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Kirsten Korosec

Kirsten Korosec
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Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. I will be at the center of the startup universe this next week. Where is that, you say? Disrupt 2023 in San Francisco,...
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe provided more details Thursday on the company’s plans to update the hardware in its EVs next year — under a program internally called Peregrine — that he says will result in major cost savings. One of the biggest payoffs? Changing the electronic control unit (ECU)...
Nikola Corp. is laying off 270 employees, or about 23% of its workforce, and restricting its electric truck efforts to North America as it seeks to preserve cash. The company said Friday it will lay off 150 workers who were supporting the company’s European programs. Another 120 employees based...
Bingrui Yang knows a thing or two about hardware, software and how people interact with them — skills picked up during stints at Apple, Zoox and Cruise. Now he’s applying those tricks of the trade to RVs with Pebble Mobility, a California-based EV startup he founded that aims to...
The battery belt — a region stretching from Michigan down into Georgia where the bulk of EV and battery manufacturing is concentrated — has yet another project. GM-Samsung SDI has picked Indiana for the site of a $3 billion battery cell factory that is slated to begin operations in...
Support for Tesla’s charging connector and charge port — called the North American Charging Standard — has accelerated in the days since Ford and GM announced plans to integrate the technology into its next-generation of EVs and sell adapters for current EV owners to gain access. More than a...
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Lordstown Motors is preparing to sue Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturer once considered a savior to the beleaguered EV maker. Lordstown said Friday in a regulatory filing that it will sue Foxconn if the company pulls out of an investment agreement and fails to buy nearly 10% of the EV...
Mercedes-Benz received a permit from California regulators that will allow the German automaker to sell or lease vehicles in the state equipped with a conditional automated driving system that allows for hands-off, eyes-off driving on certain highways. The California Department of Motor Vehicles said Thursday it issued an autonomous...
Porsche kicked off its 75th anniversary Thursday with an electrifying reveal: a battery electric hypercar concept the automaker described as a “technology beacon for the sports car of the future.” For Porsche, that means more than splashy details like an  “E” on the rear that illuminates and pulses when...