Not so fast! Turns out having hidden door handles in a road rage incident is a brilliant, if unintentional, self-defense feature. More…
Tesla’s Retractable Door Handles Leave Road Rage Aggressor Baffled
Delfast Debuts New TOP 3.0i Electric Bike
Delfast claims that its new e-bike is the smartest e-bike in the market. More…
Honda starts construction of another electric car plant in China
The Chinese joint venture GAC Honda has started construction of a new electric car plant in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. In addition, GAC Honda’s electric SUV e:NP1 has gone on sale in China. As leaked last year, the plant will have an annual capacity for 120,000 electric cars and is scheduled to start production in 2024. […] More…
Volvo Trucks presents FC truck with 1,000 km range
Volvo Trucks has presented an electric long-haul truck that is supposed to have a range of up to 1,000 kilometres with a hydrogen fuel cell. The Swedish company is not yet sure when such a vehicle could go into series production – but the first test vehicles are already on the road. It has long […] More…
Silence introduces new range-topping model in the UK
The Spanish electric scooter manufacturer Silence has added the new range-topping S01+ model to its range in the UK. Based on the S01 Connected, the S01+ features a 5.6 kWh battery and a 7.5 kW motor. The S01+ is capable of reaching a speed of 40mph in 3.9 seconds and has a limited top speed […] More…
Iveco to build electric buses in Italy
Iveco has announced its intention to resume bus production in Italy. Among other things, battery and fuel cell buses will be assembled at the Iveco plant in Foggia and engineering and production capacities for batteries will be set up in Turin. Iveco stopped producing buses in Italy in 2011 – at that time the manufacturer […] More…
Rosenbauer presents electric rescue vehicle lineup
The Austrian fire brigade supplier Rosenbauer presented a complete range of electric emergency vehicles at the Interschutz trade fair. This includes the AT Electric based on an EV chassis from Volvo Trucks, but also an airport fire engine with an electrified Rosenbauer chassis and a turntable ladder. First of all, the AT Electric: until now […] More…
Elon Musk moves Tesla layoff target from 10% to 3% of employees
Elon Musk has now moved the target for the new wave of layoffs at Tesla from 10% reduction of the workforce to 3% of employees. More…
Porsche to fix Taycan production issues in the USA
Porsche has to make improvements to 12,490 vehicles in the electric Taycan model series in the USA. In certain Taycans of the production years 2019 to 2022, the display screens may fail. The problem is to be solved with a software update. This is not the first recall for the Taycan in the USA, as […] More…
Electric bike motor maker Bafang unveils new 3-speed automatic shifting hub transmission
Chinese manufacturer Bafang is a titan of the electric bike motor industry, and thus news swirling around the company generally trends toward new motor announcements. But the latest headline-grabbing product unveiling from Bafang isn’t a motor at all, but rather an internally geared hub designed to provide automatic shifting on both electric and non-electric bikes. More…
Quick Charge Podcast: June 20, 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…
BASF is going to build a commercial battery-recycling, black-mass plant
Global chemical giant BASF is going to build a commercial battery-recycling, black-mass plant in Schwarzheide, a town in Brandenburg, eastern Germany. More…
Tesla’s chief designer’s wife is selling new interiors for Tesla cars through Unplugged Performance
von Holzhausen, a company started by Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen’s wife Vicky von Holzhausen, is starting to sell new interiors for Tesla cars through a partnership with Unplugged Performance, a longtime Tesla tuner and aftermarket part company. More…
Tesla’s chief designer is selling new interiors for Tesla cars through Unplugged Performance
Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen is starting to sell new interiors for Tesla cars through a partnership between his new company and Unplugged Performance, a longtime Tesla tuner and aftermarket part company. More…
Harley-Davidson’s Serial 1 Takes Things Up A Notch With The SWITCH/MTN
Serial 1’s newest electric mountain bike finally gets the suspension we’ve been looking for. More…
Volvo FM Electric Spotted Fast Charging At Ionity: 243 kW At 89% SOC
The truck is maxing out the power, as well as the parking space. More…
Tesla’s Updated Cybertruck And Semis Turn Heads At Michigan Speedway
Two of Tesla’s most highly anticipated vehicles appeared at another SAE event, and the Cybertruck is missing a key feature. More…
Engineering Explained Praises Rivian R1T’s “Holy Grail Of AWD Systems”
Jason Fenske calls the R1T “a vehicle like no other on the market” thanks to its four-motor setup that offers unrivaled capability. More…
Engineering Explained Talks Rivian R1T’s “Holy Grail Of AWD Systems”
Jason Fenske calls the R1T “a vehicle like no other on the market” thanks to its four-motor setup that offers unrivaled capability. More…
BMW to build next-gen e-drive in Austria
BMW has just announced that it will also develop and produce the next generation of electric drives at its engine plant in Steyr, Upper Austria, from 2025. The plant will be converted to produce 600,000 e-drives per year. In Upper Austria, BMW wants to manufacture the rotor, stator, gearbox, inverter and housing for the sixth […] More…
