of China has decided to resign from her roles for personal interests. She also served Nio as CEO of their business in the States. Nio has yet to appoint a successor.
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Korea’s three largest battery manufacturers announce the creation of a 100 billion won fund (about €78M). SK Innovation, LG Chem and Samsung SDI thus aim to promote R&D of battery technologies and to support promising start-ups.
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After its first crowdfunding campaign back in 2016, Munich start-up Sono Motors launches its second round of financing in order to generate capital for the last development stage and production of the company’s solar electric car Sion, which is scheduled to start rolling off the lines in late 2019.
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The Alsatian E-Mobility startup Chargemap is cooperating with Hubject to move outside of France as well. As of the coming summer, EV drivers who use the Chargemap charging solution can use any intercharge charging station in the world.
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Finnish charging infrastructure operator Fortum Charge & Drive has acquired all shares of PlugSurfing and owns the company now to a 100 percent. The Berlin-based startup had specialised in unifying charging with one solution for multiple suppliers early on as it developed a particularly smart billing solution working across a range of payment systems.
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More than 7,000 people tested the solar-powered EV Sion by German start-up Sono Motors during last year’s test driving sessions. Now the Munich-based company starts another tour through Europe.
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New York-based Bollinger Motors wants to move to Detroit to set up a design and research centre and production may move there too but at a later date. The start-up had presented its electric off-road EV B1 last year and says production is to start in the second half of 2019.
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The Korean carmaker says it wants to invest 17.6 bn euros over the next five years to advance technologies such as electric and autonomous vehicles as well as artificial intelligence. In total, Hyundai wants to employ 45,000 more workers by 2023.
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EV start-up Nio is about to create a joint venture with the Chinese Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC). Both companies are willing to cooperate on several fields.
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Ahead of its debut at CES, EV brand Byton has published photos of its upcoming electric-powered SUV, showing among others the cockpit. Byton is a brand of Future Mobility, a Chinese start-up supported by Foxconn and Tencent and led by former BMW i manager Carsten Breitfeld.
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Chinese start-up XCharge seeks to challenge existing players of the German and French fast-charging market, the “Handelsblatt” has learnt. Created in 2015, the company provides so far EV charging stations in Shenzhen, China.
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After going separate ways with Faraday Future, Stefan Krause and other ex-managers of FF are going to found a new EV company called Evelozcity, according to information provided by “Electrek”.
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Hriman Motors wants to enter the EV market with a range of different vehicles. The Delhi-based start-up plans to debut with its first EV model in mid-2018 and says it is going to launch an electric-powered mini bus and a race car, too.
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China’s equivalent to Google, Baidu, has joined the latest financing round of WM Motor. The Shanghai-based EV start-up looks to raise almost 4bn euros (30bn Yuan) ultimately.
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Swedish EV start-up Uniti and energy provider E.On closed an interesting deal: Swedish clients, who buy one of Uniti’s EVs, are getting five years of solar power to charge their vehicles at home. The bill will be paid by Uniti.
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Start-up Xing Mobility presents an all-electric super car dubbed Miss R and wants it to be ready for serial production by late 2018. Well, “serial” refers to a limited edition of 20 units that shall hit the road by 2019.
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Nikola Motor has chosen Norwegian Nel ASA as exclusive supplier of components for 16 hydrogen stations. As reported, the U.S. start-up plans to launch a hydrogen-fuel-cell electric truck by 2020 – the Nikola One.
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