Manufacturing

Cooper Tire says it can already make rubber components from a desert shrub called guayule.

Fisker has signed a lease for a new plant in Moreno Valley, California.

Tesla may be planning to expand its Gigafactory before work is even completed.

U.S. battery manufacturers could soon become competitive with their Asian counterparts, a new report finds.

A Boston-area startup claims it can drastically reduce the cost of battery manufacturing.

Fisker says it will open a plant near its California headquarters.

Panasonic will send workers to Nevada as part of its ongoing involvement with the Tesla "Gigafactory."

Lithium producers may increase production in anticipation of Tesla's "Gigafactory."

Tesla acquires an automotive supplier as it seeks to grow electric-car production.

Five years into the era of modern electric cars, the biggest cost remains the battery pack. Now there's data to confirm that not only are the costs of the battery cells falling, but that they are falling at rates pretty much in line with historical declines. A study published last month not only...

It hasn't been a particularly good year so far for electric-car purchase incentives. As feared by advocates, last week Georgia passed a highway-funding bill that killed its $5,000 income-tax credit for purchase of a battery-electric vehicles. Illinois suspended its own rebates to close a gaping...

A new study shows a rapid drop in lithium-ion cell prices in recent years.

BYD plans to use money from a spun-off subsidiary to grow its electric-vehicle business.

Revived battery maker A123 Systems says it has no interest in returning to the U.S. electric-car market.

The 2016 Toyota Mirai is built on a small-scale assembly line in Japan.

China ends its export quotas on rare-earth metals.

Engineers disassemble a BMW i3 electric car.

Honda opens the first carmaker-run wind farm in Brazil.

Tesla hopes to recruit Australian engineers as car manufacturing shuts down.

A German firm says it's halfway toward a dramatic reduction in the cost of carbon fiber.