Lawmakers have proposed yet another punitive tax on EVs, attempting to balance road budgets solely on the back of the ~2% of vehicles that are responsible for a vanishingly small percentage of road damage. Read more…

We’ve got a bunch of fresh deals to kickstart the week with, including our surprise headliner, Aventon’s high-tier Current ADV Smart Electric Mountain Bike with first-ever discounts to $3,999. Right behind that, we have two EcoFlow sales, the first being the latest RV Season Sale with up to 61% discounts, like the expanded 858Wh RIVER 3 Plus with an EB600 extra battery and a 220W solar panel for a $499 low, among many others, as well as a 24-hour flash sale with offers including the 2,048Wh DELTA 3 Max Portable Power Station with a 500W alternator charger at its $949 2026 low. There’s also Segway’s Navimow Summer Sale with its new i2 AWD series robot lawn mowers at lows starting from $849, the best price of the last 12 months on Worx’s JawSaw cordless electric chainsaw, and more waiting for you below. And don’t forget about the hangover deals from last week at the bottom of the page, collected together in our latest Electrified Weekly roundup edition.. Read more…

The EX60 can drive further (up to 400 miles), charge faster, and is more advanced than any fully electric Volvo to date. Volvo announced the “game-changing” 2027 EX60 is more affordable than most luxury rivals, with prices starting at under $60,000. Read more…

There’s a sentence that still sounds slightly radical in much of America, even though millions of people elsewhere in the world would barely think twice about it: Every family should own an e-bike. Read more…

XPeng (NYSE: XPEV) announced today that it has rolled the first mass-produced unit of its robotaxi off the production line in Guangzhou. The milestone makes XPeng the first automaker in China to achieve mass production of a robotaxi built entirely through full-stack, in-house development. Read more…

Ford will introduce five new vehicles, including an electrified Bronco and several new EVs, as part of its plans to revive the struggling brand in Europe. Read more…

Tesla is rolling out FSD V14.3.3 today, and among the changes is a 33% speed increase to Actually Smart Summon — the feature now tops out at 8 mph, up from the 6 mph cap (less impressive when you put it like that). Read more…

Amazon is officially rolling out e-cargo bike deliveries in Washington, DC, as part of a new pilot program launched in partnership with the District Department of Transportation (DDOT). The ten-month initiative, called “MicroFreight DC,” will see Amazon Delivery Service Partners making neighborhood deliveries using a fleet of battery-powered cargo bikes instead of traditional delivery vans. Read more…

When Fisker Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June 2024, it left roughly 11,000 Ocean SUV owners holding the keys to vehicles that cost them anywhere from $40,000 to $70,000 — and that were rapidly losing the software brains that made them work. No more over-the-air updates. No more connected services. No more warranty. The manufacturer was dead. Read more…

German equipment brand Sennebogen recently demonstrated a semi-autonomous material handling solution that combines an electric wheeled excavator, mobile battery, and a mobile shredder to improve throughput and efficiency in European recycling plants. Read more…

Every job site needs to power to do work. Cordless hand tool brand Milwaukee knows that better than most, which is why the Big Red Truck is about to roll out with not one but two new products ready to bring big electric power to any job site. Read more…

The African nation of Uganda has announced a new National E-Mobility Strategy that it hopes will energize its manufacturing sector by transitioning the country’s public transit sector fully away from fossil fuels by 2030. Read more…

Tesla has increased Model Y prices in the US by up to $1,000 across its Premium and Performance trims. It marks the first price increase on the Model Y in two years. Read more…

Segway’s new Xaber 300 electric dirt bike is officially available for purchase starting today, with the company also confirming that the bike is now arriving at authorized dealers around the US. Read more…

In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss updates to Tesla Robotaxi, Rivian R2 configurator going live, China taking over EU factories, and more. Read more…

There’s a tough conversation happening in a lot of households right now. Teenagers want cool, fast electric bikes. Parents see viral crash videos and stories about reckless riding and understandably want nothing to do with it. Read more…

Tesla has quietly made it mandatory for drivers to provide feedback every time they intervene on “Full Self-Driving.” The prompt, which used to disappear on its own after a few seconds, now stays on screen indefinitely until the driver selects a reason or sends a voice note. Read more…

XPeng (XPEV) is in talks with Volkswagen about acquiring a factory in Europe as the Chinese EV maker’s contract production in Austria runs out of capacity. The company’s exports hit a record 6,006 vehicles in April, up 62% year-over-year. Read more…

The ID. Polo GTI is Volkswagen’s first electric GTI. A day before its official debut, images leaked online, revealing the EV hot hatch for the first time. Read more…

Tesla’s Solar Roof was supposed to revolutionize residential solar. Elon Musk unveiled the product in 2016 with the promise of beautiful solar tiles that would replace your entire roof — and he set a target of 1,000 new Solar Roofs per week by the end of 2019. Nearly a decade later, Tesla has installed roughly 3,000 Solar Roof systems total, stopped reporting deployment numbers, and is now quietly pivoting to conventional solar panels. Read more…