Tesla has started hiring in Vietnam, and one of its recruiters says the company is now “officially coming” to the country. The five open roles include a sales manager, a service manager, and a charging project developer.
It’s a tough market to walk into. VinFast, the local all-electric automaker, has sold roughly 36% of every new car in Vietnam this year, more than its next five competitors combined.
Ford has now produced more than 5,000 large aluminum “unicastings” for the Fathom, its upcoming $28,350 midsize electric pickup, as it fine-tunes the process ahead of a 2027 launch.
Each truck gets two of them, front and rear, replacing 146 individual parts. It’s the clearest sign yet that Ford is all-in on the manufacturing approach Tesla popularized with its Giga Press six years ago.
A Tesla Semi caught fire on Interstate 880 in Hayward, California, on Tuesday evening, and there was no crash. The electric truck’s lithium-ion battery burned long enough to keep the southbound freeway closed for about 10 hours.
The driver got out unhurt. But a Class 8 electric truck catching fire on its own, in traffic, is something Tesla and its growing list of Semi customers need to explain.
Bosch has unveiled the latest generation of its popular Active Line Plus electric bicycle motor, bringing more power, less weight, and a significantly smaller footprint to one of the company’s most widely used drive systems.
Over the coming year, renewables’ share of total generating capacity will grow from 37.7% to 40.4%, surpassing that of natural gas and outstripping nuclear capacity fivefold, according to new data released by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) and reviewed by the SUN DAY Campaign.
A Rivian electric delivery van wrapped in Walmart+ branding was photographed on a car hauler on I-94 in northwest Indiana today. It’s the first public sign that Walmart could become Rivian’s next big van customer after Amazon.
Neither company has announced a deal. But Walmart’s last two electric van suppliers are out of the business, and Rivian is one of the few companies still building a purpose-built electric delivery van in the US.
Waymo is growing its driverless service area by nearly 250 square miles over the next week, spread across Los Angeles, Nashville, Orlando, San Diego, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
That’s about as big as Tesla’s entire Houston Robotaxi geofence after this week’s expansion, and Waymo is adding it in cities where it already runs with nobody in the driver’s seat.
