Hot Wheels celebrates 2024 with Polestar Design and Legends Tour winners

Mattel’s diecast model car brand was involved in two high-profile efforts—the Polestar Design Contest with Swedish performance EV partner Polestar and its own Hot Wheels Legends Tour—that just culminated in its latest global search for the next “hot wheels.”

Lyten gets $650 million in US EXIM letters of interest to fund lithium-sulfur battery expansion

Multiple letters of interest from the Export-Import Bank of the United States could lead to financing the scaling of Lyten’s Nevada and California (formerly Northvolt) factories to fulfill growing near-term customer demand in energy storage, micromobility, and space markets.

Ambarella’s AI tech to be showcased at CES in LG in-cabin and other solutions

In addition to the semiconductor company’s CV25 AI system-on-chip in LG’s latest driver-monitoring system, the company will show two firsts—an automotive passenger-vehicle and fleet-focused vision language model and an updated Oculii centralized radar using a production CV3 AI domain control SoC.

DC Grid launches to ease energy deployment for EV and AI sectors

The startups’ modular DC power systems, free of AC transformers and switchgear, save up to 20% in energy loss conversion and 33% in transmission and can speed deployment for EV hubs and AI data centers with options for solar/storage, renewable natural gas, and biogas.

Bitsensing partners with NXP on high-performance radar

The MOU with NXP marks a significant milestone in Bitsensing’s journey in delivering radar solutions for applications in vehicles, traffic monitoring, healthcare, and robotics, and comes on the heels of its TraXight ITS solution used in Italy and Korea being named a CES Innovation Award Honoree.