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R.J. Scaringe told the Plugged-In Podcast that he sees the promise of LFP and is stilll skeptical of solid-state technology.

While in Low Power Mode, your vehicle continues to use energy for standby functions, screen activity, and Tesla app interactions. In cold weather, available energy may drop more quickly." The post Tesla offers new feature to save battery and reduce phantom drain appeared first on TESLARATI.

This week's tech recap highlights ex-Waymo CEO John Krafcik's skepticism over Tesla's Robotaxi, Rivian's $5 billion factory groundbreaking, Tesla's $0 down lease offer amid sales struggles, Uber riders preferring Waymo Robotaxis, and BYD overtaking Tesla in global EV sales. read more

It’s the first commercially available NACS to CCS1 extension cord, but as Tom Moloughny found out, there are some issues with it.

The manufacturer made its second-best-selling model fully electric and hiked up the price. Is it worth it?

The Renault Clio Williams is an iconic hot hatch of the 1990s, and the new Alpine A290 promises to be a worthy electric successor.

The country’s famous national parks are getting more EV charging stations, but growth is slow.

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said "you can imagine" many versions of the R2, but the crossover is his top priority.

Tesla is now giving owners the opportunity to rent a vehicle from them, and it includes a few very attractive features that will have you second-guessing another loaner from insurance. The post Tesla launches new loaner program that owners will love appeared first on TESLARATI.

Tesla board member Kimbal Musk defended CEO Elon Musk's newly approved $29 billion compensation package, saying his brother "deserves to be paid" after years without a salary, even as the deal faces regulatory scrutiny, legal challenges, and investor debate. read more

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The energy transition must also focus on small, behind-the-meter community and household systems. The model needs expanding, including peer-to-peer trading.  The post Community energy zones can repair broken energy market, and offer fair value for solar, EVs and batteries appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The guidance aims to provide communities and first responders with best practices for safe BESS installation, operation and emergency response. The post EPA issues battery storage safety guidelines appeared first on Power Engineering.

Rivian's CEO says true hands-off autonomy is coming as early as next year.

The settlements are an about-face for the billionaire, whose company fought with former workers over whether it owed them severance pay.

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 the launch of the Tesla Model YL, more Tesla probes and lawsuits, new Nissan Leaf pricing, and more. more…

July EV sales looked strong on the surface, but the looming impact of tariffs and the end of EV tax credits reveal a more complicated picture, according to Cars.com’s new Industry Insights report. more…

Battery-swapping Nio has just upgraded its six-seater flagship. It's a lot nicer, while being significantly cheaper, too.

If you want an enjoyable driving experience, adding more power and battery capacity isn’t necessarily the best solution.

As Cybertruck sales fall, Tesla raised the price of its top-end “Cyberbeast” model by $15k today, bundling some additional software and perks to go along with it. The top-end trim now costs almost three times as much as the truck’s originally-promised base price of $40k. more…

Two very different takes on the three-row, high-dollar electric SUV.

The Rivian R2, R3 and R3X are the brand’s biggest moves yet. Now, CEO RJ Scaringe gives some thoughts on what could come next.

Battery production is outpacing demand, which means prices should continue to fall.

Researchers led by Genki Kobayashi at the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) in Japan have discovered a way to max out the amount of hydrogen that can be stored in perovskite crystalline powder. The trick is to introduce the hydrogen into the perovskite lattice structure using mechanochemistry—chemical reactions that occur by physically grinding and mixing compounds together.

The electric carmaker has been locked in a legal battle over Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package from 2018.

The electric carmaker has been locked in a legal battle over Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package from 2018.

One more major player in the auto industry is now testing the “holy grail” of electric vehicle batteries. Solid-state EV batteries promise longer driving ranges, faster charging, and significantly higher energy density. However, this carmaker is using them in a unique way. more…

We chat with Rivian's founder about what the startup is cooking up next, the China threat and why America needs more EV competition.

Despite this, Jeep says the all-new Cherokee, which is hybrid-only for now, can drive at up to 62 mph on electric power.

Owners of the troubled luxury electric crossover can’t believe it, but it’s real. The Jaguar I-Pace can now top up at Superchargers.

The SOC Investment Group represents pension funds tied to more than two million union members, many of whom hold shares in TSLA. The post Shareholder group urges Nasdaq probe into Elon Musk’s Tesla 2025 CEO Interim Award appeared first on TESLARATI.

Cherokee's back: Jeep unveils new hybrid SUV that's bigger and boxier than last model  The Detroit NewsStellantis unveils new Jeep Cherokee as brand tries to shake off sales declines  CNBC2026 Toyota RAV4 vs. Jeep Cherokee vs. Honda CR-V: Hybrid SUVs Compared  EdmundsJeep unveils refreshed 2026 Cherokee to right sales woes after 2-year-long hiatus  Detroit Free PressView Exterior Photos of the 2026 Jeep Cherokee  Car and Driver

Tesla raises price of Cybertruck as federal EV credit deadline looms amid struggles with inventory and sales. read more

NHTSA investigating Tesla for delays in self-driving crash reports under the Standing General Order 2021-01. read more

The most expensive version of the Cybertruck got a $15,000 price hike because of a mandatory "Luxe Package."

