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Tesla's Elon Musk. Photo: Gallo Images/Alamy. California’s civil rights regulator said it’s suing Tesla for racial discrimination after finding widespread harassment of black workers at the electric car-maker’s factory near San Francisco. The state’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing received complaints from hundreds of workers and “found evidence that…

Issam Mudawar, a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, has been solving heat-related emergencies for 37 years. They often follow a pattern. Anyone who dreams up a supercomputer, or new avionics for a fighter jet, will eventually face the same problem: Fancy electronics, packed with trillions of transistors, generate…

Detroit is building a road that can charge electric vehicles with the help of technology from Israeli startup Electreon. It will be the first project of its kind in the U.S. CBS News MoneyWatch reporter Khristopher Brooks joins CBS News to explain how the technology works and what it will…

Cars Battery-powered vehicles are on the rise and will enter the mainstream this year as automakers start selling electric pickup trucks. The branding n the front end of the Lucid Air near Bear Mountain, N.Y., Dec. 28, 2021. Bryan Derballa/The New York Times By Jack Ewing and Neal E. Boudette,…

Bitcoin › Investments Tesla recorded an impairment loss of $101 million on its Bitcoin holdings for 2021. Leading electric car maker Tesla holds around $2 billion worth of the flagship digital asset, Bitcoin, as of the end of last year. This was contained in the firm’s report to the United…

Kia is having another stab at selling cars in China by teaming up with the country's Jiangsu Yueda, a long-time partner there. The two companies signed a fresh deal on Monday pledging to cooperate in releasing new SUVs and electric cars. Kia's previous alliance in China was with both Jiangsu…

Australia could resurrect its car industry in an “environmentally and socially transformative” way by drawing on its rich mineral resources to make electric vehicles, according to a new report. The plan for a new electric vehicle manufacturing sector is laid out in a report titled Rebuilding Vehicle Manufacturing in Australia,…

Last week, former Tesla employee Kaylen Barker filed a lawsuit against the electric carmaker for allegedly disregarding her complaints of racial discrimination, saying that “being a Black worker at a Tesla’s renowned California factory, is to be forced to step back in time and suffer painful abuses reminiscent of the…

India has turned down Elon Musk's request for tax breaks on Tesla's electric cars as it states that the rules allow bringing in partially-built vehicles. Musk has been seeking tax breaks from the Indian government for a while now.  Vivek Johri, chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and…

A group of MPs has said the UK needs to introduce new motoring taxes for electric cars to avoid slipping towards “zero revenue” by 2040. The sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans will be banned in the UK in eight years’ time, in a move designed to boost the…