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Samsung SDI is taking full control of its Indiana battery plant. The South Korean cell maker is buying out General Motors’ 49.99% stake in their joint venture, according to a regulatory filing, ending GM’s ownership in the $3.5 billion factory. That turns the New Carlisle, Indiana plant into Samsung SDI’s first wholly owned battery factory in North America.

Lithium-ion power banks keep catching fire. Is semi-solid-state the safer solution?

The car that kicked off the plug-in hybrid craze among hypercar makers is over a decade old. New battery tech is keeping it fresh.

Plug Power reported $178 million in Q2 revenue with near break-even margins, raised guidance, secured a 50 MW electrolyzer order in Australia, and outlined asset sales for liquidity.

The 2021 Pacifica Hybrid is not without its problems, but with no rival minivan PHEVs on the market, has it retained its value? Let's look at the numbers.

The EPA has published the official range ratings for the affordable 2027 Kia EV3.

The two companies’ joint venture in Indiana is dead, but Samsung SDI still wants to build batteries there.

Samsung SDI said Tuesday it has signed an agreement with General Motors (GM) to jointly develop next-generation prismatic battery cells for potential use in future electric vehicles (EV). Under the agreement, the two companies will codevelop prismatic batteries designed to offer high energy density and fast-charging capabilities, extending their partnership in EV development. As part of the deal, Samsung SDI also acquired GM’s 49.99 percent stake in SynergyCells, a joint venture the two companies established in the U.S. state of Indiana. The ownership change reflects shifts in the battery market since the joint venture was announced, including slower-than-expected growth in EV demand. The two companies have decided to pursue other forms of cooperation rather than continue operating the business as a joint venture. With the acquisition, Samsung SDI will secure its first independently operated battery production base in North America. The company plans to use the facility to produce

HD Hyundai Oilbank has developed Korea’s first engine oil specifically designed for hydrogen internal combustion engine vehicles (HICEV), targeting the growing lubricant market for hydrogen-powered mobility, the refiner said Tuesday. The company recently began supplying its XTeer H2-ICE engine oil specifically developed for HICEVs, to hydrogen commercial vehicle manufacturers including Tata Daewoo. HD Hyundai Oilbank started developing lubricant technology for HICEVs in 2023 and completed product development and performance verification using its proprietary technologies last year. HICEVs operate at higher combustion temperatures than conventional internal combustion engines. Moisture generated during combustion can accelerate engine wear and degrade oil performance. Reflecting on these characteristics, HD Hyundai Oilbank independently developed three core technologies: engine protection, moisture control and suppression of deposits generated during combustion. The hydrogen-focused

An electric vehicle battery plant with annual capacity of 27GWh now under construction in New Carlisle, Indiana, will be converted to a sole-operation system under Samsung SDI. Samsung SDI announced on Aug. 11 that it has decided to acquire the entire 49.99% stake in the joint venture Synergy Cells

GreenH AS has secured around NOK 600 million from the EU Innovation Fund to build a 12.5 MW green hydrogen hub in Rogaland, aiming to produce five tonnes per day for maritime and heavy-duty transport by 2030.

IMDEA Materials researchers have shown that a strain-engineered Cu₃Pt catalyst on a NiTi substrate delivers Pt-level ORR performance at just 25% of the platinum load, pointing to a new route for lower-cost, durable PEM fuel cell cathodes.

Gangwon Province secured 29 billion won for R&D on a liquid hydrogen storage tank and transfer system at Samcheok’s hydrogen complex, marking the first phase of its coastal import terminal strategy.

Bloom Energy expands its hydrogen-ready solid oxide fuel cell microgrid for MiTAC’s Fremont AI server campus, securing resilient power for AI manufacturing.

SA’s SA-H2 blended-finance fund secures R3 billion first close, backed by PIC, EU, IDC and DBSA, to unlock green hydrogen projects in Coega and Vaal SEZs.

