EV News: Automated Electric Vehicle News Feed

EV News is a news layer inside the Electropedia / EV Platform stack. It adds a hidden public news section at /news, backed by a SQLite repository, structured ingest API, tag index, permalink pages, sharing links, OpenGraph metadata, and topic-aware fallback images.

Product Role

The module is designed as an automated EV / NEV news feed for electric vehicles, batteries, charging, autopilot, Chinese automotive launches, regulation, production, sales, and import context. It gives the EV platform a lightweight publishing surface for news signals produced by Local Agent Claw / BunkerAI digests while keeping the initial section hidden from the main navigation.

Ingest Pipeline

News arrives through /api/v1/news/ingest as structured digest payloads. The repository normalizes each item, stores source metadata, canonical URLs, publication dates, categories, scores, coverage counts, fingerprints, image metadata, and tags. Deduplication uses canonical URLs and item fingerprints, while article tags are also stored in a separate normalized tag table for filtering and search.

Public Surface

The /news page renders a searchable news index with tag filters, latest-digest context, article cards, source links, and social sharing actions for Telegram, VK, WhatsApp, and copy-to-clipboard. Individual article URLs use stable slugs, render OpenGraph/Twitter previews, expose source links, and can show related articles based on tags or category.

Visual System

The news renderer can use article-provided images, cached remote images, catalog-derived vehicle images, or curated generic topic covers. The topic fallback set covers batteries, EVs, charging, autopilot, production, regulation, China, Tesla, BYD, sales, market statistics, and other EV-news categories.

Source Strategy

The source plan covers more than 100 EV-relevant sources: fast EV media, Chinese catalogs, official brand newsrooms, regulators, statistics sources, battery suppliers, charging operators, and Russia/import media. The goal is not just to collect links, but to normalize market signals into structured, searchable, shareable EV intelligence.