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LG Energy Solution says the unsolved problem in solid-state batteries is making large cells at scale, and expects the technology to reach smartphones roughly a decade before electric vehicles. Europe’s first solid-state gigafactory broke ground in France in February. The company that has just opened America’s newest battery plant does not think solid-state cells are […] This story continues at The Next Web

Korean battery giant LG Energy Solution said key challenges in solid-state battery development remain.

Mahle says its new range extender can fit in the same space as a battery module, increasing driving range to roughly 500 miles.

The Chevy Bolt took a brief hiatus, but now it's back as a practical EV hatchback. But what if you want to save some cash and go with an older used model?

Tesla will voluntarily recall about 3 million of its vehicles in China to address doorhandle safety concerns and deficient driver monitoring systems.

BYD's flagship Da Han sedan starts under $37,000 in China with over 1,000 km of claimed range, LiDAR assistance, and air suspension.

I toured a battery gigafactory where executives discussed solid-state batteries, sodium-ion technology, and more.

It's not enough to have a mechanical backup for your electronic handles. It also has to be easy to spot in an emergency.

Volkswagen’s new ID. Era 5S starts at around $13,400 in China and combines plug-in hybrid power with up to 160km of electric-only range.

Tesla, Waymo, and Uber got the green light to start charging for robotaxi rides in the county that’s home to Las Vegas.

Thanks to two stackable discounts, owners can enjoy some of the cheapest EV fast chargers in the country.

arXiv:2608.20299v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We report experimental evidence for the lower-hybrid drift instability in the current sheet normal direction of electron-only magnetic reconnection. In our laser-driven capacitor-coil experiment, the system size ($\sim$3 ion skin depths) places it in the electron-only regime. Yet, Thomson scattering reveals out-of-plane electron drift oscillations at the local lower-hybrid frequency, with kinetic energy density reaching $\sim$18% of the local magnetic energy density. Linear theory with the measured parameters predicts more than ten e-folding times of growth, indicating that the instability reaches the nonlinear regime within the measurement window. Supported by particle-in-cell simulations, these results demonstrate the importance of ions in the dissipation and energy transfer in electron-only reconnection where their significance has not been previously recognized.

Samsung SDI, the battery-making arm of Samsung Group, said Friday it will sell part of its stake in Samsung Display to raise funds for future growth investments. Samsung SDI said in a regulatory filing that it will transfer 13.088 million shares in Samsung Display to the display maker, representing about 33 percent of its holdings. The shares are valued at about 4.45 trillion won ($3.2 billion). Once the transaction is completed, Samsung SDI's stake in Samsung Display will fall to 10.2 percent from 15.2 percent. Samsung SDI did not disclose specific plans for using the proceeds, but the funds are expected to be used for facility investments, including its battery plant under construction in New Carlisle, Indiana. The stake sale is seen as reaffirming Samsung SDI's commitment to expanding investments to build a foundation for medium- to long-term growth as the company works to improve its earnings. Demand for energy storage systems and uninterruptible power supply systems has been

The California startup has partnered with a design-for-manufacturing company to supercharge its solar EV production plans.

HD Hyundai Electric will participate in the ‘CIGRE Paris Session 2026’ held at the Palais des Congres de Paris in France from August 23 to 28.This event, which began in 1921, is an international venue where power companies, manufacturers, and technical experts from around the world gather every two

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Genesis has unveiled the GV90, a full-size electric SUV with 490 kW, a 123.5 kWh battery and pillarless coach doors on the Neolun version. It goes on sale in the United States early next year, and the announcement says nothing about Europe. Genesis has revealed the biggest and most expensive thing it has ever built. […] This story continues at The Next Web

Big luxury sedans aren't supposed to be capable of such nutty performance but the fastest Lucid put on a show for Car and Driver.

It's almost time to say goodbye to range anxiety.

A new four-cylinder hybrid powertrain is coming to the mid-size SUV, and it should arrive in the U.S. sooner rather than later.

Lithium titanate (LTO, Li4Ti5O12) is a well-established battery material that in its pristine state is a poor conductor of lithium ions. It develops high ionic conductivity only during charging, when additional lithium ions and electrons are incorporated into the material.

