The man who tweeted “Will own no house” in 2020 has quietly assembled more than 90 companies in Texas, used them to buy over 1,000 acres of land, two luxury hotel condos, and multiple houses for the mothers of his…
A research paper published in Nature on February 25 describes a lithium metal battery that hits 700 Wh/kg at room temperature — nearly three times the energy density of CATL’s Qilin, currently considered the ceiling of commercial battery technology. The…
The dispute that has been consuming Giga Berlin for weeks just hit pause. Tesla and German union IG Metall reached a truce on Thursday in a Frankfurt (Oder) labor court, agreeing to drop the public back-and-forth over the February 10…
A Reuters investigation published today — based on previously unreported California DMV records and a state spokesperson — reveals that Tesla logged zero miles of autonomous test driving on California public roads in 2025. That makes it six years in…
One day after reporting Q4 earnings that beat revenue estimates, Lucid Group filed a WARN notice with California’s Employment Development Department disclosing 319 job eliminations at its Newark headquarters, effective April 21, according to the Mercury News. That’s the third…
The Boring Company has been sitting in Nashville with its Prufrock-MB1 tunnel boring machine since January, engine ready, waiting on permits. Today, the last major regulatory hurdle cleared. By tonight, the company announced it was already 2.5 feet into the…
The man who led the development of Tesla’s Cybercab from concept to first production unit just walked out the door. Victor Nechita, who held the title of Vehicle Program Manager for the Cybercab, announced on LinkedIn that he’s leaving Tesla…
The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has independently verified that a Donut Lab solid-state cell charged from 0 to 80% in 4.5 minutes at an 11C rate — a result that legitimately puts the Finnish startup ahead of every…
There’s a telling contrast buried in Tesla’s February news cycle. On one front, the company filed a lawsuit on February 13 demanding that a California administrative agency retract its finding that Tesla engaged in false advertising around Autopilot and Full…
Three beats, one brutal miss, and a stock that fell anyway. Lucid Group (NASDAQ: LCID) reported Q4 2025 results today that cleared the bar on revenue, beat FactSet’s production guidance consensus for 2026, and delivered its eighth consecutive quarter of…
After spending a decade covering the EV market, one stat in a new 61-page Fraunhofer Institute study stopped me cold: the average Porsche PHEV driver charged their battery to less than 50% capacity exactly once over two years. That’s 7…
The 400-kilometer range threshold that European fleet drivers say they need before switching to electric? BMW’s newest models just happen to clear it. That timing is worth examining. A new survey of 655 Dutch company car drivers, commissioned by BMW…