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Rivian Cuts Up to 300 Jobs Week After R2 Launch
Rivian laid off up to 300 workers—just under 2% of its staff—targeting service and customer-facing teams exactly one week after beginning deliveries of the R2, the mass-market SUV its entire financial
Hyundai Narrows Chevy EV Gap as Registrations Diverge
Hyundai narrowed the gap with Chevrolet for the #2 US EV brand in April 2026, as Hyundai registrations rose 3% while Chevy's plunged 36%.
GM, Peak Energy partner on US sodium-ion battery supply
Peak Energy and General Motors announced a partnership on June 9 to develop sodium-ion battery systems for grid-scale stationary storage, with GM producing cells in Michigan under exclusive manufactur
Toyota’s new EVs are catching on as registrations jump 225% in April
Toyota's US EV registrations surged 225% in April to 3,524 units as its three-SUV electric lineup gained traction, vaulting the brand past Ford, BMW, Honda, Kia, and several others in monthly EV sales
Microgrids Beat Undergrounding for Wildfire Resilience
Think Microgrid's executive director argues that home-level microgrids are a faster, cheaper wildfire resilience strategy than burying power lines, noting the same dollars spent on undergrounding coul
Energy Dome, Salt River Project to build 19-MW CO2 battery system
Energy Dome and Salt River Project announced a 20-year tolling agreement to install a 19-MW carbon dioxide battery system at a coal-to-gas conversion site in Arizona, with Google funding a portion thr
Kia’s electric van delivers more driving range in the real world at 260 miles
Kia's PV5 electric van beat its official range estimate in an independent Norwegian summer test, driving 260 miles on a single charge and validating the brand's first dedicated people-mover.
Tesla Robotaxi Fleet Shrinks to 14 Unsupervised Cars
Tesla's spotless NHTSA robotaxi crash record is less a safety milestone than a math problem: the company has just 14 unsupervised vehicles on the road a year after launch, while Waymo runs thousands a
SC Approves $5B Dominion-Santee Cooper Gas Power Plant
South Carolina regulators approved Dominion Energy and Santee Cooper's $5 billion, 2,180-MW gas-fired Canadys power plant, citing cost-effectiveness and rapid state load growth, while the Sierra Club
Northeast states eye offshore HVDC transmission as Trump drops wind fight
Nine Northeast states and D.C. published three reports Monday laying out a shared technical and policy framework for an offshore HVDC transmission network along the Atlantic Coast.
Rivian Joins ChargeScape for Utility Home Charging
Rivian is joining ChargeScape's automaker-backed platform so its EV owners can enroll in utility-managed home charging programs, letting utilities tap Rivian's large battery packs to shift demand and
NOAA Confirms El Niño; Food Systems Brace for
NOAA officially declared that El Niño has begun, with a high likelihood of a 'very strong' event that could disrupt food production across multiple continents within months.
Spanish households save €10 a month thanks to renewables expansion, report finds
A new Ember report finds Spain's rapid wind and solar expansion is saving households €10 a month on electricity by breaking the link between gas prices and power bills, a contrast to the 2021 energy c
Half of world’s children exposed to at least three climate hazards, Unicef says
Unicef's new Children's Climate Risk Report finds more than 1 billion children — half the world's kids — now face at least three overlapping climate hazards simultaneously, from heatwaves and floods t
Four ASEAN Nations Agree to Pilot Multilateral Power
Four ASEAN nations — Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore — have agreed to pilot a multilateral electricity trading arrangement later this year, testing a sub-regional approach to the long-stall
Trump Drops Wind Energy Fight After Court Loss
The Trump administration has dropped its effort to halt wind energy projects nationwide, abandoning its legal challenge to a court ruling that struck down Trump's order freezing federal permitting and
Toyota reveals prices for its first electric pickup
Toyota has revealed UK pricing for the Hilux BEV, its first fully electric pickup, at £42,170 excluding VAT, as the model rolls out across Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
BYD's Denza Z9 GT begins 9,300-mile Rome-to-Hong Kong
BYD has launched a 43-day, 9,300-mile road trip from Rome to Hong Kong in its luxury Denza Z9 GT, led by economist Jeffrey Sachs and investor Patrick Zhong, to showcase the EV's 643-mile range and 9-m
Trump wants to put a $75m coal terminal in this liberal California city. Residents aren’t having it
Donald Trump is directing $75 million in wartime-powers funding to build a coal export terminal at the Port of Oakland, intensifying a decade-long fight as West Oakland residents and California lawmak
Coogee Locals Shun Water After Shark Attack
A great white shark attack on a Coogee swimmer has left Sydney's eastern suburbs community traumatised and rethinking ocean use, while a regulatory shift lifts long-standing drone restrictions to allo
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