Author: Shaun Williams

Volvo Cars in May 2022 sold 45,952 vehicles, down 28.3 percent over the same month last year, except for electric vehicle sales. Sales of electric vehicles in May grew from a year ago to 7.9 percent. Volvo’s electric vehicle sales represented 33.6 percent of total sales, an increase of 10 percentage points compared to the same month of 2021. The decline in Volvo sales was due to the Covid-19-related lockdown in China affecting the supply chain leading to reduced production capabilities. However, Volvo sees a recovery in the supply chain as COVID-19-related restrictions are gradually easing. This is expected to…

MINI has unveiled a project that restores and transforms this special classic Mini into an electric car (7/6). Yup, this new MINI project collaborated with designer Paul Smith and successfully converted a 1998 Mini Paul Smith Edition. This converted Mini Paul Smith Edition was officially introduced at the Salone del Mobile 2022 in Milan, Italy. “We’ve made a 1990s car relevant today,” said Paul Smith, designer of the Mini Paul Smith Edition. “Ideas are never a problem because they can be found anywhere. The challenge is to make it happen,” added Smith. See also: Mini offers electric conversion for classic…

Swedish mining company Boliden has put into operation its new electric tipper truck, the Scania 25P BEV 6×2. The truck transports a total payload of up to 2,000 tonnes of gold ore for 19 hours a day from the Renströmsgruvan mine to the Concentrator plant in Boliden. The new electric truck, which Boliden obtained from Scania, is a means for the mining company to reduce the intensity of CO2 emissions by 40 percent by 2030. Peter Bergman, General Manager of Boliden revealed that the tipper truck is the first of several Boliden operational missions on electrified public roads, and the…

Regenerative braking is a feature that already exists in electric vehicles. With the regenerative braking feature, the electrical energy stored in the battery can be recharged as long as the car is used. Regenerative braking in electric cars is integrated with the braking system. If the car is a combustion engine, the braking system will produce heat energy. While the heat energy produced will only be wasted. In electric cars when braking, the electric motor component detects an active braking system. Simultaneously the electric motor switches functions into an electric generator. The rotation of the electric motor which is faster…

AMD previously sparked public attention with the announcement of its partnership with NIO, a Chinese electric vehicle maker. But strangely, moments later, an NIO executive denied it. “NIO and AMD are not working together and are not currently discussing cooperation, let alone authorizing AMD to carry out this campaign,” Ma Lin, senior director of corporate communications at NIO, said today in a repost of a video released by AMD China. Earlier in a video, NIO was rumored to be using AMD’s EPYC processor family in the HPC platform to accelerate AI deep learning training and shorten product development cycles. The…

Driven by an electric motor, the Kawasaki Electrode finally officially launched on the United States market. With the slogan “The Good Times Are Electric”, the mystery of Kawasaki’s new product which was present in the form of a video teaser is now clearly revealed. Kawasaki itself classifies this model into a category called electric balance bike, from its shape it is more fitting to be called an electric bike. This product is intended for young bikers aged 3-8 years, as an early stage in practicing motorcycle riding. More like a real motorbike than a children’s bike, the appearance of the…

AMD has entered into a partnership with NIO to supply chips to the Chinese electric vehicle maker. Under the partnership, NIO will deploy AMD’s EPYC processors in the HPC platform, which is expected to accelerate AI deep learning training. AMD chips are also expected to shorten the product development cycle, AMD said in a video posted on Weibo. AMD’s chips have been confirmed to be used only for NIO vehicle development, not in mass production vehicles. NIO uses Qualcomm chips in the smart cockpits of their electric vehicles, and the smart drive chips come from Mobileye and Nvidia. Nio recently…

Tata Motors recorded the largest order for electric vehicles in India to date. BluSmart Electric Mobility has just ordered 10,000 Tata XPRES T EV to be used as their electric fleet. This order complements the 3,500 XPRES T EV made by BluSmart in October 2021. Tata Motors launched the XPRES T EV in July 2021 for fleet customers. This compact electric sedan comes with two battery variants (16.5 kWh and 21.5 kWh) with a range of 213km and 165km (ARAI). The Tata XPRES T EV has a top speed of 80 kph. See also: Tata Motors to acquire Ford India’s…

Renault Group cooperates with Managem Group, a Moroccan mining and hydrometallurgical company, to secure the supply of battery raw materials for electric vehicles. Managem Group will supply Renault with 5,000 tonnes of cobalt sulfate per year for a period of 7 years, with the first deliveries in 2025. Managem plans to build a plant located within the Guemassa Industrial Complex, Morocco to convert cobalt ore into cobalt sulfate. Through this partnership, Renault has guaranteed a significant supply of cobalt sulfate, representing an annual battery production capacity of up to 15 GWh, Renault said in a statement. This direct collaboration between…

BYD is reportedly ‘very soon’ supplying Tesla with batteries, a senior BYD executive told state media hosts in a video released Wednesday morning. “We are now good friends with Elon Musk because we are preparing to supply batteries to Tesla very soon,” said Lian Yubo, BYD’s Executive Vice President in an interview In the past year there have been a lot of rumors over the past year suggesting BYD will be the battery supplier for Tesla, but they have not been confirmed as of today. Currently the only battery supplier to Tesla in China is CATL, which has a battery…

Buick, a brand under General Motors announced its seriousness to enter the electric vehicle market by introducing the Electra-X. Although it is still a concept car, the sport utility vehicle (SUV) type car developed through GM’s latest Ultium platform is expected to be a milestone for Buick’s electrification. The Ultium platform used in the car includes Super Cruise driver assistance technology and the Virtual Cockpit System. See also: Buick announces to going fully electric by 2030 General Motors in a press release on Sunday stated that the car will be introduced for the first time in China in June 2022.…

Fiat has just launched a new generation of Doblo and E-Doblo. The passenger car version will only be available with an electric powertrain, while the van version will be available with either an internal combustion engine or an electric model. The E-Doblo uses a 100-kW electric motor and a 50-kWh battery that gives it a range of over 280 kilometers. The combination of a 100-kW electric motor and a 50-kWh battery is familiar to many other Stellantis Group models such as the Citroën-Berlingo, Peugeot e-Rifter/e-Partner and Opel Combo-e Cargo. The E-Doblo has a maximum DC charging power of 100 kW,…