Firmus today announced a landmark 12-year wholesale energy supply agreement with Gunvor Group for 600 MW of firm electricity to support the next phase of Project Southgate, its strategy to develop large-scale AI Factory campuses across regional Australia. Under the agreement, Gunvor will support the development of 1.2 GW of new renewable … [continued]
I’ve said it before several times — XPENG and NIO have had a humorously similar growth trajectory over the past several years. Sometimes one surges ahead of the other for a while, and then things swing again and the other one surges ahead. NIO had a bit of an advantage … [continued]
BEVs on the way up, PHEVs on the way down Plugin vehicle registrations were up 4% year over year (YoY) in May, ending the month at around 1.7 million units. Interestingly, BEVs (+15% YoY) and PHEVs (-15% YoY) had opposite performances, with pure electrics firm in double-digit growth while plugin … [continued]
XPENG had 40,126 vehicle deliveries in June, a 15.9% increase year over year. That was also a 24.8% increase in deliveries month over month for the company. Note that static versions of the embedded charts are included at the bottom of this article. This strong June result got the company … [continued]
NIO is off to a strong start in 2026 — well, covering the first half of the year already! The company scored 40,597 deliveries in June, up 62.9% from June 2025. That was also a 7.7% increase month over month. Note that static versions of the embedded charts are included … [continued]
XPENG (NYSE: XPEV, HKEX: 9868), a leading China-based high-tech company, shared key insights at the CVPR 2026 Workshop on Foundation Model Deployment for Embodied Intelligence, hosted in Denver, U.S. this June. Xianming Liu, Head of XPENG Group’s General Intelligence Center, disclosed for the first time the complete technical roadmap of … [continued]
Clean Energy Critical for Affordability & Clean Air in New Madrid NEW MADRID, MO — The idled Magnitude 7 Metals aluminum smelter near New Madrid, formerly owned and operated by Noranda, announced its intent to restart production by the end of the year. Not mentioned in the release today is … [continued]
Washington, DC — Today marks the mandatory six-year review of the United States-Mexico-Canada trilateral trade agreement, known as the USMCA. With a long-term agreement to extend the deal highly unlikely, and no countries opting to leave the deal, USMCA will move automatically to annual reviews through 2036. The USMCA was … [continued]
How we’re ensuring environmental laws are not ignored in the Trump administration’s unchecked mass detainment efforts. By Keith Rushing, Earthjustice After a year of aggressive litigation from Earthjustice and its partners, “Alligator Alcatraz” no longer holds detainees. The mass immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades shut down detention operations on … [continued]
Anyone who follows electric vehicles understands there is an active, if not robust, used electric vehicle market. Battery health is top of mind for many potential buyers because no one wants to buy a used EV to find out the battery needs to be replaced or requires repairs. Similarly, no … [continued]
