Elon Musk announced that Tesla might have a working prototype of Tesla Bot, also known as Optimus, Tesla’s humanoid robot, by September 30, the end of the third quarter of 2022. More…
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Quick Charge Podcast: June 2, 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…
Colorado commits $65 million to electric school buses
Colorado Governor Jared Polis has signed into law SB 193, an air-quality bill which among other things creates a $65 million grant program for electric school buses in the state. More…
Biden administration slashes rent by 50% on US public land for wind and solar
The Biden administration announced this week that it will cut the cost of building wind and solar on US public land by 50%. More…
Construction officially starts on the largest wind farm in Australia
Construction has started on the 1,026-megawatt (MW) MacIntyre Wind Precinct, the largest wind farm to ever be built in Australia. It’s also one of the largest wind farms in the southern hemisphere. More…
Rimac raises $536 million to accelerate its role as high-performance electric component supplier
Rimac announced that it closed a EUR 500 million ($536 million USD) round of funding to accelerate its new role as a high-performance electric component supplier. More…
Toyota unveils home battery pack to compete with Tesla Powerwall
Toyota has unveiled a new home battery pack to provide residential backup – a product that is going to compete with Tesla Powerwall. More…
Ford invests $1.5 billion in building an “all-new commercial electric vehicle” in Ohio
Ford announced today a new $1.5 billion investment in building an “all-new commercial electric vehicle” in Ohio. More…
BMW unveils iX1, its new entry-level electric car
BMW unveiled today its next-generation X1, its entry-level vehicle, and introduced an all-electric version, the BMW iX1, for the first time. It should become BMW’s cheapest electric vehicle. More…
Momentum Voya E+ 3 electric commuter bike review: Can Giant’s fancy e-bike compete at this price?
When Giant’s new “lifestyle-inspired” electric bike sub-brand Momentum unveiled the Voya E+ 3, it did so at a positively mid-range price of $2,400. That brought it in below the fancier mid-drive e-bikes in most bike shops but well above the value-oriented direct to consumer e-bikes. Considering it has one wheel solidly in each camp, let’s see how it competes against the rest of the industry. More…
Quick Charge Podcast: June 1, 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…
Electric car price war is coming, says Ford CEO
Ford CEO Jim Farley believes that the electric car market is going to soon enter a price war with upcoming $25,000 models. More…
An EV charging rebate program expands in Massachusetts – here’s why it matters
National Grid, a utility that serves more than 20 million people in New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, is expanding its Off-Peak Charging Rebate Program in Massachusetts that it runs with ev.energy, a certified B corporation and global provider of managed EV charging software. More…
2023 Chevy Bolt EV and EUV get $6,000 price cut, start at $25,600
The Chevy Bolt lineup is getting a massive price cut for 2023, dropping from $31,500 to $25,600 (before the $995 destination fee). More…
Fucare’s new 20 mph seated electric scooter is a low-cost option for comfortable riding
Standing electric scooters that can zip around the city at 20 mph (32 km/h) sure are convenient, but what do you do when your feet get tired and beg for a rest? Apparently you pop a squat – at least if you have a seated scooter, that is. And the new Fucare HU3 Pro seated electric scooter offers just that: a speedy yet comfortable riding position in a compact and affordable vehicle. More…
Tesla receives 4680 battery cell samples from Panasonic ahead of mass production
Tesla has received 4680 battery cell samples from Panasonic ahead of the manufacturing giant moving to mass production of the new battery that is going to power the Cybertruck and more. More…
Buick announces it’s going all-electric by 2030 and unveils stunning Wildcat EV concept
Today, Buick announced that it is only going to offer all-electric vehicles by 2030 and unveiled a stunning EV concept called Wildcat. More…
Elon Musk asks all Tesla employees to come back to the office or quit
Elon Musk has requested that all Tesla employees stop remote work and come back to the office or they will be let go. More…
Premium electric bike maker Gocycle shakes up business model, drops prices on high-tech new e-bikes
UK-based premium electric bicycle maker Gocycle is redesigning the company’s retail model in a move to bring more value to both its retailers and its customers. The good news for the latter group is that the new model means much lower pricing on Gocycle’s most premium (and most expensive) fourth-generation e-bikes known as the G4 line.. More…
This is where electric vehicle adoption is headed between 2022 and 2025
BloombergNEF today released its seventh annual Electric Vehicle Outlook. While the study also makes longer-term predictions, here’s where its researchers think electric vehicle adoption is going between now and 2025. More…
