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08/06/26

This 1.5 MW electric truck charger just cleared a key US hurdle

Portuguese EV charging company i-charging has cleared a key hurdle for bringing its 1.5-megawatt (MW) electric truck charger to the US and Canada.

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08/06/26

2027 Toyota C-HR EV pricing is here, starting at $37,080

Toyota announced prices for the 2027 C-HR start at $37,080, or $2,100 more than its first electric SUV.

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08/06/26

Jackery 1,024Wh HomePower 1000 v2 power station exclusive new $449 low, Greenworks 80V MaximusZ bundle, more

Headlining our Thursday Green Deals this week is an exclusive $740 discount on Jackery’s newest 1,024Wh HomePower 1000 v2 Portable Power Station – with or without a 200W solar panel – at new lows starting from $449 . We

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08/06/26

Tesla, SpaceX confirm ‘Terafab’ chip fab site — $16.8B first phase

Tesla and SpaceX have confirmed where they’ll build Terafab, the semiconductor megafactory Elon Musk first teased in March. It’s going to Grimes County, Texas, about an hour northwest of Houston. The companies put the in

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08/06/26

Hyundai launches the updated IONIQ 6 in Turkey with a sleek new look and 422 miles of range

The new Hyundai IONIQ 6 is now on sale in Turkey with an updated design, new tech, and a longer driving range.

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08/06/26

Forbidden fruit: Buick Electra gets 435 mile range and 376 hp for $25,000

In the “Why don’t they sell that over here?” and “Why can’t we have nice things?” columns this morning, GM has announced range and pricing for its gorgeous new Electra L7 sedan in China, and it is a screaming deal.

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08/06/26

Musk’s Mayhem Continues Beyond DOGE Into Our Everyday Lives

It’s been over a year since Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) charged into the US federal government. His team fired thousands of government employees. Then they realized that so many probl

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08/06/26

The Messaging Skills That Have Blown Up The AI Bubble

AI is useful. Let me get that out of the way. What we are mostly referring to as AI at the moment (Claude, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Pilot, etc.) can do useful things. The point of there being an AI bubble is not

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08/06/26

BYD Just Sells Cheap EVs? Check Out This $216,000 Yangwang

People often think of Chinese cars being cheap. There is a full blown EV revolution underway in China, and many of the electric car models are priced lower than similar options elsewhere, and there are also small, cheap

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08/06/26

Climate Change Is Rewriting Europe’s Nuclear Cooling Assumptions

Romania gave Europe the kind of energy-transition image that should make planners uncomfortable. On August 3, Romanian naval engineers used 180 kilograms of explosives to remove a rock outcrop in the Bala Canal, a branch

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08/06/26

European Countries Cut Tens of Billions of Euros of Fossil Fuel Imports from Wind Solar Power Growth

I wrote a handful of articles last month on the 75th edition of the Statistical Review of World Energy. There was one more thing in there that I wanted to cover, though. There’s a chart eleven pages in that shows how muc

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08/06/26

Latin America EV Sales Report: 10% EV Market Share Surpassed in Q2!

Three months ago, in our previous quarterly report, I wrote the following: If costumer interest remains and high oil prices start to hit the region, there’s a very real chance we will surpass 10% at some point this year.

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