Montebello Bus Lines has begun operating its first hydrogen fuel cell electric buses supported by both temporary and permanent hydrogen refueling infrastructure. The three New Flyer XHE40 vehicles and depot upgrades showcase how smaller transit agencies can deploy hydrogen infrastructure under California’s zero-emission regulations.

Green Planet and MAN Truck & Bus have launched a MAN hTGX hydrogen demo truck at a Pesse station, enabling local hauliers to test high-pressure refueling, storage and operation under real conditions.

SKYRE’s H2RENEW is securing multimillion-dollar contracts across semiconductor, AI, and space sectors while expanding East Hartford production—leading the charge in industrial decarbonization and the circular hydrogen economy.

CB&I completed the first fill of its non-vacuum liquid hydrogen tank at NASA Marshall, advancing efforts to commercialize lower-cost, large-scale hydrogen storage.

Tesla’s chief designer says the new Roadster is coming “very soon.” We are talking about the same car Tesla revealed in 2017 and promised to build by 2020. Franz von Holzhausen said it on the latest episode of Jay Leno’s Garage. When Leno pressed him on it, he doubled down: “very soon.” Leno’s deadpan reply, “10 years… just shy of 10 years,” said the rest.

Tesla’s robotaxi account posted photos today of what it’s calling the first Cybercab with a Starlink antenna built into the vehicle. The pictures show a gold Cybercab parked at Gigafactory Texas, with a low-profile satellite antenna integrated into the roof. It’s the physical version of an integration Tesla teased with a diagram last month.

Ford dealers were shown an affordable hybrid crossover that will start around $25,000 and look like a first-generation Escape.

California launched a new EV credit to help spur demand. Tesla used up its share of the cash within a week.

49ers’ Shanahan crashed his Tesla on Autopilot reaching for his phone  ElectrekKyle Shanahan nears full strength, plans to coach preseason opener  ESPN49ers coach injured in Tesla crash amid scrutiny of self-driving features  NewsNation49ers' Kyle Shanahan says his car was on autopilot at the time of his recent accident  CBS SportsKyle Shanahan’s recent concussion changes his perspective on head injuries  NBC Sports

Ford’s new electric pickup will go on sale in the US early next year, starting at $28,350. Buyers in Canada won’t have to wait much longer, with pre-orders also set to open in early 2027.

San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan crashed his Tesla Model S on July 14 while the car was running on Autopilot. He was reaching for a phone that had dropped out of reach, and he took his eyes off the road. The crash left him with a concussion, a broken nose, three broken ribs, a broken left hand, and 40 stitches over his right eye. And to his credit, he isn’t blaming the car.

Owners can ask the chatbot questions about certain features or how to fix issues.

Kyle Shanahan reveals he still suffers headaches and fatigue from his concussion but will return to the 49ers sideline for Thursday's preseason opener.

49ers coach injured in Tesla crash amid scrutiny of self-driving features  NewsNation49ers' Kyle Shanahan says his car was on autopilot at the time of his recent accident  CBS SportsKyle Shanahan nears full strength, plans to coach preseason opener  ESPNKyle Shanahan’s recent concussion changes his perspective on head injuries  NBC Sports49ers coach Kyle Shanahan plans to coach the exhibition opener following car crash  SFGATE

The ID. Buzz wasn’t exactly made for off-road adventures. This custom kit changes the narrative.

The original Smart EQ Fortwo was sold in the U.S. with just 58 miles of EPA-estimated range. The new #2 promises triple the range.

arXiv:2608.06535v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) have many applications, ranging from simple thermostat systems to autonomous driving systems and medical devices. Like all systems, they need to function correctly. To this end, validation techniques such as testing that can effectively reveal faults are required. Also, CPSs usually operate in uncertain environments where various expected/unexpected events can affect their behaviors. These events together with timing and synchronization incidents may result in various/different CPS behaviors and may cause a CPS to pass a test under some conditions and fail it under others. Such test cases are called ``flaky'' test cases and we call the conditions that are responsible for them ``flaky conditions'' and call these behaviors ``flaky behaviors''. When test cases are flaky, testing results are unreliable. To achieve more reliable test results, engineers may attempt to recognize flaky test cases and remove them. In

In the first half of this year, the global electric vehicle market excluding China approached 4,600,000 units, growing by more than 30% compared to the previous year. While Chinese automakers expand their strides overseas beyond the domestic market, Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation slightly

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Chinese autonomy experts Pony.ai are planning to put 1,000 autonomous electric commercial trucks to work by 2027, but it’s the company’s plans to put 100,000 self-driving trucks on the road by 2030 that’s making headlines.

