Redwood Materials, started by Tesla co-founder J.B. Straubel, is attempting to create a domestic loop using recycled critical metals for lithium-ion batteries.

By the end of last year, 31 countries had surpassed what has become a pivotal EV tipping point: when 5% of new car sales are purely electric.

When Tesla starts Cybertruck deliveries on Nov. 30, color wraps — decorative films applied to the truck's exterior — could soften the edges of a truck seen as too harsh for mainstream buyers.

Tesla Inc.’s top-selling electric vehicles now compete directly with gasoline cars on price after the latest round of price reductions, but that could cost the company $1.2 billion a year.

Electric cars are smashing all kinds of records in the U.S. Their share of new cars exceeded 7% for the first half of the year, speeding past a critical tipping point for mass adoption.

If you want to know how quickly electric vehicles might spread across the U.S., just look at California. In the past five years, EVs have gone from 2% of new-car sales in the state to 22%.

Ascend Elements said it has reached a billion-dollar deal with an unnamed automaker to reprocess old batteries into cathode material, at a plant it is building in Hopkinsville, Ky.

The interpretation of a regulation by the Treasury Department could upend expectations for how tens of billions of dollars in new electric vehicle tax incentives will be distributed.

Redwood Materials Inc., the battery recycling company created by Tesla co-founder J.B. Straubel, said it has reached a deal to supply Panasonic with billions of dollars in critical battery components that will be produced in the U.S. for the first time.

In December, Tesla Inc. plans to deliver the first of its electric Semi trucks — prompting those responsible for delivering the power to ask: Are we ready for this?