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MAY 22, 2025

For decades, the telecom giantnicknamed Ma Bellhad dominated American voice communications, with its Western Electric subsidiary manufacturing nearly every telephone found in U.S. The benefits were so compelling that the industry soon saw that the need for double the number of transistors (NMOS and PMOS for each gate) was worth the tradeoff.

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MARCH 13, 2025

What They Are Saying SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell shared her appreciation for Texas support, saying, Incredible innovation and high-tech manufacturing is happening in Texas as a direct result of Governor Abbotts leadership and the Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund initiative. We love Texas. The post Texas awards SpaceX $17.3M

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Cars That Think

APRIL 30, 2025

In the 1950s, for example, rural America electrified, the industrial sector boomed, and homeowners rapidly accumulated nifty domestic appliances such as spinning clothes dryers and deep freezers. The growth continued into the 1960s as homes and businesses readily adopted air conditioners and the industrial sector automated.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 16, 2025

Like the industry he covers, Shawn DuBravac had already had quite a week by the time IEEE Spectrum spoke to him early last Thursday, 10 April 2025. Youve already seen that for steel manufacturers. The price impact I see for TVs is somewhere between 12 and 18 percent, as opposed to a near doubling for smartphones. Maybe that makes U.S.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 23, 2025

Tesla’s vehicles have proven their safety over the years, highlighting the industry’s shift towards safer vehicles. car insurance comparison service considered 2,317 vehicles released since 2014 to rank the safest car manufacturers in the world.

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JULY 1, 2025

year-over-year, according to industry watchers. As per industry watchers , Tesla China delivered 15,210 New Model Y units last week, the highest weekly tally since the vehicle’s launch. Q2 closes with a boost despite year-on-year dip The strong week helped lift Tesla’s performance for the quarter, though Q2 totals remain down 4.6%

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Charged EVs

MARCH 31, 2025

The companys systems are used across industries like energy, manufacturing, and increasingly in EVs and renewable energy. This means manufacturers can confidently verify efficiency gains in the 1-2% range, which is critical for competitive advancements. This is when they create a spec sheet for a part.

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Teslarati

JUNE 13, 2025

The agency is authorized to grant exemptions to permit manufacturers to produce vehicles over a two or three-year period that might not comply with certain Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS). Robotaxi, for example, will eventually not have a steering wheel or pedals, through the Cybercab that Tesla unveiled last October.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 18, 2025

Outsourcing production and generalized cost cutting has also become commonplace across most manufacturers, right at the time consumers are reporting lapses in quality control and overall satisfaction. While there are always going to be exceptions to the rule, that has been the general trend within the industry over the last fifteen years.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 5, 2025

ASML I was updating my grandfather about the work I was doing in my lab at ASML , a Netherlands-based company that develops and builds equipment for manufacturing semiconductor chips. As we say in the industry, it wasnt enough to make the power; we had to survive the power. nm wavelength.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 16, 2025

But while the industry was chasing logic density, an unwanted side effect became more prominent: heat. Leading chip manufacturers are already shifting to nanosheet devices, which swap the fin in todays fin field-effect transistors for a stack of horizontal sheets of semiconductor.

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Teslarati

JUNE 2, 2025

Tesla is bailing on a crucial piece of the puzzle that would likely enable the production of its vehicles in India, and will instead rely on imports, a bold strategy in the broader scheme, as the country has prioritized local manufacturing in an effort to bolster its economy.

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Teslarati

APRIL 11, 2025

T-Mobiles filing notes: Pursuant to the rules, consumers cannot take advantage of the new potentially life-saving service unless the manufacturer of the equipment they already own and operate seeks modified equipment authorization. With Americans swapping phones every three years, per industry trends, the rule changes reach is uncertain.

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Plug in America

JUNE 25, 2025

EV tax credits work Industry-wide, 87% of all EVs purchased or leased in 2024 received the federal EV tax credit. manufacturing renaissance. Contrary to what many Americans believe, the United States is not the global leader in automotive manufacturing. auto industry is currently the second largest in the world.

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EV Connect

JUNE 20, 2025

In a market filled with competing hardware manufacturers, network operators, and software platforms, OCPP serves as the universal language that enables these diverse systems to communicate seamlessly. representing the current industry standard. Since then, it has evolved through multiple iterations, with OCPP 2.0.1

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The Cybercab production line is like nothing else in the automotive industry.” Given Tesla’s goal with the manufacturing process, it would probably be more challenging for the EV automaker to retrofit an old car factory rather than build a new factory from scratch. The best example of this concept is Gigafactory Shanghai.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 30, 2025

ZF Friedrichshafen has confirmed development of a new range extender intended for electric vehicles, with manufacturing starting sometime in 2026. The part supplier believes that this will help facilitate the industrys pivot toward all-electric vehicles and that there will be sufficient demand to rationalize production.

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Teslarati

MARCH 13, 2025

. “When we look at Tesla and other manufacturers, I think it’s incredibly important that we have [a] choice. We need Tesla to be successful, we need other manufacturers to be successful,” answered Scaringe graciously. However, the Rivian CEO also encourages EV automakers to make their own mark in this rising industry.

