An original Tesla Roadster sold for over $250,000, in a new record, as Tesla’s very first car is gaining in value as a collector item. More…
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The Tesla brand is attracting more and more Republicans
A new survey shows that Tesla is gaining steam as a brand with Republicans after being a darling of the Democrats for years. More…
Arcimoto unveils radical three-wheel-drive electric leaning trike that it thinks can beat e-bikes
Oregon-based Arcimoto unveiled today a radical new full-suspension, three-wheeled electric bike known as the Mean Lean Machine (MLM). The new e-bike employs tilting technology to help it corner more like a two-wheeler while maintaining the stability of a three-wheeler. More…
Electric scooter sharing and Tesla Model Y taxi service Revel raises huge $126 million for expansion
Whether you know Revel from its bright blue electric scooters or from its somehow brighter blue Model Y taxis, you could soon be seeing much more of the company. That’s thanks to a massive new $126 million funding round just announced by Revel. More…
Fiido T1 electric bike review: Cramming a big battery and tons of value into a utility e-bike
The Fiido T1 may not be the most revolutionary electric bike out there, but it still manages to stuff itself full of value, making it an interesting addition to the electric utility bike market. More…
Quick Charge Podcast: February 24, 2022
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. More…
The SEC probe into Elon Musk and Tesla is reportedly about suspected insider trading with Musk’s bother
The Wall Street Journal is out with a new report that Elon Musk’s lawyer warned about and reveals that the SEC probe into Musk and Tesla is reportedly about a suspected insider trading violation involving Musk’s brother. More…
The SEC probe into Elon Musk and Tesla is reportedly about suspected insider trading with Musk’s brother
The Wall Street Journal is out with a new report that Elon Musk’s lawyer warned about and reveals that the SEC probe into Musk and Tesla is reportedly about a suspected insider trading violation involving Musk’s brother. More…
Lightning eMotors completes Colorado facility expansion, doubles production capacity, and shares manufacturing video
Electric conversion and purpose-built EV specialists Lightning eMotors announced it has completed a 102,000 sq. foot expansion of its manufacturing facility in Loveland, Colorado. With the expansion, Lightning eMotors expects an output of 1,500 zero-emission vehicles and powertrains by the end of 2022 on its goal to scale to a capacity of 20,000 by 2025. More…
Tesla Model Y convinces another police department to go electric, believes it will save $4,000 a year in maintenance alone
Tesla Model Y has convinced another police department, Sykesville Police, to go electric and the maintenance cost was the difference-maker. More…
EVgo announces Toyota bZ4X customers will receive one year of free EV fast charging
US public charging network, EVgo, has announced a commercial agreement with Toyota Motor North America to provide upcoming bZ4X customers with one year of free charging on its network. Toyota is EVgo’s latest automotive partner as it looks to continue to expand its public charging network and expedite EV adoption for US consumers. More…
Ford CEO calls out NIO and Tesla as the competition ‘it must beat,’ denies rumors of splitting ICE and EVs into separate businesses
Ford’s Chief Executive Officer, Jim Farley, recently spoke during a virtual auto tech conference held by Wolfe Research, in which he spoke about Ford’s plans for the future. During the webcast, the Ford CEO specifically named Tesla and NIO as its biggest competitors, vowing to beat them. He also denied previously reported rumors about Ford’s plans for spinoffs to increase value. More…
US offshore wind auction attracts a record $2B in bids, and it’s not even done yet
On January 12, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) would hold an offshore wind energy auction for more than 488,000 acres in the New York Bight. It’s still under way, and bids have now collectively reached around $2 billion. More…
Tesla is rumored to be building new factory adjacent to Gigafactory Shanghai to double production to two million cars
A new report claims that Tesla is starting work on building a new factory adjacent to Gigafactory Shanghai in order to double production capacity to two million cars annually. More…
Tesla might be cracking on the yoke steering wheel and planning to offer an option for a regular round wheel
When Tesla introduced the controversial yoke steering wheel, CEO Elon Musk surprised many when he said that the automaker didn’t even plan to offer the option for a regular round steering wheel. More…
Harley-Davidson’s electric motorcycle brand LiveWire plans to sell 100,000 bikes by 2026
Harley-Davidson has set out future sales goals for its LiveWire sub-brand that manufacturers and sells its all-electric motorcycles, aiming for a towering 100,000 units by 2026. More…
Paris’s great experiment will ban cars in much of the city, instead opting for bikes, scooters, legs
In a bid to clean up the city and reduce the chokehold of traffic congestion, Paris plans to ban cars from much of the historic part of the French capital. More…
Faraday Future shares drive footage of its first production-intent FF 91 ahead of testing
Southern California EV startup, Faraday Future, unveiled a pre-production version of its long fabled FF 91 EV. This EV marks the beginning of pre-production ahead of engineering validation and certification testing, as the vehicle approaches start of production in Q3 of 2022. More…
LG Electronics is going to stop manufacturing solar panels – here’s why
Seoul-headquartered LG Electronics Inc. is pulling out of the global solar panel business. The decision was approved yesterday by the LG board of directors in South Korea. More…
USPS is trying to greenwash its plan to spend billions on gas guzzlers
The USPS issued a “record of decision” today stating that it has finished its environmental review and responded to the EPA’s concerns and will go through with its plan to spend up to $11.3 billion on gas-guzzling, 8.6 mile-per-gallon vehicles to replace the aging USPS delivery fleet. More…
