CNN

Europe gave the world some of its top automakers, but it’s losing out to China in the race to define the industry’s future. China is the driving force in the business of electric vehicle batteries, which European leaders see as vital to the future of the auto industry that employs millions of people across the continent.

Government Technology

Charging an electric car will get easier thanks to streamlining the access to a range of charging networks across the country. Electrify America, which is leading the buildout of thousands of public charging locations, has reached agreements with other electric-car-charging networks to enable members of those networks to use Electrify America charging locations.

Express

Volkswagen has made some huge claims about its forthcoming electric cars. The German carmaker has stated that when it launches its electric cars they will have similar specs and capacities as ones released by Tesla but at half the cost. VW is aiming to launch such EVs in 2020.

BloombergQuint

A lawsuit targeting electric scooter-sharing companies seizes on the dangers of zipping around town on two wheels and brings gory detail to one of the more polarizing technology trends to emerge over the last year. Nine people who were injured by electric scooters filed the class-action suit on Oct. 19 in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

BloombergQuint

Automakers typically want their cars to stand out. However, China’s push for greener vehicles is prompting Toyota, Fiat Chrysler, Honda and Mitsubishi to resort to an unusual move: they’re set to sell the same car. The four carmakers all plan to sell an electrified SUV developed by Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., the Chinese manufacturing partner they share.

Government News

Experts welcome funding for national network of electric vehicle charging stations but call for coordinated government action to support the technology. Industry and researchers say that plans to build Australia’s largest network of charging stations for electric vehicles is a major boost for the technology.

Forbes

If tax incentives aren’t enough to get people to buy an electric car, maybe a free pass to speed might do it. The Austrian government unveiled a new scheme to motivate people to switch to electric vehicles by raising the speed limit for them on some of its highways, according to an article in Teslarati.

FleetPoint

The event is run by the Greenpower Education Trust – a UK based charity that aims to get young people interested in science and engineering by challenging them to design, build and race an electric car – and is a culmination of six months of regional qualifying.

Electrek

Electrify America is quickly ramping up deployment of its electric vehicle charging infrastructure ahead of the many new EVs rolling out next year. The VW subsidiary already has 30 fast-charging stations online, and it has hundreds more to come.

ET Energyworld

As Delhi continues to battle alarming pollution levels, a new study has found that three of the world’s largest nitrogen dioxideemission hotspots that contribute to formation of finer particulate matter causing air pollution are in India, with one in the Delhi-NCR. The study by Greenpeace comes as Delhi’s pollution level climbed to alarming levels. Air quality continued to remain in the “very poor” category as a thick haze engulfed the city Monday.

BloombergQuint

On my way to a conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan, last week, I took a little detour to Dearborn, to visit the Henry Ford Museum of Innovation. I wanted to see what a Model T’s gas tank looked like. The importance of the Model T, which the Ford Motor Co. began selling in 1908, is  a familiar story: It was the first car that was both widely affordable and widely available, thanks to the mass manufacturing techniques Henry Ford developed and the economies of scale they made possible.

BloombergQuint

BHP Billiton Ltd.’s giant Olympic Dam mine in Australia’s Outback is a labyrinth of 450 kilometers of tunnels and roads — an ideal testing ground for the industry’s burgeoning shift toward cleaner power. Taking about 30 minutes to drive from top to bottom, there’s ample opportunity for the world’s biggest miner to test electric SUVs in a bid to cut both costs and pollution, including potentially harmful diesel emissions.

Autocar Professional

With the growing trend of electrification the auto industry looks to go green, as are other stakeholders. The potential for electric vehicles to reduce emissions are manifold, but lack of charging infrastructure and comparatively higher initial price has remained a key challenge.

CleanTechnica

It seems that not a week goes by without a major automaker announcing their future plans for electrification, battery partnerships, EV charging infrastructure and partnerships, new EV manufacturing plant locations, and more. But often and upon further review and analysis of these announcements, we find that you need to add an asterisk to those statements. For example, we often hear that an automaker will only be making EV models available in certain markets such as China or California.

Inverse

Thoralf Lian could have died last year. He was driving in Saltdal, just north of the Arctic Circle in Norway. Visibility was nearly zero: with temperatures down to minus two degrees Fahrenheit, the sand used to grit the roads kicked up steam.

Business Standard

Turns out, the secret to making better batteries lies in using carbon nanotubes. A research led by Rice University scientists, that was published in Advanced Materials journal, confirmed the benefits of using carbon nanotubes.

BloombergQuint

Renewable power supplier Octopus Energy Ltd. is introducing the U.K.’s first time-of-use tariff, allowing consumers to choose the cheapest time to charge their cars, do the laundry or top-up storage heaters. The energy supplier’s flexible rate will save users money and reduce demand on the grid at the busiest times of the day.

