Nikola Stock Picks Up New Rating From Wall Street. Shares Are Rising.

Battery and fuel cell truck maker Nikola has performed better than a lot of electric vehicle start-ups but that isn’t enough for Morgan Stanley to rate the shares at Buy. Monday, Morgan Stanley analys...

Rivian, Tesla, and 2 Other EV Makers Are Recalling Vehicles

Monday is looking like recall day for electric-vehicle makers. A few have showed up on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website. Recalls from the large players don’t look serious. Re...

Lordstown Motors’ Sales Were Dreadful. The Stock Is Rising Anyway.

Sales and earnings from electric vehicle start-up Lordstown Motors show just how hard it has been to launch a new electric truck. Results look rough, but the beaten-up stock is rising in early trading...

Tesla, Apple, Ciena, and More Stock Market Movers

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DeLorean Has Hit the Brakes. Catching Tesla Is Proving Hard for EV Rivals.

When Marty McFly drove into the future in the famous 1980s movie, he made it look easy. For EV start-ups trying to leap ahead in their industry, it’s proving a lot harder. DeLorean, the car company ma...

A Successful EV Start-Up Needs Cars, Capacity, and Cash

The company that provided the chassis for the original Tesla Roadster has reimagined itself as an electric-vehicle start-up. The market doesn’t have much love for EV start-ups in general these days, b...

Lordstown Stock Rises as Endurance EV Trucks Are Cleared for Sale

Lordstown Motors hit an important milestone. Shares are rising, even though many people may not know the word used to describe that step. The Ohio-based electric truck startup announced Tuesday that i...

How a Hot Norwegian Battery Start-Up Beat the SPAC Deep Freeze

Stocks associated with special purpose acquisition companies crashed in 2022—with an exception: Freyr Battery The shares are up some 34%, year to date, despite stumbling this past Monday after releasi...

EV Stocks Face a Reckoning. Not All of Them Will Make It.

Electric vehicle stocks have stalled—and many won’t get started again. Yes, things are that bad for EV start-ups as they try to become the next Tesla (ticker: TSLA). The blame starts with rising inter...

China’s Cash Drives America Towards Electrification

This week Foxconn, a Taiwanese company under the influence of China, injected another $170 million in Lordstown Motors, the Ohio electric truck company. This follows Foxconn’s purchase of Lordstown’s ...

Foxconn Unveils EVs. The Apple iPhone Maker Is Pushing Into the Car Business.

Not all car companies want to build their own vehicles anymore. The reason is that they don’t have to. Tuesday, the contract manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry (Taiwan), an Apple (ticker: AAPL) i...

The SPAC Bubble Has Burst. 6 Stocks That Still Have Potential.

One year ago, investors couldn’t get enough of special-purpose acquisition companies. Now, they can’t dump SPACs fast enough. In 2021, some 613 SPACs came to market, two-and-a-half times as many as in...

25 Stocks That Could Rise on a Short Squeeze

Investors betting against electric-vehicle stocks take note: Five of 25 stocks that short-selling research firm S3 Partners identified this month as being at risk of a short squeeze are in the EV busi...

GameStop, AMC, EV Startups, and Others Are Among the Most Shorted Stocks

Text size Lordstown Motors is on a list of squeezable stocks. Courtesy Lordstown Motors Investors who have bet against the electric-vehicle industry should take note. Five of 25 U.S. companies that th...

Canoo, Lordstown, Other EV Startups Are at Risk of a ‘Short Squeeze’. Beware.

Text size Lordstown Motors is on a list of squeezable stocks. Courtesy Lordstown Motors Investors who have bet against the electric-vehicle industry should take note. Five of 25 U.S. companies that th...

Many EV Startups Need More Cash. Rivian Isn’t One of Them.

Text size Door panels at Rivian’s assembly plant. Courtesy Rivian Trading in shares of electric vehicle start-up Rivian Automotive is starting to make no sense. The stock was down almost 20% Mon...

Tesla Investors, Watch Out. DeLorean Is Back, as an EV.

Text size DeLorean is getting into the EV game. DeLorean Motor Company Tesla investors might want to take note of an industry development. There is a new entrant to the U.S. electric-vehicle race. Inv...

An EV Startup Hit a Bump In the Road. A Warning Sign for the Sector.

Text size Bollinger Motors’ B1 electric sport utility truck. Courtesy of Bollinger Motors/PR Newswire Electric-truck startup Bollinger Motors said Friday it is dropping the B1 all-electric SUV a...

Proterra Stock Sank in the SPAC Selloff. Now the Electric Bus Maker Looks Like a Bargain.

Proterra Greenville Facility Courtesy of Proterra Text size Proterra would seem to have a lot going for it. The electric-vehicle technology company operates in a hot sector and has avoided head-on com...