It took almost a decade but Tesla's all-electric big rig is finally headed to Europe and is being presented in Germany in September.

Can a car be friendly at the pump, carry a bunch of people and luggage, and also be fun to drive? We hit the road to find out.

It’s a good car at a great price. But there’s a reason Americans don’t buy cars like this.

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The Chinese-made Zeekr vans are fitted with Waymo’s sixth-generation hardware and software suite.

Geely says its next-generation solid-state EV battery will reach an energy density of up to 500 Wh/kg, and it’s already running the cells through real-world validation ahead of a pilot rollout in 2027. That number is the whole story. At 500 Wh/kg, Geely’s cells would hold roughly twice the energy per kilogram of the best lithium-ion battery packs shipping in EVs today.

The everyman’s high-performance EV.

With up to 1,917 lb-ft of torque, two transmissions, and fully independent axles, the Tatra Force e-Drive BEV sounds like a beast.

arXiv:2608.18844v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) framework for joint electric vehicle (EV) and electric bus (eBus) charging-infrastructure planning with photovoltaic (PV) self-consumption. The model co-optimizes charger siting, sizing, technology selection, eBus-to-depot assignment, and hourly charging schedules. A deterministic MILP is first formulated as a nominal benchmark and then extended to a scenario-based robust min--max formulation under vehicle energy-demand uncertainty. The robust model uses shared first-stage infrastructure decisions and scenario-specific operating decisions, and minimizes infrastructure cost plus the worst-case scenario operating cost through an epigraph reformulation. Soft-feasibility penalties quantify unmet charging energy, terminal state-of-charge (SOC) shortfall, and capacity violations under stressed scenarios. A 50-node case study shows that route-segment eBus demand and PV weighting

Paradip Port Authority has launched a tender for PMC services to install a 1 MW electrolyser for green hydrogen production and procure eight hydrogen fuel cell buses, reinforcing its Green Hydrogen Hub status and complementing an approved green fuel jetty.

Bloom Energy’s Power Connect slashes onsite installation time by over 40% with factory-assembled, pre-wired fuel cell modules, boosting hydrogen infrastructure agility.

HORIBA and HORIBA FuelCon have launched four standardized test station models in China covering PEMFC, SOFC, SOEC, PEMEC, and AEMEC to accelerate R&D validation and align with emerging hydrogen standards.

A True Zero hydrogen pump now stands beside gasoline pricing at a San Diego station, reflecting California’s policy-driven hydrogen network growth and the ongoing cost and reliability challenges for fuel cell vehicles.

The operators’ original pricing is passed through with no markup on energy costs. There is one big caveat, though.

California is investing $95.2 million in EV charging and hydrogen refueling infrastructure, allocating funds for passenger chargers, heavy-duty vehicles and station reliability, with a strong equity mandate.

With massive interior space and the ability to turn the front seats around, the GV90 can create a lounge-like interior for four people.

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Meant to do battle with the Jeep Gladiator, a pickup variant of the Bronco should arrive in a few years, but a hybrid Bronco may get here even quicker.

Fiat's "little mouse" is more golf cart than car, and it's doing its best to disrupt America's $1 billion golf cart industry.

The test was to drive from one place to another, so there isn't any CLTC leniency going on here.

The 5,500-pound Voyah Passion S electric SUV weighs almost 2,000 pounds more than the SLS, and it still completed a loop inside a tunnel.

Charging a Tesla with its biggest competitors might seem like blasphemy but it actually works pretty damn well.

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Lucid unveiled its 2027 Air lineup, streamlining the options across its electric sedan range and adding a new Stealth & Sound Package for the entry-level Air Pure. The Air Grand Touring keeps its title as the longest-range EV on sale at up to 512 miles, and pricing holds flat across all four trims for the new model year.

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Audi went out of its way to keep the Chinese-market E5 and E7X out of Europe. A third-party company is importing them anyway.

