Electric Vehicles
The electric vehicle brand Polestar has announced that it plans to make the first EV with extremely fast-charging, semi-solid-state battery cells from the tech firm StoreDot. The announcement was made as part of a Polestar Day event held in Los Angeles on Thursday, where the companies demonstrated both the charging of StoreDot’s “100-in-5” XFC cell…
A Polestar 5 electric car prototype fitted with Israeli battery startup StoreDot’s extreme fast charging (XFC) cells will be tested next year, the automaker announced at its Polestar Day event in California today. In theory, these cells would allow the coupe-like sedan to add 100 miles of range in just five minutes of charging. StoreDot,…
The BMW i3 is returning. Hyundai is working on its own LFP batteries. And GM wants to do away with rare-earth materials in motors. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. General Motors earlier this week announced a partnership that it hopes will produce permanent-magnet EV motors without rare-earth materials—and their controversial sourcing ethics…
Nearly 40 years ago, General Motors invented the rare-earth magnet and thus laid the foundation for modern electric motors. But now the automaker is moving on to a different technology. GM recently announced a partnership with Niron Magnetics, a Minnesota-based company that claims to have developed automotive-grade permanent-magnet motors without the rare-earth materials used in…
The BMW i3 electric car will get a successor, but without the “polarizing design” of the original, the automaker’s development boss said in a recent interview with Automotive News. “A lot of people liked it, but in the eyes of others the i3 was not a real BMW. A bit of an outsider in the…
Veloz, the California-based public-private partnership which tracks EV sales data and infrastructure buildout in California for over 10 years, shared the Q3 Electric Vehicle Market Report, which shows tremendous EV growth in California and nationwide. Veloz’s Q3 EV Market Report shows a substantial year-over-year increase in EV market share in California, with 26.75% of new…
Hyundai is developing a new generation of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries for affordable EVs, The Korea Herald reported this week. The automaker is undertaking a two-year joint venture with battery makers based in its home country of South Korea that aims to see development work on LFP batteries completed in 2024, and for the…
Volkswagen’s all-new flagship electric vehicle, the ID.7, is now on sale in the UK. Prices start from £55,570 RRP on-the-road – and the car is available with a number of highly attractive offers until 2 January 2024. The ID.7 is Volkswagen’s first all-electric upper mid-sized car and is the brand’s top-of-the-range ID. model. It has…
A new chapter in drive production at Audi is beginning in the Hungarian city of Győr, as the company commences manufacture of electric motors for the Premium Platform Electric (PPE). The newly developed electric motors will be used for the first time in the Audi Q6 e-tron series. Production of the first fully electric Audi model is…
Ultraviolette F99 Ultraviolette Automotive, a Bengaluru-based electric two-wheeler startup, marked its European debut with the unveiling of the Ultraviolette F99 race bike at EICMA 2023. This model, distinct from the one revealed at Auto Expo 2023, is a fully-faired motorcycle designed by Ultraviolette co-founder Narayan Subramaniam to deliver uncompromising performance. It’s significantly more powerful, faster,…
