Solaris Bus & Coach has delivered the first of 137 ordered hydrogen buses to Bologna and Ferrara, Italy. This marks the initial phase of a large-scale order placed by the transport operator TPER at the end of 2023. Under this contract, Solaris will supply 137 Urbino 12 hydrogen buses for... Read more →

The 2025 Blazer EV SS—the quickest SS model Chevrolet has ever produced—will pace the 67th DAYTONA 500 at Daytona International Speedway (DIS) on 16 February. The Blazer EV SS, set to go on sale later this quarter, is equipped with Wide Open Watts (WOW), which propels the vehicle from 0... Read more →

SABIC has launched NORYL GTX LMX310 resin, the first in a new family of resins with enhanced dimensional stability. This innovative material is well-suited for inline paintable automotive applications, such as service flaps for electric vehicles (EVs). In particular, this new grade addresses the challenges of larger, asymmetrically shaped service... Read more →

Yara Clean Ammonia, the world’s largest ammonia distributor, signed a time-charter contract with Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) for an ammonia-fueled medium gas carrier (AFMGC) to be delivered in November 2026. Since 2021, Yara Clean Ammonia and NYK have jointly studied the practical application of an ammonia-fueled ammonia gas carrier,... Read more →

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) and bp have signed a contract under which bp will serve as the Technical Services Provider (TSP) for the Mumbai High field, India’s largest and most prolific offshore oil field. Mumbai High is located about 160 km west of the Mumbai coast, in... Read more →

RIZON, Daimler Truck’s newest brand of all-electric vehicles, announced its first official handover in Canada—an 18,850 GVW e18L fitted with a dump body—to Villamar Construction in Victoria, British Columbia. The unit will be integrated into Villamar’s operations and used on custom home-building projects. An additional 18 units upfitted with various... Read more →

The Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) potentially to source neat sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from Aether Fuels (Aether), a climate technology firm that plans to set up SAF production plants in the United States of America and South East Asia. The agreement outlines the SIA... Read more →

Nuvve Holding announced a new collaborative pilot program with Resource Innovations led by ComEd to explore the benefits of bidirectional charging using electric school buses within ComEd’s service area powering more than 4.3 million customers across northern Illinois. Scheduled to run through the end of Q4 2025, the initiative will... Read more →

In 2022, the US Departments of Transportation and Energy announced nearly $5 billion to be made available under the new National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program to build out a national electric vehicle charging network. (Earlier post.). To access these new funds, each state is required to submit an... Read more →

Stellantis N.V. and Mistral AI are deepening their strategic collaboration to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) across multiple areas, from vehicle engineering to in-car experiences. This partnership leverages Mistral AI’s expertise in large language models (LLMs) and AI-driven automation to bring AI to many systems and applications across Stellantis enterprise, improving... Read more →

Mantle8, a French natural hydrogen exploration company, has closed its €3.4-million seed financing round with investment from Kiko Ventures and Breakthrough Energy Ventures Europe (BEV-E), with participation from prominent angel investors. Mantle8’s proprietary technology combines geophysics, geochemistry and seismic data to detect natural hydrogen locations with world-first accuracy. The company... Read more →

The joint venture between bp and Iberdrola has begun the construction works of the largest green hydrogen project in Spain with 25 MW. This plant could create up to 500 jobs during its construction and approximately 25 Spanish companies will participate in the work. The first phase consists of the... Read more →

BMW i Ventures has invested in GreenSpark Software, a New York City-based company building modern operating software for the metal recycling industry. Existing investors Zero Infinity Partners and Third Prime also participated in the investment round. This investment positions GreenSpark to fast-track its product roadmap, expand into larger enterprise segments,... Read more →

ComEd has made $100 million in rebates available to help more customers take steps toward electric vehicles (EVs) in 2025. To reduce upfront cost barriers to EVs, the rebates cover three distinct programs: residential EV charger and installation costs; all-electric fleet vehicles; and business and public sector make-ready charging infrastructure.... Read more →

Nissan Motor announced that it will expand the use of low-CO2-emission steel manufactured in Japan. Through this initiative, the proportion of low-CO2-emission steel Nissan uses in Japan in fiscal year 2025 is expected to increase by a factor of five compared to fiscal year 2023. Nissan aims to reduce CO2... Read more →

