“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” So said Abraham Lincoln. Or maybe not. Whoever did say it was on to something, because technology has always shaped the way economies develop. In ...

US EV pure play Tesla has doubts over re-running its AI and Battery Day events owing to fears over cannibalisation of its IP by its other OEMs. But it has fewer fears about rivals being able to match ...

Who is aiming to be ‘the Tesla of hybrids’? The answer is no-one, which EV inFocus has always taken as a very good basis for concluding that the auto industry does not seriously believe that hybrids ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk was frank in admitting to analysts on the company's fourth quarter earnings call that the EV leader is "between two major growth waves". While appearing to dampen expectations for ...

Analysts are eager to see Elon Musk-led EV maker Tesla improve its falling margins with a greater emphasis on its Full Self Driving (FSD) software rollout. Tesla's FSD software is currently too ...

Italy’s Energica, a manufacturer of electric performance motorbikes, has filed for bankruptcy. The firm was officially funded in 2014 but had a design phase stretching back to 2009. In 2016, it listed ...

US lithium miner and processor Albemarle has shifted some its conversion capacity at its Qinzhou plant in Guangxi, China away from producing lithium hydroxide to making lithium carbonate instead, ...

Nasdaq-listed commercial EV maker Mullen Automotive has secured an initial vehicle order of 10 class 3 EV cab chassis trucks from Associated Coffee, a San Francisco Bay Area coffee and snack ...

BP is both, at least for now, a player in the EV ecosystem and, as a producer of crude and a refiner and distributor of liquid motor fuels, a firm with something to lose from mass EV adoption. So it ...

France’s Renault Group sold a combined 109,307 of its Megane E-Tech and Dacia Spring BEVs in 2023 (see main image), a year-on-year rise of 33.5pc. But that measure might be slightly distorted by the ...

Swedish OEM Volvo reported sales of 22,266 fully electric and plug in cars globally in February, a year-on-year rise of nearly 8pc compared with the same month last year. Meanwhile sales of ICE ...

US start-up Urbix has been selected by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC) for final negotiations for an award of up to $125mn towards the ...