The Latest Breaking News on Electric Vehicles

Slate, the startup electric carmaker with backing from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, revealed on Monday it has secured over 100,000 reservations for its affordable pickup truck. The refundable reservations cost $50 each, meaning Slate has raised over $5 million in reservation fees alone.

Chief among the proposed cuts is the repeal of the electric vehicle (EV) tax credits—$7,500 for new EVs and $4,000 for used models—effective from Dec. 31.

There's something to be said about first-year products. Doesn't matter who they're from, nor how good ramping up production goes, there's always something that seemingly occurs when you're putting together something at scale for the first time. 

Tesla’s dependence on its Shanghai ‘gigafactory’ gives Chinese officials enormous leverage over one of Donald Trump’s key backers — which could prove an asset in the trade war, writes Io Dodds

In 2019, Tesla set out to lower insurance rates for owners of its electric cars. The goal was simple, at least in theory: fix the broken cost of car insurance. Instead, Tesla may have broken its own calculator trying to make sense of repair costs.

A Ford employee and three others are under arrest for their alleged involvement in a multi-million-dollar theft ring. The Dearborn Police Department in southeast Michigan is accusing the employee of stealing parts and accessories from various Ford factories and reselling them online through third-party auto shops.

Georgia is dotted with dozens of clean energy projects, often located in far-flung rural areas. Combined, they’re worth $28 billion, promising 42,000 well-paying manufacturing jobs. They are scattered across solar, hydrogen and grid transmission projects, but electric vehicles are at the center of it all, designed to provide greater independence…

After landing on the scene a few years back with a pair of high-end models and a commercial van, Rivian is looking to join the big leagues with its next act: the R2 crossover. 

Panasonic says it will slash its global workforce by 10,000 people, half in Japan and half overseas, to become a more efficient, “lean” company," The Japanese manufacturer said Friday that the job cuts, amounting to about 4% of Panasonic's workers, will include early retirement offers in Japan and closures and…