General Motors Co. and the parent company of China’s BYD Auto Ltd. went straight to the source and bought stakes in lithium miners, a rare step in an industry that relies on outside vendors Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure white […]
EV charging stations are increasing in the U.S., but remain relatively scarce just as electric vehicle adoption becomes more mainstream. Carmakers want to phase out internal combustion engines in hopes of going vertical like Tesla (TSLA). By 2030, General Motors (GM), Ford (F) and Stellantis (STLA), formerly Fiat Chrysler, aspire to have as much as […]
GM’s venture aiming for annual sales of 1.2 million next year. Company first built huge following around its small, boxy vans. Since last July, a little-known automaker in China’s southwest has dominated the world’s largest electric car market, outselling bigger players and even Tesla Inc. almost every month with a tiny, bare-bones EV that starts […]