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This is what happens when a charging giant and a gas/sandwich giant team up.

The new Chevy Bolt EV and Kia EV9 are among a bunch of new EVs capable of vehicle-to-grid power sharing.

Tesla confirmed it will hold a Cybercab event in Austin on September 3, promoting it with a poster that reads “Exclusive Access: Cybercab.” It’s an invite-only affair for the top scorers in its Robotaxi rider sweepstakes, and Tesla says it will livestream the launch for everyone else. The framing suggests Read more

Xos, a manufacturer electric commercial vehicles and mobile charging solutions, has won a contract from the US Air Force to develop a mobile charging solution for electrified support equipment and vehicles. The award marks Xos’s entry into the defense market, and the company sees substantial opportunities in the military power Read more

Insulation under pressure–looking at materials and systems for EV applications.  Selecting the right insulation material requires more than just datasheet comparisons. It demands a comprehensive understanding of the material and of the system with real operating conditions. This webinar provides a practical framework for evaluating insulation material for automotive/EV applications Read more

Retail behemoth Walmart has been offering EV charging at its stores for years, mostly through a partnership with Electrify America. More recently, the company has begun rolling out its own company-owned and operated EV charging network. It recently celebrated the opening of its 100th EV fast charging site, at the Read more

Battery anode technology developer Sila has received a conditional loan commitment of up to $1.4 billion from the US Defense Department’s Office of Strategic Capital (OSC). The financing would support the expansion of Sila’s silicon-carbon (Si/C) anode manufacturing capacity at its plant in Moses Lake, Washington, as well as the Read more

A Tesla owner posted dashcam footage of his car driving straight over a log lying across the road while running Full Self-Driving (FSD) v14.1 Lite, without braking or slowing down. The clip has more than 800,000 views, and it adds to a growing list of problems we’ve documented with Tesla’s Read more

Tesla has lost another senior chip engineer to DensityAI, the AI hardware startup built out of its own former Dojo team. Shishuang Sun, who spent more than five years as a Tesla AI hardware architect on Dojo and the Autopilot computers, now lists his role as “Packaging and System Hardware” Read more

XPeng’s robotics business has raised over $900 million at a post-money valuation of more than $6.3 billion, the Chinese EV maker announced today. XPeng calls it the largest single-round private financing in the history of China’s embodied AI industry. The round is meant to push XPeng’s IRON humanoid robot into Read more