Fred Lambert

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GM exits $3.5B Indiana battery plant as Samsung SDI takes full control - Electrek

Business August 12, 2026

Samsung SDI is taking full control of its Indiana battery plant. The South Korean cell maker is buying out General Motors 49.99% stake in their joint venture, according to a regulatory filing, endingοΏ½...

Tesla exhausts its California MyFirstEV rebate allocation in 5 days - Electrek

Business August 11, 2026

Tesla ran through its entire share of Californias new MyFirstEV rebate program in just five days.. The rebate only went live for Tesla buyers on August 3. Buyers claimed roughly half of Teslas allocοΏ½...

49ers’ Shanahan crashed his Tesla on Autopilot reaching for his phone - Electrek

Sports August 11, 2026

San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan crashed his Tesla Model S on July 14 while the car was running on Autopilot. He was reaching for a phone that had dropped out of reach, and he took his eyοΏ½...

Musk’s Terafab chip plant will run on gas, not Tesla solar - electrek.co

Business August 11, 2026

SpaceX confirmed it will power Terafab, its $16.8 billion chip megafactory in Texas, with its own natural gas power plants and very large battery arrays. Tesla solar isnt in the plan. Thats despite οΏ½...

Rivian (RIVN) Q2 2026 earnings: revenue up 27%, gross margins soaring - Electrek

Business August 1, 2026

Rivian reported its second-quarter 2026 earnings today, and there are improvements across the board. Its a car. The company started delivering the R2, its first vehicle priced under $50,000, to custoοΏ½...

Tesla's 2026 Summer Update: auto navigation, Grok phone calls, Caraoke scoring, and more - Electrek

Technology July 22, 2026

Tesla started rolling out its 2026 Summer Update, and the automaker published the full release notes on X. The headline additions: Grok can finally control more of the car, Caraoke now keeps score, οΏ½...

California’s new $3,500 EV rebate favors Rivian and Lucid over Tesla - Electrek

Business July 14, 2026

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 168 today, creating a new MyFirstEV program that gives first-time electric vehicle buyers a $3,500 instant rebate at the dealership starting later this summοΏ½...

UK EV registrations hit 30% share in June as Tesla rebounds 42% - Electrek

Business July 5, 2026

The new Nissan LEAF (Source: Nissan UK) British battery-electric vehicle registrations jumped 38% in June to 64,440 units, pushing EVs to nearly 30% of the new car market their strongest monthly perοΏ½...

Tesla driver charged with manslaughter in Katy crash was Googling β€˜FSD too timid’ - Electrek

Business July 4, 2026

Harris County prosecutors have charged the Tesla driver who crashed into a Katy, Texas, home and killed a 76-year-old woman with manslaughter, alleging he overrode Full Self-Driving to floor the car οΏ½...

Lucid overhauls its entire C-suite under new CEO after 18% layoffs - Electrek

Business July 3, 2026

Lucid is replacing almost its entire executive team under new CEO Silvio Napoli, bringing in a new CFO, CTO, and three other C-level leaders in a single announcement. The overhaul lands just over a οΏ½...