The Tesla Model X was the fastest-selling used vehicle in the United States in the first quarter of the year, crushing every other used car in America. iSeeCars data for the first quarter shows that the Model X was the fastest-selling used car, lasting just 25.6 days on the market Read more
The new Hyundai Pleos Connect is an easier-to-use, AI-based infotainment system that’s more like using a smartphone. It’s similar to Tesla’s, but with one key difference. more…
After Tesla decided to build a Rear-Wheel-Drive Cybertruck trim back in 2025, which was void of many features and only featured a small discount. The head-scratching offering was only available for a few months, and evidently, it did not sell very well, which we all suspected. New recall documents on Read more
Indium Corporation has been awarded a $3.2 million grant from the US Department of Energy’s Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation to develop a domestic process for recovering high-purity gallium from manufacturing by-products. The company is one of five organizations selected under the DOE’s TRACE-Ga (Technology for Recovery and Read more
EV charging provider Source, a joint venture between SSE and TotalEnergies, will work with Siemens eMobility and Evolt Charging to establish a unified operational and maintenance model across Source’s growing UK and Ireland charging network. Siemens eMobility will supply charging hardware, and Evolt Charging will provide the field engineering capability Read more
A couple of years ago, e-truck expert Rustam Kocher told Charged that the Tesla Semi was “a great product,” but that the company might struggle to compete against more established OEMs. Since then, the EV market in the US has changed radically—the Tesla Semi is moving into volume production, and Read more
Hongqi, once known as Chairman Mao’s preferred car brand, may use a Stellantis plant in Spain to speed up its European EV push.
Tesla has officially launched Semi production at what will be a mind-boggling rate of approximately 50,000 units per year. The truck is being built at a dedicated facility in Sparks, Nevada, just next to its Gigafactory Nevada facility. The company finally announced on April 29 that the first Tesla Semi Read more
Pacific Power Source has launched the SmartTS-PV Inverter Test System, a pre-integrated compliance testing platform targeting solar inverters, EVSE with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capability and other distributed energy resources. The company says any grid-tied device that needs to meet IEEE 1547.1, UL 1741 SB or EN50549 certification is a candidate. The Read more
The new iX3 will go on sale soon as BMW’s first Neue Klasse EV. Ahead of its US launch, BMW updated the 2027 iX3 range estimates to 434 miles. more…