Why advertise on job boards when you can get your message in front of 100 million social media fans? That’s how Elon Musk has been able to recruit the best and the brightest people to work for his companies. With […]
Imagine you want to go on a long ride on your electric scooter but are unsure of how long the battery charge will last. This is one of many challenges facing users of e-scooters around the world–getting enough juice to […]
With global automakers slowly transitioning from to internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to electric, Japan’s Subaru Corp on Thursday unveiled its first all-electric SUV called the Solterra. The vehicle is the result of a two-year joint development project with its biggest […]
2020 was the year of electric vehicles. Everyone watched Tesla skyrocket to the point the company became the most valuable automaker at over $400 billion in the world surpassing Toyota, General Motors, Ford, and others. Today, Tesla’s valuation is more […]
In July, we wrote about the founder of hydrogen truck startup Nikola Trevor Milton after he was charged with criminal fraud and two counts of securities fraud. About a year before the charges, Trevor Milton resigned from the company he founded as […]
Foxconn Technology Group (Foxconn), a Taiwan-based company and the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, is nearing a deal to buy the electric truck startup Lordstown Motors’ Ohio plant, according to a report from Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. The […]
In 2015, Tesla was losing more than $4,000 on every car sold. The company was burning through cash at an alarming rate that reminds us of the dot-com bubble. Tesla burned $359 million in cash in the second quarter as it battled […]
On July 7, 2020, The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Christopher Wray said that “of the nearly 5,000 active FBI counterintelligence cases currently underway across the country, almost half are related to China.” In a speech delivered at the Hudson […]
As you may recall, Nikola founder Trevor Milton resigned from the electric vehicle company in September 2020 as SEC continued its investigation over short seller’s claims that the hydrogen-electric truck startup misled investors. Milton may go down in what some describe […]
ION Energy, a Mumbai, India-based energy-tech startup said today it has raised $3.6 million in Pre-Series A funding to grow its team and invest in product development and expand the software business in North America and Europe. Backers in this round […]
Early last month, we wrote about Lordstown Motors, an electric vehicle startup that once valued at $5.3 billion came under SEC investigation for an alleged 100,000 in fake preorders and zero car delivery. To our surprise, the news did not […]
Did you know that transportation represents 28% of greenhouse gas emissions? As major cities continue to grow, traffic congestion is escalating and the planet continues to suffer. The macro trends are crystal clear and the current trajectory is not sustainable. Something […]
The story of Apple and its ambition to develop its own electric cars is not going away. Early this year, Hyundai said it was in early talks with Apple to develop self-driving electric vehicles and batteries, according to a report […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is currently the second richest person in the world and bitcoin’s biggest influencer. As we noted last week, cryptocurrency lives and dies by Elon Musk’s tweets. While some crypto investors accused Musk of abandoning bitcoin after Tesla […]
The history of lithium-ion batteries goes all the way back to the late 1970s when a team of global scientists began developing what would become the Li-ion battery, a type of rechargeable battery that would eventually power everything from electric vehicles to […]
Back in 2019, electric vehicle blog site Electrek reported that Tesla owners were seeing drops in the range of 12 to 30 miles after a software update. The affected vehicles appear to only be Model S and Model X vehicles with […]
