A driver in PPE moves a new Tesla passenger car from Shanghai off a cargo ship in the port in Yantai in China’s Shandong province on April 25, 2022. Future Publishing via Getty Images Tesla’s El...
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Tesla accounts for almost 60% of all EVs deliveries by 10 leading car makers in Q1, 2022
Despite the electronic vehicle sector undergoing various challenges like component shortages, Tesla has managed to sustain its grip on the market, with deliveries standing out among competitors. Recen...
Fisker Says It’s Targeting An Overlooked EV Feature: Affordability
The electric Fisker Ocean crossover goes into production at a Magna plant in Graz, Austria, in November 2022. Fisker Inc. Six months before Fisker Inc. starts delivering its first electric SUVs, CEO H...
Governor Gavin Newsom Ordered An End Gas-Powered Cars Sales In California & President Biden Is Under Pressure To Do Same For Entire Nation
Gavin Newsom has been promoting electric vehicles for a long time. This is Newsom when he was San … [+] Francisco mayor back in 2010, holding a power cable before test driving a Toyota Prius (Ph...
EV Enthusiasm Growing But Tenuous CarGurus Study Shows
2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Platinum. Pre-production model Ford Motor Co. High gas prices have sparked increased consumer interest in electric vehicles but that interest is both highly conditional and s...
Biden starts $3 billion plan to boost battery production for EVs
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks about climate change and protecting national forests on Earth Day at Seward Park in Seattle, Washington, April 22, 2022. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The Biden ad...
Profit Falls At World’s Largest EV Battery Maker CATL Even As Sales Soar 136% In First Quarter
Solar panels stand in front of Contemporary Amperex Technology’s headquarters building in China in … [+] 2020. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg © 2020 Bloomberg Finance LP Rising global ...
Nikola’s Electric Big Rig Beats Delayed Tesla Semi To Market
Newly built Tre BEV trucks awaiting shipment to customers from Nikola’s Coolidge, Arizona, plant. Nikola Inc. Nikola Inc., which aims to be a leader in battery- and hydrogen-powered heavy trucks...
Ford cuts 580 U.S. salaried, agency workers as it restructures for EVs
Ford CEO Jim Farley at the company’s Dearborn, Michigan, plant where it’s building the electric F-150 Lightning on April 26, 2022. CNBC | Michael Wayland DETROIT – Ford Motor is cutting 58...
Suffering From EV Range Anxiety? Better Start Looking For Another Phobia
Imagine being on the road in your electric car – say, during morning rush hour – when suddenly the charge status is heading quickly toward 0% and no fast-charging station nearby. Who has time for a 20...
Lucid stock jumps 7% premarket after announcing Saudi deal to purchase up to 100,000 EVs
Lucid (NASDAQ: LCID) announced on April 26, an agreement with the Government of Saudi Arabia to purchase 100,000 vehicles. In particular, the deal will span over a 10-year period with an initial commi...
Lucid to deliver up to 100,000 EVs to Saudi Arabia’s government
With 1,050 horsepower, the new Grand Touring Performance edition becomes the most powerful version of Lucid’s electric Air sedan. Lucid Motors Lucid Group said that the government of Saudi Arabi...
Apple Assembler Foxconn Pushes Further Into EVs With M&A
Terry Gou, founder of Foxconn. Visual China Group via Getty Images) Consumer electronics assembly giant Foxconn has acquired and merged a pair of component firms to boost the Taiwan-based company’s po...
Ford announces Lincoln Star EV concept, four new EVs to debut by 2026
Lincoln Star concept electric vehicle Lincoln DETROIT – Ford Motor plans to introduce four new electric vehicles into its Lincoln lineup by 2026, as the once-dominant American luxury brand reinvents i...
Tesla Quarterly Profit Soars To $3.3 Billion As Supply Chain, Covid Woes Cloud Outlook
Tesla CEOElon Musk speaks at the opening of the electric carmaker’s Giga Texas plant on April 7, 2022 in Austin. AFP via Getty Images Tesla Inc., the world’s leading producer of electric vehicle...
