After Italian electric motorcycle manufacturer Energica announced recently that it would not be extending its agreement to produce racing electric motorcycles for the FIM Enel MotoE racing league, speculation regarding a possible replacement ran rampant. Now Ducati has ended the mystery, announcing that it will become the sole supplier of electric sport bikes for the series from 2023-2026. More…
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The world’s largest offshore wind farm just hit two major milestones
The UK’s Hornsea Two offshore wind farm, soon to be the world’s largest when it’s completed next year, just achieved a couple of major construction milestones. More…
Scorpion X e-bike review: Juiced’s awesome electric moped gets a power upgrade
The Juiced Scorpion X recently replaced the original Scorpion moped-style electric bike and offers new upgrades to improve upon an already strong entry in the market.. More…
Tesla is moving Model 3 Standard Range to LFP cells in Fremont, wants cell production closer
Tesla confirmed that it is moving Model 3 Standard Range production to Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) battery cells at Fremont factory.. More…
Tesla’s start of production at Gigafactory Berlin is delayed over a technicality
Tesla has hit another roadblock in starting production at Gigafactory Berlin, as a technicality is delaying the approval process by about a month. More…
Rogues gallery: Leaked documents reveal lobbying to gut COP26 climate and carbon audit
With the opening of the UN-sponsored COP26 climate summit less than two weeks away, a trove of leaked documents obtained by Greenpeace is revealing efforts by of a group of nations furiously lobbying to gut language critical of their carbon-spewing economic interests from a report to be released during the Glasgow conference. More…
Tesla announces plans to triple the size of Supercharger network within 2 years
Tesla has announced plans to triple the size of the Supercharger network within the next two years. More…
Check out this working prototype lunar electric motorcycle for NASA’s moon exploration
Lunar rovers are typically four-wheeled electric vehicles, but a new prototype shows how a two-wheeled electric motorcycle may have serious advantages on the moon. More…
Tesla achieves annual run rate of 1 million electric cars – incredible milestone
Tesla has confirmed that it has achieved an annual run rate of 1 million electric cars per year at the end of last quarter. More…
Elon Musk’s Boring Company ‘Tesla in Tunnels’ in Las Vegas to expand throughout the city
The Boring Company’s first commercial loop, deployed in Las Vegas, has officially been approved for expansion throughout the city. More…
The real reason Joe Manchin is sabotaging the US clean energy plan
US Senator Joe Manchin III (D-WV) opposes his own political party’s clean energy program. And since not a single Republican will support the infrastructure bill that contains the program, Manchin has disproportionate power to sink the US plan to decarbonize in order to slow global warming and meet the Paris Agreement target of net-zero by 2050. Why does he oppose it? The Charleston Gazette-Mail spelled it out yesterday. More…
Tesla (TSLA) releases Q3 2021 results: delivers on high expectations
Tesla (TSLA) has released its financial results and shareholders letter for the third quarter of 2021 after market close today. More…
Tesla Twitter tries to ‘cancel’ Biden’s NHTSA safety adviser over criticism of Autopilot / FSD Beta
“Tesla Twitter,” a group of Tesla fans who use Twitter extensively, is trying to “cancel” US President Joe Biden’s new appointee for a senior adviser role for safety at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). More…
The BMW Group will use fossil-free, hydrogen-powered steel from 2025
The BMW Group has made a deal to source green steel from Swedish startup H2 Green Steel starting in 2025. More…
StoreDot, which makes ua-fast Tesla-like 4680 battery cells, will open a US R&D hub
StoreDot, an Israel-based electric vehicle battery startup, today announced that it will open an R&D innovation hub in the US to speed up the development of solid-state batteries. More…
Tesla launches new website to flex its manufacturing muscle and help with humongous hiring effort
Tesla has launched a new website to flex its manufacturing muscle, which Elon Musk believes is Tesla’s biggest strength. More…
Tesla expects more clarity on Model X next month
Tesla Model X buyers are left in the dark as deliveries start and some people who have placed an order a year ago still don’t know when they will get their car. More…
VW shows why you’d be dumb to buy one of its ICE cars now
VW, the world’s largest producer of fossil-powered vehicles (by revenue), has produced a graphic comparing its diesel offerings to its electric ones, showing how across several model lines, the electric models come out way ahead in terms of total cost savings. More…
Super73 launches 2,000W off-road racing e-bike with eye-catching design
Super73 is known for collaborations that have seen its popular electric bikes take design cues from famous brands, sports teams and other cultural icons. After showing off a beautiful concept bike last year designed under a collaboration with Roland Sands Design, the company has now decided to create a limited edition production version of the eye-catching electric bike. More…
Is the first fossil-free jet fuel made from CO2 viable? The US Air Force thinks so
Berkeley, California-based carbon transformation company Twelve and Tulsa-based Emerging Fuels Technology (EFT) today announced that they have produced the first fossil-free jet fuel from carbon dioxide using an electrochemical process. The project received funding from the US Air Force. More…
