Evolution Metals & Technologies (EM&T) has executed an agreement with Senri Trading to purchase neodymium-praseodymium (NdPr) metal from SRE Vietnam, a wholly owned subsidiary of Japanese trading company Tokai Trading. EM&T says the material comes entirely from a non-China source. NdPr metal is used to make the permanent magnets that Read more
KONČAR Electric Vehicles has selected Forsee Power’s ZEN 55 LFP RAIL battery systems for its new generation of battery multiple units (BMU) and battery-electric multiple units (BEMU). The Croatian manufacturer, part of the KONČAR Group, has placed an initial order to equip eight trains for operation in Croatia. KONČAR has Read more
BYD revealed the new Denza Z9S, a high-tech luxury electric sedan that can drive over 570 miles (920 km) on a single charge.
BYD wants to be the top-selling car company in the world within the next five years—with or without selling in the U.S.
SpaceX has announced a new target date for the thirteenth test flight of Starship: Monday, July 20, with the launch window opening at 6:45 p.m ET/5:45 p.m. CT. This is the first rescheduling attempt of Starship’s 13th test flight. It was set to launch last night, but SpaceX scrubbed the Read more
Tesla opened two new markets in less than 24 hours, launching in Latvia and Uruguay in back-to-back announcements this week. The dual entry completes Tesla’s expansion across all three Baltic states and gives the automaker its third market in South America — two very different markets that show how the Read more
Volkswagen opened pre-orders for the ID. Polo with the smaller 37 kWh battery, starting at under $30,000. The lower-priced model arrives after Volkswagen’s new EV received 25,000 orders weeks after it went on sale.
I’m not usually the kind of person who gets excited about wearing a watch. But I am apparently the kind of person who paces around my living room at a quarter to midnight because a tiny computer on my wrist informed me I was 200 steps short of today’s goal. Read more
When you think of Segway, you might still think of the self-balancing personal transporters that mall cops and tour groups employ to get around. The company, however, since being acquired by Beijing-based Ninebot a decade ago, has morphed into E-bikes, e-scooters, go-karts, off-road UTVs — the company has been stacking Read more
No matter how you slice it, there just aren’t enough drivers to move all the freight (and autonomous just isn’t ready). In the US, the industry is chasing higher payloads to bridge the gap, but in Australia, they’re taking a different approach: massive, multi-trailer hybrid road trains.