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Lucid Motors is laying off 18% of its workforce, roughly 1,500 employees, just four months after the EV maker cut 12% of its staff. The company also confirmed Monday that it has eliminated the second production shift at
The PV5 is turning out to be a smash hit, so much so that Kia is now being forced to ration supply to overseas markets as it juggles demand.
Powered trailer concepts aren’t new, but they typically focus on solving a single problem, whether that’s reducing fuel costs or powering a reefer unit or utility. The new PowerSled concept is a bit different, promising
Octopus Energy and CATL are bringing a battery-swapping model already used at scale in China to Europe’s growing electric truck market.
A commercial sodium-ion battery from Chinese manufacturer Hina matches Tesla’s lithium-ion cells on manufacturing quality and internal design, according to an independent teardown published in the Cell Press journal Cell
Xiaomi returned to the Nürburgring to set another lap record, but this time it did it with nobody in the car at all, setting down the first official autonomous time at the world-famous racetrack.
Each time we see a photograph of bleached coral reefs, we feel saddened there is no greater iconography of the climate crisis that surrounds us. The United Nations warned this month of a “deepening crisis” for oceans, ou
The first quarter of 2026 saw plugin EVs at 33.7% share in Germany, up from 26.6% in Q1 2025. BEV share grew strongly year on year, and PHEV share grew modestly. Overall, Q1 auto volume was 699,377 units, up some 5% YoY.
The US energy storage startup QuantumScape is among the domestic EV battery innovators marching steadily towards commercial-level production, despite the sharp U-turn in federal electrification technology. The post The E
The technical case for subsea power cables connecting Southeast Asia’s electricity systems has long been established. The next challenge is ensuring that governance arrangements evolve alongside the growing scale and com
Boston Metal’s public story has shifted in a way that makes the company more credible in the near term, but less sweeping as a green-steel story. The company is still built around molten oxide electrolysis, or MOE, an el
Cooking is something everybody on the planet needs to do, and one company has been building electric grills to make it easy and emissions free to grill up a delicious meal. Kenyon reached out to us to see if we wanted to