Tesla is pushing forward with Optimus’ release and recently posted 68 jobs related to humanoid robots in a few locations across the United States. Tesla’s Optimus-related jobs are in Draper, Utah; Palo Alto, California; Fremont, California; Sparks, Nevada; and Austin, Texas. At least three of the posts are internships for Read more
The new Limited trim joins the Launch Edition for the 2025 model year.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is heading to meet with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the United States next week. The meeting will occur during Modi’s visit to the U.S. next week on February 13. He plans to meet with other CEOs as well. This is the next of many Read more
Tesla is facing a call for boycotts against its company after Polish Minister Sławomir Nitras called out CEO Elon Musk for his thoughts on moving past its dark history. Musk’s comments included suggesting for Germany to “move past” its dark history from the 1930s and 1940s. The Polish Minister Nitras Read more
Jeep’s first electric SUV in the US just got more affordable. On Thursday, Jeep launched a new Limited trim at the Chicago Auto Show. The new 2025 Jeep Wagoneer S Limited trim is $5,000 cheaper than the Launch Edition. And it also qualifies for the $7,500 federal EV tax credit. Read more
The ChargeX consortium has identified a new mechanism to automatically restart EV charging sessions that fail to initiate. Researchers participating in the ChargeX Consortium from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Idaho National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory, along with industry contributors, have identified the “seamless retry” mechanism to alleviate Read more
Canadian lithium development company E3 Lithium is participating in the ISO TC 333 lithium mirror committee through the Standards Council of Canada (SCC). ISO TC 333 is an international technical committee focused on developing standardized methods for the determination of lithium product quality. One of the issues that challenges the Read more
Netherlands-based marine energy storage supplier EST-Floattech is providing its Octopus Series High Energy battery system to power the Dutch shipbuilder Damen’s Multi Cat (MuC) 1908 work boat’s fully electric propulsion and equipment. The Octopus battery system is designed for large-scale applications and heavy-duty operations that use systems up to 10 Read more
Ford’s CEO says EREVs will help overcome the “unsolvable” problems with large battery-electric trucks and SUVs.
The economics just don’t work right now, he said.