Factorial is rallying a team of suppliers to get solid-state batteries into cars
Factorial is rallying a team of suppliers to get solid-state batteries into cars

Factorial Energy has signed a joint development agreement with Japan’s Mitsui Kinzoku for solid electrolytes, the latest in a run of partnerships its chief executive says are necessary because no single company can bring all-solid-state batteries to ma…

Porsche has built a battery cell whose cathode is entirely recycled from its own old packs
Porsche has built a battery cell whose cathode is entirely recycled from its own old packs

Porsche and the Aachen recycler cylib have produced pilot battery cells in which 100% of the cathode active material, the lithium, nickel, cobalt and manganese, came from Porsche’s own end-of-life packs. The EU Batteries Regulation will require only 6%…

Tesla’s European Megacharger rollout covers 21 sites and over 100 stalls
Tesla’s European Megacharger rollout covers 21 sites and over 100 stalls

Tesla will install more than 100 megawatt-capable charging stalls at 21 sites in Germany, France, the UK, Sweden and Benelux to support the Semi, its Semi development head told the IAA Transportation fair in Hanover. Milence, the joint venture owned by…

Toyota’s hydrogen pickup beats its electric one on every number except where to refuel it
Toyota’s hydrogen pickup beats its electric one on every number except where to refuel it

Toyota has confirmed a hydrogen fuel cell Hilux for 2028, the first commercially available fuel cell mid-size pickup in Europe, targeting 400km of range, 2,500kg of towing and a five-minute refuel. Europe and the UK have 179 hydrogen stations between t…

Porsche’s wireless charging pad is on sale in Europe, and it bolts to the floor
Porsche’s wireless charging pad is on sale in Europe, and it bolts to the floor

Porsche has opened orders in Germany and other European markets for an 11 kW wireless charging pad for the Cayenne Electric, at EUR 6,961.49 for the floor pad and the car-side hardware together, with efficiency of up to 90%. The pad must be permanently…

GM’s new UI for trucks gives CarPlay its own window
GM’s new UI for trucks gives CarPlay its own window

GM is overhauling its infotainment interface on the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, giving Apple CarPlay and Android Auto their own window alongside native apps rather than the whole screen, after saying phone mirroring would be removed from i…

Tesla’s new “Accordion” Superchargers pack eight stalls into one delivery
Tesla’s new “Accordion” Superchargers pack eight stalls into one delivery

Tesla has built a prefabricated Supercharger unit that ships pre-assembled with eight stalls and a 1.2MW power cabinet, cuts installation cost by 20% and can be unloaded with a forklift, with the first site live in Bavaria. A single unit exceeds the 1,…

Musk was asked why Tesla and SpaceX are still separate companies. He said “great question”
Musk was asked why Tesla and SpaceX are still separate companies. He said “great question”

Elon Musk again teased combining Tesla and SpaceX, telling the All-In Summit “who could imagine what action one might take when there’s so much close collaboration in so many areas“. Any such deal would very likely cross the EU merger thresholds, which…

BMW will show navigation and driver assistance in one 3D view from October
BMW will show navigation and driver assistance in one 3D view from October

BMW will merge navigation and driver assistance into a single 3D view from October, on cars running its Operating System X, and says it will begin navigation-guided semi-automated urban driving in Germany in 2027. The UN regulation covering these syste…

New York picks Brooklyn startup “it’s electric” to build its 700-charger curbside network
New York picks Brooklyn startup “it’s electric” to build its 700-charger curbside network

New York City has selected it’s electric, a Brooklyn company that manufactures in Queens, to replace its curbside electric vehicle charging pilot with a permanent network across all five boroughs. The buildout runs for three years and takes the city fr…