Tesla’s stock price and market cap are down considerably this year, on the back of slightly drooping sales (instead of 50% growth year over year), rumors of the more affordable Tesla being canceled, and a slow Cybertruck (and Semi) ramp-up. Tesla Full Self Driving (Supervised) has improved greatly with version … [continued]
Dodge lavished big love on the roaring sound of the new Charger electric vehicles, with an eye on attracting next-gen muscle car fans.
There are multiple things going on at once here. First of all, the big big picture is that electric car sales have grown enormously in the past decade, far more and far faster than almost all conventional industry analysts and insiders expected. Secondly, growth right at this moment is a … [continued]
Stellantis was one of the biggest laggards in electric cars for several years. Former Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne kicked it off. He lobbied against electric vehicle and fuel economy regulations, and he even infamously told Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) customers to not buy the Fiat 500e at one … [continued]
The push to make less expensive electric cars for American drivers is spurring intense competition to lower manufacturing costs.
Growth of EV fast chargers is critical to ongoing fast growth of the electric vehicle market. Deployment of EV fast chargers — also called high-powered chargers — has been going well, but it could always go faster. Now, just as it seemed the industry was consolidating a bit, we’ve got … [continued]
(What a difference a year — and subsidies — makes. A year ago, we were celebrating a record month and 25% BEV share. Now … not so much.) While the overall automotive market had a positive year (+14%), December saw it falling — it was down 4% compared to December … [continued]
The Canadian firm Worksport is on track to send solar panels flying onto millions of pickup trucks, electric or not, in the form of tonneau covers.
This is the 10th CES that Valeo has attended — making it one of the longest-attending automotive brands at what used to be a show about big-screen TVs and refrigerators that connected to your Wi-Fi. That said, CES has come a long way since those early days of the EV … [continued]
It’s hard to build an EV without batteries, and it’s not easy to build battery cells, let alone improve on them. To design, test, and produce battery cells requires an “all hands on deck” approach, with industry, government, and research institutions all playing key roles. And, for this to continue … [continued]
