The mandate to invest in cleaner technologies and the industry's growing prospects have attracted private equity firms and venture capital firms to electric vehicle startups in India

The Japanese tech giant is looking at potential factory sites in Kansas and Oklahoma where it will make batteries for Tesla

CEO Elon Musk has told Tesla executives to "pause all hiring worldwide", saying he needs to cut staff at the electric carmaker as a global downturn appears to be looming

Musk previously played down the risks of coronavirus, saying "the coronavirus panic is dumb" and children were “essentially immune”. He later contracted Covid-19 twice.

Nine self-designed and manufactured GeeSAT-1 satellites, were launched on Wednesday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwestern Sichuan province

WM Motor's IPO document does not reveal the size of the deal but a listing would move WM founder Freeman Shen closer to his dream of mass-producing affordable EVs

The acquisitions would give BYD access to more than 25 million tonnes of lithium oxide, which is used in the cathodes of EV batteries

The carmaker will procure electricity from renewable sources and use carbon-neutral vehicles at its factories, among other measures, it said in a statement

Guangzhou-based XPeng has run double-shift, 24-hour production since mid-May to clear its order backlog.

He Xiaopeng, the CEO of one of Tesla's biggest local rivals, says China is still at least ten years away from being a true global leader.

Attero Recycling, based near Delhi, plans to build EV battery recycling facilities in Indonesia, Poland and the US as it aims to be a global player

In a tweet, Musk said employees unwilling to comply with office work "should pretend to work somewhere else."