Electric bike battery USB-C chargers are long overdue. They'd be simple. They'd be convenient. And they need to happen. Here's why. | Continue reading
Tesla launches a new virtual power plant with PG&E in California that pays Powerwalls owners to help stabilize the electric grid. | Continue reading
Tesla cars have been banned from entering Beidaihe, a Chinese resort town, for two months over concerns about spying. | Continue reading
Tesla has laid off both the president of its LGBTQ+ community and a lead involved in diversity and inclusivity programs at the company. While they were let go as part of a broader wave of layoffs, it comes amid several comments Tesla CEO Elon Musk made, concerning what he describ … | Continue reading
Two electric motorcycles and their determined riders recently set off to strike a new cannonball run record, racing in opposing directions across the US in a bid to reach the opposite coast first. Just 111 hours later, rider Steven Day set that new record and demonstrated the pos … | Continue reading
Tesla has started another wave of layoffs, and this time it also includes hourly workers instead of just salaried employees like CEO Elon Musk claimed. Earlier this month, we reported on Musk telling Tesla executives in an email that they need to cut 10% of the workforce and paus … | Continue reading
Tesla is sending some of its employees who are not in service and are untrained to work on cars into service centers to fix vehicles. It looks like Tesla’s service issues are bigger than we thought. Earlier this month, we reported on CEO Elon Musk’s announcement that Tesla is wor … | Continue reading
Tesla (TSLA) has significantly increased the prices of its electric cars across its entire lineup with some models going up by as much as $6,000. After a year of increasing prices almost every month in 2021, Tesla slowed down the rapid rise in prices across its electric vehicles … | Continue reading
Elon Musk made an interesting comment about Tesla’s effort to develop self-driving. The CEO says that solving self-driving is the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money or almost nothing. Like the rest of the market lately, Tesla’s stock has taken a beating – though … | Continue reading
Tesla announced that it has deployed its 35,000th Supercharger stall today at a new station in Wuhan, China. Tesla is currently growing its Supercharger network at an impressive rate. The automaker went from 23,277 Superchargers at 2,564 stations at the end of 2020, to 31,498 Sup … | Continue reading
Solid Power will begin pilot manufacturing of solid-state battery cells for internal testing before delivering them to BMW and Ford. | Continue reading
Elon Musk asked Tesla executives to "pause all hiring" and cut about 10% of the staff due to what he called a "bad feeling about the economy." | Continue reading
Toyota has unveiled a new home battery pack to provide residential backup - a product that is going to compete with Tesla Powerwall. | Continue reading
The enigmatic CEO told employees that they must clock in at least 40 hours a week in the office of be terminated | Continue reading
Aptera announced that it has now received more than 22,000 reservations for its solar-powered electric car, which get to 1,000 miles of range, as it gets closer to production. This is Aptera’s second go. The company was created in 2006 with the aim of bringing to market a super-e … | Continue reading
Tesla appears to have a serious supply issue when it comes to its charging port electronic control unit (ECU) since many owners are reporting delays in deliveries due to the missing part. Compared to the rest of the auto industry, Tesla has faired quite well amid the global suppl … | Continue reading
The electric pickup trucks are coming. Ford has officially started delivering the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck to retail and fleet customers. At Electrek, we have been talking for years about how electric pickup trucks are needed to accelerate EV adoption in the US, pure … | Continue reading
After recently expanding its Supercharger pilot program for non-Tesla EV owners, the Supercharger network became the ‘largest 150 kW+ public fast-charging network’ in Europe overnight. It’s quite impressive that Tesla did that basically by just flipping a switch. Tesla was early … | Continue reading
An autonomous cargo ship successfully completed a 500 mile voyage in the congested waters of Tokyo bay without human intervention. | Continue reading
Tesla is building a new 100-stall Supercharger station in the Mojave Desert that should become one of the world's largest Supercharger station. | Continue reading
Ukrainian electric motorbike company Delfast has seen its electric bikes used for some vastly diverse tasks, such as breaking Guinness World Records and outfitting Mexican police. But their latest use is perhaps the bikes’ most important mission yet: helping Ukrainian soldiers st … | Continue reading
All 10 offshore wind turbines have now been installed off Italy's Puglia coast. Taranto is Italy's first offshore wind farm. | Continue reading
Elon Musk’s The Boring Company announced that it has raised $675 million in a new funding round valuing the company at $5.675 billion. It plans to use the funds to build many new boring machines and dig tunnels under more cities. The Boring Company (TBC) wrote in a press release: … | Continue reading
Last week, a GM Cruise-converted Chevy Bolt without a driver was pulled over by San Francisco Police. In an unexpected turn, the car “bolted” …to a safe spot. Cruise responded below. The original Instagram poster noted that this occurred in the Richmond District of San Francisco … | Continue reading
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ruled that heightened fines on automakers that fail to meet Corporate Average Fuel Economy requirements on 2019 and later vehicles would be reinstated. The decision is a big hit to high-polluting automakers and the lobby group th … | Continue reading
Tesla (TSLA) announced today that it is planning a new stock split, and it is going to put it to a shareholder vote later this year. Back in 2020, Tesla announced a five for one stock split. At the time, Tesla’s stock was trading at around $1,300 a share, but the stock split anno … | Continue reading
