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The EX60 is a true “game changer” for the Volvo brand, with the first customer deliveries now underway.

Tesla had a petition protesting a recall to fix a potential issue with 2017-2023 Model Y and Model 3 vehicles’ headlights was denied, as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) disagreed with the company’s opinion of things. The recall covers approximately 19,917 Model Y and Model 3 vehicles built Read more

Austrian public transport operator Ledermair has commissioned a large electric bus depot in the mountainous Tyrol region of Austria. The new depot offers a total charging power capacity of 2.4 megawatts for the regional public transportation network. Installation partner vlotte installed 28 Kempower charging points, which are powered by four Read more

Who could have foreseen last week’s news that the Volkswagen Group planned to slash vehicle production, or the more recent announcement that 50,000 more workers might be let go? Well, anyone who has been following the EV transition over the past decade foresaw it, or should have. As the New Read more

Miami-based startup Chip Motors has unveiled Chip, an electric “life utility vehicle” that starts at $15,000 and tops out at 25 mph. The boxy, open-air four-seater is a low-speed vehicle aimed at short daily trips, and it lands in one of the fastest-growing corners of the EV market.

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a motor drive design that in simulation cancels two sources of electrical stress in multi-phase drives: neutral-point current and common-mode voltage. The work comes out of ORNL’s National Transportation Research Center and is intended for aircraft, Read more

Vishay Intertechnology has narrowed the body of its SOP-5 optocoupler package from 4.4 mm to 3.6 mm. The VOMHA43A is an automotive 1 MBd optocoupler that’s rated for a maximum repetitive peak isolation voltage (VIORM) of 707 Vpeak, which meets the requirements of 400 V battery systems. Competing devices reach Read more

The Range Rover Sport is going electric. With its official debut just around the corner, Range Rover offered a sneak peek at its second EV.

XPeng used the global launch of its new L03 in Munich to announce that the electric SUV coupe is the first vehicle from any Asia-Pacific automaker to ship with Google Maps’ Auto SDK built in. The integration replaces XPeng’s overseas navigation stack with Google Maps data and, more importantly, feeds Read more

China’s Dongfeng Motor showed off a gaggle of cars in Montreal, with plans to sell its first two starting in 2027.