Tesla’s Cybertruck program head, Siddhant Awasthi, has left the company after eight years, stepping away just as the electric pickup faces falling demand, multiple recalls, and slowing production momentum. Awasthi confirmed his departure in a LinkedIn postthanking Elon Musk and colleagues for what he called “an incredible run.” He said he was proud to have … Continue reading “Tesla Cybertruck Program Head Siddhant Awasthi Resigns – iShook Finance”
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California’s biggest virtual power plant is facing over $100 million in funding cuts due to the state’s ongoing budget crisis, threatening the long-term viability of a program that can act as a crucial release valve for the state’s overburdened power grid. The Demand Side Grid Support program pays electric customers who reduce their energy use or who provide … Continue reading “California’s successful virtual power plant program faces big budget cuts”
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Kia EV9 (Source: Kia) Massachusetts is launching a first-of-its-kind statewide vehicle-to-everything (V2X) pilot program. This two-year initiative, backed by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC), aims to deploy 100 bidirectional chargers to homes, school buses, municipal, and commercial fleet participants across the state. These bidirectional chargers will enable EVs to serve as mobile energy storage … Continue reading “Massachusetts launches a two-year V2X pilot program”
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Photo: @TeslaCharging/Twitter Trump’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has issued a memo ordering states to suspend all state EV infrastructure deployment plans under the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program. Trump’s FHWA orders NEVI suspension The $5 billion NEVI program is the big rollout of EV charging infrastructure across the US that was funded by … Continue reading “Trump just canceled the federal NEVI EV charger program”
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UK-based automotive design and engineering consultancy Contechs will run a new high-voltage systems engineering accreditation program in 2025 to train engineers for the electric mobility sector. The initiative aims to address an 80% skills shortage of qualified electrical engineers in the automotive sector. It will be available to businesses and individuals from graduate to qualified … Continue reading “Contechs launches high-voltage automotive systems engineering accreditation program”
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Tesla is losing one of its top vehicle program managers who has been behind vehicles like Model S and Model X, Cybertruck, and more. David Zhang is a chemical engineer with a background in business analysis who joined Tesla back in 2015 to lead “business operations and finance for the automaker’s powertrain systems.” However, he … Continue reading “Tesla loses top vehicle program manager behind Model S/X, Cybertruck, and more”
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Climate United also hopes that this first-of-a-kind financing of the pre-construction expenses of mid-size solar installations — a category of costs that includes permitting and interconnection fees and which developers now pay for themselves — will help other private-sector lenders “reduce the delta between actual risk and perceived risk in the market,” she said. But perhaps most … Continue reading “The $20B US ‘green bank’ program just funded its first project”
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Washington-based Advanced Electric Machines (AEM), which designs and manufactures sustainable electric motors and powertrain systems and was spun out of Newcastle University, is taking part in the Electrification Skills Training Program. AEM’s products are used in commercial vehicles, passenger cars, off-highway vehicles, trains and various industrial applications. The company put 25 of its employees through … Continue reading “AEM participates in electrification skills training program”
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Ever since the federal government gave up on including electric bikes in its broader electric vehicle incentive programs, alternative incentives at the local and state levels have been met largely with success—except, of course, in California. In stark contrast to most other incentive programs around the US, California’s partially developed program has spent years in … Continue reading “What went so horribly wrong with California’s e-bike incentive program?”