Latest Electric vehicles News

Alphabet, Tesla rise; Hertz, Logitech fall, Monday, 3/18/2024

Mar. 18, 2024 16:14 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Monday: Alphabet Inc., up $6.50 to $147.68 Google's parent company is reportedly considering licensing artificial intelligence technology to Apple. Tesla Inc., up $10.31 to...

US to investigate Texas fatal crash that may have involved Ford partially automated driving system

Mar. 16, 2024 12:52 PM EDT

DETROIT (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a fatal crash in San Antonio, Texas, involving a Ford electric vehicle that may have been using a partially automated driving system. The agency said in a statement Friday that a team of investigators from its...

Energy Department conditionally approves $2.26 billion loan for huge lithium mine in Nevada

Mar. 15, 2024 19:36 PM EDT

RENO, Nev. (AP) — President Joe Biden's administration has conditionally agreed to loan more than $2 billion to the company building a controversial lithium mine in Nevada with the largest known U.S. deposit of the metal critical to making batteries for electric vehicles key to his renewable...

African Development Bank chief criticizes opaque loans tied to Africa's natural resources

Mar. 15, 2024 18:09 PM EDT

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The head of the African Development Bank is calling for an end to loans given in exchange for the continent's rich supplies of oil or critical minerals used in smartphones and electric car batteries. “They are just bad, first and foremost, because you...

Honda and Nissan agree to work together in developing electric vehicles and intelligent technology

Mar. 15, 2024 05:11 AM EDT

TOKYO (AP) — Nissan and Honda announced Friday that they will work together in developing electric vehicles and auto intelligence technology, sectors where Japanese automakers have fallen behind. The chief executives of Nissan Motor Co. and Honda Motor Co. appeared together at a...

Nissan and Honda agree to work together on electric vehicles and intelligence technology

Mar. 15, 2024 02:50 AM EDT
TOKYO (AP) — Nissan and Honda agree to work together on electric vehicles and intelligence technology.

Stock market today: Asian shares mostly decline after Wall Street drifts to a mixed close

Mar. 14, 2024 00:12 AM EDT

TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined Thursday in lackluster trading after U.S. stocks drifted to a mixed finish. Japan's Nikkei 225 shed 0.2% in morning trading to 38,625.22. Nissan Motor Co. stock jumped 2.3% after an unconfirmed Japanese media report that the automaker...

Native groups sit on a treasure trove of lithium. Now mines threaten their water, culture and wealth

Mar. 13, 2024 20:25 PM EDT

TUSAQUILLAS, Argentina (AP) — Irene Leonor Flores de Callata, 68, treks along a bone-dry riverbed, guiding a herd of llamas and sheep through stretching desert. Flores de Callata’s native Kolla people have spent centuries climbing deep into the mountains of northern Argentina in...

Elon Musk visits a Tesla plant near Berlin as production resumes after a suspected arson attack

Mar. 13, 2024 09:53 AM EDT

GRUENHEIDE, Germany (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk visited the electric car maker's first European plant on Wednesday as production resumed at the factory just outside Berlin, about a week after a suspected arson attack cut its power supply. Musk was expected at a “team huddle”...

Edmunds: Which three-row EV is best? Edmunds compares the Kia EV9 and Rivian R1S

Mar. 13, 2024 07:49 AM EDT

Shoppers thinking about buying a three-row SUV have plenty of options. Unless they want an electric SUV, that is. Fortunately, there are two models that hold a lot of promise: the Kia EV9 and the Rivian R1S. The EV9 is Kia’s latest and largest electric SUV. Think of it as a Kia Telluride that’s...