SAN FRANCISCO—As families settled into their evening routines in late March, cooking dinner on electric stoves and flipping on their TV for the newest binge watch, the state’s energy grid was working hard. For the first time, California discharged just over 12,000 megawatts, equivalent to 12 large nuclear plants, of energy from its battery arrays. […]

On a recent evening, batteries were the broad shoulders propping up California’s electricity grid. The state got 43 percent of its power from batteries as of 7 p.m. on Sunday, more than double the next power source, natural gas. It was record-setting output for batteries in the California grid, said Nicolas Fulghum, senior data analyst […]

Honda is being whipsawed by a decreasing emphasis on electric vehicles in the United States and a rapid shift to EVs in China. The two markets are moving in opposite directions, with companies regretting EV investments in the United States and facing intense competition from upstart EV manufacturers in China. Honda is not a company […]