Tesla Cybertruck panels that are leftover from manufacturing became the main course at the Supercharger Diner, contributing to the futuristic restaurant’s unique exterior design. The Supercharger Diner was an idea of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s in 2018, and in July 2025, it officially opened for business, serving a variety of Read more
A Tesla engineer took to X to explain why he believes Elon Musk deserved the new 96 million share, $29 billion pay package that the company awarded to him yesterday. Yun-Ta Tsai, a Senior Staff Engineer in the Autopilot program at Tesla, has worked at the company for five years. Read more
California has North America’s best EV charging network. Now it’s expanding that lead, with millions more for public fast charging.
US-based commercial EV company Cenntro has signed a strategic partnership agreement with EV distributor Electricove Maroc, to assemble Cenntro’s EVs in Morocco for distribution within the local and Northern African markets. Electricove has served as a Cenntro distribution partner for several years. Under the terms of the agreement, Cenntro agrees Read more
Amprius Technologies, which is developing lithium-ion batteries with its Silicon Anode Platform, has delivered SiCore battery cells to multiple drone and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) customers from its Fremont, California pilot line. The deliveries include the supply of 450 Wh/kg high-energy cells to Airbus subsidiary AALTO and balanced energy-and-power cells Read more
US-based solar and battery systems supplier Enphase Energy has expanded production shipments of its newest electric vehicle charger, the IQ EV Charger 2, across Europe to now include Greece, Romania, Ireland and Poland. The IQ EV Charger 2 is a smart charger designed to work seamlessly with Enphase solar and Read more
Lithium producer Vulcan Energy has finalized a strategy to pre-qualify its battery-quality lithium hydroxide monohydrate (LHM) material prior to entering full commercial production. The company is developing its Phase One Lionheart Project to provide integrated lithium and renewable energy production for the battery electric vehicle industry in Europe. Vulcan is Read more
Shortly after bringing a line of electric semi-trucks into production, German truck manufacturer MAN Trucks, in cooperation with AW Automotive, has introduced a mobile battery energy storage system (BESS) designed to bring charging for heavy-duty vehicles to remote sites. As Autoweek reports, MAN’s Smart Charging Cube is designed to be Read more
A virtual prototype of a battery charging design is created with SaberEXP, a piecewise linear circuit simulation tool from Synopsys. Design considerations include charging and discharging profiles, power conversion from grid (AC) to battery (DC), control algorithms are either ASIC based, or software driven. This battery charging design uses a Read more
Tesla sales in Europe are continuing to decline rapidly, and it appears the pain is just beginning for the automaker. more…