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China’s automotive sector is incredibly powerful, but not invincible. Consolidation and collapse is already happening.

New Eagle, a company that offers engineering and design services to manufacturers of EVs and hybrids in off-highway and specialty vehicle markets, has announced an update to its Raptor platform, the Raptor High-Performance Compute Platform. The new platform comprises a rugged, GPU-enabled embedded controller built on a vision processing unit from Read more

comerical evs applictions French battery manufacturer WATTALPS is offering batteries based on immersion cooling technology. All cells and busbars in the company’s batteries are fully immersed in an electrically isolating dielectric fluid that is non-flammable, non-toxic and biodegradable. The batteries deliver passive safety thanks to technology that prevents propagation of Read more

Just one year after ZEEKR went public on the US stock market, its majority shareholder, Geely, is offering the Chinese EV automaker an opportunity to go private once again. more…

Tesla’s deliveries are sliding in China amid a perfect storm of factors dragging demand down, including Chinese buyers preferring Chinese brands amid the trade war with the US. The American automaker is trying to counter the anti-American sentiment by emphasizing that its electric vehicles are ‘made in China’. more…

It’s taken a while, but most Americans have finally come to realize that the new tariffs imposed on imported goods are in fact paid by US companies, not the countries where they are manufactured. What many still don’t realize, though, is how those same tariffs are actually crushing the American Read more

A number of Cybertruck owners on social media recently shared screenshots of a new promotion that Tesla seems to be offering to customers of its all-electric pickup truck. Based on images shared online, it appears that Tesla is giving free FSD Supervised access to non Foundation Series Cybertruck owners—for a Read more

Evolectric, which builds electric conversion kits for fleets of internal-combustion engine trucks, debuted its Gen3CircularEV Kit. The new kit combines the highest available range and payload with the shortest available wheelbase for work truck electrification, the company said, without having to sacrifice customization options. The kit is compatible with Class Read more

ZM Trucks, which at the start of the year announced the construction of its first North American manufacturing plant and regional headquarters, both in Fontana, California, announced a new collaboration with DS24, a manufacturer of medium- and heavy-duty freight, refrigerated and specialty truck bodies. The partnership will allow ZM to Read more

Elevat, a tech company that specializes in crafting Internet of Things roadmaps for manufacturers of off-highway equipment, has formed a partnership with Microsoft to drive “digital transformation and offer enhanced connectivity and insights for businesses” in the off-highway industry. The collaboration will bring together Elevat’s Machine Connect and Microsoft’s Azure Read more