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Rivian CEO Ridicules Gas Car Buyers
The EV transition is happening, whether you like it or not. It won’t be an overnight process — we keep our cars around for 12.5 years on average, and it’ll take longer than that to entirely cycle out America’s internal combustion fleet — but Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe sees that change coming sooner rather than later. In…
Simplified: Making EV Charging Effortless
EV charging is a hassle. I’m not talking about simply finding a charger to use: I’m talking about all the extra tech that comes along with simply plugging an EV in to get some juice. But as our colleague Kevin Williams pointed out for Heatmap, we’d all be better off with just a simple wall outlet.
EV Dealers Face Inventory Challenges: Report
America’s major manufacturers have made it clear that electric vehicles haven’t been as profitable as hoped. Ford has stated they expected to lose $4.5 billion on their electric vehicle divisions this year. Detroit’s automakers knew that they were going to lose money in these early years of production, just not that…
VinFast Stock Plummets After Soaring to $85B
Earlier this week, VinFast completed its merger with special-purpose acquisition company Black Spade Acquisition, allowing shares to be publicly traded. Between Monday and Tuesday, its stock price jumped to $37.06, an increase of more than 270 percent over the IPO price. That gave VinFast a market cap of more than $85…
Ford CEO Acknowledges Charging Issues During F-150 Lightning Road Trip
Last week, Ford CEO Jim Farley hit the road in an F-150 Lightning pickup, driving along Route 66 and into the American West to really put the electric truck through its pace. Unfortunately, Business Insider reports that the EV road trip isn’t exactly all it’s cracked up to be for the CEO.