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Teslarati

MARCH 18, 2025

BYD recently debuted a 5-minute electric vehicle (EV) charging system, a game-changer in the ever-growing industry. BYD’s 5-minute megawatt charging system could make significant waves in the EV industry. EV charging times remain one of the concerns consumers dwell over when transitioning from ICE to electric vehicles.

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Teslarati

MARCH 5, 2025

Tesla has chosen the location of its latest manufacturing project, a facility that will churn out the Megapack, a large-scale energy storage system for solar energy projects. The plant will be located at the Empire West Industrial Park in the Brookshire part of town.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The EV automaker alleged that the manufacturing equipment supplier stole trade secrets related to Tesla’s battery technology and shared them with competitors. Dry battery electrode technology has been tied to Tesla’s 4680 cells, which has been deemed a potential game-changer in the electric vehicle industry.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 10, 2025

Most drivers Ive spoken with arent even aware that some new vehicles come with driver-monitoring cameras (often part of advanced driving systems) and that just about everything on sale today uses telematic data to report your every decision behind the wheel back to the manufacturer. Itll be interesting to see how the industry responds.

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JULY 9, 2025

For example, he notes that, while it’s true that manufacturing emissions for BEVs can be up to 40 percent higher than for ICE vehicles, this is quickly offset by an electric automobile after just around 17,000 km (~10,563 miles) of driving. “We’ve recently seen auto industry leaders misrepresenting the emissions math on hybrids.

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Cars That Think

JULY 8, 2025

Its limited industrial utility stretches to gemstones, metalworking, ceramics, and occasionally, as a gravel for road construction. Sustainable Mineral Extraction Process Aspiring’s pilot plant, which opened in February, is in an anonymous industrial estate east of the city. Economically, it’s close to worthless.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 2, 2025

Based on documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), concerns stem from a manufacturing defect that may affect the engine bearings. But vehicles will need to show some clear signs of the defect in order for the manufacturer to take any meaningful action. Meanwhile, the 1.5-liter

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Driivz

JULY 1, 2025

Continuing such growth of EV charging networks will ensure the proper infrastructure is available by 2035, when industry-insiders forecast EVs will account for about half of all vehicles in Europe. The European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) found that overall battery electric vehicle sales rose 23.6% in March 2025 alone.

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Electrek

JUNE 2, 2025

The electric motorcycle market is a small and highly interconnected one, with a limited amount of suppliers and an even smaller number of actual honest-to-goodness motorcycle manufacturers.

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Cars That Think

MAY 25, 2025

And for this were working with ArianeGroup , for example, the European space-rocket manufacturer. You need to create a new industry. The mobile phone industry started exactly like this. How can you keep liquid hydrogen liquid for nine days with exactly the right quantity of it that will evaporate to go to the fuel cell?

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Cars That Think

MAY 6, 2025

When British solar manufacturer Oxford PV shipped the first commercial order of perovskite-silicon solar cells last September, it was touted as a breakthrough in the industry. tariffs on silicon solar imports from these countries could give perovskite manufacturers a competitive edge. per watt to as low as $.20 20 per watt.

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Teslarati

JUNE 2, 2025

In a recent note, Jonas brought up some interesting discussion regarding Tesla’s potential in the eVTOL industry , and how he believes CEO Elon Musk’s answer was not convincing enough to put it off altogether. Morgan Stanley’s Adam Jonas is not one to shy away from some ideas that many investors would consider far-fetched.

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EV Info

JULY 15, 2025

The spokesperson said bands (which could expand beyond two) are determined by how much CO2 is emitted in an EV’s production, assessing the energy used in vehicle assembly as well as battery manufacturing. Threshold levels have yet to be made public. He hailed the news as a “clear signal” for prospective buyers to go electric.

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EV Central

MARCH 23, 2025

Under the current measuring system, manufacturers can import excess EVs to rebalance their portfolio emissions and wholesale them onto dealer balance sheets rather than sell them to the public. The government doesnt want to use the industrys VFACTS sales measurement data and is instead understood to be keen on a bespoke system.

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APRIL 21, 2025

The unboxed production process is also expected to revolutionize the automotive manufacturing industry, with CEO Elon Musk emphasizing how different the production line looks compared to its past vehicles during the Q1 2025 All-Hands meeting.

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MARCH 17, 2025

Two of the top Tesla executives recently spoke about the Cybercab in an interview with a longtime manufacturing industry expert, sharing details about the electric vehicle’s (EV’s) battery pack size, range, and more.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 25, 2025

While the automotive industry is gearing up to pivot toward “software-defined vehicles,” there hasn’t been a surplus of clear explanations on what exactly that will entail. Ford has even said that the term is "just jargon" used by the industry " to define modern, tech-forward vehicles that are increasingly differentiated by software."

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

You manufacture them? When we started the company, because I came out of the solar industry, in our early life our vision was around DC charging, and our first product delivered direct DC charging from solar to the vehicle. Charged : Tell me about the chargers. Tom McCalmont: We do.

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Electrek

JUNE 16, 2025

“Our assessment revealed widespread improvement in BEV technology performance across the industry,” said Zifei Yang, ICCT’s global passenger vehicle lead. Since steel is the second-largest source of emissions in vehicle manufacturing (after batteries), ICCT now tracks which automakers are cutting emissions in the supply chain.

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