Electric bicycles have long been popular forms of transportation in Europe and Asia, but the last few years have seen sales skyrocket in the US. As Americans embrace these convenient personal electric vehicles with open arms, could a coming wave of new light electric motorcycles … | Continue reading
Washington state has set a target that all vehicles of model year 2030 or later sold, purchased or registered in Washington state be electric vehicles. The bill was signed today by Gov. Inslee, making Washington the state with the earliest all-electric new car target in the natio … | Continue reading
During SXSW, autonomous freight technology company, Einride, publicly introduced its first "Remote Pod Operator," Tiffany Heathcott. | Continue reading
Washington state has passed a bill that would ban the sale, purchase, and registration of new gas-powered vehicles of the model year 2030 or later. The bill passed yesterday and will now be delivered to Governor Jay Inslee for his signature. If signed, this will become the earlie … | Continue reading
Gogoro, the company behind what has become the de facto standard for swappable batteries in light electric vehicles, has just unveiled the world’s first swappable solid state EV battery prototype. The battery was co-developed with ProLogium Technology, a solid state battery indus … | Continue reading
Hackers are ramping up their effort to disrupt Russia amid its invasion of Ukraine, and now it’s even affecting electric car owners in the country. A bunch of electric car charging stations outside Moscow were hacked and disabled. While EV owners couldn’t charge, the display on t … | Continue reading
Ford has launched its new Ford Charge Station Pro, a bi-directional home charging station that works with the upcoming F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck. It is offered at a surprisingly good price, considering it enables backup power and can basically replace a generator or T … | Continue reading
Elon Musk said that Tesla is working to make Steam’s library of video games work on its onboard vehicle computer. Tesla has been working to expand its presence in the video game space. Tesla is going into the video game business As we previously reported, Tesla has a team of soft … | Continue reading
Swedish electric boat manufacturer Candela is no stranger to taking flight in its hydrofoil electric boats. But today’s announcement marks new ground as the company’s upcoming Candela C-8 takes its maiden voyage before serial production begins later this year. Candela C-8 takes f … | Continue reading
Tesla announced that it is expanding access to the Supercharger network for non-Tesla electric cars to all stations in the Netherlands. Over the last year, we have been reporting on Tesla ramping up its effort to open the Supercharger network, its extensive global network of fast … | Continue reading
Electric scooter manufacturer Gogoro is famous for its battery-swapping network of GoStations that extensively covers its native Taiwan. The system has become so popular that it will soon eclipse the number of gas stations on the island nation. Gogoro’s battery swap stations look … | Continue reading
The US Army unveiled a comprehensive climate strategy including moves to lower emissions and build an electric vehicle fleet in the coming years. The Army states that this will help them confront the growing global threat of climate change and enhance safety for soldiers who are … | Continue reading
A Tesla vehicle using Full Self-Driving Beta has been caught on video running into a pole in what could be the first accident on the FSD Beta. Last month, Elon Musk was claiming that Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Beta had yet to have an accident in over a year into the program. That’ … | Continue reading
Tesla has quietly unveiled a fleet of new ‘Tesla Semi’ electric trucks as part of its new financial result report. Yet, there’s no word on the status of production and customer deliveries. The situation around the Tesla Semi has been unclear over the last few months. The electric … | Continue reading
Tesla has officially expanded its pilot program to open Superchargers to electric vehicles from other manufacturers in Norway and France. Over the last year, we have been reporting on Tesla ramping up its effort to open the Supercharger network, its extensive global network of fa … | Continue reading
Tesla Solar Roof tiles have the capability to shed snow off the top of your house to optimize power production during the winter months. | Continue reading
Tesla has applied to install Supercharger stations in Texas with CCS connectors, which would be a first in the US. The move comes as Tesla is planning to open its Supercharger network to other automakers. The Texas Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Program (TxVEMP) is a program … | Continue reading
Tesla has been adding a strange new warning about putting battery packs as old as 2017 in brand new 2021 Model 3 vehicles for sale. With just a few weeks before the end of the year, Tesla is in the middle of a delivery wave to get the inventory as low as possible. CEO Elon […] | Continue reading
GM announced today that it produced the first GMC Hummer EV pickup trucks for customers’ deliveries, which can now begin. It’s the second electric pickup truck to hit the market. In October of last year, GM officially launched its GMC Hummer EV, an all-electric “supertruck” with … | Continue reading
Tesla is doubling down on a system to prevent people from blocking or “ICEing” Supercharger stalls and even integrates it into its mobile app. The term “ICEing” a charging station is used in the EV community to describe ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles occupying a space … | Continue reading
Windpark Fryslân, the world's largest freshwater wind farm that sits in the Netherlands' Lake IJssel, is now fully commissioned. | Continue reading
Norway is again showing that the all-electric car future is closer than people think, as November car sales in the country see internal combustion engine car sales crumble. The Scandinavian country has been the leading market for electric vehicles in term of adoption per capita. … | Continue reading