EVgo and Tesla share hardware; Lucid shows a $50K SUV; London gets paid robotaxis; and the President offers a medical opinion on EV ownership.
EVgo will add Tesla-branded V4 Superchargers — capable of 500 kW — to its existing station network this fall, using Tesla's Magic Dock to serve both CCS and NACS vehicles. The deal merges EVgo's footprint with Tesla's hardware.
Lucid showed first images of the Cosmos, a mid-size electric SUV expected to start around $50,000 — the company's smallest and most affordable model to date, targeting the segment Tesla's Model Y has dominated.
Battery-electric vehicles exceeded 10% market share across Latin America in Q2, driven by high fuel prices and the expansion of affordable Chinese EV models in Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia.
UK autonomous driving company Wayve received regulatory approval for paid driverless robotaxi service in London in partnership with Uber, deploying Wayve's software stack on standard vehicles.
A manufacturer has deployed an electric mining truck using sodium-ion cells, the first commercial heavy-vehicle application of the chemistry. Sodium-ion cells require no lithium or cobalt and are cheaper to produce than lithium-based alternatives.
Xiaomi's newly revealed Sky Nomad EV has reportedly gathered over 100,000 pre-orders in China in the days since its reveal, marking the brand's expansion beyond its debut SU7 sedan into a new segment.
President Trump described electric car ownership as a 'disease' and reaffirmed his intention to reverse EV mandates, speaking at a Las Vegas rally. The comments followed his administration's FCC order banning connected foreign-made solar inverters earlier this week.