The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that it will make a $9.6bn loan to BlueOval SK (BOSK) to build three battery plants for Ford electric vehicles. One factory…

German consultant Drees & Sommer has described how it is steering a €650m conversion of BMW’s main factory in Munich to prepare it for producing cars with electric-only drive systems…

Shanghai-based automaker SAIC plans to invest $1bn building an assembly plant for its MG subsidiary in Mexico, local media report. MG Motor Mexico’s president Zhang Wei announced the move on…

French autoroute operator APRR and green utility Engie Vianeo have opened Europe’s first electric-truck “charging corridor” between Paris and Lyon. It consists of five new fast-charging stations in rest areas…

Aecom has won a contract to help the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (aka Metro) make its bus fleet zero emission.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) on Friday said it would allocate over $3bn in grants and loans for 25 projects in 14 states to boost advanced battery and related…

Truck maker Volvo has postponed the start of work on its Swedish battery factory by between 12 and 24 months as demand for its product weakens.

The construction of a US$5.2bn EV battery plant in Montreal could take up to a year-and-a-half longer than planned, Canadian broadcaster CBC reports. The factory was being developed on the…

Vietnamese EV-maker VinFast has broken ground on a $200m factory in Subang in West Java. The plant, which will have a maximum capacity of 50,000 vehicles a year, will contain…

Turkish officials anticipate an agreement with Chinese EV and battery maker BYD to build a $1bn plant near Izmir in the west of the country, Automotive News Europe reports. Recep…

China’s Guangdong province is planning to invest $41.4bn in the emerging “low-altitude economy” over the next 2.5 years. The phrase refers to the nascent industrial sector focussed on electric airborne…

Chinese EV-maker Nio has opened a flagship European showroom in a 19th-century insurance building in Amsterdam. The building on Amsterdam’s Keizersgracht was built in 1891 for the New York Life…

BMW has announced that construction has begun on an expansion of its factory in San Luis Potosí, central Mexico. The 80,000 sq m extension will make high-voltage batteries for the…

Chinese car maker Great Wall Motors plans to build a big electric vehicle plant in Hungary, media there have been speculating. They believe it will time the announcement to coincide…

Work has paused at Vietnamese electric vehicle (EV) maker VinFast’s $4bn factory in North Carolina as officials review the company’s proposals to shrink it. Questions have been asked about the…

German automotive supplier Bosch has received permission to start building the second phase of a $1bn research, development and production centre on the western outskirts of Shanghai. Bosch said in…

Automotive Cells Company (ACC), a French firm formed to lead the European battery industry, has secured €4.4bn in credit to fund the construction of three lithium-ion gigafactories in France, Germany,…

Construction has been completed at a BMW Group site in Steyr, northern Austria, which will be dedicated to assembling the company’s “e-drives” for electric vehicles. Work began on the 150m-by-105m…