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Mercedes-Benz has announced a new agreement to deploy technology from European EV charger developer Alpitronic as the latter expands its presence in North America. Mercedes plans to install its new partner’s 400 kW EV fast chargers, built locally in the US, as part of a broader $1 billion investment to expand North American charging infrastructure.

As Ford looks to grow its Model e EV business, the company believes its dealer network can be a significant asset. Ford announced Thursday it’s enabling all dealers to sell EVs, meaning 90% of Americans will live within 25 miles of a Ford dealership that sells electric vehicles. Ford introduced its Model e EV dealer

Tesla appears to be behind the acquisition, or “acqui-hire”, of a company developing direct drive motors for robots as it is being liquidated by Koch Engineered Solutions. Besides the SolarCity acquisition, Tesla has avoided large acquisitions despite a significant cash position. However, the automaker is known to have made several smaller acquisitions, especially in the

With Tesla’s shareholder meeting still hours away, Tesla CEO Elon Musk shared charts suggesting that shareholders have approved two controversial ballot measures With Tesla’s shareholder meeting coming tomorrow, Tesla has been spending the last several weeks campaigning hard to get shareholders to vote. There are multiple shareholder proposals on the ballot, along with votes to

As the race heats up to introduce more affordable electric cars, Ford is bringing on some of the best EV engineers to help it compete. Over the past few months, Ford has hired talent from Tesla, Rivian, Apple, and Lucid to help accelerate the development of affordable EVs. A bet on affordability Ford CEO Jim

After introducing new incentives, the Honda Prologue EV is now cheaper to lease than Tesla’s Model Y. Honda believes the Prologue hits the “sweet spot” of the electric SUV market at the right price. Can it compete with Tesla’s best-selling Model Y? After kicking off production of its first global electric SUV in February, the

Elon Musk has thrown a temper tantrum over Apple’s integration of OpenAI, and the episode exposes the problem with his social media addiction. Earlier this week, Apple announced its latest suite of software, including its new Apple Intelligence product, which integrates large language models (LLMs) into its products. This includes using OpenAI’s ChatGPT as an

Tesla claims that it currently has two Optimus humanoid robots working autonomously in a factory, which would be a first. If there’s one good thing about this compensation package mess going on right now is that it almost looks like Tesla has a PR department again. Sure, its raison d’etre is almost entirely about trying

After Kia’s first three-row electric SUV made an impressive debut in the US market this year, a new recall is being issued for certain models. The recall, over inadequate headliner protection, affects 2,401 Kia EV9 models. Here’s what you should know. After launching the EV9 in the US late last year, Kia’s new flagship electric

Long live the LEAF! For one more year at least, as Nissan has begun sales of the 2025 model year LEAF. If you’re familiar with the veteran BEV, you find familiarity in this year’s models as virtually nothing new exists. Still, the LEAF’s starting price of $28,000 makes it one of the most affordable models

Photo: Mercedes-Benz Germany’s automakers manufactured around 1.27 million BEVs and PHEVs in 2023, putting it at No. 2 behind China, but 2024 will be bumpy. The German automotive industry association VDA says that 995,000 purely electric vehicles rolled off German assembly lines in 2023. China dominates global EV production, but most of its cars are sold

The iconic Ford Focus is on its way to retirement. Despite delaying its goal of an all-electric future in Europe by 2030, the gas-powered compact car is still not part of the plan. Ford says Focus retirement is still the plan Production of the current Ford Focus with a gas-powered engine is set to end

Screenshot The Boring Company, which is owned by Elon Musk, announced that it finished digging a multi-million-dollar tunnel for Tesla underneath Gigafactory Texas. But why? On Monday, The Boring Company announced that its tunnel boring machine has emerged at the Tesla Gigafactory Texas south expansion: This completes the digging part of the tunnel, which connects

A new low-cost Hyundai EV will be revealed later this month. Hyundai is teasing the first images of its new INSTER EV ahead of its official debut at the Busan International Mobility Show. The all-electric city car is expected to be the latest affordable EV to hit the market, but will it make it to

Tesla has fully restarted its hiring effort beyond AI and robotics in a big way after a hiring freeze amid several waves of layoffs throughout the entire organization. As we previously reported, Elon Musk came into Tesla like a wrecking ball earlier this quarter and fired an estimated 15-20% of Tesla’s staff. Sources said Musk

On today’s show, we talk about Elon Musk and leaks surrounding his $56 billion comp package, 48V architecture, Fred’s Cybertruck review, EV price parity, Nissan LEAF deals (that may or may not be a good thing), and Scooter’s Florida Fliteboard adventure. All this and more, on today’s episode of Quick Charge! Source Links Listen to

Hyundai Motor Group, including Tesla, is gaining ground on Tesla in the US electric vehicle market. After a record start to 2024, Hyundai and Kia accounted for 11.2% of the EVs sold in the US through May. Hyundai and Kia have been on a roll with some of the most affordable, fuel-efficient electric cars in

Photo: DongFang Electric Corporation China has installed an 18-megawatt (MW) offshore wind turbine – the world’s largest by power rating – in Guangdong province. State-owned power generator manufacturer Dongfang Electric Corporation completed the installation of the massive wind turbine at a coastal test base in Shantou on June 5. China’s 18-MW offshore wind turbine has

Elon Musk has leaked some of the results from Tesla’s shareholders vote as a messy week begins for the shareholders of the electric car company. Tesla is holding its annual shareholder meeting on Thursday, June 13. During the meeting, Tesla will release the results of the shareholders’ votes regarding several proposals, including the highly publicized

As US consumers await deliveries of the first Emeya hyper GTs from Lotus, the supercar developer is touting its quick expertise in the BEV segment with impressive charging times. Lotus is hailing the Emeya’s charging speeds from 10-80% as a record breaker, but whether that’s true or not, there’s no denying the new hyper GT