Volvo names Klaus Zellmer as chief executive
Volvo names Klaus Zellmer as chief executive

Volvo Cars has appointed Klaus Zellmer, chairman of the board of management at Skoda Auto, as president and chief executive, taking over from Hakan Samuelsson no later than 1 October 2027. Skoda posted an 8.5% operating margin in the first half of 2026…

Bending Spoons opens a Warsaw office after 50,000 Polish applications
Bending Spoons opens a Warsaw office after 50,000 Polish applications

“We’ve received around 50,000 applications from Poland so far this year, more than twice as many as the whole of 2025,” said Andrea Maiorana, Bending Spoons’ talent data lead. The Milan company said on Monday that it has opened an office in Warsaw. It …

Factorial is rallying a team of suppliers to get solid-state batteries into cars
Factorial is rallying a team of suppliers to get solid-state batteries into cars

Factorial Energy has signed a joint development agreement with Japan’s Mitsui Kinzoku for solid electrolytes, the latest in a run of partnerships its chief executive says are necessary because no single company can bring all-solid-state batteries to ma…

Tesla’s European Megacharger rollout covers 21 sites and over 100 stalls
Tesla’s European Megacharger rollout covers 21 sites and over 100 stalls

Tesla will install more than 100 megawatt-capable charging stalls at 21 sites in Germany, France, the UK, Sweden and Benelux to support the Semi, its Semi development head told the IAA Transportation fair in Hanover. Milence, the joint venture owned by…

Toyota’s hydrogen pickup beats its electric one on every number except where to refuel it
Toyota’s hydrogen pickup beats its electric one on every number except where to refuel it

Toyota has confirmed a hydrogen fuel cell Hilux for 2028, the first commercially available fuel cell mid-size pickup in Europe, targeting 400km of range, 2,500kg of towing and a five-minute refuel. Europe and the UK have 179 hydrogen stations between t…

Bolt wants to put 25,000 driverless Lucids on European roads
Bolt wants to put 25,000 driverless Lucids on European roads

Lucid and Bolt have announced a non-binding partnership to put at least 25,000 driverless Lucid crossovers on European roads, with no vehicles ordered, no money committed and no deployment date. The only EU-wide type approval route for a fully automate…

Porsche’s wireless charging pad is on sale in Europe, and it bolts to the floor
Porsche’s wireless charging pad is on sale in Europe, and it bolts to the floor

Porsche has opened orders in Germany and other European markets for an 11 kW wireless charging pad for the Cayenne Electric, at EUR 6,961.49 for the floor pad and the car-side hardware together, with efficiency of up to 90%. The pad must be permanently…

GM’s new UI for trucks gives CarPlay its own window
GM’s new UI for trucks gives CarPlay its own window

GM is overhauling its infotainment interface on the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, giving Apple CarPlay and Android Auto their own window alongside native apps rather than the whole screen, after saying phone mirroring would be removed from i…

Tesla’s new “Accordion” Superchargers pack eight stalls into one delivery
Tesla’s new “Accordion” Superchargers pack eight stalls into one delivery

Tesla has built a prefabricated Supercharger unit that ships pre-assembled with eight stalls and a 1.2MW power cabinet, cuts installation cost by 20% and can be unloaded with a forklift, with the first site live in Bavaria. A single unit exceeds the 1,…

Lidl and Einride put a driverless truck into daily service in Germany
Lidl and Einride put a driverless truck into daily service in Germany

Lidl has put Einride’s cab-less Level 4 electric truck into daily service between a logistics centre and a store in Germany, under a first-of-its-kind permit from the federal transport authority. The route appears to be less than a mile, and the permit…