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…
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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…
Tesla leads EV sales to more than double in the US, still account for only 2.5% of auto market
Electric vehicle sales have more than doubled during the first half of the year in the US More…
Quick Charge Podcast: August 23, 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…
Ford doubles electric F-150 Lightning production plan and it’s still not enough
Ford is planning to double production of their upcoming F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck, according to Reuters. The move comes in response to strong early demand, with Ford already racking up 120,000 customer reservations for the vehicle in advance of its Spring 2022 release More…
Rumor of Tesla Model Y with 400-mile range explained
There are rumors of a Tesla Model Y coming with a range of 400 miles after the automaker filed for new versions of the electric SUV to be produced at Gigafactory Shanghai More…
Tesla (TSLA) rises on market digesting AI Day, primed to ‘tackle world’s hardest problems’
Tesla’s stock (TSLA) is rising significantly today after the market had more time to digest what happened at AI Day More…
You can now build custom songs produced from robots and the Polestar 2
With all the talk of robots and AI lately, we felt it topical to showcase the same technology producing art. Polestar has teamed with musician and robotics engineer Moritz Simon Geist to create a whole new type of music. The songs were produced using robots configured from Polestar 2 components alongside actual sounds from the EV itself. You can also sample the music and create a custom soundtrack of your own More…
Electric bodyboard/water scooter review: Firduo’s electric jet board rips through the surf!
Bodyboarding the old-fashioned way is plenty of fun, but what if the sea is too calm (or you’re in a pool or lake)? Then an electric bodyboard can give you the same thrill no matter what type of water you’re in. I just had the chance to test out Firduo’s electric bodyboard, and I haven’t stopped smiling since More…
