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
Rising fuel prices are convincing more and more Europeans that electric cars are worth it in the long run.
Heybike is expanding into a rather different corner of the e-bike market with the launch of the new Heybike Titan, a full-suspension, moped-style electric bike that can be had with either one or two batteries. And perhaps just as importantly, Heybike is coming out swinging on price.
The retail giant is ramping up installations, with the latest station opened at the Walmart Supercenter in Monument, Colorado.
It’s part of a big upgrade that’s coming to all Rivian passenger EVs, even the first-gen R1. Just don’t expect CarPlay.
Elon Musk gave the clearest timeline yet for retiring Falcon 9, SpaceX’s workhorse rocket. The comment came in a reply on X, where Musk wrote that “once Starship is flying reliably several times per week, it makes sense to shift super scarce SpaceX engineering and production resources to Starship to Read more