US aircraft manufacturer agrees deal with charter operator JetSuite for up to 100 of its hybrid electric planes, for delivery in the early 2020s As luxury travel on the ground becomes increasingly electrified, the skies are next. This week private jet charter firm JetSuite announced a major procurement deal with …

Vattenfall’s battery storage project will support the Pen y Cymoedd wind farm Swedish energy group Vattenfall has installed 500 i3 BMW manufactured battery packs as part of a battery storage scheme in the UK. The 22-MW battery@pyc project shares electrical infrastructure with the Pen y Cymoedd onshore wind farm in …

Mercedes-Benz aims to increase EV production in France Mercedes-Benz will produce an electric compact car after its parent company, Daimler-Benz, makes an investment of 500 million euros (US$585 million) in its French production plant. The Hambach plant, in the northeast of France, near the border of Germany, will produce the car as part of …

Metawave CEO Dr Maha Achour talks to Electrans about her company’s new radar technology US company Metawave has raised an additional US$10 million from strategic and financial investors to develop its smart automotive radar system. Metawave has been developing a new kind of radar, designed for use with self driving …

Chinese company Tianqi will secure a vital lithium supplier if it gets the stake in Chile’s SQM Chinese company Tianqi Lithium Corp. aims to buy a 24% stake in Chilean lithium producer SQM, the second largest lithium producing company in the world. The deal, if it goes ahead, will cost …

Uniti has revealed a prototype of its crowdfunded Uniti One. Crowdfunded Swedish startup Uniti has revealed a working prototype of its electric vehicle, the Uniti One. The independent group managed to raise 1.2 million euros (US$1.4 million) in funds from individual backers  for its concept. Uniti has said that the Uniti …

Protean Energy has installed a vanadium battery for a four-month trial Australian energy technology company Protean Energy has shipped its first V-KOR vanadium redox flow battery to Perth to begin trials. Vanadium batteries are an alternative to more traditional batteries offered on current markets, such as lithium-ion batteries. The V-KOR …

Tesla’s troubled Model 3 will suffer another delay, but could this be the last one? Tesla will pause production at its California factory at the end of this month to optimise the assembly line for its Model 3 sedan. The production outage will last for six days from May 26-31. …

Startup Urban Electric has announced the UEone pop-up charge point for residential on-street charging of electric vehicles British electric vehicle (EV) charging startup Urban Electric Networks has announced the UEone pop-up charge point for charging electric vehicles. The UEone was developed specifically to solve the problem of charging for the …

Tesla has installed 140 Powerpacks in Belgium, with a similar project lined up for the UK Tesla has added 140 of its Powerpacks to the European grid after installing them in Terhills, Belgium and sending them live on May 14. The batteries have an 18.2-MW capacity, and by charging during …