Why Rivian, Lucid, and QuantumScape Stocks all Popped Today

One the first day after Christmas, electric cars' true love gave to EV investors...a triple shot of stock-price gains.Tuesday's muted post-Christmas trading day (the S&P 500 ended up only 0.4% higher) saw shares of Rivian Automotive (RIVN 1.64%) close up 1.6%, while Lucid Group (LCID 1.88%) rose 1.9%, and EV car-battery researcher QuantumScape (QS 3.96%) tacked on a solid 4% gain.Which is curious, because most of the news today sounded kind of bad.Do newspapers hate EV stocks?In a one-two punch of negative ...