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The battle between the AI big hitters has largely played out on social media. Now it is coming to the courtroom.

The battle between the AI big hitters has largely played out on social media. Now it is coming to the courtroom.

Mr. Musk’s lawsuit against Mr. Altman and OpenAI makes the case that all-encompassing greed is Silicon Valley’s defining feature.

Hyundai Motor Group said Tuesday that it will begin a pilot program letting customers pay separately for electric vehicle (EV) batteries rather than buying them with the car, an effort to reduce the upfront cost of owning an EV. Hyundai Motor and Hyundai Capital will jointly run the pilot in the first half of this year, targeting corporate taxi operators whose battery warranties have expired. The program is made possible by a special regulatory exemption approved by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in November, allowing electric vehicle bodies and batteries to be registered under separate ownership for the first time. Under current vehicle regulations, batteries cannot be registered or managed separately from the vehicle. That has been cited as a drag on EV demand, since battery degradation can reduce resale values and leave owners responsible for costly replacements. The pilot program will cover five Ioniq 5 fleet taxis operating in the Seoul metropolitan area.

arXiv:2604.24606v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reverse parking maneuvering of a vehicle with trailer system is a difficult task to complete for human drivers due to the multi-body nature of the system and the unintuitive controls required to orientate the trailer properly. The problem is complicated with the presence of other vehicles that the trailer and its connected vehicle must avoid during the reverse parking maneuver. While path planning methods in reverse motion for vehicles with trailers exist, there is a lack of results that also offer collision avoidance as part of the algorithm. This paper hence proposes a modified Hybrid A*-based algorithm that can accommodate the vehicle-trailer system as well as collision avoidance considerations with the other vehicles and obstacles in the parking environment. One of the novelties of this proposed approach is its adaptability to the vehicle with trailer system, where limits of usable steering input that prevent the occurrence of

Samsung SDI on Tuesday reported a first-quarter operating loss of 155.6 billion won ($115.3 million) and revenue of 3.58 trillion won, as it sharply narrowed losses and returned to net profit. The company said revenue rose 12.6 percent year-on-year, while operating loss contracted 64.2 percent. Net profit came to 56.1 billion won, marking a return to profitability. By segment, the battery business generated 3.35 trillion won in revenue and posted an operating loss of 176.6 billion won, while the electronic materials business recorded 222 billion won in revenue and an operating profit of 21 billion won. Samsung SDI said battery performance improved as demand recovered across key applications, including energy storage systems (ESS), uninterruptible power supply (UPS), battery backup units (BBU) and power tools. Revenue rose 12.5 percent year-on-year, while losses narrowed by more than 61 percent. The improvement was driven in part by increased Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit

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A week after its official debut, Hyundai’s electric hatchback was captured in public for the first time as a standard model. more…

The EVA Cab has no steering wheel and is built with massive robotaxi fleets in mind.

Kia wants to conquer the commercial and passenger-hauling world with a flexible electric van architecture. It's off to a good start.

The Musk v. Altman trial kicked off at a federal courthouse in Oakland, California, with jury selection followed by opening arguments.

As drivers look for alternatives amid rising gas prices, Toyota has been an unexpected winner, with EV sales more than doubling in March. more…

The refreshed Q4 E-Tron gets a new range-boosting motor and quicker charging with bidirectional power and has up to three screens.

Musk, who co-founded the company that created ChatGPT with Altman, wants more than $130 billion in damages in a lawsuit that could shakeup the artificial intelligence landscape.

Musk, who co-founded the company that created ChatGPT with Altman, wants more than $130 billion in damages in a lawsuit that could shakeup the artificial intelligence landscape.

Oakland, Calif., where Elon Musk’s trial against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, starts on Monday, is not exactly known as a hub of the tech industry.

I got behind the wheel of the next-generation Xiaomi SU7, and the upgrades are significant. The refreshed electric sedan delivers up to 902 km (560 miles) of CLTC range, 800V charging architecture across all trims, and standard LiDAR — all while still undercutting the Tesla Model 3 in China. Xiaomi started deliveries of its updated best-seller in April after securing over 100,000 pre-orders, building on the 381,000 first-gen SU7s sold since the original launch in March 2024. more…

Tesla has continually postponed the second-gen Roadster. Now, China’s BYD is stepping up with a spec monster.

The brake pedal may detach from the brake booster, which renders the service brakes inoperative.

Elon Musk is seeking more than $150 billion in damages and a complete shake-up of OpenAI. The outcome could have big consequences for the artificial intelligence industry.

