Mercedes-Benz increased its sales of electric cars and plug-in hybrids by 37 per cent to 67,800 units in the first quarter of 2022. Sales of the fully electric EQ models more than tripled to 21,900 (+210 per cent). The plug-in hybrids achieved their best first quarter ever with an increase of eight per cent to […] More…
BMW doubles EV sales over the first quarter of 2022
The BMW Group increased global sales of all-electric BMW and Mini vehicles by 149.2% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2022. A total of 35,289 all-electric BMWs and Mini were delivered to customers between January and March. The company plans to more than double sales of pure electric cars this year compared to last year. […] More…
Tesla raises prices on Model 3 vehicles with nickel-based battery packs
Tesla has implemented another price increase (its third in about a month), but this time it only affects Model 3 vehicles with nickel-based battery packs. More…
Northvolt cells will power electric Volvo XC60 successor
The successor to the Volvo XC60 set for 2024 will be the first series EV model to use battery cells from the joint venture between Volvo and Northvolt. The conventional SUV has been the Swedish brand’s best-selling car running for the past four years. Finally coming in as full BEV in two years, the Volvo […] More…
Northvolt battery cells will power all-electric Volvo XC60 successor
The all-electric successor to the Volvo XC60 set for 2024 will be the first series model to use battery cells from the joint venture between Volvo and Northvolt. The SUV has been the Swedish brand’s best-selling car running for the past four years. Now coming in as full BEV, the Volvo XC60 will be powered […] More…
Canoo to take astronauts to space
A small but prestigious contract has been awarded to the Californian electric car start-up Canoo: Canoo has been contracted by NASA to build vehicles to take astronauts to the launch pad for upcoming missions to the moon and Mars. More recently, Tesla vehicles have been used in launches by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company. Amazon founder […] More…
Two Tesla Cybertrucks Spotted At Giga Texas Ahead Of “Cyber Rodeo”
Tesla is holding a grand opening party at Giga Texas later today and hopefully all these vehicles will be uncovered. More…
Quick Charge Podcast: April 6, 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…
Tesla Production, Deliveries Graphed Through Q1 2022: Another Record
The company averaged 100,000+ units per month in Q1 2022. More…
West Virginia’s largest solar farm will sit on a former coal mining site
West Virginia’s largest solar farm will sit on the site of the 5,800-acre Hobet Mine, one of the state’s largest former coal mines, which went bankrupt in 2015. More…
Global Plug-In Electric Car Sales Doubled In February 2022
The Tesla Model Y strengthened its position as the #1 electric car model. More…
What’s Going On With Elon Musk And Twitter? Will He Buy It?
Musk is now Twitter’s largest shareholder, and he’s also going to be on the company’s board. What’s next? More…
Tata Curvv Concept Is A Coupe-SUV That Has Hardly Any Curves
This upright and angular study previews a production model coming in two years’ time with a pure-electric powertrain. More…
Tesla could have a few surprises at Cyber Rodeo – two Cybertrucks and some unidentified vehicles spotted
Tesla is about to hold its ‘Cyber Rodeo’ event for the opening of Gigafactory Texas tomorrow, and it might unveil a few surprises there with not one, but two Cybertruck prototypes spotted at the factory in addition to some unidentified vehicles. More…
CATL’s battery plant in Germany, its first outside of China, receives production approval for 8 GWh per year
Battery manufacturing behemoth, CATL, shared news that its upcoming plant in Thuringia, Germany has received 2nd partial approval for cell production. This milestone brings the Chinese company one step closer to opening its first battery manufacturing facility outside of China later this year. More…
Road Going EVs From Renault’s Alpine To Feature F1 Aero Tech
The aim is to not only improve performance, but also efficiency and range too. More…
2023 Lexus RZ 450e Shows Its Steering Yoke Ahead Of April 20 Reveal
It’s the first peek inside the Lexus RZ 450e, which appears to offer a similar steer-by-wire system to the Toyota bZ4X. More…
Germany boosts clean energy target to 80% from 65% by 2030
Germany’s economy and climate ministry today announced a more ambitious target of clean energy making up 80% of its power mix by 2030 – a bump up from its previous target of 65%. Currently, 40.9% of Germany’s power mix consists of clean energy. More…
Wolf King GT Pro review: How I reviewed a 63 MPH standing electric scooter and lived to tell about it
The Wolf King GT Pro from Voro Motors is one of those “be-all, end-all” of the electric scooter world. With its high power and high speed plus a rugged full-suspension design, this thing should be the weapon of choice for anyone in search of a seriously high performance electric scooter. More…
Soel Yachts unveils 62 ft solar electric catamaran with 564 kWh battery capacity and ‘trans-ocean range’
Another day and another solar electric yacht shared with the world, each seemingly going further and faster. The latest announcement comes from Soel Yachts out of the Netherlands, whose new Senses 62 solar electric catamaran boasts some large battery capacity for a yacht, providing what the company calls “trans-ocean range…” however far that means. More…
