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VW yesterday cut 2024 ID.4 Standard lease prices by $30 per month, making it $219 per month, the lowest ID.4 lease price to date. more…

EVs and PHEVs made up a record half of car sales in China in July, the first time this milestone was achieved in the world’s largest auto market. more…

Elon Musk’s xAI has now hired over a dozen Tesla employees to its language model, Grok, amid a Tesla shareholders lawsuit over the issue. more…

The Neta S Hunting Edition is a station wagon available in EV or range-extended form.

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Camping in the great outdoors involves getting close to nature, and—aside from walking or biking—nothing helps keep the world’s resplendent parks, beaches, and mountains free from damage from pollutants more than traveling to see them while driving an electric vehicle. Now, Hipcamp, an online marketplace for campsites, glampsites and RV Read more

The miner’s traditional tools, a hammer and pick, don’t resemble a notebook computer in the slightest, but Kurt House and Josh Goldman, the founders of KoBold Metals, a company focused on finding new sources of metals for use in electronic systems, consider the latter an indispensable mining tool. The Berkeley, Read more

China’s Farasis Energy has tested its EV battery cells through cycles representing travel over a cumulative million miles. This requires cycling the cell over 5,000 times, a process that takes 24-36 months of accelerated testing. Farasis Energy has tested its nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM) cells, the P75 and P73, to evaluate their Read more

The Efficient Network for Road-freight Optimisation, Utilisation and Transfer of Energy (ENROUTE) project of Innovate UK, a nondepartmental public body that serves as the UK’s innovation agency, is spearheading an initiative to enhance the operational efficiency of the charging of electric heavy goods vehicles (eHGVs). Addressing the need for scalable Read more

In what the company’s CEO is calling “a direct challenge” to the Tesla Semi, Chinese heavy truck manufacturer Windrose recently announced plans to build a new assembly plant in the US in a bid to sidestep heavy tariffs on electric vehicles made in China. more…