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Ford's racing division sets record for the fastest electric car on quarter-mile track with 2,200 hp Mustang. Importance Rank:  1 read more

As the structure of ‘selling only if it is cheap or expensive’ solidifies in the imported car market, the phenomenon of brand concentration is also intensifying. While mid-to-low priced demand is being rapidly absorbed by the proliferation of low-cost electric vehicles centered around Tesla, the dem

Tesla has released its “Robotaxi” app on the Google Play Store, making the ride-hailing service available to Android users for the first time. The iOS version launched in September 2025 — putting the Android release nearly a year behind. The app arrived on April 24, just days after Tesla “expanded” its “Robotaxi” service from Austin to Dallas and Houston. more…

It’s called the Cixi Vigoz, and it even has Isofix mounting points for a child seat in the back. It also has pedals.

Hyundai has revealed the all-new Ioniq V at the Beijing Auto Show 2026, marking its first model developed exclusively for Chinese buyers. The Ioniq V is part of Hyundai’s aggressive new..

arXiv:2604.22094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The coupling between propagating surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in Au nanostructures and the exciton transitions of cyanine dye J-aggregates has been examined using leakage radiation microscopy. Real space images of the nanostructures give the propagation lengths of the leaky SPP modes, and Fourier space images yield their dispersion curves. The dispersion curves show an avoided crossing when the structures are coated with J-aggregates, with a Rabi splitting of approximately 30 meV. The lifetimes of the coupled states were calculated by combining the measured propagation lengths with the group velocities obtained from the dispersion curves. The lifetimes decrease from ~50 fs for the bare Au nanostructures, to ~10 fs in the avoided crossing region for the coupled J-aggregate/Au nanostructure system. Analytical Holstein-Tavis-Cummings model calculations and finite element simulations of the coupled system show that the decrease in

arXiv:2604.22455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A core component of any AI-Augmented Business Process Management System (ABPMS) is the process frame, which gives the system process-awareness and defines the boundaries in which the system must operate. Compared to traditional process models, the process frame should, in principle, provide a somewhat more permissive representation of the managed processes, such that the (semi) autonomous behavior of an ABPMS, referred to as framed autonomy, could emerge. At the same time, it is not limited to a single linguistic or symbolic formalism and may incorporate heterogeneous knowledge ranging from predefined procedures to commonsense rules and best practices. In this paper, we conceptualize the notion of an ABPMS process frame as a hybrid business process representation, consisting of semi-concurrently executed procedural and declarative process models. We rely on our earlier works to outline the execution semantics of this type of process

Just the other week, Hydrovia™ Energy in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, rolled out a two-pronged plan to tackle two of hydrogen’s…

Across Europe, there’s a fresh buzz in defence logistics, driven by a big leap in green hydrogen tech. This month,…

As AI workloads keep surging, data centers are scrambling for power sources that can keep pace without overloading the grid.…

We’re super excited to let you in on some big news: Elemental Trucks—the Toronto-born venture that kicked off in 2022…

Noon Energy is in talks with Meta to bring up to 1 gigawatt of next-level, 100+ hour energy storage to…

Chinese scientists have achieved a breakthrough in “all-iron flow battery” technology that could sharply reduce the cost of storing renewable energy while significantly extending battery lifespan. Lithium costs over 80 times more than iron as a raw industrial material at present. An iron battery may offer a potential solution to one of the biggest bottlenecks in the global energy transition, according to the researchers. A team from the Institute of Metal Research under the Chinese Academy of...

Ford Racing’s new Mustang Cobra Jet 2200 just became the quickest electric car on the planet, running a 6.87-second quarter mile at 221 mph at the NHRA 4-Wide Nationals in Charlotte this weekend. The run demolished Ford’s own previous EV record — a 7.623-second pass set by the Cobra Jet 1800 in September 2024 — by a massive 0.75 seconds, a staggering improvement in a sport measured in thousandths. more…

Electric vehicles (EVs) made in China now account for one in every three new registrations in South Korea, as Tesla’s Shanghai-built models power the surge and Chinese carmakers start to gain traction. The country’s auto manufacturers have further room to expand, analysts said, supported by higher fuel prices linked to the US-Israeli war in Iran and looser restrictions than traditional target markets. Still, tightening subsidy regimes could slow the pace of expansion, they cautioned. Sales of...

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Tesla is launching its solution to end Supercharger fights once and for all, eliminating any confusion on who is to charge next at a congested location. Last year, a notable incident at a Tesla Supercharger led to a fight, and it all stemmed from a disagreement over who arrived at the location first. Congestion at […] The post Tesla launches solution to end Supercharger fights once and for all appeared first on TESLARATI.

