Electric Vehicle

SpaceX Falcon rockets win yet another Moon lander launch contract

In a bit of déjà vu, SpaceX’s Falcon rockets have secured yet another contract to launch a commercial Moon lander – this time from company Intuitive Machines. SpaceX’s eighth Moon lander launch contract overall and seventh scheduled Moon lander mission in the 2020s, Intuitive Machines revealed its third contract with SpaceX – a mission known […]

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Tesla China files 5 Model Y variants for MIIT approval, living up to its export hub title

Tesla recently filed to produce five Model Y variants in Giga Shanghai with China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). The filings hint that Giga Shanghai has indeed become Tesla’s main export hub. Tesla China submitted filings for two Standard Range Model Y variants, both of which are equipped with a 60 kWh battery

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Apple in talks with Korean manufacturers for its EV supply chain: report

Apple is talking with multiple EV component manufacturers in Korea, according to an industry source. The US tech giant plans to start producing an all-electric vehicle in the next few years and seems to be laying the groundwork for the Apple Car’s supply chain already.  “Apple officials have been in Korea for business talks with

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V2G and V2B: What’s currently operational and what’s still years away

Buses, especially school buses, represent a perfect use case for bidirectional charging. When the buses sit idle, they can earn money by providing demand response (DR) services for the local utility. This is one of the services that fleet charging specialist AMPLY Power provides, and as CEO Vic Shao told Charged in a recent interview,

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Tesla to be eligible for $7.5B EV charging fund as Senate passes Infrastructure Bill

Tesla is currently making moves that will make it eligible for the $7.5 billion fund in Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure bill allocated to build electric vehicle charging stations. President Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, H.R. 3684, passed in the Senate on Tuesday by a 69-30 margin. “This bill is also going to put IBEW workers —

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Nobina Welcomes 76 Units to Helsinki After Receiving 43 BYD eBuses for Turku in June

BYD, the world’s leading provider of electric buses, has successfully delivered an additional 76 BYD eBuses to major Nordic public transport operator, Nobina, for use in the Finnish capital, Helsinki. The fulfilment completes Finland’s largest ever electric bus order – a 119-unit order for Nobina – and represents BYD’s second-ever delivery to Finland following the

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Mercedes-Benz launches EQS orders: €100k+ price, US deliveries in Q4

Mercedes-Benz announced today that it has started accepting orders for the EQS all-electric sedan, starting at €106,374.10 for its base model. Deliveries will begin in Germany by the end of September and in the United States in Q4. In development for several years, Mercedes-Benz unveiled the EQS on April 15th, aiming to take a stab

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Elon Musk says SpaceX could build new Moon spacesuits for NASA

A new report from NASA’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) strongly suggests that spacesuit availability, of all things, could prevent NASA from returning humans to the Moon on schedule in 2024. Days prior, a similar watchdog office (GAO) denied protests from Blue Origin and Dynetics that were preventing NASA and SpaceX from working on

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