The Hyundai Ioniq 9 will debut at the LA auto show on Nov. 21 The Ioniq 9 will be an electric three-row crossover SUV built in Georgia The Ioniq 9 will share its underpinnings with the Kia EV9 and arrive in 2025 Hyundai on Wednesday released the another teaser for the Ioniq 9, a three-row … Continue reading “Hyundai Ioniq 9 3-row EV SUV teased, debuts Nov. 21”
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Forum Mobility Volvo VNR electric trucks at a charging station. (Forum Mobility) A nonprofit coalition plans to buy as many as 500 Class 8 battery-electric trucks and lease them to smaller drayage fleets and owner-operators. The first customers are set to be carriers operating at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach — the … Continue reading “Nonprofit to Buy Up to 500 Battery-Electric Drayage Trucks”
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On today’s exciting episode of Quick Charge, we’ve got the Vistiq! It’s all-new, three row SUV from Cadillac that packs 650 hp and can go from 0-60 mph in under 3.5 seconds, a serious word from Rivian, and something fishy at Tesla. We’ve also got word that Hertz is selling off even more of its … Continue reading “An all-new 650 hp Cadillac, Hertz is selling off more EVs, and something weird at Tesla”
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Brian Fitzsimons, CEO of GridUnity, doesn’t think his company alone can solve the grid interconnection backlog that’s holding back the U.S. energy transition. But he’s sure that its software is a lot better than the combination of paper, spreadsheets, and email that most grid operators use right now. In fact, he claims his firm’s software can shave … Continue reading “This DOE-backed software is helping to unclog the grid”
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Lucid Motors is pitching its Air electric sedan as a potential police cruiser. On Sunday the automaker posted photos of an Air decked out in police equipment on X (formerly Twitter). Lucid said the car had recently participated in California Highway Patrol testing, but did not provide any other details. We’ve reached out to Lucid … Continue reading “Lucid Air cop car tested by California Highway Patrol”
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On today’s slightly confusing episode of Quick Charge, we’ve got a 675 hp AUDI concept that isn’t really an Audi, a self-driving Tesla hitting the roads around Giga Texas while the company pulls all the demand levers in Europe, electric garbage trucks from Mack arriving in Wisconsin, and more! In addition to the latest new … Continue reading “675 hp AUDI E, Cybercab hits the road, and BYD gets set to take down Ford”
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Diamond Edge Ventures (DEV), the US-based investing arm of Japan’s Mitsubishi Chemical, has invested in Boston Materials, a US startup manufacturing critical materials for semiconductors, aerospace parts and automotive components. Boston Materials has developed a manufacturing process that produces a new class of materials that are conductive and durable like metal yet light like plastic. … Continue reading “Mitsubishi Chemical invests in $13.5-million Boston Material’s Z-axis carbon fiber technology”
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Leah Stokes and Adrian Deveny helped craft the Inflation Reduction Act, the most consequential climate law in U.S. history. Now they’re planning how to keep it alive through the next four years of a Donald Trump administration. That plan starts with pushing through as much climate funding and regulation as possible in the waning days of … Continue reading “How to keep the climate fight alive through a second Trump term”
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Toyota on Friday gave the first indication of a renewed pushback against California’s ability to set stricter emissions standards and wind down sales of gasoline cars. “At this point, it looks impossible,” Toyota North America COO Jack Hollis said in a virtual roundtable with CNBC and other media, regarding California rules that call for 35% … Continue reading “Toyota says California-led EV mandates "impossible" to meet”
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A Nikola Tre hydrogen fuel cell electric truck. Nikola shipped 90 of these trucks in the most recent quarter. (Nikola Corp.) [Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles may be envisioned as the future workhorse of a decarbonized North American longhaul freight sector, but the development … Continue reading “Nikola Leads Field in Hydrogen Fuel Cell EV Deployment”