Business Standard

General Motors Co said on Friday it wants the Trump administration to back a nationwide program to boost sales of zero emission vehicles like electric cars, even as the government has proposed ending California’s ability to require more clean vehicles.

The Columbian

The idea of electric cars was born more than 100 years ago, but not until recently has it been accepted as a viable approach to transportation. On any given day, it’s commonplace to see electric vehicles silently cruising Clark County roads. And that trend will only grow as more and more auto manufacturers enter the EV space. Even Jaguar, once an EV holdout, is issuing its first all-electric car, the $65,000 I-Pace. SUVs are even getting in on the game. Currently only a few are offered, but automakers have more planned.

The Guardian

Shell has stepped up its move into electric vehicle infrastructure with the installation of its first ultrafast charging points in western Europe – but they are so powerful that no car currently on sale today would be able to fully exploit them. The chargers at a motorway service station outside Paris are one of 80 European locations the Anglo-Dutch firm is planning for swift charging by 2020, including as many as eight in the UK.

ABC

Jude decided to get an electric car for environmental reasons, but she said there’s more to it than that. “There’s just so many advantages. So few moving parts compared to a petrol car, it’s so much cleaner, the instant torque is fantastic, much easier to maintain, much cheaper for fuel.”

Autocar Professional

Volvo Cars has acquired a stake in San Francisco based electric car charging company FreeWire technologies via the Volvo Cars Tech Fund. The investment in FreeWire reinforces its overall commitment to supporting a widespread transition to electric mobility together with other partners. The car manufacturer has also indicated that it does not intend to own the charging or service stations.

Times Now

Apple presented an electric vehicle feature via a patent application this week entitled “Peloton,” which outlines designs to connect the batteries of moving EVs to reduce energy usage via load sharing. In a patent filed Tuesday by Apple Inc. with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, a set of designs for a method linking moving vehicles together for the benefit of all emerged. The document is titled, “Peloton,” a term for the main group of bikers in a race.

India TV

Known as the “three revolutions,” a term coined by UC Davis transportation professor Daniel Sperling, the new trends are: electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles and sharing-oriented business models (think Uber and Lyft). Optimistically, these revolutions could make our cities a dreamscape of walkable urbanism that will reduce accidents to near zero and make more space for bikes, trees, pedestrians and small businesses while emitting no carbon emissions.

Autocar Professional

The UK government is forecast to collect £28.3 billion (Rs 267,091 crore) in fuel duty this financial year, and yet those who drive pure-electric vehicles will contribute precisely zero to that figure. So what will happen when we’re all humming about in electric vehicles? Such a future now looks inevitable, with impending bans on the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles, cities plotting access restrictions for non-electrified vehicles and the EU rapidly imposing reductions on the fleet-average CO2 figures of manufacturers for new cars sold.

InsideEVs

The production of the material that are essential in making batteries for electric vehicles will impact the market in the forthcoming years. For lithium producers, the inability to lift output fast enough to meet the demand for the most coveted material, essential for producing electric vehicle batteries, will undoubtedly cause some problems in the forthcoming years. This was revealed earlier this week by the sector’s newest public company, Livent Corp who have expressed their worries about the greater risks imposed in the near future, thanks to the consistent deficit on the market.

Forbes

Is the UK government’s ‘Road to Zero’ strategy ambitious enough?  It sets out a goal to become a world leader in zero emission vehicle technology, with targets for 50% of new cars to be ultra low emission by 2030 and “effectively zero emission” by 2040.  However, it has been criticised for cuts to subsidies, a lack of charging points and “vague and unambitious” plans in a recent report by Parliament’s business select committee.

Fleet Point

Fleet management and car benefit specialists, Fleet Evolution, says that a number of myths surrounding electric vehicles can easily be dispelled which should help to persuade more drivers to choose an EV as their next vehicle. The AA recently announced the results of a poll of over 10,000 motorists that showed that  more than three quarters of them (76%) believe EVs are too expensive

EQ International

UK’s climate envoy talks to Down To Earth about their efforts to combat climate change and partnerships with India for a sustainable future. A flurry of announcements on UK-India partnerships for various clean energy and technology projects have been making the rounds, including one on renewable portfolio acquisition by the UK Climate Investments to introduce yield cos in the Indian renewable energy market. Nick Bridge, UK Foreign Office’s Special Representative for Climate Change, speaks on the many challenges that lie ahead.

Wired

In cars, electric or otherwise, the bulk of the car is basically deadweight. The engine does the hard work of generating enough energy to propel the car forward and the designers look for ways to make the car lighter and more aerodynamic so that the engine doesn’t have as hard. This is the reason that Teslas, for example, have retractable handles that sit flush with the doors, for example.

