Daily Archive: July 29, 2025

A new report, State of the Industry Report: U.S. EV Fast Charging — Q2 2025, is out today from Paren. Despite Donald Trump blowing up federal support for EV charging infrastructure, the country is still on track for record deployments of EV fast chargers in 2025. Perhaps even more importantly, ... [continued]

A large tourist ship that is 100% electric has been launched. In China, of course. The ship is powered by CATL batteries — a lot of them. The energy storage capacity of the batteries is a whopping 3,918 kWh. Those batteries could have been used to power dozens of electric ... [continued]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry held a confirmation vote on Donald Trump’s controversial pick to oversee the U.S. Forest Service. The vote was party line, with all Democrats voting against the nomination of Michael Boren to serve as Under Secretary for Natural Resources ... [continued]

Robotaxi news keeps rolling. Today brings a few stories — I already covered the WeRide news from Saudi Arabia, but there are also updates from Pony AI and Tesla in China. Pony AI Extends Its Hours In China Pony AI sort of feels like the forgotten stepchild or something. Waymo, ... [continued]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration has announced a controversial reorganization of a critical federal agency. In an announcement, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the administration would move around 2,600 employees out of the department’s Washington, D.C. headquarters and into five regional hubs located in Fort Collins, Colorado; Kansas City, ... [continued]