Elon Musk is now saying that Tesla is aiming for the wider public release of its Full Self-Driving Beta in about 4 weeks More…
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Quick Charge Podcast: August 25, 2021
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…
Porsche launches 2022 Taycan electric car with faster charging, Android Auto, and pretty pink color
Porsche is launching the new 2022 Taycan electric car, and it includes several improvements, including faster charging, Android Auto, and most importantly – a new pretty pink paint color More…
World’s biggest container liner first to order large carbon-neutral vessels
Danish shipping giant Maersk has ordered eight new vessels that can run both on traditional bunker fuel and carbon-neutral methanol. The ships will be able to sail between China and Europe and across the Pacific More…
Electric AUV maker dramatically speeds seafloor mapping required for wind turbine construction
With the Biden administration sounding serious about weening the US off fossil fuel consumption, the rapid development of sustainable energy production is becoming a major industrial challenge – and giant business opportunity. One Richmond, California-based company is looking to embrace both of those with a fully electric autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that can radically speed seafloor mapping necessary to construct offshore wind turbines More…
World’s first autonomous, 7MWh electric cargo ship to make voyage with zero crew onboard
A Norwegian company called Yara International claims to have created the world’s first zero-emission ship that can also transport cargo autonomously. The Yara Birkeland electric cargo ship was first conceptualized in 2017 but now looks to make its first voyage with no crew members onboard later this year in Norway More…
Tesla Energy and its Autobidder software are making power companies nervous
Some power companies admitted that they are taking Tesla Energy, the automaker’s energy division, seriously. More…
A wood alternative made from kombucha wins the US James Dyson Award
The winner of the 2021 US James Dyson Award is 21-year-old Gabe Tavas. His mission is focused: Make wood without cutting down trees. So he invented Pyrus: a petroleum-free, wood-like material that’s sustainably produced with repurposed bacterial cellulose waste from kombucha More…
Tenways e-bike review: a new, affordable belt drive electric bike for urban riders
Tenways has just launched a new belt drive e-bike known as the CGO 600. We got a chance to test one out pre-launch to determine whether the nascent brand’s urban electric bicycle was worth a look More…
EGEB: Siemens will produce 1M more EV chargers in the US in the next 4 years
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB) More…
Lucid gives Air Dream Edition buyers a choice: over 1,000 hp or 500 miles of range
Lucid Motors announced that it will be offering two versions of the Dream Edition of its upcoming Air electric sedan: now with over 1,000 hp of power and one with over 500 miles of range More…
Tesla starts hiring roboticists for its ‘Tesla Bot’ humanoid robot project
Tesla has started to hire roboticists to build its recently announced “Tesla Bot,” a humanoid robot to become a new vehicle for its AI technology More…
Quick Charge Podcast: August 24, 2021
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…
Mazda launches its first electric car in the US: MX-30 EV for $33,470 and only 100-mile range
Mazda is launching its first electric car in the US market, the MX-30 EV, and it is likely going to have a tough time with a starting price of $33,470 and only 100 miles of range More…
XPeng begins shipping first P7 EVs to Norway ahead of Q4 deliveries
Chinese automaker XPeng has officially begun its first venture overseas as it has loaded its P7 EVs on a ship headed for Norway. This initial batch of smart electric sedans represents XPeng’s commitment to a full-scale operation in Norway and an eventual expansion further into Europe More…
Current EV registrations in the US: How does your state stack up?
As many legacy automakers join a slew of new and established EV manufacturers in committing to an all-electric future for passenger vehicles, the transition for consumers continued to rise. While we are still quite a ways away from a world of roads dominated by BEVs, the graph of this transition continues to trend upward. Below is where the US currently stands in total EV registrations, broken down state by state More…
Elon Musk is not impressed by Tesla’s current Full Self-Driving build, but likes the next one
Elon Musk said that Tesla’s current Full Self-Driving Beta build is “not great,” but he is currently testing the next build coming to beta testers, and he is impressed by that one More…
Older Tesla vehicles to get UI performance boost thanks to famed video game engineer
Tesla is working with famed video game engineer John Carmack to improve the interface performance in older vehicles More…
NIO now requires a test before using assisted driving following fatal crash
NIO has introduced a new test on its app required for all drivers before unlocking the ability to use Navigate on Pilot (NOP), the company’s assisted driving feature. The required testing comes in the wake of a fatal crash earlier this month that involved a man driving his NIO ES8 using NOP in Southeast China More…
Himiway announces 4 new electric bike models, including full-suspension e-bike
Electric bicycle manufacturer Himiway has been riding high on its main two electric bicycle models for quite some time. Now the company says it is ready to mix it up with a slew of new e-bikes More…
