Volkswagen's US subsidiary Electrify America has now equipped more than 140 fast-charging locations with stationary battery storage, over 90 of them in California. These systems have a total of more than 30 megawatts of energy storage capacity.


The battery energy storage systems (BESS) are used to cover peaks in demand and thus minimize the effects on the power grid. In addition, they can be recharged when electricity prices are low - and thus help the company, according to its...

Tesla and The Boring Company from Elon Musk are apparently working on an electric minibus that can accommodate twelve passengers and their luggage. This was revealed by an official from San Bernardino County in connection with a tunnel project planned there.

For a long time we had no news from Musk's The Boring Company, which has been involved in the development of an underground high-speed transport system for electric vehicles since 2017. The last time it was said at the end of 2018...

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...

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...