Vietnamese EV automaker VinFast is continuing its lightning-fast growth and expansion by announcing a long-term, strategic partnership with solid-state battery manufacturer ProLogium. Following a signed Memorandum on Understanding, ProLologium will provide solid-state battery cells to VinFast vehicles beginning in 2024.
VinFast is an automotive manufacturing subsidiary of VinGroup, a…
Saleen Automotive has launched a new shady financing effort to bring the company back from the dead, and the legendary car tuner is dangling modified Tesla vehicles in the process again.
Saleen’s troubled history
Saleen is a California-based car tuning company founded by…
Mobile charging network SparkCharge is offering customers complimentary EV charging delivery services throughout the month of July using its Currently App. EV drivers in serviceable cities can open the app and arrange for a Currently driver to come to their EV and recharge…
EVCS – a West Coast-based EV charging network – has raised $68.8 million in funding to help expand its presence to over thirty-five new cities in California, Oregon, and Washington. In addition to increasing fast charger density in its current footprint, EVCS looks to double its network size by 2023.
EVCS was founded in 2018 and currently sits as one of the larger electric vehicle charging…
What does sustainable lithium mining look like?
July 6, 2022
Lithium is a vital component of EV batteries, and Winnipeg, Canada-headquartered Snow Lake Lithium says it’s committed to operating a fully renewable and sustainable lithium mine. What does that mean?
Sustainable lithium mining in North America
North America is home to…
“Tesla is no longer the world’s largest electric car producer” is the take that the media is parroting this week, but it stems from adding plug-in hybrids into the mix, while everyone agrees that all-electric vehicles are the future of the industry.
For years, Tesla…
One simple fact is going to tell you more than all of the Rivian R1S Review words, images, and video below: I’m in line to buy a Rivian R1S, and after a few days on and off the roads of upstate NY, I’m more excited than ever to get my hands on it.
But if you’ll indulge me, I’d like to tell you about this mighty, electric seven-seat off-road SUV and why it is on my, and many many others’…
Quick Charge Podcast: July 5, 2022
July 6, 2022
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
Tesla (TSLA) achieves record monthly production – ready for impressive second half of 2022
July 5, 2022
Tesla (TSLA) achieved record production in June – exiting the year’s first half – setting the automaker up for an impressive second half of the 2022.
This weekend, Tesla released its Q2 2022 production and delivery results. It confirmed its first quarterly setback in…
Danish wind turbine maker Vestas has installed the first wind turbine at Japan’s Akita Noshiro offshore wind farm. Akita Noshiro will feature 33 V117-4.2 megawatt (MW) wind turbines.
Japan already operates several demonstration offshore wind turbines, but Akita Noshiro is its first commercial offshore wind farm.
Akita Noshiro offshore wind turbine. Photo: Vestas
Twenty wind turbines will be…
