Introducing Marker’s New Blog on the Future of Batteries, Electric Cars, and Driverless Vehicles

Dear Readers,

Today, I’m thrilled to announce that the Marker family is growing with the addition of a new blog, The Mobilist, about the future of batteries, electric cars, and driverless vehicles. Every so often, we write about something that our readers clearly have an insatiable appetite for. That’s exactly what happened recently, when Medium editor-at-large Steve LeVine wrote a series of stories chronicling the fast-moving, ever-changing, high-stakes mobility industry unfolding before our eyes.

More than a year ago, Steve began writing for Marker about Tesla’s million-mile electric car battery and the EV industry’s woman problem. More recently, he wrote about stealth startup QuantumScape, its claim of a battery breakthrough, and the skepticism around whether there was any leap at all. He chronicled the apparent EV ambivalence of incumbents like GM and the opposite, headlong approach of daredevils like Nikola.

Steve’s able to parse through hype versus actual progress because he’s not just an enthusiast on this subject — he’s also an expert. To write his third book, The Powerhouse: America, China, and the Great Battery War, he got permission to embed for two years at the federal government’s secretive Argonne National Laboratory…