Battery supplier SK Innovation won’t be banned in the US after all

Artist's rendering of SK Innovation battery factories in Commerce, GeorgiaSouth Korean battery firm SK Innovation (SKI) will be able to move ahead with plans for large-scale U.S. battery production, thanks to a favorable decision by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), Reuters first reported last week. SK Innovation has been locked in a legal battle with rival South Korean battery supplier LG Chem, which sued...

2021 Tesla Model S production hasn’t started, but it will soon

2021 Tesla Model S Plaid+Tesla provided a sales and production update for the first quarter of 2021 on Friday morning. The company summed that it made just over 180,000 vehicles globally from January through March, while delivering nearly 184,800 vehicles. While those weren't wildly outside what had been expected by analysts, they're impressive as amid supply-chain...

Could free-piston range extenders broaden the electric-truck horizon?

Mahle-Libertine electric truck range-extender projectA new kind of internal-combustion range extender for electric vehicles skips crankshafts and camshafts entirely, with packaging that could more easily coexist with battery packs. The UK firm Libertine last month announced that it has been awarded 2.6 million British pounds (about $3.6 million) of Innovate UK funding to develop its free-piston...