🇺🇸🏭💪 Following manufacturing incentives by the Biden administration, North America is on track to bring the battery cell manufacturing crown on home - Sam Cooke style. Experts expect China's market share to slip as auto and battery maker investments continue to increase in the US and her neighbors.
💸😬🎤Luxury electric vehicle maker, Lucid, is raising money again. The current 60.5% stake owner, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, will kick in $1.8B toward the "general corporate purpose" $3B goal. Lucid keeps proving Wu-Tang was right - Cash rules everything around EVs.
🚙🤝 🚕The Beatles would be proud. Ford and Uber have come together to offer gig drivers in three west coast cities flexible lease options on Mach-E. The Ford Drive app will work with local dealers to purchase and service the vehicles and offer the drives 1- to 4-month terms with rates based on city and mileage. Uber offers zero-emission incentives to drivers up to $4K a year.
🎰🤷♀️💻Around 800K Maryland drivers paid a little extra for their vehicle license plates to honor the state's role in the War of 1812. Unfortunately, the well-meaning investments turned into ill-placed bets on government competency. The state did not renew its StarSpangled200<dot>ORG domain; now, a gambling site in the Philippines owns it. Turns out Maryland didn't know when to hold em', right Kenny?