Electric Cars

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The BMW Group reports an outstanding second quarter and first half of 2021 with record global sales volume. Also, the plug-in electric car sales reached new highs. The overall results stand at: BMW: 617,749 (up 43.5%) in Q2 and 1,178,292 (up 39.9%) YTD  MINI: 83,116 (up 52.5%) in Q2 and 157,799 (up 32.6%) YTD  BMW

By Simon Alvarez Posted on July 10, 2021 A few days ago, Elon Musk remarked that Tesla’s Full Self Driving Beta V9 update would be rolling out this Saturday, and it would include some cool new features. Among these is a “mind of car” view that would provide drivers and passengers a better idea of

Tesla has applied for a new patent that is revealing the lithium extraction process that Elon Musk vaguely described as “using table salt to basically extract lithium from ore” during Tesla’s Battery Day last year. It could cut costs by more than 30%, according to the automaker. During Tesla’s Battery Day last year, the automaker

SparkCharge and Urgently have partnered to increase the availability of roadside EV charging by utilizing SparkCharge’s Roadie mobile DC fast-charging system.  The partnership combines the Roadie with Urgently’s Smart Mobility Assistance™ platform and brings on-demand mobile DC fast charging infrastructure to even more markets than currently available.   “We want to accelerate the adoption of electric

By Maria Merano Posted on July 8, 2021 Elon Musk’s Boring Company has been linked to a 73-acre land purchase in Bastrop County, Texas. The Boring Company (TBC) already established an office building in Pflugerville. According to Bastrop County property records, Gapped Bass LLC purchased 73 acres of land in May. The Boring Company and

Electric bicycles have come a long way in the last decade from rarely-seen oddities to skyrocketing sales. It’s hard to argue against the obvious transportation advantages of e-bikes; they simply help people arrive at their destinations quicker and without as much sweat. But that same reduction in pedal pain also leads to a nagging criticism

According to a very interesting Argonne National Laboratory’s research, highlighted by the U.S. DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, just five lithium-ion battery manufacturers produced almost all battery cells for the plug-in electric cars sold in the U.S. in 2010-2020. That top five includes Panasonic (partially in partnership with Tesla), LG Chem‘s LG Energy

By Maria Merano Posted on July 6, 2021 The Boring Company (TBC) unleashed its new tunnel boring machine (TBM) named Prufrock in Las Vegas recently. Prufrock may help Elon Musk’s tunneling company build the Vegas Loop, which will feature several stops along popular tourist destinations in Las Vegas. TBC enthusiast @BoringPrufrock shared photos of the

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. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee

Mitsubishi reports that its U.S. sales in the second quarter of 2021 rebound by 106% compared to Q2 2020, reaching 25,146. Unfortunately, the plug-in hybrid Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV remains a marginal model with just 385 units (up 35% year-over-year) sold. Its share out of Mitsubishi’s total volume decreased to 1.5%. For comparison, the conventional all-new

By Eric Ralph Posted on July 4, 2021 Less than three days after SpaceX completed its 20th successful Falcon 9 launch of 2021, a small Long March 2D rocket carried the country of China past the same 20-flight milestone. Excluding SpaceX and China, the rest of the world combined completed its 20th orbital launch hours

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. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee

FCA (part of Stellantis), reports that in the second quarter of 2021, it increased its sales in the U.S. by 32% year-over-year to 485,312. The company continues to not report plug-in electric car sales, but announced that the Jeep Wrangler 4xe has “quickly became the No. 1 best-selling plug-in hybrid in the marketplace.” We are not

By Simon Alvarez Posted on July 2, 2021 The second quarter of 2021 was not an easy one for Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA), with the company dealing with several headwinds from both its own operations and the global supply chain. Despite this, Tesla posted record deliveries once more, highlighting the fact that the company’s growth story is

The RadRunner Plus from Rad Power Bikes is perhaps one of my favorite all-time, do-anything electric bicycles – and that’s coming from someone with hundreds of electric bike reviews under his belt. I may have ridden some e-bikes that go faster or carry more passengers or fulfill any number of specific niches. But if I

Volkswagen announced very strong sales results in the second quarter of this year in the U.S., as the company sold 120,520 vehicles, which is the highest quarterly results since 1973. Sales rebounded 72% from the weak last year. However, the most interesting thing for us is the Volkswagen ID.4 sales result, which at 5,756, is

By Simon Alvarez Posted on July 1, 2021 Despite being rejected by the administrative court of Frankfurt (Oder), environmental associations Naturschutzbund (Nabu) and the Green League announced on Wednesday that they are not giving up their battle against American electric car maker Tesla and its Gigafactory Berlin facility. The groups announced their intentions on Wednesday. 

A new 142-Tesla Megapack project has been turned online in Ventura County in California to create a giant new battery that is replacing a gas peaker plant. The project is called the Saticoy battery storage system and it came about when the local community in Oxnard fought against having a new gas-powered peaker plant to

Our friends over at the YouTube channel, TheStraightPipes, scored an opportunity to spend some quality time with a 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 and record this detailed walkaround video. “They literally built a concept car” – TheStraightPipes One of the first things they point out is that it’s not small by any means. The side profile

By Simon Alvarez Posted on June 29, 2021 TikTok creator Ricco Kimborough has come clean about a viral Tesla post where he supposedly took delivery of a Model S with an airbag unit that fell apart in his hands. The social media enthusiast posted his apology on TikTok, admitting that the vehicle in the video

Here’s a funny and light little post to start off your Monday. A Tesla owner received a parking ticket from GM when it parked in a lot at its Wentzville Assembly Plant in Missouri that is meant for domestic vehicles. GM’s parking attendant believed the Tesla was a foreign vehicle, but, little did they know,

Erik Strait seems to know just about everything there is to know about Tesla, and he’s also an amateur race car driver. He finally got a chance to check out the all-new Tesla Model S Plaid, and he says he’s very happy with what Tesla has achieved over the last six months. Will he buy

By Joey Klender Posted on June 25, 2021 Tesla owners are indicating that their VINs are disappearing from their accounts, and their delivery dates are also being pushed back several months as Q2 2021 comes to a close. Several owners who were scheduled to take delivery of a Model Y in the coming days are

A Tesla Supercharger station is now getting direct service from a nearby McDonald’s that offer direct delivery to Tesla owners charging their electric vehicles. When charging station operators open new stations, they try to build them near amenities for drivers to use when their vehicles are charging. We are mainly talking about restrooms, coffee shops,

Hello again and welcome back to the next installment of the ABCs of EVs.   We’re taking a topic in each video to delve into some of the terminologies that you hear in the world of EVs. Now, we love our fully electric cars, but let’s face it, there’s a lot of hybrids out there and there are also a few range extenders. So

By Simon Alvarez Posted on June 25, 2021 Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas has been named as the “Manufacturing Project of the Year” by Area Development Magazine. The award was highlighted recently by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who shared the exciting update on Twitter.  It was not just Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas facility that earned high praise. The

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. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee

Despite a recall of 77,000 vehicles last October, Hyundai is still apparently suffering from the specter of battery fires. The latest Hyundai Kona Electric Car-B-Q appears to have taken place in Olso, Norway on morning of the 21st. It should be noted that, yes, internal-combustion vehicles also experience fires and at reportedly higher rates. Still,

By Eric Ralph Posted on June 23, 2021 For the second time in six months, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is ready to launch around 100+ small satellites into low orbit as part of a rideshare mission for dozens of companies and institutions. Known as Transporter-2, the mission is SpaceX’s second dedicated launch under the