​The use of self-driving cars at speeds of up to 130 km/h has been permitted on motorways in Germany since 1 January 2023. The adjustment of the speed limit was decided last summer by the World Forum for Harmonisation of Vehicle Regulations of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and adopted by over 50 countries, including EU countries.

The USA, China and other countries regulate autonomous driving according to their own standards. However, the regulations and certifications...

Blackstone Resources presented its manufacturing process for lithium-ion batteries from the 3D printer at an event at its plant in Döbeln, Saxony. In this context, the plant for series production was also started up.

The event and production takes place at Blackstone Technology, the German subsidiary of the Swiss holding company Blackstone Resources AG. Due to the corona situation, however, the press conference had to be broadcast online.

Blackstone presented the LFP...

The food chain Feneberg and the cleantech company Numbat, both of which are based in Kempten in the Allgäu, want to set up an HPC network with an average of one fast charging station every ten kilometers. The plans are based on a Numbat HPC column with integrated battery storage.


Numbat reports that over 40 locations are planned in southern Germany. That would be around half of the Feneberg locations, around 80 locations are listed in the store finder on the grocer's homepage...

Skoda has slightly adjusted the equipment of its MEB-SUV Enyaq for model year 2022: All versions already have the maximum possible DC charging power ex works. Previously this had to be ordered separately for an additional charge. In return, the base prices for three of the four versions increase by 800 euros - the prices have also been adjusted for some options.


Skoda Germany has not published a notification, but the new price list for the 2022 model year as of December 1st,...

Stadtreinigung Hamburg (SRH) has expanded its electric commercial vehicle fleet by six Nissan e-NV200s. Nine more copies of the e-van will follow in the next few weeks and another ten by the end of the year.

According to the city cleaning service, the vehicles of the Japanese manufacturer will mainly be used in park cleaning and with the SRH carers. They are stationed on the depot at Bullerdeich. The now floated-in vehicles are not the well-known transporter version of the e-NV200,...

Twelve new charging stations were put into operation in the holiday regions of Rügen and Fischland-Darß-Zingst. A quick charging station is to be built next year.


The formal opening of the new charging stations took place this week in Putbus on the Circus, due to the corona restrictions only on a small scale "with invited guests from politics and business", as the Stadtwerke Stralsund announces. With the twelve pillars, SWS Energie GmbH, the energy supplier to Stralsunder...

With its Smart Charging solution, the Aachen-based company GridX has intelligently networked 34 charging stations for electric vehicles in two buildings of the Axel Springer media group in Berlin. As a result, costly network expansion and peak loads could be avoided.


The media group's employees can charge their electric vehicles with the charging points, while GridX's load management controls the charging processes according to the available energy. When the grid connection of...

Renault is increasing the manufacturer's share in Germany for the purchase of its electric vehicles. As of now, private customers receive a bonus of 10,000 euros when they buy a new Zoe or Kangoo ZE. But the discount still has a catch.


Renault's “electric bonus” is made up of the state's € 6,100 environmental bonus (€ 6,000 BAFA premium including € 100 AVAS grant) and the Renault grant, now increased to € 3,900. Basically, Renault increases the manufacturer's share...

For the construction of the Gigafactory in Grünheide, Tesla presented the amended application documents for the approval process for pollution control this week. In addition, the company has to cope with the departure of an important manager again.


As the Brandenburg Ministry of the Environment announced, "the developer had added to the documents for the approval process underway since December 20, 2019 according to the Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG) for the Tesla...

The Federal Government has also included a number of measures to promote electromobility in its stimulus package relating to the Corona crisis. The most important of course: The state's share of the environmental bonus will be doubled in the form of a new “innovation bonus”.


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“With the environmental bonus, we are promoting the exchange of the vehicle fleet with climate-friendly...

Hyundai has invested in Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies, a spin-off of the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg founded in 2013. The aim is to develop technology and business together with a focus on stationary LOHC applications.

The partners do not provide any information about the amount of the investment. On the other hand, it is public that the joint activities - i.e. the market launch of a LOHC-based hydrogen infrastructure - should initially focus on South Korea before...

In the KI-LAN project, researchers led by the Institute for Ergonomics and Technology Management (IAT) at the University of Stuttgart are investigating how network connections can be ideally utilized when charging electric cars thanks to Artificial Intelligence.

KI-LAN stands for “Artificial Intelligence - network-based charging management when parking under different usage scenarios” and deals with the questions of how it can be possible to satisfactorily cover the charging needs...

The Italian energy provider Enel has entered into eRoaming agreements with Allego, Bosch and Innogy through its subsidiary Enel X. The Enel-X network is growing from 10,500 to over 30,000 public charging points.


Via the Hubject platform, users of the Enel JuicePass app can now access 19,500 additional charging points in Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands without having to conclude new contracts. Enel X participated in Hubject last September .

Allego...

A few days after Tesla received approval for foundation work from the Brandenburg State Office for the Environment, work has apparently started. A new drone video shows how the first pit is being excavated.

"I think that even without the groundbreaking ceremony, we can say that Tesla has now groundbreaked," wrote the Twitter user about the uploaded drone video. Excavators started digging a large pit on Pentecost weekend. Since Tesla received permission last week to start work...