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Lucid Motors, the Saudi-backed maker of luxury electric vehicles, will disclose how many of its California jobs are being cut in a state filing expected this week — after announcing a reduction of about 18% of its US workforce.

Three of China's biggest automakers are open to building electric vehicles in Canada through local joint ventures, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said, the strongest signal yet that Ottawa's tariff-for-access bargain with Beijing could yield factories on Canadian soil.

Mike Rogers, the Republican US Senate candidate in Michigan, says Washington should pressure Ottawa to keep Chinese EVs out of Canada as a condition of opening the newly built Gordie Howe International Bridge.

AI is advancing "an order of magnitude faster than the average person in society understands," Rivian and Mind Robotics founder and Chief Executive Officer RJ Scaringe said, warning that the technology will touch every job in the economy.

Chinese EV maker Nio Inc. registered seven vehicles in the Greek market in May, registration data published on Tuesday by the Hellenic Association of Motor Vehicles Importers Representatives (AMVIR) showed.

US-listed shares of Chinese companies fell across the board in premarket trading on Tuesday, swept up in a global technology selloff that drove markets in Asia and Europe sharply lower.

Four Amazon electric delivery vans, co-developed and built by Rivian, were destroyed in a fire that investigators believe was deliberately set in Southwest Portland, Oregon.

As EV exclusively reported early Monday, chief operating officer and former interim CEO Marc Winterhoff is leaving the EV maker.

Nio will open pre-orders for a five-seat version of its best-selling ES8 on June 28, the company said on Monday, broadening its top-selling model into a new segment as it leans harder on large SUVs to carry sales.

Struggling EV maker Lucid confirmed on Monday that it is cutting about 18% of its US workforce, a reduction that for the first time sweeps in hourly production staff and strips out an entire shift at its Arizona plant.

Lucid Motors has pushed out Marc Winterhoff, its chief operating officer (COO) and former interim chief executive, a source familiar with the matter told EV on Monday — the same day the company told staff it would cut 15% of its US workforce.

Struglling EV maker Lucid Motors has begun cutting 15% of its US workforce, effective Monday, a source close to the matter told EV.

Shen Fei, the chief of Nio's family-focused sub-brand Onvo, said on Monday that selling cars is tougher than earning a place at Tsinghua University, one of China's most selective universities, or building the EV maker's battery-swap network from nothing.

Rivian is factoring expiring leases into the order in which reservation holders can buy its R2, moving drivers whose current lease is running out toward the front of the queue as it sends out invitations to configure the mid-size SUV.

Slate has hired several senior executives directly from Lucid Motors in recent months and years, as the startup prepares to unveil production pricing for its low-cost electric pickup.

Nio delivered the 120,000th unit of its best-selling model in China on Monday, another milestone for the third-generation ES8 as the SUV's once-explosive delivery pace settles into a steady monthly rhythm.

A Tesla Supercharger near Oslo appears to be the first in Europe to use the company's new V4 power cabinet, the upgrade that enables charging speeds of up to 500 kilowatts.

A woman died on Friday night after a Tesla Model 3 crashed through the front of a house in Katy, Texas, in a wreck the driver told deputies happened while the car was operating on autopilot.

A worker died at the construction site of BYD's first European car factory in Hungary, the second death there this year, intensifying scrutiny of labour and environmental conditions at the Chinese automaker's upcoming plant.

Nio Inc. opened a new engineering facility in Oxfordshire on Thursday, marking the tenth anniversary of its UK R&D centre — one of the Chinese EV maker's earliest overseas engineering bases.