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Tesla’s official announcement to build what is now known as Gigafactory Mexico was light on details, but now we are starting to learn more, thanks to local reports. After months of rumors, Tesla finally announced Gigafactory Mexico during its Investor Day last week. CEO Elon Musk himself admitted that it was the biggest “news” of

Hyundai Mobis, the parts and service arm of the Hyundai Motor Company, revealed a new tech system that can automatically adjust the height of your EV depending on the environment, such as on rough roads, highways, parking lots, etc. Hyundai, including Kia and Genesis, has made one of the most impressive brand transformations over the

After years of price increases, Tesla has updated pricing on its flagship Model S and Model X vehicles. The Model S now starts at just $90,000. Over the last few years, Tesla has gradually increased prices across its entire lineup amid supply chain difficulties and inflation, but also mainly due to enjoying some robust demand.

Despite an ongoing pause in F-150 Lightning production, Ford says it will boost output this year in response to overwhelming demand. Ford aims to triple Lightning and double Mach-E production as consumers continue gravitating toward its popular EVs. After selling 61,575 EVs last year, Ford became the second-largest electric vehicle maker in the US, behind

As the auto industry charges ahead toward a fully electric future, you can start to see clear leaders and laggards. Subaru, like its Japanese counterparts, is looking to play catch up. The automaker announced Friday it was appointing a new CEO to address the “profound transformation” to EVs in the auto industry, following a similar

Tesla is deploying its first Supercharger V4, a new generation of its DC fast-charging stations, and it’s much bigger than the previous generation. Last year, we reported on Tesla’s Supercharger V4 design being revealed in the plans for a new station. Tesla is believed to be ramping up production of the new charger in order to

The Mississippi Senate has passed a bill that will stop electric car companies from opening their own dealerships in the state, ensuring that the state famous for being last place in many rankings of all 50 states remains there. There is a saying used in the US: “Thank God for Mississippi.” This is a reference

Through its joint project, MaterialLoop, Audi is proving you can turn old cars into new ones. The project aims to “close the loop” on materials, such as steel, aluminum, plastic, and glass, recycling them to build new cars and significantly reduce emissions and waste. Gas-powered cars emit around 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide each

Redwood Materials’ EV battery recycling pilot program has been going on for a year in California, and today the company shared an update on how things are going. Redwood Materials was founded by JB Straubel, former Tesla CTO and one of Tesla’s five cofounders. The pilot program started a year ago, collecting old EV battery

Ford has announced that Lightning production will restart on March 13, after being paused for about a month while a battery issue was investigated. Currently, F-150 Lightnings are under a stop-shipment order, though not a stop-sale, until production restarts. Ford originally stopped production in early February after one vehicle displayed a battery issue during pre-delivery

Ford unveiled Thursday a new business unit called Latitude AI, designed to develop automated driving tech for future vehicles. The division will initially focus on a hands-free, eyes-off driver assist system to improve safety and the driver experience. In 2017, Ford injected $1 billion into Argo AI, a self-driving startup, along with Volkswagen, in a

Tesla announced that it has built its 4 millionth electric car, and the rate of production is increasing at an impressive pace. It took Tesla 12 years of operations in order to build its first million electric vehicles; the automaker achieved that milestone in early 2020. Now just a few years later, Tesla has repeated

Tesla has teased what appears to be a new wireless home charging station as part of its charging presentation during its Investor Day. Investor Day included presentations from all of Tesla’s major divisions, including a presentation about charging by Rebecca Tinucci, head of global charging infrastructure. The bulk of the presentation focused on Tesla’s extensive

Tesla announced that it will soon launch a new plan for unlimited overnight charging for $30 per month as part of its ‘Tesla Electric’ energy retailing business. Late last year, after gaining experience through its virtual power plants (VPPs), Tesla took things a step further with the launch of “Tesla Electric.” Instead of reacting to

As a little appetizer to its world premiere later this month, Kia has just posted two short teaser videos offering a brief but exciting glimpse at its upcoming EV9 – an all-electric SUV with a third row and the the makings of an EV able to compete with the premium Rivian R1S, likely at a

Tesla has officially announced ‘Gigafactory Mexico’ to build its next-gen vehicle platform to support new models. We knew it was coming for months, and it was confirmed by Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador yesterday, but now Tesla has made it official. At Tesla’s Investor Day today, the automaker announced that the project, now called

Tesla has done the math to understand what it takes to transition the world to sustainable energy and released it during its Investor Day. When on stage during the event, CEO Elon Musk said that it was about hope: “This event is about hope and optimism that is based on physics. Earth will move to

Tesla vehicles will be capable of bidirectional charging within the next two years, according to comments from Tesla VP Drew Baglino at today’s Investor Day event. A question was asked during the Q&A portion about whether Tesla would move towards enabling bidirectional charging on its cars, noting the company’s historical reluctance to do so. Drew

Tesla will create a permanent magnet electric vehicle motor with zero rare earth elements in it, the company announced at its Investor Day today. Rare earth elements are a bone of contention in EV supply chains, as it can be hard to secure supplies of them, and a large majority of worldwide production is either

Tesla is displaying an impressive-looking “pre-production beta Cybertruck” at Investor Day – resulting in our best look at the latest version of the electric pickup truck yet. As we previously reported, Tesla has built a fleet of beta Cybertruck prototypes to test ahead of the start of production this summer. Over the last few weeks,