Ex-Twitter staff sued the platform after some 6,000 employees were sacked in 2022.

Ex-Twitter staff sued the platform after some 6,000 employees were sacked in 2022.

In early 2025, xAI CEO Elon Musk asked Meta's Mark Zuckerberg to help him finance a $97.4 billion takeover of OpenAI, new court filings revealed.

The rule is to submit a report within five days. It takes Tesla months.

Tesla sells electric vehicles equipped with a standard Autopilot system, or premium Full Self-Driving Supervised option, which is also known as FSD, in the U.S.

Tesla sells electric vehicles equipped with a standard Autopilot system, or premium Full Self-Driving Supervised option, which is also known as FSD, in the U.S.

Tesla continues to post videos of its vehicles driving autonomously, with an employee in the driver’s seat, as proof that it is making progress in autonomous driving. However, there’s one thing that Tesla has never shared, and that’s actual data. more…

Slow-rolling required crash reports is not a good look, but the company says it wasn't intentional.

An exporter named EV Marketplace says they'll help import and homologate EVs for individual European customers.

Tesla is under investigation for failing to report crashes involving its partially autonomous driving technology in a timely manner. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration requires automakers to report crashes involving advanced driver assist features “within one or five days” of the incident, but Tesla was reporting crashes “several months or more” after they occurred, the agency said. Tesla has told NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that the delays were the result of a problem with its data collection that has since been fixed. But the agency is still opening an audit investigation as standard procedure to ensure the company is doing everything by the book. The rule dates back to a standing general order (SGO) from 2021 that requires automakers and robotaxi companies to report

Plus, Honda taps a Silicon Valley company for autonomy and Xiaomi sees green.

"In a large number of cases, I would say the product's not that good," Rivian CEO R.J. Scaringe said on the InsideEVs Plugged-In Podcast.

Zero-Emission Ambitions Take Wing Picture this: you step onto a plane that only exhales water vapor. Feels like sci-fi, right?…

NHTSA announced that it has launched an investigation into Tesla for not correctly reporting crashes involving its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems. more…

From Dieselgate shame to EV sales success, who would've predicted Volkswagen could overtake Tesla?

The Insta360 Go Ultra is available in midnight black and arctic white color options. | Image: Insta360 Insta360 has announced the next version of its compact Go action camera, which helped the company differentiate itself from established competitors like GoPro several years ago. As Insta360 teased earlier this week, the new Go Ultra not only breaks from the numbered naming convention of previous iterations, but it also ditches the camera’s distinctive pill shape for a rounded square design with an offset lens. It’s not the steepest price increase for the Go series – the Go 2 launched at $299 while the Go 3, which introduced a charging remote with a screen, was $380 – but the new Insta360 Go Ultra is $50 more expensive than last year’s Go 3S at $449.99. It’s available now in midnight black or arctic white through the company’s online store and Amazon, or as part of a

China has released a breakdown of the subsidy settlements for new-energy vehicle (NEV) companies from 2016 to 2020, along with the allocation plan for 2021 to 2022, and the data helps illustrate how the industry landscape shifted during those years. According to data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) earlier this month, over the seven years from 2016 to 2022, subsidies gradually moved from traditional state-owned enterprises to leading carmakers and emerging...

Tesla offers $0 down leases on used EVs to boost sales amid declining figures; only available in CA and TX read more

Tesla's Gigafactory in Germany was evacuated due to a fire incident involving EV battery cells on Monday afternoon. read more

The system integrates whole battery packs, including inverters, as a buffer in the factory’s energy supply.

arXiv:2508.14523v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate prediction of road user movement is increasingly required by many applications ranging from advanced driver assistance systems to autonomous driving, and especially crucial for road safety. Even though most traffic accident fatalities account to bicycles, they have received little attention, as previous work focused mainly on pedestrians and motorized vehicles. In this work, we present the Great GATsBi, a domain-knowledge-based, hybrid, multimodal trajectory prediction framework for bicycles. The model incorporates both physics-based modeling (inspired by motorized vehicles) and social-based modeling (inspired by pedestrian movements) to explicitly account for the dual nature of bicycle movement. The social interactions are modeled with a graph attention network, and include decayed historical, but also anticipated, future trajectory data of a bicycles neighborhood, following recent insights from psychological and social

arXiv:2508.14092v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph-searching algorithms play a crucial role in various computational domains, enabling efficient exploration and pathfinding in structured data. Traditional approaches, such as Depth-First Search (DFS) and Breadth-First Search (BFS), follow rigid traversal patterns -- DFS explores branches exhaustively, while BFS expands level by level. In this paper, we propose the Hybrid Depth-Breadth Meaningful Search (HDBMS) algorithm, a novel graph traversal method that dynamically adapts its exploration strategy based on probabilistic node transitions. Unlike conventional methods, HDBMS prioritizes traversal paths by estimating the likelihood that a node contains the desired information, ensuring a more contextually relevant search. Through extensive experimentation on diverse directed graphs with varying structural properties, we demonstrate that HDBMS not only maintains competitive computational efficiency but also outperforms traditional

The car rental giant is currently selling used EVs in a handful of states through Amazon Autos, and there are some good deals.