Bridgestone has been chosen by Porsche to develop bespoke tires for its new Macan Electric and Panamera models. Both vehicles are now available with custom-engineered Bridgestone Potenza Sport ultra-high-performance tires. The third generation of Porsche’s sporting luxury sedan, the Panamera, can also be fitted with tailor-made Bridgestone Blizzak LM005 tires—Bridgestone's... Read more →

Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has launched a new research and development (R&D) grant opportunity to accelerate the growth of the domestic battery industry and open up export opportunities, especially in the United States of America. Under the grant opportunity, successful mining and manufacturing small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) will be offered... Read more →

Following on the announcement of the new 2026 Crosstrek Hybrid in January, Subaru of America revealed its first US Forester Hybrid, the 2025 Subaru Forester Hybrid, at the 2025 Chicago Auto Show. The popular SUV is equipped with a next-generation Subaru series-parallel hybrid system and Subaru’s Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive for... Read more →

Critical Metals Corp., a mining development company focused on critical metals and minerals and producing strategic products essential to electrification and next generation technologies for Europe and its western world partners, entered into a securities purchase agreement for a private investment in public equity (PIPE) financing that is expected to... Read more →

Johnson Matthey (JM) and Bosch have agreed to accelerate future projects together. The agreement confirms both parties’ intentions to develop and produce catalyst-coated membranes (CCM) for use in fuel cell stacks. JM CCMs are typically the heart of PEM electrolyzers. CCMs consist of precisely structured catalysts—typically platinum (cathode) and iridium... Read more →

Wards Intelligence’s Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) ranking, now part of Omdia, finds that while Tesla still holds the overall lead, it has been surpassed in technological innovation by NIO and Xiaomi, which now occupy second and third place, respectively. The SDV concept represents a paradigm shift that has proven more complex... Read more →

Aral pulse has awarded Siemens Smart Infrastructure a five-year contract to deploy Electrification X from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio for its Aral e-mobility brand. Using Electrification X allows Aral pulse to operate, optimize and secure centrally Aral charging stations with ultra-fast electric vehicle charging technology. Siemens has delivered and commissioned... Read more →

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC) will conduct a demonstration of its Battery 2nd Life initiative starting from February 2025. Under this initiative, the company plans to repurpose used batteries from the its electric light-duty eCanter trucks to build energy storage systems. MFTBC will jointly conduct the demonstration with... Read more →

The public transport operator Asti Servizi Pubblici S.p.A. (in brief: ASP S.p.A.) in the Piedmont region in Italy is receiving the first battery-electric Mercedes-Benz eCitaro K buses that have been manufactured since the start of series production in autumn 2024. The four compact premiere vehicles with a length of just... Read more →

Elevated Materials, a newly formed independent company, has launched with investments from TPG’s Rise Climate fund and Applied Materials, Inc. Building on extensive technology development from Applied, Elevated Materials brings to market ultra-thin, uniform lithium films designed to enable the next generation of batteries with enhanced energy density, cycle life,... Read more →

Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina (TBMNC), Toyota’s first in-house battery manufacturing plant outside Japan, is ready to begin production and will start shipping batteries for North American electrified vehicles in April. The nearly $14-billion battery facility, Toyota’s 11th manufacturing plant in the United States, will produce batteries for hybrid electric... Read more →

Toyota Motor Corporation will sign a comprehensive partnership agreement with the Shanghai municipal government in China regarding carbon neutrality. In addition, Toyota has decided to establish a new wholly-owned company in Jinshan District in southwest Shanghai to develop and produce BEVs and batteries. Under this partnership with the Shanghai municipal... Read more →

At a works meeting in Wolfsburg, Thomas Schäfer, CEO of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand, presented plans for the future of the core brand. Employees also had a first glimpse of the design of the Volkswagen brand’s future entry-level electric model at a price of about €20,000. Volkswagen plans to... Read more →

Orion S.A., a global specialty chemicals company, signed a long-term supply agreement with Contec S.A., which will provide Orion tire pyrolysis oil to produce circular carbon black for tire and rubber goods customers. The agreement with Warsaw, Poland-based Contec further enables Orion to diversify its sources of tire pyrolysis oil,... Read more →

IONNA, a charging joint venture founded by the world’s leading automakers—BMW, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, and Toyota—announced its transition from public beta to full-scale national release. In the test phase, automaker vehicle fleets and everyday drivers helped stress-test the IONNA network, completing more than 4,400 charging sessions,... Read more →