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Toyota’s electric vehicle sales surged 225% in Q2, making it one of America’s top-selling EV brands.

TikTok’s parent company is more massive than you might think, it’s reportedly eyeing up self-driving.

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Southern Methodist University (SMU) are collaborating on a design architecture for solid-state batteries. The work focuses on the interface between the lithium metal anode and the solid electrolyte. Solid-state batteries replace the liquid electrolyte used in current EV batteries with a solid material, and use Read more

U.S. Energy, a U.S. Venture company, has expanded its Volt Vault product line with the introduction of a new battery-integrated EV charging solution. The new Volt Vault configuration integrates 400squared energy storage and charging technology from California-based ElectricFish Energy into U.S. Energy’s flexible, redeployable infrastructure platform. The Volt Vault unit Read more

The German government has awarded VINCI Concessions subsidiary eliso a contract to install and operate 25 charging stations for heavy vehicles in the north of the country. The contract will run for eight years, and covers up to 180 charge points along the region’s principal transport routes. The charging stations Read more

Pebble has answered its most common customer question — what’s the smallest vehicle that can tow the Flow electric travel trailer — with a MINI Cooper-sized electric pickup. The company posted photos of TELO’s MT1 electric truck pulling its full-size, 5,800-lb Flow trailer, a pairing made possible by the Flow’s Read more

Driventic has begun manufacturing the VEDS 1.5, the latest version of the electric drive system (VEDS) it supplies to bus and truck manufacturers. The main change is a new drive inverter system (DIS) that carries an integrated drive management unit. The DIS weighs 22 kg and uses a connector system Read more

Mercedes-Benz has opened two new production halls at its Kecskemét plant in Hungary and begun building the new all-electric C-Class there. The company says it is the first time the site has manufactured a battery-electric core model. The expansion took the plant’s footprint from 200 to 440 hectares. Alongside the Read more

Driivz, a Vontier company, supplies software to EV charging operators. Iberdrola bp pulse, a collaboration between oil giant bp and Spanish electric utility Iberdrola, operates EV charging sites on the Iberian Peninsula. Now Iberdrola bp pulse has selected Driivz to manage and optimize its network of 2,500 DC fast chargers. Read more

With plans to slash its lineup by up to 50%, several Volkswagen EVs, including those under the Audi and Porsche brands, may not be around for much longer.