Prominent short seller Jim Chanos challenged Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk's ambitious Robotaxi cost projections on Wednesday. read more

Hyundai Motor, Audi and BYD are redirecting their strategic focus on electric sedans to achieve balanced sales growth with their SUV lineups. The three carmakers recently introduced flagship all-electric models in Korea, hoping to capture local demand for quality sedans. Last month, Hyundai Motor unveiled the freshly redesigned IONIQ 6 electric vehicle (EV) for the Korean market. The upgraded model came in almost three years after the vehicle debuted in September 2022. The IONIQ 6 is one of the carmaker’s flagship EV models, along with the IONIQ 5 compact SUV. The new IONIQ 6 has clear upsides compared with other electric sedans, as the vehicle is capable of traveling up to 562 kilometers on a single charge — the highest among EVs available in Korea. Given local customers’ strong preference for longer-range EVs, the vehicle holds a strong competitive edge in the non-premium EV sedan market. The vehicle is available for less than 50 million won ($35,700), making it an outstanding

Trump is dismantling America's pro-EV policies. But before they're gone, consumers are cashing in.

Ford's next cash cow might not be cars, but the batteries that underpin them.

The SAIC IM LS6 can be ordered as a battery-electric vehicle (BEV) or extended-range electric vehicle (EREV).

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Volkswagen's controversial capacitive buttons have earned it a lawsuit after numerous NHTSA complaints and crashes.

He's blaming self-driving tech. Here's why.

Despite losses and delays, Ford’s electric vehicle push is just getting started.

California wants the EV tax credit to keep going, but it's still not quite sure how to get there. Also, GM skips Canada for its new EV van with Hyundai.

Executives for Xiaomi Automobile have confirmed the Chinese automotive business’s plans to (eventually) start selling its EVs in new overseas markets, including Europe. more…

After years of promising true autonomous driving is just a software update away, will Tesla's Autopilot journey finally end up in a courtroom?

Nikola’s remaining hydrogen trucks were scooped up at auction by a company that offers trucking-as-a-service solutions.

Elon Musk says Tesla might never bring its new ‘Model YL’, a new six-seat variant of the Model Y launched in China this week, to the US, and the reason for this is ridiculous. He thinks Tesla won’t need it because of, you guessed it: autonomy. more…

Chevrolet is reviving its low-cost electric offering, with the second-generation Bolt expected to start under $35,000 featuring improved range and charging.

Picture this: a material that zips protons and electrons around at 200–500 °C as smoothly as cars on a freeway,…

It was on August 20, 2025, that TNO opened its state-of-the-art liquid hydrogen testing facility in Ypenburg, The Hague —…

In August 2025, a team at Technical University of Denmark (DTU) led by Prof. Vincenzo Esposito, Dr. Zhipeng Zhou and…

Reliable power isn’t a luxury—it’s a make-or-break factor in Canada’s most remote industrial sites. That’s why, on August 20, 2025,…

The new and improved electric crossover is cheaper than the outgoing bZ4X, but only if you go for the entry-level trim.

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It’s been a decidedly weird month in the heavy truck world, and it just keeps getting weirder. Hydrogen shipping startup Hyroad Energy has acquired Nikola Motor’s hydrogen assets and IP, including 113 HFCEV semis, spare parts, and refueling infrastructure. more…

The device fits under the dash and offers both Apple CarPlay and Android Auto–wired and wireless.

Tesla is testing its FSD system in Asia, amid lawsuits and criticism over Robotaxis and ride-hailing expansion. read more

GOYANG, Gyeonggi Province — Kia’s much-touted modular van, the PV5, stays true to the fundamental purpose of modern vehicles: carrying humans, goods and services. The multipurpose electric van made its global debut in February, about a year after the carmaker’s fresh concept of the platform beyond vehicle was unveiled at the 2024 CES in Las Vegas. The PV5 comes in two types — Passenger and Cargo — depending on the purpose of its delivery. For those who want to use it as a family vehicle, the PV5 Passenger offers comfortable and spacious indoor experiences. The five-seater electric van was smooth yet powerful on first acceleration during the ride from KINTEX in Goyang, a city just northwest of Seoul, to a cafe on Yeongjong Island in Incheon. It took 30 minutes for a one-way trip to the destination. Shattering widespread perception that vans are less comfortable than sedans or SUVs, the PV5 Passenger model was quiet enough for this reporter to feel as if the vehicle is similar to

Having a household outlet in your car makes a lot of sense, especially if you don’t have to burn fuel to get power.

Initially the $31,485 Leaf S+ will be the entry trim level, but a lower-range model is coming that will cost even less.

Xiaomi disrupted China's already-hot EV market. Now, it's eyeing the rest of the world.

The best plug-in hybrid cars can offer outstanding fuel efficiency and enough all-electric range for the daily commute.