This performance-oriented version of the EQE SUV will feature the exact same powertrain as the 53-badged sedan.More…
Mercedes-AMG EQE 53 SUV Snapped Testing Around The Nurburgring
BMW i3 Sedan Test Drive In China Goes Badly, Car Catches Fire
The new i3 is a China-only long-wheelbase electric version of the latest 3 Series.More…
Quick Charge Podcast: July 28, 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…
Apple Taps Lamborghini Chassis Guru For Its Driverless Electric Car
With 20 years of experience at Lamborghini, Luigi Taraborelli was most recently the carmaker’s head of chassis and vehicle dynamics.More…
Could new Federal EV tax credit crater EV sales until end of the year?
Now that the US Senate has an agreement on the reform of the federal tax credit for electric vehicles, it looks like it might finally happen after roughly two years of work. Though it’s still pending a vote. More…
GM: We Have Over 150,000 Reservations For Chevrolet Silverado EV
In the case of the GMC Hummer EVs, it’s more than 80,000 and growing.More…
First Lotus Eletre SUV Rolls Off Brand New Production Line In China
This marks the beginning of a brand new era for the British sports car manufacturer with plans to sell 100,000 cars annually by 2027.More…
Autoliv And POC Join Forces To Develop Airbag Bicycle Helmet
The new helmet could potentially save lives, especially with today’s crop of high-power e-bikes.More…
Tesla Subpoenaed Yet Again For Elon Musk’s 2018 Tweets
This is now the second recent subpoena related to Musk’s 2018 “taking Tesla private” tweets.More…
Siemen’s New Home-Charging Solution Means No Electric Panel Upgrades
Getting an EV charging station installed is pricey, especially if your current electric panel won’t support it.More…
Testing EBL’s big and small power stations for lots (or a little) off-grid power on a budget
Portable power stations perform the same role as an old-fashioned gas-powered generator but in a cleaner and safer way. They have an on-board battery matched with an inverter to provide silent, clean, and exhaust-free electricity anywhere you can carry them. With so many options available these days, the trickiest part can be just choosing the right size. Having recently tested two of EBL’s power stations side by side (the EBL Voyager 1000 and EBL Voyager 330), I had the chance to see how and where I might fit different-sized power stations into my life. More…
Ford F-150 Lightning Pro SSV electric police truck could save departments money
Ford this morning announced a police-duty version of its F-150 Lightning Pro. The Lightning Pro SSV, which Ford calls America’s first electric police truck, essentially adds a fully electric alternative to the truck Ford already sells to police fleets as the F-150 Police Responder. On the other hand, features that stand out from the… More…
Lightyear Welcomes Koenigsegg Investment, Tech Partnership
Swedish hypercar manufacturer will help Dutch EV startup improve the energy efficiency of its upcoming Lightyear 2 mainstream solar EV.More…
Tesla deploys cube lounges at Supercharger station with automated coffee, food, and more
Tesla has deployed large cube lounges at a Supercharger station in Germany that is equipped with automated vending machines for coffee, food, and more. More…
Dongfeng Launches Better Looking Dacia Spring EV
It’s called the Dongfeng Nano Box and while it’s basically the same as the Dacia model, it looks better inside and out.More…
Former Tesla Employees To Develop Solution To EV Towing Range Anxiety
A trailer with an electric powertrain may be the answer, and it seems this team has the know-how and initial funding to make it happen.More…
Ford Reveals F-150 Lightning Pro SSV Specially Designed For Police Duty
This police spec F-150 Lightning has some key modifications and equipment for law enforcement use.More…
Tesla’s Giga Berlin: Reported Goal Of 3,000 Model Y Per Week By October
Tesla exec Drew Baglino went so far as to say Giga Berlin could be cranking out 5,000 EVs per week by the end of 2022.More…
UK Police not free from occassional range anxiety
The Gloucestershire Constabulary has the UK’s largest electric patrol car fleet, with 21 per cent of its 435 vehicles being EVs, i.e. 66 Nissan Leafs and nine Nissan NV200 vans. However, the new Commissioner for Gloucestershire, Chris Nelson, has now sounded the alarm. In his recent experience, police officers suffer from a lack of charging […] More…
Rivian may axe nearly 1,000 jobs
US EV startup Rivian has announced that it going to make some major cuts to its workforce, claiming inflation and a drive for profitability. Considering the company employs around 14,000 employees, cutting about six per cent of jobs as announced would affect about 840 workers. The news was broken by Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe in […] More…
