BYD rolls out EV batteries with 5-minute ‘flash charging.’ But there’s a catch.

The Chinese automaker’s new Blade Battery 2.0 is capable of charging at up to 1.5 megawatts, dramatically slashing the time it takes to fill up.

This Student-Built EV Focuses on Repairability
This Student-Built EV Focuses on Repairability

At first glance, the Aria EV looks not much different than any other student-built electric prototype—no different than the battery-powered cars built by engineering students from dozens of universities every year. Beneath its panels, however, is a ch…

Optimizing a Battery Electric Vehicle Thermal Management System
Optimizing a Battery Electric Vehicle Thermal Management System

This webinar looks at a Battery Electric Virtual Vehicle Model of a mid-size BEV, and uses Simulink and Simscape to facilitate design exploration, component refinement, and system-level optimization. The virtual vehicle comprises five subsystems: Elec…

This Power Grid Pioneer’s EV Prediction Came 100 Years Too Soon
This Power Grid Pioneer’s EV Prediction Came 100 Years Too Soon

Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a towering figure in the early decades of electrical engineering, easily the intellectual equal of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla—men he considered his friends. One of Steinmetz’s most significant achievements was to quan…

New Path to Battery-Grade Lithium Uses Electrochemistry
New Path to Battery-Grade Lithium Uses Electrochemistry

As electric vehicles roll off assembly lines, a bottleneck sits upstream: lithium refinement. Turning raw lithium into the compounds needed for batteries is expensive, messy, and energy-intensive, but Mangrove Lithium, a Vancouver-based startup, has a…

The 12-minute EV charge is coming closer to reality

A Korean research team has developed a self-adjusting protective layer that suppresses dendrite growth in lithium-metal batteries, paving the way for EVs that could charge fully in just 12 minutes.
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Why Tesla should worry about BYD’s latest move

BYD is finally rolling out its 1360kW megawatt flash chargers in China, and the specs leave Tesla Superchargers in the dust with 400km of range added in about five minutes.
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Lucid Motors slashes 12% of its workforce as it seeks profitability

The layoffs affect hundreds of full-time workers in the US, according to an internal memo obtained by TechCrunch.

The SEC closed its investigation into Fisker

The financial regulator revealed in a response to a TechCrunch records request that the probe was closed in September 2025.