SpaceX almost ditched the catch of the Starship booster during the fifth integrated test flight (IFT-5) at the last second earlier this month. The catch was arguably the biggest accomplishment in the history of the program, which aims to put humans on Mars in the coming years. On October 13, Read more
Tesla bull ARK Invest released a more extensive prediction on the automaker’s plans to launch a Robotaxi fleet next year. The firm said it expects the Robotaxi platform to be a “multi-trillion dollar” opportunity and believes it could dominate long-standing rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft. Tesla and CEO Elon Read more
Lucid Motors has received the highest safety rating possible from a U.S. regulator for its 2025 Air electric sedan, as part of safety tests of about 87 percent of all new vehicles. On Tuesday, Lucid shared a press release highlighting that the 2025 Lucid Air received a five-star safety rating Read more
Tesla has launched a new product as part of its home energy storage portfolio, effectively allowing Powerwall 3 owners to upgrade their system’s capacity in less time. On Tuesday, Tesla launched Powerwall 3 expansion units in the U.S., announcing the scalable solution alongside a short video demonstration on X. In Read more
Grid operators in Western Australia have turned on a Tesla Megapack project earlier than expected, coming under 18 months since construction began and becoming the state’s largest battery project yet. In a press release on Tuesday, renewable provider Neoen announced that it has turned on the Collie Battery Stage 1 Read more
Tesla China saw 10,500 new vehicle registrations in the week of October 21-27, 2024. This represents a decrease of 20.45% from the 13,200 registrations that the electric vehicle maker saw in China in the week ending October 20. Tesla does not report its weekly sales figures in China, though a Read more
It’s official: The European Union is moving ahead with increased tariffs on Chinese-made EVs to as much as 45.3% – in an effort to save its auto industry from total demise. Question is, will it even matter to a powerhouse like BYD? more…
On today’s exciting episode of Quick Charge, Lucid proves than an EV company can keep its promises while Xiaomi teams up with Chevrolet and Honda to prove – at least conceptually – that records are made to be broken. more…
Molabo, a German manufacturer of 48-volt electric motors, has announced that Finnish shipyard Kewatec delivered a 16-meter-long firefighting and rescue boat to the Kiel, Germany, fire department that is equipped with a hybrid waterjet propulsion system using Molabo’s Aries i50 electric motors. The RESCUE 1500 boat, based on Kewatec’s e-FiFi Read more
Hanon Systems, an automotive parts manufacturing company headquartered in Daejeon, South Korea, has developed a fourth-generation heat pump system for EVs, as well as Thin HVAC, an HVAC system for EVs that is 30% smaller than the typical model in use today. The company’s new heat pump employs a parallel Read more