Electric Car

About two weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, a metal that plays a key role in batteries for electric vehicles, or EVs, was thrust suddenly into the spotlight. On March 8, the price of nickel doubled within hours on the London Metal Exchange, prompting the world’s leading metals market to shut…

Elon Musk’s electric car company, Tesla, is hodling bitcoin. The company’s balance sheet shows $1.261 billion in digital assets. Tesla has neither purchased nor sold any crypto assets since the first quarter of last year. Tesla Continues to Hodl Bitcoin Tesla released its earnings results for the first quarter of…

Elon Musk wants more lithium, but only a handful of countries can supply the material key to the electrification of transportation, at least for now. The Tesla Inc. chief made a public appeal for more investment in lithium mining to close what he sees as a yawning gap between supply…

Findings from independent car tester Green NCAP highlight the issues with EVs The first round of Green NCAP’s trials, designed to test the eco-friendliness of cars, suggests that large, powerful electric vehicles have a far more significant environmental impact compared to smaller ones. The findings also suggest that EVs in…

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Wednesday 20 April 2022 8:29 pm When the electric carmaker Rivian listed on Wall Street last year, it was briefly valued at more than Anheuser-Busch. The latter, most famously, produces Budweiser; a beer that sells in great quantities for more than it costs to produce. It is a functioning, well…

Alraun/Shutterstock.com Charging the battery in an electric vehicle (EV) can take anywhere from minutes to days. Here we’ll cover how long it actually takes an EV to charge, and what can have an impact on charging time. So, How Long Does Charging an EV Really Take? The short answer? It…

Boston Grand Opening to take place on Saturday, April 16. Manhasset location set to open this Spring. NEWARK, CA – WEBWIRE – Friday, April 15, 2022 Lucid Group (NASDAQ: LCID), setting new standards with the longest range, fastest charging electric car on the market, today announced the official opening of…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California wants electric vehicle sales to triple in the next four years to 35% of all new car purchases, an aggressive target set as part of the goal to phase out the sale of gas-powered cars by the middle of next decade. The California Air Resources Board's…

Lucid has a new high-performance version of its luxury all-electric sedan. The new Lucid Air Grand Touring Performance announced today (via CNBC) can be selected as a variant via the company’s online configurator, which tops the standard Grand Touring’s 819 horsepower with 1,050. This new model is actually not the…