Dreame, the company that made its name sucking dust off floors, detailed the Nebula Next 01X electric SUV under the Starry Sky Plan to integrate L4 self-driving hardware. Besides impressive acceleration thanks to Dreame's record-beating electric motors, it comes with a true solid-state battery.

Rivian unveiled the R2 SUV with pricing aimed squarely at the Tesla Model Y and a free Autonomy+ self-driving suite backed by 200 TOPS of onboard compute. The R2 is also the first vehicle to use LG's 4695 cells, which are superior to Tesla's 4680 battery in the Cybertruck and Model Y.

After the full-size Gravity SUV, Lucid has announced three affordable models designed to take on Tesla and a "distracted" Elon Musk. One of them is the Cosmos SUV, priced as a direct Tesla Model Y competitor but with better specs.

After the full-size Gravity SUV, Lucid has announced three other cheaper models designed to take on Tesla and a "distracted" Elon Musk. One of them is the Cosmos SUV, priced as a direct Tesla Model Y competitor but with better specs.

There will be hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles whose leases will expire in 2026 that may put pressure on new EV sales. In addition, the galloping chip, energy, battery, and material costs may force EV makers to raise the prices of new cars.

Despite all the solid-state battery hype, their production-ready units still cost 12 cents per Wh against less than six cents for batteries with regular liquid electrolytes. Still, they have many other virtues besides doubling the typical EV range on a charge.

Cortical Labs is opening biological data centers built with CL1 computers that run on silicon chips fused with about 800,000 lab-grown human neurons. They draw as little as 30 watts each, positioning them as a low-power alternative to Nvidia GPU-based AI racks.

While BYD is eating Tesla's lunch and its sales climb drastically in Europe as Elon Musk's automaker plunges 17% there, it is also investing in new technologies to stay ahead. Its new Blade battery 2.0 has been put in both the EV and the full-size SUV with the longest ranges in their categories.

The second-largest TV maker has to stop calling its QLED TV sets that, as Samsung cries foul. The misleading advertising claims that TCL TVs use quantum dot technology, but the courts disagree.

Tesla will be raising its capital expenditure to secure a steady supply of its upcoming AI6 chip that should be installed in its cars starting in 2028. Tesla will be investing more in Samsung as a supplier, bumping the wafer orders significantly.

Elon Musk has denied that Starlink is dropping the prices of its hardware and satellite Internet plans because of the upcoming increase in competition. SpaceX is still trying to amass as many new Starlink customers as possible ahead of its IPO.

Nvidia is embarking on a somewhat self-serving initiative to expand the use of AI technologies in telecommunications hardware and software. It has formed a consortium to push for an AI-first 6G network standard.

SpaceX has launched Starlink Mobile, a standalone carrier service aimed at delivering 5G connectivity directly to standard cell phones worldwide via its direct-to-cell satellite network. Starlink's next-gen V2 satellites will beam up to 150 Mbps download speeds directly to phones equipped with modems like Qualcomm’s new Release 19 X105 unit.