Ford’s electric vehicle program saw notable progress in January 2025, with the company’s overall EV sales seeing a 21.2% year-over-year rise. But while the Ford Mustang Mach-E saw an increase in sales, the Ford F-150 Lightning experienced the opposite. This seems to be partly caused by the emergence of the Read more
A Tesla showroom in The Hague has been vandalized with anti-Nazi messages. The incident reportedly involved vandals spraying messages on the Tesla store’s windows. The incident: As per a report by Dutch News, a Tesla showroom in The Hague saw its windows vandalized with the words “Nee tegen nazi’s” and “Fuck Read more
Tesla is set to start production at its Shanghai Megafactory on February 11. The update was shared in a report from Shanghai Securities News. Key Milestones: The Shanghai Megafactory broke ground on May 2024 and it was completed by the end of December. The speed of the Shanghai Megafactory’s construction has Read more
Today’s Green Deals are headlined by Lectric’s Valentine’s Day sale that is running through February 15 with up to $654 bundles accompanying the lineup of e-bikes, as well as a separate 40% discount on its pet trailer. The focus of this sale is on the brand’s XP 3.0 e-bikes that Read more
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