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BMW’s i7 gets Rimac batteries, rare-earth-free motors, and drops Level 3 driving

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Summary:BMW revealed the facelifted 2027 i7 simultaneously at Grand Central Terminal and Auto China with Gen6 cylindrical cells from Rimac, rare-earth-free motors with SiC inverters, and 250 kW charging. The i7 60 xDrive targets 350-plus miles EPA and 728 km WLTP; the i7 50 reaches 611 km and the M70 targets 686 km. BMW dropped […]

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Humble emerges from stealth with $24M and a cableless autonomous electric truck built to go dock-to-dock

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The San Francisco startup, founded by an ex-Uber ATG and Waabi engineer, is taking a different approach to autonomous freight than Aurora or Kodiak: no driver’s cab, no hub handoffs, and an autonomy stack built on vision-language-action models rather than rule-based systems. Humble, a San Francisco-based autonomous freight startup, has emerged from stealth with a […]

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TikTok is making Americans want Chinese EVs they cannot buy, and tariffs were not designed for this

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The United States imposed 100% tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to keep them out of the American market. TikTok and YouTube are making that strategy irrelevant. A survey of 9,000 potential EV buyers by AlixPartners found that 58% had seen Chinese EVs on TikTok, 76% of 18-to-25-year-olds were aware of Chinese EV brands, and 69% […]

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DeepWay closes $310M in pre-IPO financing as it seeks to take Baidu-backed autonomous electric trucks global

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The Hefei-based company, which has delivered 6,400 intelligent electric heavy-duty trucks in China and is targeting a Hong Kong stock market listing, has attracted an Australian superannuation fund among its latest investors, a sign that its clean freight story is reaching institutional capital well beyond its home market. It has yet to turn a profit. […]

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Volvo’s parent Geely is selling a $15,000 electric SUV with massaging seats and 600 km of range

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In short: Geely, which owns Volvo, Polestar, Lotus, and Zeekr, has launched the EX5, a battery-electric SUV starting at 109,800 yuan (~$15,300) with massaging seats, a 1,000-watt sound system, and up to 610 km of range. Already sold in 35 countries and the most exported BEV A-class crossover in China, it undercuts the cheapest European […]

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GIC-backed battery maker Envision AESC is considering a $2 billion Hong Kong IPO

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The 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 […]

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Uber and Nuro begin employee testing of a Lucid Gravity robotaxi in San Francisco

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The Lucid Gravity SUV runs Nuro’s autonomous driving system, powered by Nvidia Drive AGX Thor. A human safety operator sits behind the wheel. Uber has committed to buying at least 20,000 of these vehicles over the next six years. Uber and Nuro have begun employee test rides of a premium robotaxi service in San Francisco, […]

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The Netherlands becomes the first European country to approve Tesla’s FSD Supervised

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In short: The Dutch vehicle authority RDW approved Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software on 10 April 2026, making the Netherlands the first European country to authorise the system under UN Regulation 171, the EU standard governing driver control assistance systems. The approval follows 18 months of testing, 1.6 million kilometres of European road data, and more […]

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UK startup Altilium bags £18.5m to build Britain’s first commercial EV battery refinery

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In 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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Kia cuts EV target, confirms electric pickup, and plans to put Atlas robots in its Georgia factories

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In short: On the day that 25% US tariffs on South Korean imports took effect, Kia held its 2026 CEO Investor Day in Seoul and presented a plan built for a changed world: a quietly reduced EV sales target for 2030, a major expansion of its hybrid range, the first confirmation of a North American electric […]

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