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For the second time, a judge strikes down Elon Musk’s $55 billion Tesla CEO pay package as the company struggles to avoid seeing its sales slip year over year for the first time. Plus: an all-new look for Jaguar this Giving Tuesday on Quick Charge! We’ve also got record EV sales from both Kia and

2024 Dodge Charger Daytona EV (Source: Stellantis) The US Department of Energy (DOE) says it will loan up to $7.54 billion to a Stellantis and Samsung SDI joint venture to help build two EV lithium-ion battery plants in Indiana. Stellantis + Samsung EV battery plants loan The joint venture is called StarPlus Energy LLC, and

Photo: EVgo “Tesla could not meet program standards” on Oklahoma’s NEVI EV charger installation program, so EVgo took over. As Electrek originally reported in April, Oklahoma approved more than $8 million in federal funds for Tesla, Love’s Travel Stops, and Francis Energy to build DC fast chargers along its interstates. The three companies were to provide a

Kia is making its presence known in the US. After setting a new November sales record, Kia has “no plans of slowing down.” While Kia’s current EV models, including the EV6 and EV9, are building momentum, even more exciting electric cars are coming soon. Kia sets new US sales record in November 2024 Kia sold

Hyundai is on a hot streak. The Korean auto giant just had its best sales month ever in the US. Hyundai’s impressive EV lineup is charging up demand, with its best-selling Hyundai IONIQ 5 SUV also setting a new US record after sales more than doubled in November. Hyundai IONIQ 5 drives record US sales in November

After revealing its new Type 00 electric vehicle concept this week, Jaguar has been the center of the spotlight. With a +$100,000 price tag, Jaguar’s new luxury EV is stirring up plenty of debate. Love it or hate it, Jaguar is embracing the attention. On Tuesday, Jaguar finally unveiled the Type 00 EV, an electric

Tesla sales are rising in China thanks to incentives put in place by the automaker on top of state incentives going away by the end of the year. Is enough to save Tesla’s quarter and its whole year? Tesla aims to deliver a record number of more than 515,000 vehicles in Q4 in order for

We had a chance to test drive the Audi A6 e-tron, the German automaker’s second next-gen electric vehicle based on its new PPE platform, in Tenerife, Spain, a few weeks ago. It delivers power, luxury, and an impressive range in a sleek design. Disclaimer: Audi paid for my flights and lodging to go test out

At the moment, not too many companies can deliver a Street-legal dual-sport motorcycle at entry-level prices. So when Solar Scooter, a UK-based company, asked us to review their 60 mph fully street-legal electric motorcycle, I had to see what this bike was about.  If you live far away from any OHOV trails or lenient municipalities

Tesla Cybertruck production April 2024 Tesla has told Cybertruck production employees not to report to work for the next three days, in another sign of demand issues for the vehicle that once touted millions of preorders. The news was reported by Business Insider, who obtained an email telling Cybertruck production workers at Tesla’s factory in

The electric car we’ve been waiting for is almost here. Kia confirmed that the EV4 will officially join its lineup in 2025 as it expands into more affordable EVs. Kia unveiled the EV4 last October as part of its new lower-cost EV lineup. The EV4 concept was showcased alongside the EV3 and EV5, two smaller electric

Tesla has decreased its lease prices on Cybertruck, which has proven much more difficult to sell than its giant backlog led to believe. While being polarizing and having many critics, Tesla boasted having over 1 million reservations for the Cybertruck, which led the company to believe that demand wouldn’t be a problem. However, things didn’t

We hinted at it last month, and it’s now official – Aptera Motors has re-opened its crowdfunding program, giving fans and believers in the startup’s solar electric vehicle technology the opportunity to invest and help it reach scaled production. Well, that didn’t take long. After announcing an end to its crowdfunding program in May 2024,

Porsche promises the Boxster and Cayman EVs will deliver that “real sports car feeling” with advanced new tech. The upcoming electric sports cars will feature superior performance, braking, and handling with DNA from Porsche’s title-winning Formula E team. Although Porsche is backtracking on its goal of an 80% EV sales share of global output by

More good news from EV mecca Norway, with November numbers showing more than 10,000 EVs were newly registered, bringing its tally to a truly impressive 93.6% of all new car registrations, showing that it’s EV transition is almost complete. November saw 10,940 new EV registrations, with EVs pretty much on par with October’s numbers (10,862),

Source: Ecole polytechnique / Flickr Carlos Tavares abruptly stepped down from his position as CEO of Stellantis on Sunday after facing scathing criticism of how he handled the company. Meanwhile, Stellantis shares go southward. After layoffs at several of its plants and major blunders in his handling of company brands such as Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler,

Tesla has started pushing its 2024 Holiday update, a bigger annual update bundling a bunch of features together. This year, it includes Apple Watch integration, SiriusXM, and more. Every year around the holidays, Tesla is known to push a bigger software update with some features that are generally more about fun than being functional. Tesla

Tesla has started pushing a dumb-down version of Full Self-Driving (FSD) v13 to some external customers in an attempt not to have its timeline slip for two months in a row. For the last few months, Tesla has started posting monthly “AI roadmap updates” for owners to keep track of its goal to deliver unsupervised

Renault Trucks doesn’t get a lot of headlines outside of France, but the company is serious about electric trucking – and its new 2025 MY E-Tech T electric semi truck is packing serious range, too: more than 600 km (about 375 miles) per charge! Renault claims its trucks have logged nearly 19 million all-electric miles, saving

Bavarian automaker BMW has announced plans to convert the intralogistics fleet at its Regensburg plant from battery to hydrogen power, with FCEV forklift and tugger trucks set to replace the entirety of its existing fleet by 2030. Despite sales of BMW’s battery electric starting to take off, the propeller company is still investing heavily in