Michelle Lewis is a writer at Electrek. She has previously worked for Fast Company, The Guardian, News Deeply, Time, and others. She lives in Massachusetts.
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Electrify America just opened a new “large-format” EV charging station in downtown Santa Barbara, California, adding 20 DC fast chargers and the company’s largest public battery energy storage system to date.
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Uber, Nuro, and Lucid have picked Houston as the second city for their planned robotaxi service, with the launch in the Texas city expected in mid-2027.
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Waymo has tapped fleet management company Element to help keep its robotaxis charged, maintained, and on the road as the company expands into more cities.
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Rivian is partnering with ChargeScape to connect its EVs to utility-managed home charging programs across North America, giving owners new opportunities to save money while helping utilities manage electricity demand.
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Global EV sales reached 1.8 million units in May 2026, according to new data from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, bringing total sales for the first five months of the year to 7.5 million vehicles.
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Shell is planning to sell its offshore wind farm assets in a deal that could raise more than $1 billion, Bloomberg reports.
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Solar giant Qcells has started making solar cells at its Cartersville, Georgia, factory, and it’s on track to become the largest solar cell factory in US history by Q3 2026.
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Cypress Creek Energy has reached a big milestone in Arkansas for one of the largest solar-plus-storage projects in the US.
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GM has partnered with Peak Energy to develop next-generation sodium-ion battery cells, but they’re not going into EVs – they’re for grid-scale energy storage projects. GM Ventures is making a strategic investment in Peak Energy.
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New EV prices continued to slide in May, even as sales climbed to their strongest level since the Trump administration killed federal EV tax credits last fall.
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Solar and storage made up a huge 91% of all new power capacity added to the US grid in Q1 2026, according to a new report from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie.
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Solar generated more US electricity than coal for the first month on record in May 2026, according to new analysis from global energy think tank Ember. Solar supplied 12.8% of US electricity during the month, while coal dropped to 12.2%.
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Meta and Zelestra are expanding their fast-growing US solar partnership with yet another Texas project as the tech giant’s electricity demand continues to climb.
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Natural gas is losing its grip on the global power mix as countries increasingly turn to cheaper, more secure renewable energy, according to a new report from climate and energy think tank Ember.
Ember’s analysis found that 61 out of 124 economies that generate electricity from gas have already passed peak gas power generation. That includes four G7 countries: the UK, Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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Wallbox just installed its first public Supernova PowerRing DC fast chargers at Port de Sitges, a busy marina on Spain’s Mediterranean coast near Barcelona.
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T1 Energy, formerly known as FREYR Battery, is buying battery storage and software company KORE Power in a deal aimed at growing its presence in the fast-expanding energy storage and AI data center markets.
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Houston homeowners are getting a new way to get solar and battery storage without signing up for a decades-long loan.
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Waymo’s retired EV batteries won’t be heading straight to recycling anymore. Instead, they’re going to help support the power grid in California and Texas.
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SEG Solar is doubling down on US manufacturing with plans for a third solar module factory in the Houston, Texas, area.
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The City of Long Beach, California, is adding six more off-grid solar EV chargers from Beam Global as it continues electrifying its vehicle fleet.
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Electrify America is changing how EV drivers pay for charging sessions, and it’s ditching one of the more confusing parts of its app in the process.
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Texas keeps piling on solar projects as electricity demand surges on the ERCOT grid – and now another massive one is moving ahead.
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Kempower and Blink Charging are expanding their EV fast-charging partnership across the US East Coast, with 14 new charging sites planned through 2026.
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Clean energy developers announced more than 50 new utility-scale solar, wind, and battery storage projects in Q1 2026 as companies scramble to get projects moving before a looming federal deadline tied to Trump’s big bill act passed last year.
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