The high cost of platinum is one of the main barriers to the wider adoption of hydrogen fuel cells. Now, researchers at IMDEA Materials Institute have developed a catalyst that delivers the same performance while using 75% less of this expensive metal. The study, published in Electrochimica Acta, demonstrates a breakthrough made possible by applying controlled mechanical compression to the catalyst. This modifies its atomic-scale structure, enabling it to achieve energy efficiency comparable to that of pure platinum.

Head Coach Kyle Shanahan of the San Francisco 49ers | Image: Michael Zagaris / San Francisco 49ers / Getty Images Four weeks ago, San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan was involved in an accident near downtown Palo Alto. At the time Shanahan said only that the accident was his fault. But during a recent press conference he shared more details about the incident, including the fact that he had his Tesla's Autopilot engaged at the time. Shanahan was not passing the buck, however, saying it was his fault regardless of whether or not Autopilot was engaged. "I've had Autopilot for nine years, so I'm pretty comfortable with it and, you know, who knows what happened when I turned around? Whether it malfunctioned or whether I knocked it off? That's somethi … Read the full story at The Verge.

These six cars represent what I think are the best of what China has to offer. I wouldn’t mind seeing them in my driveway every day.

One owner found that downsizing the Ioniq 5 N’s wheels and tires improved highway efficiency by 12%.

There are many things we can blame Tesla for, but the courts will have to decide who's at fault in this case.

A new nanostructured carbon design lets fuel-cell catalysts use tiny amounts of platinum while remaining remarkably stable and efficient. The breakthrough could help hydrogen fuel cells become a more practical way to power data centers, vehicles, and other energy-intensive technologies.

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America's two biggest EV startups are facing more distinct challenges than ever, as Rivian launches the R2 and Lucid delays the Cosmos.

For just $32,000, China’s electric Bronco has plenty to offer, including over 400 miles of range.

Here's why automakers now announce products years before building them, and why they're unlikely to change course.

Kia’s first electric van is already a top seller, but the larger PV7 is set to launch soon, which could prove to be an even “bigger” hit. Here’s a closer look at it.

A YouTuber put three Teslas in a back-to-back test to measure reaction time. The results showed how both hardware and software have progressed.

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The airline industry wants passengers to be careful when travelling with lithium ion batteries.

It took three years and several iterations, but it’s finally ready to hit the water, and it’s awesome.

arXiv:2608.05404v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Penn State University High Energy Astrophysics Detector and Instrumentation Lab, in collaboration with Teledyne Imaging Sensors, has developed a next-generation event-driven X-ray hybrid CMOS detector. This detector is an HCD with a 1,024x1,024 array of 21-micron pitch pixels, featuring a comparator in each pixel to enable event-driven readout. While the full frame operation of this detector can reach readout speeds of up to 150 Hz, this event-driven operation allows readout of only those pixels that surpass a user-set charge threshold, enabling effective rates of up to 10 kHz. Here we report on the past detector development efforts at Penn State and describe these new detectors and expected performance improvements.

arXiv:2608.05718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry requires camera networks that provide sufficient surface coverage, image overlap, parallax, and resolution, yet conventional flight patterns are often poorly adapted to scene geometry resulting in local reconstruction errors. This paper proposes an iterative hybrid discrete-continuous viewpoint planning method for targeted UAV photogrammetry from a proxy reconstruction. The method scores sampled surface points using photogrammetric heuristics based on frontality, imaging distance, parallax, and multi-view observation count, while also evaluating the full viewpoint set in terms of visibility, pairwise overlap, and graph connectivity. Candidate viewpoints are generated around weakly observed regions, refined using clustered Covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMA-ES) optimisation, and removed when redundant. The final flight path combines close-range detail viewpoints with wider

The company’s U.S. marketing expenses reportedly increased 40% last quarter, with most of the money going to EVs.

