When it comes to electric vehicles, Kia isn’t messing around. It wants nearly 40 percent of its global sales to be all-electric by 2030, and perhaps even more ambitiously, it’s targeting 1 million EV sales annually by 2026. But that’s an impossible goal these days without a midsize crossover, so enter the 2025 Kia EV5…
Kaiser Permanente health care workers were finishing a three-day strike on Friday, and were expected to return to work early Saturday morning without a new contract. No new negotiation sessions were scheduled until Thursday, Oct. 12, and Friday, Oct. 13. Union officials warned another walkout was possible. The two sides had not yet come to…
Given the way Tesla alone has dominated so many headlines in recent years, it almost feels like electric vehicles have been an integral part of the industry for a long time. The truth is that modern EVs are still largely in their infancy. But this technology is moving incredibly fast. Just look at what was…
Tesla posted several job listings on the careers section of its website that will be responsible for the Gigafactory Nevada expansion and subsequently the production ramp-up for the Class 8 Semi truck. No fewer than 10 job postings have been listed online, including one for a Senior Architect who will work on “large-scale ground-up Engineering-Procurement-Construction…
Blink Charging UK announced the launch of its advanced EQ 200 charger for the UK and Ireland. The EQ 200 is one of a new generation of vehicle-to-grid, bi-directional chargers designed to boost the development of an effective EV charging infrastructure and enable the switch from static EV charging to more dynamic and sustainable energy management as…
From January to October, KG Mobility’s vehicle sales rose 10% to 102,640 units from 93,344 during the same period of last year. KG Mobility and BYD have signed an agreement at the Chinese firm’s headquarters in Shenzhen to build the battery pack plant in Changwon, 300 km south of Seoul, and develop all-electric and hybrid…
Decorated with garlands of flowers and balloons, the last diesel-run double-decker rolled out of BEST’s Marol depot on Friday morning and caught the eyeballs throughout the day. As Mumbaikars bid adieu to the last diesel-run double-decker bus of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking, commuters and staffers reminisced about their journey in the…
As a solution to this issue, Joshi said, perhaps there is a need to redesign and standardise e-rickshaws for safety. The Centre on Friday acknowledged that huge proliferation of e-rickshaws has posed serious challenges, particularly congestion around Metro stations in Delhi and its suburbs. Union urban affairs secretary Manoj Joshi said while the shared last…
IONITY, the leading high-power charging (HPC) network in Europe, has partnered with Village Hotels. The stylish hotels with everything under one roof, will rely on IONITY to build and operate a total of 380 ultra-fast charging points at all 33 Village Hotels in key locations across Great Britain. The IONITY charging hubs will provide ultra-fast…
The Volkswagen Group (which includes Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, Skoda, Seat, Cupra, and more) reports 2,343,700 global vehicle sales during the third quarter of 2023 (up 7.4 percent year-over-year). The total volume after the first nine months of 2023 amounted to 6,715,800 (up 10.9 percent year-over-year). In terms of battery-electric vehicle (BEV) sales, the progress is…
