Polestar EVs will soon be widely available at Hertz

Polestar at HertzThe U.S. rental-car giant Hertz has made a strategic partnership with Sweden’s Polestar for the purchase of up to 65,000 Polestar EVs over five years, the companies jointly disclosed on Monday. Availability of the Chinese-produced Polestar 2 at Hertz is set to start this spring in Europe and late 2022 for North America and Australia. Hertz...

To support EV battery production, Biden turns to Defense Production Act

First customer Rivian R1T (from Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe via Twitter)As part of a series of actions being taken to address gas prices and energy affordability, the Biden administration last week turned to a wartime tool to help ramp up the availability of critical materials needed for electric vehicles, sooner. According to a White House release, the Defense Production Act will be authorized to support lithium...

Tesla delivered a record number of EVs in Q1, amid supply-chain struggles

2022 Tesla lineup  (Courtesy of Tesla, Inc.)Tesla reported Saturday that it produced and delivered more than 300,000 vehicles, globally, in the first quarter of 2022. Tesla’s quarterly totals of 305,407 vehicles produced and 310,048 vehicles delivered included just 14,724 combined Model S and Model X vehicles delivered and 14,218 of those models produced. That left, for Model 3 and...