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September was the second-best-ever month for Chinese EVs in the European Union. Now, Beijing wants them to slow down.

Electric vehicles have a traditional sales problem. Scout Motors doesn’t want to bother with any of it, but the dealers are crying foul.

Hyundai gave its electric SUV an exclusive new look. The new Hyundai Kona EV Mauna Loa is “a powerful companion” with special features and accessories, but getting your hands on one will be hard. more…

Xpeng’s President recently confirmed that the Chinese automaker is committed to Europe despite the EU’s recently approved tariffs on China-made electric vehicle (EV) imports.  “Our plan for Europe is a very long-term one,” Xpeng’s Vice Chairman and Co-President Brian Gu told CNBC.  Gu noted that Europe’s tariffs on China-made EV Read more

China’s NIO (NYSE: NIO) has a new secret weapon it’s about to unleash. After launching the first model of its new affordable EV brand Onvo, NIO says the upcoming electric SUV will be “much more competitive.” more…

Hyundai Auto Canada has chosen Lithion to collect electric vehicle batteries and modules for recycling from more than 250 Hyundai and Genesis dealers and distributors across Canada. The multi-year agreement follows an initial agreement between the two companies signed in 2021, which was aimed at validating Lithion’s extraction technology that Read more

Researchers at the US Geological Survey (USGS) say they have located high concentrations of lithium brine in the Smackover Formation in southern Arkansas.  Dating back to the Jurassic period, the Smackover Formation is a relic of an ancient sea that left an extensive, porous and permeable limestone geologic unit that Read more

US manufacturing and technology company Honeywell has launched two new technologies to optimize electric vehicle (EV) safety for drivers and manufacturing for gigafactories. Honeywell Process Solutions is partnering with ultrasound-based battery interrogation systems supplier Titan Advanced Energy Solutions to integrate its scanning technology into the Honeywell Battery Manufacturing Excellence Platform Read more

Daimler Truck North America (DTNA), headquartered in Portland, Oregon, has delivered 20 Freightliner eCascadia Class 8 tractors to the Golden Brands—East Bay and Harbor Distributing—Huntington Beach warehouses of Reyes Beverage Group (RBG), a Chicago-headquartered nationwide distributor of alcoholic beverages.  Nine more of the vehicles are scheduled to be delivered to Read more

The challenges involved in getting EV chargers hooked up to the grid are well-known to Charged readers. Various off-grid solutions are available, but the best approach may be a flexible one—using some combination of onsite generation, battery storage and grid power, according to what’s available and what’s needed for the Read more