South Korea’s LG Chem announced on January 9 that it will invest KRW 1.2 trillion (USD 1.07 billion) to expand its two battery production plants located in the Chinese city of Nanjing. The initiation of this capacity expansion program is in response to the rising demand in China for powertrain batteries used in electric vehicles (EVs) and cylindrical batteries used in various electronic products. ...  more

The first-phase construction of Gigafactory 3 of Tesla broke ground in Shanghai Linggang Industrial Area on Jan. 7. ...  more

Taiwan-based electric scooter (e-scooter) startup Gogoro made great advances in 2018, and its successes have spurred other domestic vehicle manufacturers to earnestly compete in the e-scooter market. ...  more

South Korea-based SK Innovation expects a great outlook for electric vehicles and plans to massively increase production of EV batteries by a factor of 10 before 2022, to 55 GWh. ...  more

The Chinese government is reported to implement a 30% reduction in the subsidies for the purchase of an electric vehicle (EV) in 2019. Such a move is expected to significantly lower the domestic demand and cause some difficulties for would-be buyers. ...  more

ESI Group (Paris:ESI), leading innovator in Virtual Prototyping software and services for manufacturing industries, will exhibit at CES in Las Vegas on January 8-11, 2019. ...  more

In a major breakthrough in electric-car charging technology, a 450 kW ultra-fast charging station has been launched in Germany recently, where electric cars can get fully charged in just 15 minutes, less than half of existing time, or obtain power for 100-kilometer driving with three-minute charging. ...  more

2018 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV The Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) was awarded Green Car Journal’s 2019 Green SUV of the Year™ today at the Los Angeles Auto Show’s AutoMobility LA. ...  more