The English electric vehicle developer Arrival has announced that it will be building an assembly plant for high-voltage battery modules in Charlotte, North Carolina. The batteries built there are to be used in the vans and buses from US production.


A quick look back: In October 2020 , Arrival announced its first micro-factory in the US, and battery-electric buses are to be built in York County, South Carolina. In March 2021 , the company announced that it would build another...

US shipbuilder Vigor Fab selected ABB to supply hybrid drive and battery systems for the latest Washington State Ferries ships. The new "Olympic Class" ferries offer space for 1,500 passengers and 144 cars.

Delivered in 2024, the debut ferry of the new series will be the first in the Washington State Ferries fleet to be equipped with a hybrid drive and energy storage systems. ABB will contribute the necessary drive technology and, among other things, its power distribution...

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...

General Motors is working on one, according to a media report electricalDelivery truck to go into production in late 2021. In addition, the US automaker is said to be establishing cooperation with CATL in China.


The Reuters news agency claims to have learned both. General Motors wanted to use the e-delivery van to target commercial customers, but also delivery services such as Amazon and UPS, as five people familiar with the plans confirmed to Reuters.

The plans...

The companies magniX and AeroTEC have announced the successful maiden flight of what is said to be the world's largest fully electric aircraft, a fully electric Cessna Grand Caravan 208B. The half-hour flight in the US state of Washington apparently went perfectly.


The aircraft is an 18-year-old Cessna Grand Caravan, which was converted by the engineering office AeroTEC to an electric drive with a magni500 electric motor. The electric motor manufacturer magniX took over...