Press Releases

Fastned, a European network of high-power charging stations for electric vehicles, has opened its first station in Switzerland near Zurich , along the A1 motorway. This station will be the first of 20 Fastned stations along Swiss roads, and follows the call for tenders organized by the Swiss Federal Roads Office (OFROU), won in 2019. With this operational presence in a fifth country , Fastned takes another important step towards its goal of building a European fast-charging network, giving mo

Velodyne Lidar, Inc. announced a multi-year contract for the sale of Alpha Prime ™ sensors with Motional , the global leader in autonomous driving technology. Velodyne will be the exclusive supplier of sensors dealing with surrounding long-range vision for Motional SAE level 4 autonomous vehicles. The Alpha Prime sensor leads the market for its combination of range, resolution and field of view that, together, meet the high performance requirements presented by autonomous vehi

Fisker Inc.  – designer and manufacturer of the world’s most emotion-stirring, eco-friendly electric vehicles and advanced mobility solutions – announced it has entered into definitive “operational phase” platform-sharing and initial manufacturing agreements with Magna International Inc. (collectively with its affiliates, “Magna”), which clarify and finalize key aspects of the framework agreement previously announced on Oct. 15, 2020. &

DSP Concepts, the audio platform powering more than 50 million devices for many of the world's best consumer and automotive brands, announced a collaboration with the Automotive Systems Division of Bose Corporation to bring the company's Active Sound Management (ASM) solutions into Audio Weaver. Engineers from DSP Concepts and Bose have completed work demonstrating the effectiveness of one of those ASM solutions – Bose QuietComfort Road Noise Control (RNC) – within the Aud

Accelerating innovation for humanity, automotive company Alpha Motor Corporation has unveiled the ACE™, a striking Coupe, hailing it as the quintessential urban electric vehicle set to transform zero emission mobility. The ACE™ Coupe balances versatility, performance, and sustainability on a compact footprint that supports multiple body styles including coupe, sedan, and utility crossover. The ACE™ Coupe is built on a modular vehicle platform that is an extension o

Lightning eMotors (“Lightning eMotors” or the “Company”), a leading provider of commercial electric vehicles for fleets, announced the debut of a new model of its popular Class 3 Lightning Electric Transit Van. The new, longer-range Lightning Electric Transit Van is the fourth generation of its battery-electric and fuel cell electric platform, based on the Ford Transit 350HD chassis. The Gen 4 powertrain, with new battery technology and up to 105 kWh of batte

Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, and China FAW Group Corporation (FAW), a leading automotive maker in China, announced the establishment of a joint laboratory in Changchun, China, effective December 1, 2020. The laboratory will enable FAW to build its development platform for intelligent driving and allow the two companies to jointly develop electronic control units (ECUs) for systems including autonomous driving, intelligent cockpit, po

TI Fluid Systems, a leading global provider of automotive fluid systems technology, announced today that it will provide thermal coolant transport loops for a large family of vehicles from Hyundai, Kia and Genesis brands, starting with the new NE EV, a new compact battery-electric crossover based on the futuristic "45" concept vehicle. Starting in January, coolant transport systems will be supplied through TI Fluid Systems on eight Hyundai's battery electric vehicle pl

CarAdvise, America's top online vehicle maintenance and repair marketplace technology has added a brilliant new feature to their technology platform, tire shopping. With this new added component, CarAdvise members can shop for a variety of tire brands and tires specifically for their vehicle. CarAdvise users can now search tires that preload the site specifically for their garage of vehicles. Within the application, members can search numerous configurations of tires; sorting by

Hyundai Mobis announced that the board of directors approved the acquisition of the semiconductor division of Hyundai Autron. Upon receiving the approval, Hyundai Mobis and Hyundai Autron signed a contract to transfer all related employees and assets. The acquisition cost was $122 million (KRW 133.2 billion). With this acquisition, Hyundai Mobis plans to develop the capability of designing, developing and verifying semiconductors for vehicles and subsequently differentiate its integ

GreenPower Motor Company Inc., a leading manufacturer and distributor of zero emissions electric powered medium and heavy-duty vehicles, announced the delivery of its first EV Star Cargo Plus to the City of Vancouver.   The City of Vancouver has a Greenest City Action Plan and has adopted a Climate Emergency Action Plan to reduce carbon pollution by 50% by 2030.  GreenPower's zero emissions EV Star Cargo Plus replaces a traditional fossil fuel powered panel truck

XL Fleet (the “Company”), a leader in vehicle electrification solutions for commercial and municipal fleets, announced that Essential Utilities, Inc., one of the largest publicly traded water, wastewater and natural gas providers in the U.S., serving approximately 5 million people across 10 states under the Aqua and Peoples brands, is launching a pilot program to electrify its two most popular commercial GM vehicle platforms with the XLH™ hybrid electric drive system.

Britishvolt, the UK's foremost investor in battery technologies, has selected a site in the North East of England to build the UK's first battery Gigafactory. The company has acquired exclusive rights to a site in Blyth Northumberland and intends to begin construction in Summer 2021. World-class lithium-ion batteries will be in production by the end of 2023. Total investment for Britishvolt's Gigafactory is £2.6bn making it the largest industrial investme

Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. has conducted a line-off ceremony at the Inabe Plant in Inabe, Mie Prefecture, Japan for the production of high pressure hydrogen tanks, a crucial component of fuel cell vehicles (FCVs). Mie Governor Eikei Suzuki, Inabe Mayor Yasushi Hioki, Toyota Motor Corporation Motomachi Plant Manager Masamichi Okada and others were invited to the ceremony and Toyoda Gosei executives and employees attended. The Inabe Plant started producing high pressure hydrogen tanks in

Continental Structural Plastics (CSP), along with its parent company Teijin, unveiled an innovative honeycomb Class A panel technology and an advanced, multi-material EV battery enclosure that can be molded in any number of CSP’s proprietary composite formulations. These component technologies were developed at the company’s new Advanced Technologies Center located on Harmon Road in Auburn Hills, Michigan. This Advanced Technologies Center is CSP’s second R&D facility in