Automotive and Electric Vehicles Deal Tracker
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May 2026
Automotive & Electric Vehicles
Partnership agreements, joint ventures, supply deals, and strategic alliances across the automotive and EV industry – confirmed and structured each month by CatchAll. Covered events include OEM-to-OEM partnerships, battery supplier agreements, EV charging network expansions, and software integration deals. Each record shows the companies involved, deal type, announced value where disclosed, and announcement date. CatchAll scans thousands of automotive, financial, and business news sources per edition.
Automaker signed strategic partnership with battery or charging infrastructure company in May 2026
Automotive analysts and equity researchers use it to follow supply chain consolidation and OEM strategy. EV-sector investors monitor it for partnership signals that precede larger capital events. Supply chain managers at Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers use it to track competitor relationships. Insurers and fleet operators follow the EV infrastructure build-out through it.
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<table class="catchall-table"><thead><tr><th style="min-width:40px">#</th><th style="min-width:220px">Event</th><th style="min-width:160px">Partnership Scope</th><th style="min-width:130px;white-space:nowrap">Partnership Announcement Date</th><th style="min-width:180px">Automaker Company</th><th style="min-width:180px">Battery Charging Company</th><th style="min-width:120px;white-space:nowrap">Investment Amount</th><th style="min-width:100px;white-space:nowrap">Source</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:40px">1</td><td>Bosch and Mitsubishi Joint Venture Opens Energy Service Hub</td><td>Battery & Charging Infrastructure</td><td>2026-05-29</td><td>Mitsubishi Corporation</td><td>Bosch MC Battery Service Innovations</td><td>—</td><td style="min-width:100px;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.all-about-industries.com/china-joint-venture-of-bosch-and-mitsubishi-opens-first-energy-service-hub-a-97a3d149d5d214e6004b74152577539c" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">all-about-industries.com</a></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:40px">2</td><td>Shanghai Zhida Technology Secures EV Charger Contracts with Automakers in Thailand</td><td>Charging Infrastructure</td><td>2026-05-01</td><td>SAIC Motor / Chery Group</td><td>Shanghai Zhida Technology</td><td>—</td><td style="min-width:100px;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.minichart.com.sg/2026/05/16/shanghai-zhida-technology-achieves-significant-growth-in-thailand-with-major-ev-charger-contracts-and-new-global-clients" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">minichart.com.sg</a></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:40px">3</td><td>Forsee Power Expands Battery Partnership with Bozankaya for Electric Buses</td><td>Battery</td><td>2026-05-01</td><td>Bozankaya</td><td>Forsee Power SAS</td><td>—</td><td style="min-width:100px;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://truckandbusbuilder.com/article/2026/05/09/forsee-power-expands-partnership-with-bozankaya-for-new-electric-bus-programmes" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">truckandbusbuilder.com</a></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:40px">4</td><td>Expion360 Expands Battery Partnership with Forest River RV</td><td>Battery</td><td>2026-05-19</td><td>Forest River Inc.</td><td>Expion360 Inc.</td><td>—</td><td style="min-width:100px;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/Expion360+expands+Forest+River+partnership+to+Georgetown%2C+Dynamax+Grand+Sport/26517976.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">streetinsider.com</a></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:40px">5</td><td>Dragon Rise Group MOU for EV Battery Swapping in Hong Kong</td><td>Charging Infrastructure</td><td>2026-05-20</td><td>Chinese truck manufacturer (unnamed)</td><td>Longsheng New Energy Holdings</td><td>—</td><td style="min-width:100px;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.minichart.com.sg/2026/05/21/dragon-rise-group-signs-mou-to-develop-battery-swapping-ecosystem-for-electric-commercial-vehicles-in-hong-kong-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">minichart.com.sg</a></td></tr><tr class="catchall-blurred"><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td></tr><tr class="catchall-blurred"><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td></tr><tr class="catchall-blurred"><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td></tr></tbody></table>
<h3>What types of deals are included?</h3><p>Formal partnership agreements, joint ventures, supply contracts, licensing deals, and strategic alliances. Informal collaborations or unconfirmed reports are excluded.</p><h3>Are EV charging infrastructure deals included?</h3><p>Yes – charging network expansions, grid integration partnerships, and automaker-to-charging-network agreements are all included where publicly announced.</p><h3>How does this differ from monitoring individual company press releases?</h3><p>CatchAll aggregates confirmed events across all OEMs, suppliers, and new entrants simultaneously, giving a full-sector view rather than requiring analysts to monitor dozens of sources independently.</p><h3>What is the refresh rate of this dataset?</h3><p>We rerun this dataset once a month. You can create your own dataset that updates as frequently as every one hour on <a href="https://platform.newscatcherapi.com/catchall">platform.newscatcherapi.com/catchall</a></p>