Tuesday, 28 July 2026

Bojangles has opened its first DC fast-charging station, at a restaurant in Savannah, Georgia, Electrek reported. The fried chicken chain is planning dozens more sites.

The charging hub sits at the company's restaurant at 4401 Ogeechee Road and opened in May, according to Electrek.

The chain built the site with EV charger company XLR8 America and Energy and Environmental Design Services, which handled installation and maintenance, per the same report.

Bojangles plans to add 85 chargers by early 2027, the New York Times reported this month. A company spokesperson initially said a second charging site at a Bojangles restaurant will open in Charlotte later this year.

BYD has produced 100,000 electric vehicles in Brazil, according to CleanTechnica.

The Brazilian site ranks as the carmaker's largest production facility outside Asia, CleanTechnica reported. That places the plant at the top of BYD's manufacturing footprint in every region beyond its home continent.

The milestone lands as the company sells electric vehicles in many countries across Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America, per the same report.

London Ambulance Service has put 77 more battery-electric emergency vehicles into service, expanding what it describes as the UK's largest fully electric ambulance fleet, electrive reported.

The intake splits into 37 ambulances and 40 fast-response cars, according to electrive.

With the new vehicles running, the service operates 41 electric ambulances, 81 electric fast-response cars and three electric motorcycles.

That leaves the fleet's electric share still a minority. Around a quarter of the 1,200 vehicles the service runs can now operate on electric power, a figure that counts hybrids alongside battery-electric models, according to the service.

Charging capacity has been the constraint on how fast an emergency fleet can switch. The service installed 288 charging points across 18 ambulance stations in London last year, bringing 27 per cent of its sites to full charging capability, electrive reported. Charging infrastructure is scheduled to reach every London Ambulance Service site by 2028.

Duty-cycle range is the other question for ambulance electrification, and the service says its electric ambulances can complete a full 12-hour shift on a single charge.

On emissions, the service says it has cut carbon emissions by 12 per cent since 2022 and is targeting a further 20 per cent reduction by 2029.

Scania Industrial Batteries will supply battery systems for the battery-electric underground mining vehicles built by Canadian machinery manufacturer MacLean Engineering, under a strategic partnership reported by electrive.

The hardware at the centre of the deal is Scania's Core 800 pack. According to electrive, each unit carries 97 kWh of capacity at a nominal voltage of 691 volts, with thermal management and a battery management system integrated into the pack.

MacLean picked Scania as preferred battery partner for its battery-electric vehicle platform after what the two companies describe as a comprehensive global evaluation process.

Scania says more than 2,000 of its battery systems are already running in underground mines worldwide. That installed base spans drivetrains from 400 to 800 volts and energy capacities from 21 to 768 kWh, according to the company.

Underground mining is one of the harder duty cycles for battery integration: enclosed workings put a premium on heat removal and on packaging, which is where the Core 800's integrated thermal management and voltage class matter for a vehicle designer choosing between suppliers. The stated aim of the partnership is to advance the electrification of underground mining vehicles.

Tesla has asked a federal judge for emergency access to Angstrom Automotive Group's plant in Troy, Texas, to remove the tooling it needs to keep building the Cybertruck, according to Electrek. Electrek reported that the case was filed on July 23 in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas.

The dispute turns on money owed. Angstrom offered to keep the plant running if Tesla paid USD 250,000 per week on top of what it already owes on open purchase orders, per Electrek.

Tesla went to the site before it went to court. Electrek reported that Tesla sent representatives to Troy on July 21 accompanied by law enforcement, and the gate stayed shut.

The complaint frames the tooling as unreplaceable in the near term. According to the filing as reported by Electrek, no other supplier can currently make the parts, and rebuilding the tooling from scratch would take five to six months.

That timeline matters because the buffer is thin. Tesla says its on-hand supply of the affected Cybertruck components is dwindling and will be exhausted in mere days, according to Electrek.

More than 300,000 people have been forced from their homes by wildfires burning in France and Spain, according to CleanTechnica.

CleanTechnica described the fires as mammoth blazes threatening entire cities in the two countries.

The outlet reported the displacement figure as a running total of people driven out by the fires.