Ford's low-cost EVs are meant to battle efforts from China and Tesla. Here's what we think we know so far.

Doosan Fuel Cell has secured its largest overseas contract worth about 108.7 billion won to supply mid-to-low-temperature SOFC stacks to Reverion GmbH for European clean-energy projects.

Australian BEV sales pass the 20% mark for the second month in a row as Geely's best-selling hatchback arrives on Australian shores. Plus, news of the week. The post The Driven Podcast: More small cars arrive as EV sales stay big appeared first on Renew Economy.

The nonpartisan watchdog found Elon Musk's DOGE didn't cut as much federal spending as it claimed and that it fell far short of its promised $2 trillion.

BMW challenged graduate students from Clemson University to create an energy-positive car that produces more electricity than it uses. This is what they came up with.

Tesla Megapacks are now helping support the Texas grid at Ørsted’s new 250 MW/500 MWh Old 300 battery storage project.

Toyota is expanding a factory-backed upgrade program designed to breathe new life into aging gas and plug-in Toyota and Lexus cars.

California dropped new details about how its incentive program for new and used EVs works, and which cars qualify. Here's what we know.

The explosion of new data centers being proposed and built around the U.S. has increased demand for energy to keep them powered and cooled. The Electric Power Research Institute estimates that data centers could consume up to 9% of U.S. electricity generation annually by 2030, up from 4% of total load in 2023.

Now that i3 production has started at BMW's Munich plant, its days of producing gas-powered cars are numbered.

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

The $29,945 Ford Fathom gets a pretty decent list of standard equipment.

The 75-kWh Zeekr 7GT never came close to its claimed peak, but its impressive charging curve took it from 10% to full in 21 minutes.

A police department in Parker, Colorado, pulled over a Tesla going 64 mph in a 45 mph zone whose driver insisted they weren’t responsible, because the car was running “Full Self-Driving.” Of course, Tesla will never take responsibility for that incident, but the frustrating part is that Tesla already has the solution and yet it refuses to implement it.

The automaker sold just 2,065 EVs in the U.S. last month, most of them being Mustang Mach-E crossovers.

The city is also installing 92 new fast charging points and nearly 200 Level 2 plugs at its parking fields and garages.

RWE’s Lingen plant has shipped the first batch of RFNBO-compliant green hydrogen via a dedicated 120 km pipeline to Evonik’s Marl Chemical Park, marking Europe’s first integrated large-scale production-transmission-offtake chain.

Operators of Germany’s hydrogen core network have paid to reserve nearly 6 GW of capacity, doubling spring bookings and underscoring strong demand for the 9,040 km pipeline backbone under a new tariff framework.

The company’s smallest EV to date is expected to cost around $50,000, opening up a much more lucrative market for the startup.

The entry-level AMG four-door EV uses one fewer motor than the GT 63, yet still makes 536 hp and hits 60 mph in 3.4 seconds.

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EVgo-branded Superchargers will start hitting its stations this fall, capable of delivering 500 kW.

SpaceX is using Tesla's big Megapack backup batteries to help power its Colossus AI data centers in Greater Memphis.

Zoox said on Wednesday that it will start charging for rides on August 10, in a milestone for the company and broader industry.

Tesla Megapacks are now helping support the Texas grid at Ørsted’s new 250 MW/500 MWh Old 300 battery storage project.

Some Tesla owners running FSD V14 Lite claim the update is causing issues.

Driving at well over 100 mph deals a significant blow to an EV's range.

It's difficult to believe that something so heavy can accelerate faster than some of the most extreme performance cars in the world.

Kia’s first electric van continues to defy expectations. The PV5 has quickly become the most popular e-LCV across Europe and the UK.

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It only plans to build 40 units at first, which will do little to fulfill its 50,000 reservation backlog.