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Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has disclosed a 5% stake in Lucid Group, and the market read it as a fresh vote of Saudi confidence in the cash-strapped EV maker. Lucid (LCID) shares jumped as much as 25% on
Our Tuesday Green Deals this week are all about home maintenance and improvements, led by the $1,200 savings on Greenworks’ 80V CrossoverT 30-inch Cordless Electric Riding Mower that comes with 4x 6.0Ah batteries and a 6
Baidu’s Apollo Go started robotaxi road testing in London today, and it’s doing it with both of ride-hailing’s biggest names at once — Uber and Freenow by Lyft. The launch lands days after Apollo Go ran the first fully d
Volkswagen opened pre-orders for the ID. Polo with the smaller 37 kWh battery, starting at under $30,000. The lower-priced model arrives after Volkswagen’s new EV received 25,000 orders weeks after it went on sale.
The new BMW iX3 has already received nearly 100,000 orders. Now, BMW is ramping up production at a record pace to meet the strong demand.
Tesla has signed a long-term deal to buy 90% of the output of Project Sterling, a big solar and battery plant going up in Arizona. The project pairs 509 MW of solar with a 360 MW battery, and it’s being built by ContourG
The US energy storage startup Viridi is among the US stakeholders deploying advanced technologies that improve resiliency while adding more distributed energy resources -- namely, wind and solar power -- to the nation's
Much of the economic concern around artificial intelligence (AI) is from the expectation that AI will lead to millions upon millions of job losses. Professional drivers, writers, lower-level software engineers, and even
We are clearly in “the year of AI,” with this probably being the #1 topic on people’s lists, at conferences, in commercials, appearing in new company directives and rules, etc. There are some issues that are surfacing fr
France and Spain are enduring mammoth wildfires that threaten entire cites. More than 300,000 people have been displaced from their homes by the fires. Do you have any idea what sort of family trauma that causes? No inco
CATL is the largest battery maker in the world. Based in China, it definitely feeds off of the ginormous electric vehicle industry in the country. However, it also quickly became a popular supplier for Western automakers
BYD is reportedly planning to show a humanoid robot for the first time soon. Well, it sort of already has, with a teaser image posted over the weekend on WeChat from its Di Space Zhengzhou site. “Notably, the account is