BloombergQuint

A friend and energy expert recently asked: What’s the bigger threat to the oil industry, electric vehicles or renewable energy? My answer – which has taken on an added dimension amid the uproar over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi – was that the real challenge is something more amorphous, but bigger: aversion.

BloombergQuint

Dyson Ltd., famous for making vacuum cleaners, picked Singapore to manufacture its first electric car, pushing ahead with plans to challenge Tesla Inc. in the hottest sector of the automotive market. The closely held British manufacturer, also known for hand dryers and air purifiers, said Tuesday it will complete the factory by 2020 and stuck to a goal of rolling out its first model by 2021 as part of a 2 billion-pound ($2.6 billion) effort to expand into automobiles.

The Hindu Businessline

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk put electric heavy commercial trucks on the map in November 2017 when he unveiled the company’s futuristic, battery-powered Semi, booked hundreds of orders and said he would start delivering the vehicles by 2019. Now, it looks like 2020 could be the big year for electric big rigs. Incumbent truck makers are accelerating their electric truck projects toward launches that year, while Musk told investors in June production of the eye-catching Semi freight hauler should begin “basically (in the) first half of 2020” instead of 2019.

Independent

Government grants for new low-emission cars have been cut at an earlier date than originally proposed because of an unprecedented spike in demand. The amount of money available for purely electric vehicles has been reduced, while hybrid models are no longer eligible for the grant scheme.

Autoweek

The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom says that the planned phaseout of gas and diesel cars by the year 2040 should be pushed up to 2032, along with more specific and stringent targets to phase in the ban. In a report to the country’s Parliament, the committee criticized the sluggish pace of building EV charging stations across the country, calling it one of the greatest barriers to faster adoption of private electric cars in the U.K.

CT Mirror

Imagine you’re mired in heavy traffic on I-95 on a steamy summer day, with plenty of time to study the car ahead of you. Something puzzles you about it, but you’re not sure what. After staring for a long minute, you realize — aha — that it has no tailpipe. It is an electric car. You are tailing a Tesla. If you’ve not yet had this experience, you soon will.

ET Energyworld

Germany’s BASF and Russia’s Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) have entered a strategic cooperation to address growing demand for batteries to powerelectric vehicles, they said on Monday. Part of the deal is a long-term supply agreement for nickel and cobalt feedstocks, while BASF will build a plant to produce battery materials in Harjavalta, Finland, adjacent to a nickel and cobalt refinery owned by Nornickel.

Electrek

VW started construction on its first factory specifically designed for the production of its new MEB platform for all-electric vehicles. The new factory will be in China and it will have a capacity of 300,000 cars per year. Through its SAIC Volkswagen joint-venture, they broke ground at their Anting, Shanghai location.

ZDNet

The Australian government has announced a AU$6 million investment in an “ultra-rapid” electric vehicle (EV) charging network powered by renewable energy across the nation under the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). According to the federal government, the EV charging network will be deployed around Sydney and Melbourne; between Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, and Adelaide; and across Western Australia.

BloombergQuint

The U.K. needs to move fast to attract a battery gigafactory, because there’s a lot of competition for such clean-energy-based investments. Europe’s fourth-largest carmaker could harness its Formula One racing industry and top universities to attract a large-scale site to supply builders including Tata Motors Ltd.’s Jaguar Land Rover, said Neil Morris, chief executive officer of the Faraday Institution, which funds research for the U.K. government. That may give it an edge over eastern European Union rivals and China.

BloombergQuint

It will take just 15 minutes for Australians to fire up their electric cars for long-distance road trips at a proposed national network of charging stations. Sydney-based start-up Chargefox Pty is planning 21 sites across major interstate freeways that will cut hours from the time it currently takes to charge a standard electric vehicle, the company said in a statement Monday. The renewable-powered stations will deliver up to 400 kilometers of range.

The Times of India

By 2020, Umicore is expected to account for about 40% of the total profit generated in the battery-materials industry — 300 million euros out of a predicted 760 million euros, said Adam Collins, an analyst at Liberum. By 2025, that share should increase to an estimated 800 million euros out of a total 1.3 billion euros. It took more than seven years for automakers to sell four million passenger electric vehicles (EVs). It’ll take about six months to sell the next million.

ET Auto

Britain’s Pivot Power will build a 25 million pound ($33 million) large-scale battery and electric vehicle (EV) supercharging hub in the north of England, close to the M6, the country’s longest motorway, it said on Friday. Britain plans to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2040 as a part of efforts to meet its target to cut greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent of 1990 levels by 2050.