WeRide has received approval to operate robotaxis in Saudi Arabia. It is partnering with Uber and Ai Driver and doing the pilot in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia. By the end of the year, the companies plan to have full-scale commercial operations up and running. Haven’t heard of … [continued]
The EV Revolution is gaining momentum in many countries around the world even as tariff wars rage in the US.
The California startup Lucid Motors aims to boost its EV sales footprint with a newly expanded footprint for its operations in Arizona, along with a second factory in Saudi Arabia.
Ford and GM celebrated strong Q1 EV sales results on April 1, while Tesla CEO Elon Musk spent his Q1 energy failing to sell voters on his pick for Wisconsin State Supreme Court.
The US firm Lucid Group aims to ramp up EV sales in the US and Saudi Arabia, too, offering up more competition for Tesla in the luxury market.
Grid-scale energy storage is all the rage. Battery costs have come down tremendously in the past decade, and that has enabled large-scale battery storage projects to help the grid balance out supply and demand. This is also particularly useful for integrating low-cost but intermittent renewable energy projects — terawatts worth … [continued]
Germany is looking to companies in Saudi Arabia to supply it with green hydrogen made from renewable energy resources.
After the only win from last year’s COP28 was saying out loud “End Fossil Fuels,” the Drill-Baby-Drill crowd under the leadership of Saudi Arabia is doing everything in their power to make it just a line in an “All of the Above” policy agenda. At every international forum — from … [continued]
China is well known as the world’s leading electric vehicle (EV) market. More than half of the world’s EV sales have occurred there in recent years. It is a standard of the rapid, uplifting EV revolution. In 2023, 25% of auto sales in China were sales of full electric vehicles. … [continued]
The United States produced more crude oil than any nation at any time, according to our International Energy Statistics, for the past six years in a row. Crude oil production in the United States, including condensate, averaged 12.9 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2023, breaking the previous U.S. and global … [continued]
