Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 61% in July 2022 compared to July 2021, reaching 778,000 units. This is the best result ever for a first month of a quarter.

What if the battery in your car wouldn’t just use up power, but could also become storage and be a source to draw energy from? This will be possible with smart charging features that are currently in development: vehicle-to-grid (V2G) and vehicle-to-home (V2H).

The EV maker Rivian Automotive announced on Thursday a partnership with Mercedes-Benz to invest in a factory in Europe aiming to produce electric vans. The companies will leverage shared investments, shared costs and will pursue operational synergies to rapidly scale electric van production.

Jeep is having a major pile-on in battery electric drive. It wants to be the ‘global zero-emission SUV leader’. In Europe that means all its new-vehicle sales will be full electric by 2030. Even in the US, land of freedom and gasoline, it’s expecting 50 per cent by then.

Williams Advanced Engineering has unveiled a new electric vehicle platform specifically for hypercars called EVR. It is designed for a peak power of 1,650 kW and enables acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h in less than 2.0 seconds.