VW’s Electrify America Embraces Tesla’s NACS EV Plug
Electrify America operates one of the largest charging networks in the United States, so their decision to embrace the North American Charging Standard (NACS) is huge news and another step towards making the Combined Charging System (CCS) the Betamax of…
Auto-Industry Group Assails Biden’s Plan to Electrify America’s Cars
The auto industry’s largest lobbying organization has come out against the Biden administration’s most ambitious climate change regulation, a proposed rule designed to ensure that two-thirds of new passenger cars sold in the United States are all-electric by 2032. If implemented,…
Fisker Makes First US Deliveries Of Long Range Ocean One Electric SUV
Fledgling American electric vehicle company Fisker has begun deliveries of its Ocean One launch edition electric SUV to the first customers in the United States. Fisker says it has delivered the first 22 Ocean Ones, with additional deliveries expected to…
Volvo Becomes Latest Automaker To Adopt Tesla EV Charging Standard
First came Ford. GM and Rivian followed. Now, Volvo is turning to Tesla’s North American Charging Standard. Under an agreement announced Tuesday, Volvo EV owners will have access to about 12,000 of Tesla’s fast chargers, known as Superchargers, via an adapter starting in the first half…
Ford To Lay Off Workers As It Focuses On Electric Vehicles
As Ford shifts to producing more electric vehicles, it expects to lay off a number of employees, mostly engineers, in North America over the coming days. The company would not confirm any specific number of employees involved. “This is related…
Georgia Governor Attacks Biden’s Electric Vehicle Policy At Federally-Backed Battery Material Maker
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is escalating his attack on President Joe Biden’s electric vehicle policy, speaking Tuesday at the groundbreaking for a company that received more than $100 million to refine graphite for electric batteries from the infrastructure law Biden…
GM And Element 25 To Supercharge The US EV Battery Supply Chain
General Motors (GM) announced a new deal with Australian-based supplier Element 25 on Monday to expand manganese sulfate production in the US, a key EV battery component. Under the supply agreement, Element 25 will provide GM with up to 32,500 metric tons…
Aston Martin, Lucid To Enter Into Agreement To Make Electric Vehicles
British luxury carmaker Aston Martin said on Monday it would enter into an agreement with Lucid Group to manufacture “high performance” electric vehicles (EVs). As part of the agreement, US-based luxury EV maker Lucid will supply Aston Martin with select…
LG Kicks Off Colossal Ramp-Up Of US Factories For EV And Grid Batteries
The U.S. clean energy sector is transforming from an import-based industry to one that builds equipment domestically, bolstered by supportive policies in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act. As Canary Media reported recently, U.S. battery manufacturing is on track…
Hankook Unveils High-Performance EV Tire Line
Leading global tire maker Hankook Tire today unveiled iON evo and iON evo SUV, the latest in the company’s iON line of tires specifically designed for electric vehicles (EVs). The all-new tires deliver uncompromised performance in summer conditions for high-performance EVs and…