Voltix, a VINCI Concessions subsidiary, has opened a public charging hub for electric heavy-duty vehicles in Vierzon, France. Located at the intersection of the A20, A71 and A85 motorways, the site serves a major road freight corridor. The Vierzon site, Voltix’s first heavy-duty EV charging hub in France, uses Ekoenergetyka’s Read more
The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (IAF) and its partners in the GaN4EmoBiL research project have developed a gallium nitride (GaN) power electronics module for 800 V-class bidirectional DC charging systems. It powers an off-board charger demonstrator. Fraunhofer IAF, the University of Stuttgart, Bosch and Ambibox jointly developed Read more
GM Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson, who ran Tesla’s Autopilot program in 2015 and 2016, says dropping radar for a camera-only self-driving system is “a weird religious stance that ignores physics.” It’s the bluntest rebuke of Tesla’s vision-only bet yet from someone who helped build the original Autopilot. And it Read more
The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to move forward with a proposal that would open an additional 482 MHz of spectrum to satellite service beamed directly to ordinary phones, a step that could widen the road for SpaceX’s Starlink Mobile to compete with the country’s largest wireless carriers. The commission Read more
SEE Services, a UK provider of integrated facilities management, has chosen Optimo Energy as its Fleet Energy Operating System partner for London Ambulance Service’s electric vehicle charging program. When an ambulance returns from an emergency, it may be called out again within minutes. As London Ambulance Service (LAS) expands its Read more
It may be small, but it’s already drawing a big response. The 2027 Fiat Topolino is now on sale in the US: a street-legal, low-speed EV that starts under $15,000. more…
BYD’s Q3 2026 earnings are out, and net profit jumped 28% year-over-year to ¥10.02 billion as the Chinese automaker shipped more than half a million vehicles out of the country in just three months. But the rest of the filing is messier. BYD’s inventory is up 60% since January, its Read more
Ford pulled the plug on the Escape last year after a 25-year run, but the crossover SUV is set to return as an EV based on the new UEV platform. more…
The most affordable Lucid doesn’t feel cheap, and it delivers all of the basics that the more expensive trims are known for.
Trek is getting a head start on the competition with the latest version of its Marlin+ electric mountain bike, becoming the first North American bicycle manufacturer to feature Bosch’s newly upgraded Active Line Plus motor. more…