Circontrol, a provider of EV charging solutions, is joining forces with Circutor, which specializes in energy efficiency and e-mobility in Spain and Portugal. The companies, which both belong to the same business group, will gradually begin marketing their products and solutions under a single global brand: Circutor. This transition brings Read more
As the federal government pursues its quest to take the US auto industry back to the 20th century, California is moving ahead with various pro-electrification policies. Governor Newsom has signed a new law (SB 168) that establishes EV purchase incentives that are in some ways superior to the incentives that Read more
European EV charging provider Allego has selected AMPECO as its new charge point management system (CPMS). The company will migrate its network—which includes 35,000 charge points in 16 countries, some 60 roaming connections and over 200,000 registered EV drivers—to AMPECO’s platform. Allego says it chose AMPECO for the maturity of Read more
Lithium-ion battery maker Electrovaya has signed an agreement with Amazon to support continued deployment of its Infinity Battery Technology across Amazon’s material handling operations. Electrovaya says the relationship could also expand into robotics and energy storage applications. Under the agreement, Amazon will receive warrants to purchase up to 13,880,345 common Read more
SpaceX has updated its target for the thirteenth integrated flight test of Starship, aiming for as early as Thursday, July 23. The 90-minute launch window opens at 5:45 p.m. CT from the company’s Starbase facility in South Texas. The target flight was initially rescheduled for today, but SpaceX pushed it Read more
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is asking a federal appeals court to wipe out the $243 million verdict a Miami jury handed Tesla over a fatal Autopilot crash. The attorneys general of Alabama and Georgia joined the July 9 brief, which asks the 11th Circuit to throw out the judgment Read more
Australian conversion experts Janus Electric are celebrating a series of orders that will see the company convert 67 Class 8 heavy-duty freight and drayage trucks from diesels to advanced, battery-swap electric vehicles.
The world’s best-selling car of all time is going electric. Toyota’s next-generation Corolla EV will debut on a new platform as “a considerable sense of crisis” forces the company to reinvent itself.
Elon Musk shed more details on the upcoming improvements to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving suite, specifically one that the CEO mentioned last week, which should help owners see fewer interventions. Last week, Musk hinted that one major improvement that Tesla planned to roll out to Full Self-Driving users was the car’s Read more
Elon Musk dismissed reports claiming SpaceX had placed a massive order for NVIDIA GPUs worth $52 billion. The denial came hours after Taiwanese media, citing unnamed industry sources, reported that SpaceX planned to acquire approximately 13,000 AI server racks, equating to roughly 1 million GB300 GPUs, from Foxconn. Each rack Read more