Nio completed 1,192,221 battery swaps during China's National Day holiday, setting a daily record of 183,664 on October 5, while LG Energy Solution reported record third-quarter earnings driven by energy storage demand.
TSMC will begin producing silicon interposers at GlobalFoundries' Malta fab in 2028, a $2 billion move that expands US packaging capacity.
Toyota opened a $50 million battery testing lab in Michigan on Wednesday, while Refinyx acquired 134 recycling patents from Northvolt, signaling a shift toward domestic supply chains for end-of-life EV batteries.
YMX Logistics began operating autonomous electric yard trucks in October 2026, while Parallel Systems raised $100 million to commercialize autonomous freight rail, marking a shift from pilot programs to daily commercial deployment.
MIT researchers demonstrated a 3D-printed electric motor on 5 October, while EU electric car sales rose 45% year over year through August.
CATL supplied 333 GWh of electric vehicle batteries from January to August 2026, giving it 39.4% of a global market that grew 19.7% year on year to 844.2 GWh, according to SNE Research data published on Friday.
European businesses and fleet operators wrote to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on 1 October urging her not to weaken the EU's heavy-duty vehicle CO2 standards, two days before the Commission is expected to decide on the rules.
FedEx has ordered 2,000 medium-duty electric trucks from California startup Harbinger, the largest order yet for a company that has delivered only 53 vehicles to the parcel giant, according to InsideEVs.
Germany's Federal Network Agency approved rules on 2 October that let bidirectional charging points feed power back to the grid, the newest piece of a global build-out that is running into grid connection queues and price gaps.
Global sales of medium- and heavy-duty electric trucks hit a record 158,000 units in the first half of 2026, up 75% year on year, according to BloombergNEF. Megawatt charging is now the bottleneck.
The EU vote on Tesla's Full Self-Driving approval has slipped to December at the earliest, while on 1 October Minneapolis council approved robotaxi regulation that the mayor's office says he will veto.
General Motors sold 5.5% fewer vehicles in the third quarter, with its Equinox EV falling 92.4% to 1,905 cars, according to figures reported by The Next Web on 1 October. In the same week, Chinese battery makers pushed charging speeds and chemistry further.
On 1 October, Ars Technica reported that researchers are studying how to design robotaxis to stop passengers having sex in them, while the same day BleepingComputer revealed autonomous AI agents tried to hack US and Canadian government websites. The robotaxi industry is scaling fast, but trust, safety and hype remain unresolved.
China published a five-year plan for its new-type battery industry on 28 September, targeting 15,000-cycle lithium cells and early large-scale use of solid-state batteries by 2030, according to pv magazine.
The Pentagon announced a new Autonomous Warfare Command on Wednesday, the same week robotaxi operators confront the unglamorous arithmetic of depot capacity and construction robotics draws $225 million in fresh capital.
KIDZ AI, a Nasdaq-listed education company worth about $2.4 million, said on 30 September it sent Tesla a procurement inquiry for 500 Robotaxis. The order would cost roughly six times the company's entire market value.
A Spanish research centre said on 1 October that it has completed 10,000 charge-discharge cycles on an iron-lead redox flow battery, a design built from abundant materials for multi-hour grid storage. The same week brought a $1bn upgrade for GM's LMR cells in Tennessee and a megawatt-charging battery from Geely.
Ultium Cells, GM's joint venture with LG Energy Solution, said on 29 September that its Spring Hill, Tennessee plant will be the first in the world to mass-produce prismatic lithium manganese-rich (LMR) battery cells. The upgrade adds 500 jobs and targets a chemistry the company claims is 33% denser than LFP at comparable cost.