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More shuffling in US Battery manufacturing as GM cuts back vehicle production. Will this have a ripple effect on the broader battery market? Reuters General Motors said on Monday it will sell its stake in its joint venture battery plant in Lansing, Michigan to partner LG Energy Solution as the...

Electrek.co - Tesla starts pushing dumb-down version of Full Self-Driving v13 Tesla has started pushing a dumb-down version of Full Self-Driving (FSD) v13 to some external customers in an attempt not to have its timeline slip for two months in a row. For the last few months, Tesla has started...

InsideEVs.com RJ Scaringe says that dealers essentially paid for laws that protect their business. "Rivian has no plans to use Volkswagen's sales network, according to CEO RJ Scaringe. It wouldn't want to. But VW's service network is a far more interesting proposition, as scaling service has...

You may recall that Tesla filed suit against Rivian for hiring employees and stealing trade secrets. Stock is up 12% at the moment. TTNews Tesla Inc. said it’s reached a “conditional” settlement in its 2020 lawsuit accusing Rivian Automotive Inc. of poaching employees to steal...

This morning was a feature article about the tragedy in Lahaina and Fleetwood’s restaurant. I loved that place. During the article, there were several shots that included a white R1S, including the interview ending with him standing by the R1S. Traffic is severely restricted in Lahaina to...

While not EV specific, it discusses some serious sounding issues with the Stellantis aquisition, affecting Jeep and RAM sales, that I was not aware of, and will likely impact their EV efforts. CNN After Fiat Chrysler’s merger with PSA Group in early 2021 created Stellantis, the company began...

Reuters via Yahoo General Motors is laying off nearly 1,000 workers worldwide, most in the U.S., as it looks to streamline operations, a source told Reuters on Friday. ... The layoffs come as the car company is trying to reposition itself as a leader in electric vehicles and software, which are...

Toyota Is Digging Its Own Grave "I can’t say how well Toyota will be able to change course in years to come when the company realizes that it’s really time to switch to electric vehicles (BEVs). What I can say is that I’m a bit shocked the company is still dragging its feet to such an absurd...

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/evgo-jumps-37-1-1-132851954.html Bloomberg) -- Shares of EVgo Inc. surged the most in more than three years after the electric vehicle charging company received a conditional loan guarantee of up to $1.05 billion from the US Department of Energy to expand its network.

EVision EV rentals is renting the R1S for £990 (About $1200 a day ? ) It's not clear if this is "officially" a Rivian program or not, but Motley Fool implies that Rivian testing the waters for R2 sales.

This is mostly a post to describe a feature of the headlights that is not documented in the manual. Perhaps this is common knowledge but I have not seen it discussed here so this is somewhat of a PSA for those who don't know. A few months after I got my R1S, I noticed that my high beams were...

Based on the historical release timeline, it looks like a miss for Wassym: "Rivian‘s Vice President of Software Development, Wassym Bensaid, hosted a Q&A event in San Jose on Saturday, showcasing Rivian’s latest models, the R2 and R3X. ... In an open discussion with Rivian owners and...

RegentCraft Viceroy is REGENT’s flagship seaglider, a 12 passenger vehicle that operates exclusively over water, traversing the sea in one of three modes: hull, hydrofoil, or flight in ground effect. Seagliders have 160 nautical mile range with existing battery technology (upgradeable to over...

PatentlyApple.com "Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published an extensive patent application from Apple that relates to future smart rings that could control your TV, home devices, computers (iPhone, iPad, Macs, Apple Watch) while also having health sensor built in (to...

Business Insider "Waymo robotaxis are waking their San Francisco neighbors with a cacophony of overnight honking as the autonomous cars navigate the parking lot where they idle waiting for new riders. ... NBC Bay Area first reported that the driverless vehicles sometimes honk at each other for...

Electrek Posting this because there have been deniers that Elon Musk has become a liability to Tesla sales. If there are companies making public announcements that they will not buy Telsa, you can be sure there are others quietly thinking the same. "Rossmann, one of the largest pharmacy chains...

TheDrive Just outside Gilbert, Arizona is a scrapyard that’s accumulating tons of a single, strange type of vehicle. Videos of the pile of three-wheeled EVs are circulating the internet, igniting speculation and rumors about why they’re being destroyed. But the reality is simple: They started...