Cleantech & EV’s

A federal judge has ruled that Tesla must face a class-action lawsuit alleging the automaker systematically discriminated against American workers by preferring H-1B visa holders for engineering positions, even as it laid off more than 6,000 US employees in 2024. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said the plaintiff had offered “just enough facts” for the case to proceed, though he expressed…

Tesla has updated its “Find Us” map with 64 new Megacharger locations across 15 states, giving the clearest picture yet of the charging network it is building to support the Tesla Semi. Combined with 2 sites already operational, the map now shows 66 total locations covering major freight corridors from the West Coast to the East Coast. Jason Gies, who joined Tesla’s Semi business…

Donut Lab has released the first independent test results for its controversial solid-state battery, and the data confirms at least one headline claim: the cell charged from 0 to 80% in just 4.5 minutes at an extreme 11C rate. It doesn’t blow up, but it gets pretty damn hot. The results come from Finland’s state-owned VTT Technical Research Centre, one of Europe’s leading research…

There’s a surprisingly strong debate long-swirling around the term “moped.” For a word that started as a simple mashup of “motor” and “pedal,” moped has caused an outsized amount of contention. Now, with the prevalence of a new age of light electric two-wheelers, that debate has only grown. What began as a literal description of a pedal-equipped motorbike has, over the decades…