Lucid has released a new teaser video of what looks like the Cosmos, its upcoming sub-$50,000 midsize electric SUV and the car that’s supposed to turn Lucid into a volume automaker.
The clip gives us the clearest look yet at the Cosmos’ lighting, front and rear, after months of camouflaged prototype sightings. But the car itself is still about a year away.
It takes some seriously heavy equipment to make an ultra-class mining truck look little, but that’s exactly what German equipment giant Liebherr does best, and its newest, 250-tonne production excavator keeps that tradition alive – only this time, it’s electric.
Tesla is ending Cybertruck production. CEO Elon Musk announced early Friday that the automaker will “wind down” the electric pickup at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of 2027, about three and a half years after the first deliveries.
Musk says it’s to make room for more Cybercab production. But Giga Texas isn’t short on space. The Cybertruck is short on buyers, and it sells at roughly a tenth of the 250,000 units a year Tesla built its line for.
BYD’s Yangwang U9 Xtreme just reached 503.17 km/h (312.66 mph) on a closed highway in Abu Dhabi, making it the first production car ever to go faster than 500 km/h.
The FIA and Guinness World Records both recognized the run. It’s the all-electric hypercar’s second top-speed record in just over a year, and the one it broke was its own.
Chinese equipment brand Zoomlion showed up to this week’s China International Agricultural Machinery Exhibition with a new ultra-high-horsepower hybrid tractor that sets a new benchmark, offering more than 1,600 hp while cutting back on both fuel and fumes.
Energica is officially back.
The Italian electric motorcycle maker, which ceased operations in 2024 after entering judicial liquidation, has announced a major revival under new international ownership. And while the Energica name is returning, the company behind it is going to look quite different this time around.
Australian conversion specialists Janus Electric have been celebrating a growing slate of orders for their Class 8 electric truck conversions, which ditch diesel in favor of advanced battery-swap electric power – but exactly how they’d deliver all those trucks was still a question. Now, we have an answer: Electrovaya will supply the batteries.
Like many equipment brands, German forklift maker Jungheinrich has been struggling to crack the Asian industrial markets – but the company is set to change all that with the launch of a new line of 1.6- to 3-ton class electric forklifts designed specifically to navigate the region’s tight warehouses and factories.
Arkansas is getting another 250 megawatts (MW) of solar power, and Meta has signed up to buy it.
