Tag Archives: Electric

With its stock price down about 72% year-to-date amid an overall cooling in the SPAC craze, QuantumScape founder and CEO Jagdeep Singh has a message to the market.  The upstart solid state battery maker remains on track with everything it said it would do when it debuted via a SPAC transaction late in 2020.  Singh said on Yahoo Finance Live the company is still eyeing commercialization of its battery technology in the 2024-2025 timeframe. Its key partner and backer Volkswagen will be the… Source link

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian tech giant Yandex will launch an electric scooters rental service in Moscow on Wednesday, the company said, tapping into surging demand across the city. Electric scooters are a common sight in Moscow during summer, whizzing around the city’s parks and pavements, but authorities have been forced to impose speed limits following a string of accidents. The service will be launched on the Yandex.Go app, the company’s one-stop-shop for ride-hailing, food delivery and… Source link

A man rides his scooter through a fountain at Gorky Park in Moscow, Russia, July 9, 2018. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/Files MOSCOW, July 7 (Reuters) – Russian tech giant Yandex (YNDX.O) will launch an electric scooters rental service in Moscow on Wednesday, the company said, tapping into surging demand across the city. Electric scooters are a common sight in Moscow during summer, whizzing around the city’s parks and pavements, but authorities have been forced to impose speed limits following a… Source link

MOSCOW, July 7 (Reuters) – Russian tech giant Yandex will launch an electric scooters rental service in Moscow on Wednesday, the company said, tapping into surging demand across the city. Electric scooters are a common sight in Moscow during summer, whizzing around the city’s parks and pavements, but authorities have been forced to impose speed limits following a string of accidents. The service will be launched on the Yandex.Go app, the company’s one-stop-shop for ride-hailing, food delivery… Source link

Goldman Sachs thinks it’s time to back up the dump truck on still fundamentally beat up industrial giant General Electric (GE).  The call: GE may not be so fundamentally beat up for much longer.  “We view GE as the ultimate self-help, re-opening levered story in Industrials,” said Goldman Sachs analyst Joe Ritchie in a new research note on Tuesday. The analyst slapped a $16 price target on GE’s stock, representing about a 22% upside from current levels.  Shares rose 1.3% to $13.06 in early… Source link

Elon Musk, one of the most divisive characters in Silicon Valley, saw his net worth explode by over $100 billion in 2020 alone, setting records in wealth accumulation… And that’s largely thanks to the dramatic rise of the electric vehicle trend that has taken Wall Street by storm. Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) saw its share price skyrocket by over 600% last year…with the EV giant surging past some of the United States’ most influential companies, including Visa, JP Morgan, and Walmart. Its market… Source link

Vertical Aerospace, a British electric aircraft manufacturer, announced last Thursday that it intends to go public via a $2.2 billion SPAC deal with Broadstone Acquisition. SPAC mergers, once the hottest method for private companies to go public, have seen a slump in their performances recently. Both pre-merger and post-merger SPACs have fallen in market cap within the last few months. Yet Vertical Aerospace viewed the process as an opportunity now that the frenzy surrounding blank-check… Source link

TipRanks Nio vs. Tesla: Investors on the Fence The race for global EV supremacy is on, and growth investors have quite the range of options to choose from in the EV sector. The adoption of EVs is set to continue to accelerate over time. The EV sector is expected to grow at a CAGR of 29% from 2021 to 2026. As such, growth investors have flocked to both Tesla (TSLA) and Nio (NIO) as the beneficiaries of this incredible growth catalyst. Now, the question most investors have on their minds is:… Source link

Ford CEO Jim Farley is sending a clear message to those on Capitol Hill who are tepid to support President Joe Biden’s investments in America’s electric vehicle infrastructure.  Either sign-off on the funding, or risk America falling further behind in an EV race being won at the moment by China.  “I think it’s time for us to be competitive [on electric vehicles]. We have got to be globally competitive in batteries. All the chip manufacturing, some of it has to come back to the U.S. This is a… Source link

Los Angeles-based electric vehicle startup Canoo is bringing its first vehicle to market next year. The company said Monday its electric microbus-slash-van will be available to buy in 2022 at a base price of $34,750 before tax incentives or add-ons. It’s now taking preorders in the United States for the “lifestyle” vehicle, as well as for its round-top pickup truck and multi-purpose delivery van. While Canoo did not release pricing for the other two vehicles, it said that deliveries for… Source link