Jamie Wallisch wants companies to recognize that they truly have leverage. “Manufacturers do have an important part to play, even though it seems so high up and far removed,” she says.

Competition, government incentives and falling raw material prices are making battery-powered cars more affordable sooner than expected.

The Tesla chief executive officer’s latest reveling had to do with the Semi, the heavy-duty truck that took five years to go from prototype to production.

The European Union proposed its own green-tech road map in early February, but some are concerned that the subsidies will only help richer countries, and others warn of a transatlantic trade war.

With the number of EVs on the road expected to reach 39.2 million by 2030, it becomes increasingly critical for companies to understand and manage lithium battery transport.

Multiple market pressures have made workforce development and workflow optimization top of mind for leading manufacturers.

Most of the 2,500 jobs in product development and up to 700 in administrative roles the automaker is hoping to cut are located in Germany.

GM still intends to build another battery plant in the U.S. to support its electric-vehicle ambitions, the company said in a statement that didn’t specify a partner.

A maker of emergency vehicles has managed to surmount its own set of supply chain emergencies.