Many automakers worldwide are going all-in on their electric vehicle (EV) investments as they see the future of road transportation as being electric. Car manufacturers across Asia, Europe, and the U.S. are battling it out to become the dominant force in EV manufacturing and sales as uptake increases, each hoping to dominate the market by the end of the decade.

This month, Volkswagen’s CEO Herbert Diess stated “The outlook is very good, we have [a] very good order intake in Asia,” talking about the EV market.

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Volkswagen sold more electric cars across the globe than Tesla at the end of last year for the first time ever, according to an analysis by business consultancy AlixPartners.

The brands of the Volkswagen group, which include Porsche and Audi, sold 192,000 fully electric cars or plug-in hybrid vehicles in the fourth quarter, compared to Tesla’s 181,000 fully electric models.

Both fully battery-electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids, which also have a combustion engine on board, usually count as “electric cars” in official documents and targets, but mild hybrids without a plug do not.

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Nordic groups to split materials harvested from Norway’s large fleet of electric vehicles. Northvolt and Norsk Hydro are teaming up to recycle batteries from Norway’s hundreds of thousands of electric cars as part of Europe’s effort to build a green battery industry to take on Tesla and Asian rivals. The Swedish battery manufacturer — which last year raised more than €1bn from the likes of Volkswagen, Goldman Sachs and Ikea — and the Norwegian aluminium company will open a NKr100m ($10m) recycling hub in the south-eastern Norwegian town of Frederikstad next year.

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Volkswagen has announced that it has decided to invest in its own battery cell factory. Many automobile companies manufacture electric vehicles and hybrids, but most of them rely on batteries purchased from a few existing battery manufacturers. This means that there are limited differences in the underlying energy storage technology when it comes to choosing an electric vehicle.

The best chance to decrease air pollution and curb the need for hydrocarbon fuels in the decades to come is the innovation of better battery technology.

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Charging stations for electric cars are the ‘fuel’ stations of the future. Unfortunately, it’s not possible to simply place them on every street corner, as they have to be connected to the respective power grid. Volkswagen is now announcing a solution that can theoretically be set up quickly and anywhere – a kind of power bank for electric cars.

At the turn of the year, VW released a small teaser video, including a press release, which could make one or two lines of concern disappear from the minds of future electric car drivers.

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