The same company that remanufactures motors for the Tesla Model S now caters to the more affordable Kia Niro and Hyundai Kona EVs

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A 1918 Detroit Electric Model 75B went under the hammer at Monterey Car Week claiming an original 80 miles of range, against the 73 miles the first Nissan Leaf was rated for. The format died because of the electric starter and a price five times a Model T, not because of range. A 1918 Detroit […] This story continues at The Next Web

LG Energy Solution began production on Tuesday at its $2bn Lansing plant, which was originally a GM joint venture before GM sold its stake in December 2024. It will make cells for Toyota’s 2027 Highlander EV and, from next year, for Tesla’s Megapack 3. The battery plant General Motors walked away from opened on Tuesday. […] This story continues at The Next Web

Cell phone manufacturer turned EV maker Xiaomi has been a major success in the auto industry. Now it's his a massive milestone.

There's a catch, though. You better be cool with going slow.

To no one's surprise, the production Acura RSX would have looked a lot like the RSX Prototype from 2025.

Tesla has revealed plans through permit submissions for a massive Robotaxi charging hub in Austin, Texas. Tesla plans to build the Supercharger hub in multiple phases, with the second phase potentially introducing wireless induction charging, something the company has been developing for the Robotaxi fleet. Initially, 48 Tesla Robotaxi-geared Superchargers will be built on a […] The post Tesla reveals plans for Robotaxi charging hub in Austin appeared first on TESLARATI.

This Lansing, Michigan plant will employ up to 1,700 people and produce up to 35 GWh worth of batteries per year.

And it doesn't look like the issues are confined to the UK.

There are millions of Tesla vehicles on the road today which were sold on the promise of full autonomy, but without hardware capable of doing so. Tesla has hemmed and hawed about solutions to this problem – so one owner took it into his own hands.

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Tesla has been kicking the HW3 can down the road for nearly two years. One owner got tired of waiting around.

BYD confirmed the new Denza N8 has a “world-leading” pure electric CLTC range of 1,003 km (623 miles), and it can recharge in as little as 5 minutes.

The newly introduced electric crossover beat its range estimate by more than 30 miles.

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Arenko has been selected by Ørsted to deploy its Nimbus optimisation, asset management and […]

The initial recall started last year, but the company found additional cars that may have been fitted with faulty turn signals.

New Zealand’s government has launched a NZ$30 million hydrogen package within its NZ$1.2 billion Regional Infrastructure Fund to back green hydrogen production, co-production facilities and related infrastructure across the country.

EnBW aims to replace Karlsruhe’s RDK 8 coal block with an 850 MW hydrogen-ready combined-cycle plant (RDK 9), delivering 220 MW of district heating, backed by city and federal support to secure low-carbon power and heat.

Germany’s biggest car club tested several EVs for charging losses. One car stood out.

The share of energy storage systems, or ESS, in the total revenue of LG Energy Solution and Samsung SDI is expected to rise from the 20% range in the second quarter to the mid-30% range by the end of the year. Demand for ESS is growing as power consumption from artificial intelligence data centers s

Tesla has told employees it is preparing a public launch of the Cybercab in Austin as soon as this month, according to a report from The Information. It would be the first Tesla vehicle ever built without a steering wheel or pedals — and the least exciting vehicle the company has ever made, because it is virtually worthless without an autonomous driving system Tesla still hasn’t delivered at scale.

Bentley is taking its material quality expertise to the world of sustainability, with Merino wool and recycled wood trim in the Torcal.

With a tri-motor setup delivering over 1,500 horsepower, the Denza Z can hit 0 to 62 mph in under 2 seconds. It’s also cheaper than a Porsche 911 Turbo S.

Telo says its mini electric truck will offer 350 miles of range, four doors, and the same bed length as a four-door Toyota Tacoma.

A recent study claims that retiring an internal combustion vehicle for a new electric vehicle is, in fact, better for the climate.

Starting at $35,000, the 2027 Hyundai IONIQ 5 will remain among the most affordable EVs in the US.

How do you disrupt established networks like Tesla and Electrify America? Beat them on price.

The government says it is considering cutting the new electric car sales target from 80% to 50% by 2030.