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The automaker saw a massive spike in second quarter sales despite rocky demand for EVs in the U.S.

Deliveries improved by 14.4% year over year despite the loss of the tax credit. But the company says the best is yet to come.

Last month, Lucid said goodbye to its top engineer. Now it’s bringing in a new leadership team.

Tesla just told us twice that the Model Y L is coming to the U.S., and two social media posts definitely just tipped the company’s hand, as if they wanted it to be any other way. The two social media posts basically confirm that the slightly longer version of the Read more

Commercial vehicles represent a major opportunity for emissions reductions. They make up a small share of vehicles on the road, but account for a disproportionate share of transportation emissions and fuel costs (which are passed on to consumers). However, as so many industry insiders have told Charged, the key to Read more

German-Canadian company Rock Tech Lithium has entered into an option agreement with Bounty Gold and Last Resort Resources to acquire a 100% interest in the Victory Project, a 9,875-hectare lithium exploration property in Northwestern Ontario. The project could represent a potential future source of lithium-bearing minerals for Rock Tech’s planned made-in-Ontario Read more

Arkema has begun a 15% expansion of its polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) capacity at its Calvert City, Kentucky site. The company has invested around $20 million in the project. PVDF is one of the main binder materials used in lithium-ion battery electrodes, where it holds the active material onto the current Read more

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has sold several of its A30 Electric articulated haulers to LNS (Leonhard Nilsen & Sønner) for use at a Norwegian hydroelectric power plant. Four units have been delivered, and three more are scheduled to follow next month. LNS, one of Norway’s largest contractors, will use Read more

Toyota will at least partially compensate suppliers after the scrapped flagship Lexus EV caused an “unprecedented” impact.

Elon Musk has directly rejected a popular fan theory that Tesla is secretly further ahead on Optimus than it lets on, warning instead that production of its humanoid robot “will be extremely slow at first.” The comment cuts against a bullish narrative that Tesla’s quiet stretch on Optimus is a Read more