Rivian CEO on growth, Amazon vans, SPAC bubble and lower-priced EVs
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe on April 11, 2022 inside the company’s plant in Normal, Ill. Michael Wayland / CNBC NORMAL, Ill. – Rivian Automotive CEO Robert Scaringe hops out of one the automaker̵...
Rising Lithium Prices Could Stop The EV Revolution – Or Could They?
One of the guiding principles of the belief that electric vehicles will take over from internal combustion is the falling cost of batteries. From a pack price of around $1,200 per kWh in 2010, the pri...
Elon Musk Opens Tesla’s ‘Giga Texas’ That He Says Is The Biggest U.S. Plant
Elon Musk celebrates the opening of Tesla’s Giga Texas plant in Austin. Tesla via YouTube Elon Musk marked the official start of production at Tesla’s new Giga Texas plant in Austin, saying it’s...
Has The Gas-Powered Vehicle Addiction Finally Reached A Tipping Point?
For anyone who depends on driving for their livelihood and otherwise, passing a gas station on the road adds to a long-running nightmare. As it stands, the average price for a gallon of gasoline in th...
Nio deliveries reach a quarterly record of nearly 25,800 EVs in Q1, stock surges
Shares of Nio Inc. NIO, +4.18% climbed 5.6% in premarket trading Friday, as the China-based electric vehicle maker benefited from a broad rally in Chinese ADRs and after the company reported vehicle d...
Sulfur Battery Technology Could Make Electric Cars Go Three Times Further By 2024
Limited range is one of the most frequent criticisms of EVs. Although a 300-mile rating is becoming increasingly common for current electric cars, some fossil fuel models can go twice as far on a tank...
EV, Microchip Manufacturing Will Make ‘Future Belt’ Out Of Heartland
A rendering of Ford’s planned EV- and battery-manufaturing complex in Stanton, Tennessee. Ford No thanks to President Biden, but flyover country is beginning to experience a major moment. It may...
Russia-Ukraine War Helps Drive Nickel Prices, EV Headaches
Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar NORILSK, RUSSIA – JULY 17: Excavators load ore in a dumpster July 17, 2002 in the Medvezhya … [+] mountains near Norilsk, Russia. In total, Norilsk produc...
High Gas Prices Drive High Demand For Electric Vehicles, TrueCar Says
The Ford F-150 Lightning battery powered electric pickup is built at Ford’s Rouge Electric Vehicle … [+] Center in Dearborn, Mich. PHOTO: Ford High gas prices tied to Russia’s invasion of ...
Cathie Wood Watch: Ark Buys Crypto Stock, Buys and Sells EVs
Asset manager Cathie Wood, chief executive of Ark Investment Management, traded again on Tuesday, buying a major cryptocurrency stock and selling shares of a big electric vehicle maker. She also conti...
Tesla Cut From California EV Rebate Program After Price Hikes
Elon Musk speaks at the opening of Tesla’s new electric car plant near Gruenheide, Germany. Getty Images Tesla may be the top-selling electric vehicle brand but in California, its biggest market...
Bird Brings Connected Automotive Tech To Ebikes Making Them Even More Desirable
The rise in popularity of ebikes has been as large, if not larger than that of EVs. Thanks to the pandemic, lots of people have wanted to explore forms of commuting that were less likely to place them...
Converting Work Vehicles To EVs Could Be Economical As Well As Environmentally Friendly
Converting classic cars to electric drivetrains is a subject sure to get EV haters upset. Although a classic car can be one of the least reliable forms of transport you can choose and most polluting, ...
A Quiet End To A Wild Week, Week In Review
Week in Review This week saw heightened volatility in the internet sector as the Hang Seng TECH Index was down over -11% on Monday as Asian investors appeared to be taking the Holding Foreign Companie...
Rivian Racks Up $4.7 Billion Loss, Sees Supply Snags Curbing EV Output
Newly built Rivian R1 T electric pickups. Rivian Rivian, the best-funded electric vehicle startup in U.S. history, said losses during its initial year of electric truck production were nearly $5 billi...
California pilot program turns GM’s EVs into roving battery packs
While not nearly as much of a mess as Texas’ energy infrastructure, California’s power grid has seen its fair share of brownouts, rolling blackouts, and power outages caused by wildfires c...