Steve LeVine

Lucid Motors CEO Peter Rawlinson is hoping to license the technology behind the electric vehicles he is developing as an additional source of revenue beyond the sale of the company’s premium EVs.In interviews I conducted with Rawlinson for a Big Read profile, he said Lucid was developing a ...

The other evening, a stranger told Lucid Motors CEO Peter Rawlinson that if he ever came across an electric vehicle that would go 500 miles on a charge, he’d buy it. “And I said, ‘That’s Lucid Air!’” Rawlinson recalls, referring to his company’s sleek sedan. “He said, ‘What? How long has that ...

In a rare sign of confidence in the future of electric vehicles under President-elect Donald Trump, Stellantis has agreed to buy a six-year supply of battery-grade graphite from a new Chattanooga, Tenn., plant, enough to make roughly 300,000 EVs.

Campaigning for a second term as president, Donald Trump vowed repeatedly to kill laws and regulations promoted by President Joe Biden to build a U.S. electric vehicle and battery industry.

Struggling Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt failed to pay employees of its shuttered Cuberg subsidiary a scheduled final paycheck this month, or for their remaining paid time off, as required by California law, according to four former Cuberg employees. The missed payments came as ...

For 13 years—from 2010 until 2022—General Motors sold more vehicles in China than anywhere else in the world. The ace in GM’s pocket was its premium Buicks, which Chinese consumers snapped up year after year, with sales peaking at 1.3 million cars in 2016.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has staked the company’s future more clearly than ever on autonomous vehicles, saying Tesla would not make a driver-controlled car costing $25,000. In remarks to analysts Wednesday evening, he urged rivals to follow Tesla’s example and develop their own autonomous vehicles, ...

At the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, Westinghouse Electric unveiled Elektro, a 7-foot-tall robot that walked, spoke, smoked cigarettes and gestured with its arms. It was all a show—Elektro’s witty conversation flowed from phrases recorded on a vinyl disc inside its massive body. But the robot ...

In 2020, General Motors CEO Mary Barra told investors, analysts and journalists how the company planned to transform itself into an electric vehicle powerhouse. The key, the executives said in a two-hour presentation, was Ultium, a proprietary new battery they said would make GM’s EVs profitable ...

Tesla has embarked on an ambitious effort to design four new versions of its in-house battery to power the Cybertruck, its forthcoming Robotaxi and other electric vehicles, according to people with direct knowledge of its plans. This is the most battery projects the company has worked on ...

Last November, Ed Duby took over battery production at General Motors. He found an effort in crisis: The company was on track to sell fewer than a quarter of the 400,000 electric vehicles it had predicted for 2023, and the numbers were unlikely to improve anytime soon.The problem wasn’t consumer ...

The Biden administration’s latest salvo against Chinese electric vehicles carries a risk: potential retaliation against Tesla.

Chinese companies dominate the market for electric vehicle batteries and the supply chain behind them. But U.S. companies hold their own in one segment: high-silicon electrodes, which add significant driving range and charging speed.

In 2020, 6K, a North Andover, Mass., materials company, launched an energy division with the aim of making the toxic and laborious manufacture of battery electrodes cheaper and cleaner. Now, after failing to win business from large established electrode makers, the company plans to make the ...

In a call with Wall Street analysts in February, Ford CEO Jim Farley and Chief Financial Officer John Lawler detailed the costs to the company of its flagship electric Mach-E SUV and F-150 Lightning pickup. Ford lost $47,000 for each electric vehicle it sold in the fourth quarter of 2023, and ...

When Piedmont Lithium withdrew its application for a Department of Energy loan to build an $800 million lithium refinery, it joined a growing list of U.S. battery and mining companies that, roiled by slow electric vehicle sales, are walking away from government aid intended to spur a domestic ...

In May, a worker at the San Leandro, Calif., laboratory of next-generation battery developer Cuberg accidentally spilled alcohol solvent on a pile of scrap lithium metal. A fire broke out, reaching the ceiling, and now-molten lithium burned a 5-inch crater in the floor. Overhead sprinklers sent ...

Late this month, Quincy Lee plans to inaugurate a fast-charging station for electric vehicles outside a new Costco in Ridgefield, Wash. The station will have six charging ports, powered by Chinese-made batteries, allowing it to quickly charge from 50 to 100 EVs per day.

In 2022, Volkswagen’s board fired chair Herbert Diess after a rocky tenure in which, while pushing employees to move fast into the electric vehicle age, he reportedly angered powerful German labor leaders and regional government officials. The last straw, analysts said, was the failure of a core ...

Kang Sun, CEO of Amprius Technologies, has contracted with three factories in China to pump out the California company’s silicon-based batteries. But on Wednesday, he was looking for a fourth in the Taiwanese capital of Taipei, in part to qualify for tax credits under the U.S. Inflation ...