TL;DR The Silverado EV offers 410 miles of range and strong reviews but sold only 14,000 units last year as price and towing anxiety keep buyers away. General Motors sold roughly 14,000 Chevrolet Silverado EVs in the United States and Canada last year, according to GM Authority sales data. The petrol-powered Silverado moves more than […]
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NAVEE has opened pre-orders for the WaveFly 5X, a luxury electric “flying speedboat” designed to skim just above the water. With a hefty $200,000 starting price, this water-and-air vehicle delivers an 85 km/h (53 mph) top speed and is aimed at people looking for a new toy to replace their Ferrari. On June 4, 2026, […]
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Fast charging has a heat problem. You’ve felt it before: your phone gets hot while navigating in the car, your MagSafe battery pack turns into a hand warmer during a Zoom call, or charging suddenly slows because thermal throttling kicks in. As smartphones become more powerful, portable chargers are struggling to keep up. That is […]
Read MoreiPhone users who recently installed the iOS 26.5 update have reported an immediate and noticeable decline in battery life. While this rapid battery consumption has sparked widespread concern among users, Apple has previously clarified that this behavior is standard and expected following a major operating system update. According to technical explanations provided by Apple, the […]
Read MoreTL;DR Redwood Materials hired former Tesla CFO Deepak Ahuja, signalling IPO preparation as JB Straubel’s battery recycling startup pivots to powering AI data centres with second-life EV batteries through its Redwood Energy division. Deepak Ahuja, the chief financial officer who took Tesla public in 2010 and served two terms steering its finances through the most […]
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The two conglomerates are funding separate R&D centres focused on next-generation battery chemistries and advanced EV systems. The investment is a hedge: both groups currently buy critical battery components from Chinese suppliers and want options when Beijing tightens export rules again. India’s two largest steel-and-everything-else conglomerates are putting close to $1bn behind a question that […]
Read MoreThe Japan-headquartered EV battery manufacturer, controlled by China’s Envision Group and backed by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC, is mulling an IPO in Hong Kong that could raise up to $2 billion, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The move marks a significant change from earlier plans to list in the US. Envision AESC, the electric vehicle […]
Read MoreIn short: Altilium, a UK clean technology company, has secured £18.5 million in grant funding from the government’s DRIVE35 Scale-Up Fund to build ACT3, the country’s first commercial refinery for recovering critical minerals from end-of-life electric vehicle batteries. Located in Plymouth, Devon, the facility will process 24,000 EV batteries a year using Altilium’s proprietary EcoCathode™ process, […]
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For decades, nickel-hydrogen batteries have been the quiet workhorses of space, powering the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope through the extremes of orbit. Now, a California startup wants to put that same chemistry to work on the ground, and it just secured serious money to do it. EnerVenue has raised $300 million […]
Read MoreIn the sprawl north of Dallas, where data centres are multiplying and the Texas grid groans under record demand, Energy Vault has placed a new bet on battery storage, and on the idea that the companies powering AI’s insatiable appetite for electricity will need far more of it, far faster. The California-based energy storage company […]
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If you’re a student, Apple’s new MacBook Neo may have caught your attention, especially because it’s sold with a starting price of only $599 (or $499 with the educational discount), a price very challenging to beat for what’s being offered. But is it really a good purchase? That’s what we usually ask ourselves when we […]
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The battery industry has a translation problem. Researchers can identify promising new materials in the lab; the challenge is moving those discoveries through chemistry, engineering, and manufacturing without losing years and hundreds of millions of dollars in the process. The gap between discovery and production has long been one of the defining bottlenecks of the […]
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