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Friday, May 8, 2026 20 stories

Today on The Charging Station: a federal court strikes down Trump's 10% global tariff for the second judicial defeat in three months — one week before the Trump-Xi summit — while US-Iran clashes retur…

Thursday, May 7, 2026 21 stories

Today on The Charging Station: Aurora and Berkshire's McLane move autonomous freight from pilot to Sun Belt scale, Chinese EV brands quietly stage their Canada entry, and stocks hit records on Iran de…

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 20 stories

Today on The Charging Station: Ford pulls back the curtain on its Long Beach EV skunkworks targeting a $30K pickup, OpenAI and Anthropic move from selling models to buying consulting firms, the ECB st…

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 21 stories

Today on The Charging Station: Ford resorts to free home chargers as April sales crater 14%, Nissan formally kills its $500M Mississippi EV plant for gas trucks, and GM redirects nearly a billion doll…

Monday, May 4, 2026 24 stories

Today on The Charging Station: GM's autonomous-driving stack goes 90% AI-generated, GameStop bids $55B for eBay, Trump's 25% EU auto tariff hits German automakers, and Iran warns of direct attack as t…

Sunday, May 3, 2026 20 stories

Today on The Charging Station: a dozen EV models exit the U.S. market under tariff pressure, GM's BEV sales collapse 50% YoY — the worst post-credit data point yet — Trump's 25% EU auto tariff puts €1…

Saturday, May 2, 2026 21 stories

Today on The Charging Station: Trump's 25% EU auto tariff salvo, Tesla's open-standard Megacharger play, used EVs reach price parity with gas cars for the first time — and the UAE OPEC exit lands with…

Friday, May 1, 2026 20 stories

Today on The Charging Station: autonomous trucking books its first real revenue — Aurora's 500-truck deal with Hirschbach and Bot Auto's first fully humanless commercial load — while Nissan cancels Mi…

Thursday, April 30, 2026 20 stories

Today on The Charging Station: Stellantis builds Chinese EVs in Spain to undercut VW and Renault, CATL locks the largest sodium-ion grid deal on record, Big Tech beats earnings but misses AI's sky-hig…

Wednesday, April 29, 2026 20 stories

Today on The Charging Station: GM's EV crown wobbles as Hyundai closes in, the used-EV flood gets a $1M+ unit number, and Big Tech earnings collide with the first cracks in the OpenAI growth story. Pl…