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Koreans Are Furious Over The Hyundai ICE Raid. Tesla Could Pay The Price

Earlier this month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement carried out the largest single-site enforcement operation in its history. The agency detained roughly 475 workers at the LG Energy Solution battery plant near Hyundai’s Metaplant America electric vehicle factory in Georgia. Of those, about 300 were Korean nationals. Bloomberg on Wednesday published a chilling report titled “Unmade […]

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Two days left to comment on EPA’s plan to raise gas prices 76c/gal, kill thousands

Lee Zeldin, Chief Saboteur of the Environmental “Protection” Agency. Photo by SecretName101 on wikimedia In July, the US Environmental Protection Agency proposed a plan to delete its scientific finding recognizing that greenhouse gases are harmful to human health, with the goal of making cars less efficient and more costly to fuel. That plan went up

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Illinois awards $18.4M in restored NEVI funds to build EV charging stations

DC fast charging stations in Chicago; via EVgo. Illinois is expanding its EV charging network with $18.4 million in federal grants that were restored after being unlawfully frozen by the Trump administration. The grants come from the second round of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program, which supports Illinois’s goal of registering 1 million

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EVs and batteries fuel the US VPP boom, hitting 37.5 GW in 2025

Photo: Swell Energy The US virtual power plant (VPP) market is growing fast, with 37.5 gigawatts of behind-the-meter flexible capacity now online, according to a new Wood Mackenzie report. VPPs connect small energy systems and smart devices into a single network managed by an energy company or utility. That can include residential solar panels, battery

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BMW i1 Neue Klasse Rendering Sparks Hope For Stylish Small EV

BMW’s unveiling of the new iX3 has opened the floodgates for renderings of other models adopting Neue Klasse styling. We’ve already seen a stunning yet hypothetical Z4, but what about something in the volume segment? With a small electric car officially confirmed recently, it’s no surprise that someone has taken a crack at imagining Bavaria’s

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