The ride-hailing giant is brokering the autonomous vehicle revolution. Now, it wants to do the same for electric vehicle charging.

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Chinese scientists have developed a method to generate electricity and achieve higher energy efficiency than conventional burning, while producing zero carbon dioxide emissions, by placing coal inside a “battery”. “Coal-fired power” conjures images of heavy pollution, steep carbon footprints and modest efficiency. But a novel, direct coal power technology challenges that stereotype by eliminating combustion entirely and sidestepping the CO₂ emissions that have long defined coal use. A team led...

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The EV9 is a fantastic three-row SUV that just happens to be electric. Now, used models are selling at half price.

CNBC takes a ride with a Tesla Model Y owner in New York City to see how he uses Grok and how it integrates into Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised).

After 14 years, the Model S is bowing out. But the car industry it helped create will continue living in its shadow.

They thought subscriptions were an easy route to profit. But the real value is in something else…

The leases on hundreds of thousands of battery-powered cars and trucks will end in the next three years, and many will end up on used-car lots.

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This is the first of 20 new models that Hyundai will introduce in China in the next five years, with the goal of 500,000 annual sales.

A fault within the hybrid system's DC-DC converter could cause the battery to drain, resulting in a loss of drive power and a loss of vehicle lights.

Summary: SoftBank Corp. plans to convert part of the former Sharp LCD factory in Sakai, Osaka into one of Japan’s largest battery production lines for AI data centres, with production expected within five years (~2031). The move completes a vertical integration stack spanning chips (Arm, Graphcore, Ampere), modular data centre manufacturing (Lordstown), energy generation (SB […] This story continues at The Next Web

In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Tesla’s disaster earnings, the Beijing Auto Show being absolutely insane, and a plethora of new EVs unveiled this week. more…

The new production model, closely related to the Hyundai Venus concept shown earlier this month, is bound for China.

Hyundai wants to sell 500,000 cars in China soon, and this wedge-shaped sedan could get them there.

Fang Cheng Bao is best known for its high-end off-road SUVs, but now BYD’s sub-brand has its sights set on a new market after revealing its first electric sedan and striking Formula X sports car. more…

BYD launched its new Flash Charging system, enabling EV charging in as little as 5 minutes, in luxury vehicles like the Denza Z9 GT. Now, it’s set to roll out to some of its best sellers. more…

The global automotive industry is entering one of the most transformative periods in its history. Electrification is accelerating, emissions regulations are tightening across major markets, and vehicles are rapidly evolving into software-defined platforms. Yet beneath the headlines about electric vehicles (EVs), another transformation is quietly reshaping the automotive ecosystem: the evolution of vehicle diagnostics. Rather […]

Nissan revealed a pair of plug-in hybrid SUV concepts at the Beijing auto show, including the Terrano, an off-roader with handsome styling.

Kia set a new global sales record in the first quarter, driven by strong demand for electric vehicles. With a full lineup ranging from the entry-level EV2 to the PV5 van, Kia now offers an EV for nearly everyone. more…

The high-profile trial between Elon Musk and Sam Altman is scheduled to begin Monday with jury selection.

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Liquid hydrogen boil-off has always been the elephant in the room when it comes to putting fuel cell technology buses…

City after city is racing to ditch tailpipe emissions, and now Uber is teaming up with French hydrogen whiz-kids HysetCo…

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Over the last couple of decades, our cars have become much more environmentally friendly in terms of their

Porsche's Cayenne Coupe goes fully electric for 2026, with three models ranging from 435 hp to 1,139 hp and a starting price of $113,800.

Hyundai unveiled the IONIQ V at Auto China 2026 in Beijing today, a sleek electric liftback with over 600 km of CLTC range built on an 800V platform with CATL batteries. It’s the production version of the Venus concept the automaker revealed earlier this month. The IONIQ V is the first dedicated IONIQ production model for the Chinese market, and it marks the beginning of an aggressive 20-model offensive as Hyundai tries to claw back relevance in the world’s largest EV market. more…

With the right dispenser, ABB’s OM M-Series power cabinet can deliver up to 1.2 megawatts for an EV.

The rocket maker has been a useful financial tool for Mr. Musk, providing the billionaire with loans and aiding his struggling companies, a Times examination found.

The rocket maker has been a useful financial tool for Mr. Musk, providing the billionaire with loans and aiding his struggling companies, a Times examination found.