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The new model will be BYD’s largest and most luxurious electric sedan, with coach doors and a shape similar to the Rolls-Royce Phantom. more…

The company has been taking deposits for seven years. But it just told reservation holders that plans have changed.

Tesla has started building Optimus on the high volume line it set up inside its Fremont factory, and the company says the robots coming off it are the first that meet the bar for a real product. “The bots coming off this line are the first production-quality bots that we Read more

The new EV will follow the EX60 as the second vehicle based on Volvo’s SPA3 platform, positioned as a smaller, more affordable option. more…

United Dairy Farmers (UDF), a regional convenience store and ice cream parlor chain, is installing Electric Era DC fast chargers at six locations in Greater Cincinnati and Columbus. The six locations were selected through Ohio’s National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program. UDF worked with Electric Era, the Ohio Department of Read more

EV charging provider Plugit has conducted what it calls Finland’s first public Megawatt Charging System (MCS) charging session. MCS is a charging standard developed for heavy-duty vehicles. It enables electric trucks’ large batteries to be charged during a driver’s scheduled break. Plugit charged a Volvo FH Aero Electric truck at Read more

Power conversion developer Hillcrest Energy Technologies has announced peer-reviewed test results comparing its zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) inverter technology with a conventional hard-switched silicon carbide (SiC) inverter. Hillcrest says that in side-by-side testing, ZVS reduced motor-terminal voltage overshoot by more than 90%, from 50% above the DC-link voltage to 4% above it. Read more

Indian electric powertrain developer Ferrstron Powertrains has road-tested a prototype 150 kW, 400 Nm powertrain in a 2.3-ton multi-utility vehicle. The powertrain’s motor uses ferrite magnets instead of rare earth magnets. Ferrstron is developing electric powertrains for heavy-duty trucks and buses, high-speed trains and marine vessels, plus generators for direct-drive Read more

Volvo expects the EX60 to become one of its best-selling vehicles ever, with over 50,000 orders already in Europe. But as demand builds, Volvo is struggling to ramp up production. more…

The plug-in ES is refined, comfortable, and takes the stress out of long roadtrips.