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Battery demand from electric trucks more than doubled in a year worldwide

Chinese researchers unveiled a 500 watt-hour battery that could push an EV past 1,000 kilometers

Figure’s humanoid robots built 30,000 BMW SUVs over 10 months on a single line

Figure’s humanoid robots built 30,000 BMW SUVs over 10 months on a single line

Battery demand from electric trucks more than doubled in a year worldwide

Chinese researchers unveiled a 500 watt-hour battery that could push an EV past 1,000 kilometers

A cruising jet flies through air a quarter as dense as at sea level

Regenerative braking recharges an electric truck a little every time it slows

The average car sits parked about 95% of its entire life

The largest container ships can stack more than 24,000 steel boxes at once

The largest container ships afloat can stack more than 24,000 boxes at once

Lithium now costs more than twice what it did a year ago, squeezing the batteries at the heart of every electric car

Regenerative braking lets an EV recharge a little every time the driver slows down

Slate opens orders June 24 for its bare-bones electric pickup, a no-frills truck targeting 150 miles on the standard battery and 240 on the bigger one

The plug-in Ram 1500 REV pairs a 92-kWh battery with a V6 generator to target 690 miles of range, 145 of them all-electric

An electric car turns roughly 90% of its battery energy into motion, while a gas engine wastes most as heat

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