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Today on Critical Materials: Ford's affordable EV will match China's costs, Tesla will pause production lines (again) and China hits an important chip milestone

June S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESM25) are up +0.02%, and June Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQM25) are up +0.10% this morning, pointing to a muted open on Wall Street, while investors await a fresh batch of U.S. economic data, remarks from Federal Reserve officials, and an earnings report from semiconductor…

Panasonic has announced updates to its long-established Let’s Note laptop series, and the VGA ports are gone.

When I spoke to Nissan executives in Japan in March, one thing was clear: The hardest work was still ahead of them. Executives like Chief Performance Officer Guillaume Cartier and incoming CEO Ivan Espinosa told me that, while the beginning of the transition plan was in motion, there was more to…

Japan’s electric vehicle market fell 33% in 2024 from an already low baseline. But China's BYD still saw sales growth in the country. Nissan still dominates the Japanese electric car market, and Tesla leads among imported EVs, but BYD is now reportedly working on a model it hopes will slingshot…

In today’s automotive industry, carmakers can’t just stubbornly continue following their decades-old script. They have to constantly adapt by riding the wave of new technologies, or risk extinction. It seems like Volkswagen finally understands this reality, especially in its second-largest market: China. The automaker’s sales suffered a setback in China in 2024,…

Experts claim the Nintendo Switch 2 will continue to be affected by Trump's tariffs – even as much as 145%.

Apple, Dell, Microsoft, and Lenovo accelerated shipments of various electronics into the United States by air, all in an attempt to beat the tariffs before they went into effect.

Automakers are tired, boss. The last three months have felt like a year for them as tariff uncertainty, backtracking and political chest-beating contests taking center stage. The automotive industry is over it and, at the minimum, wants predictability.

Under the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, the U.S. was on track to meet all its battery demand for electric vehicles from local manufacturing by the end of the decade. Now, the country may not reach that goal as billions of dollars worth of clean energy projects have stalled in…

SMIC is reportedly trying to poach engineers to get Taiwanese semiconductor know how.