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Polestar’s new CEO says the brand has big plans for a compact SUV and small sedan comeback. But will they draw from the Geely family?

A coalition of clean energy groups – representing over 2,000 companies and hundreds of billions in private investment – is holding more than 100 meetings today with bipartisan members of Congress to underscore the critical role of IRA clean energy tax credits. more…

The world’s largest automaker wants to catch up in the global EV race after falling behind rivals like Tesla and BYD. On Wednesday, Toyota announced that its $14 billion EV battery plant in North Carolina is open for business. The new facility will begin shipping batteries for Toyota’s electric vehicles in Read more

Elon Musk has poached a long-time Tesla engineer to help with his work at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The Tesla CEO appears to feel invincible right now because he did that while he and Tesla’s board are being sued for breach of fiduciary duties and resource tunneling. more…

The city of Oslo, which was ranked number one in terms of quality of life and peace and quiet among European large cities in the European Cities of the Future 2012 report, is driving out some of its remaining sources of loud noise. One of any city’s greatest sources of Read more

Researchers at George Washington University (GWU), in collaboration with other institutions, have developed a method to directly extract and purify lithium from geothermal brines for use in EV batteries. Their study, “Electro-driven direct lithium extraction from geothermal brines to generate battery-grade lithium hydroxide,’’ was published in Nature Communications. The process Read more

Mullen Automotive has completed a major purchase of battery line equipment from troubled Nikola for its Fullerton, California, battery operations. The Fullerton facility is dedicated to producing next-generation, American-made battery packs, modules and solid-state polymers. In September 2023, Mullen purchased battery production assets from Nikola subsidiary Romeo Power, including equipment, Read more

Tesla’s sales have dropped nearly 60% in January in Germany compared to the same period last year. The same thing is happening throughout Europe. more…

Another quality issue and some winter road trip range issues have dampened some of my enthusiasm.

California-headquartered DC Grid, a supplier of off-grid DC power systems, and Colorado-headquartered Liberty Energy, a provider of offshore oilfield services, have a memorandum of understanding to deliver integrated modular site-specific power systems tailored for such applications as commercial fleet EV hubs and data centers. According to the companies, the inherent Read more