Europe’s EV sales surge just hit 51% – and oil is the reason why
Europe’s EV sales just surged 51% last month, and oil is a big reason why.
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The ticket bot cometh: cities are ticketing drivers that AI says are bad [update]
In a high-tech move that we can all get behind and isn’t dystopian at all, the City of Barcelona is feeding camera data from its city buses into an advanced AI, but they swear they’re not using the footage to to issue tickets to bad drivers. Yet.
UPDATE 06DEC2025: the ticket bot cometh to Chicago.
Expand Expanding CloseTotalEnergies just went big on solar with its largest project in Europe
TotalEnergies has officially opened its largest solar power installation in Europe, and it’s a big one. The massive solar cluster is located just outside Seville in southern Spain and is made up of five solar farms. Together, they have a total capacity of 263 megawatts (MW) – enough to generate 515 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of clean electricity each year.
Expand Expanding CloseBarcelona’s new electric commuter ferry runs for 21 hours on a single charge
The Port of Barcelona launched the Ecocat Tres, a highly efficient, all-electric commuter ferry powered by Molabo’s ARIES i50 electric motors.
Expand Expanding CloseStellantis and CATL form joint venture to erect 50 GWh carbon-neutral LFP battery plant in EU
European OEM Stellantis has announced a new joint venture with the world’s largest battery manufacturer CATL, to build a large-scale lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery plant at one of the former’s existing production sites.
Expand Expanding CloseOctopus Energy is bringing Tesla Powerwall perks to its customers
Octopus Energy and Tesla’s new partnership means Octopus can install Powerwalls and give its customers with Powerwalls better price tariffs.
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According to a recent update from Volkswagen Passenger Cars CEO Thomas Schaefer, the Group intends to build at least four of its incoming EVs across its sub-brand’s current and upcoming facilities in Spain, including the VW ID.2, whose concept version, the ID.2all, was unveiled last week.
Expand Expanding CloseA Volvo FH Electric semi just made a 3,000 km trip across Europe
A Volvo FH Electric 40-ton semi-trailer truck made a 3,000 km (1,864-mile) trip between Zurich, Switzerland, and Valencia, Spain – the longest distance traveled by a commercial electric truck so far.
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Spain gets her first Tesla Supercharger en Girona
The sun is rising in Girona! Today we're opening our first Supercharger Station in Spain. Join us at 12pm. pic.twitter.com/FU3Wuaso0E
— Tesla (@Tesla) July 21, 2015
Tesla’s first Spanish supercharger opens up tomorrow and will be in the coastal town of Girona. It appears a more central location will be opening up shortly as well which means Model S owners should be able to make it to Madrid on a Supercharge from most of Western and Central Europe.
Tesla’s current Supercharger Map above and planned 2016 expansion below