New car registrations in the EU increased by 6.7% during November, marking the 16th straight month of growth and a 13.3% year-on-year boost in terms of EVs registered.

While most supply chain disruptions have dissipated, continued challenges led to the White House giving supply chains another bump in the news cycle with its inaugural meeting of the Council on Supply Chain Resilience.

The transportation and logistics industry is still lagging far behind other sectors in taking basic steps toward automation of manual processes.

More than 100 supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, and procurement professionals gathered in Houston to discuss the challenges and opportunities in today’s post-pandemic landscape.

The senior vice president of renewables at TotalEnergies, Vincent Stoquart, said that the venue will be made up of a solar plant as well as a 500-megawatt-hour battery storage system.

The California Public Utilities Commission agreed to extend the shutdown of the state’s last functioning nuclear power plant through 2030 instead of closing the venue down in 2025.

From December 15, France is offering a variable rebate based on household income on cars costing less than €47,000.

Sila said that it sees the partnership with Panasonic as an opportunity for the U.S. to “lead in manufacturing next-generation battery technology.”

AT&T said it expects to add Rivian electric commercial vans, RIT pickup trucks and R1S sport utility vehicles to its fleet in early 2024.

The mean number of supply chain breaches increased from 3.29 incidents in 2022 to 4.16 incidents in 2023, a 26% rise.