Electric Cars

Amazon is discounting a handful of third-party Tesla accessories this morning, headlined by TAPTES offering its Model 3 USB Hub for $25.50. Just clip the on-page coupon to lock-in your savings. Regularly $30, today’s deal is the second discount we’ve tracked to date. Add the TAPTES hub to your Model 3 and bring five extra

Porsche announced today the entry-level Taycan variant,that is available for order now and should reach U.S. dealerships in early Spring 2021. It’s rear-wheel-drive (which saves some 200 lbs of weight by not having the front motor) and is less powerful than the 4S, Turbo and Turbo S versions, but other than that, it’s like all other

By Simon Alvarez Posted on January 19, 2021 Tesla has taken legal action against Chinese media outlet PingWest over an alleged hit piece which claimed that Gigafactory Shanghai was being operated like a “sweatshop.” In a statement on Sunday, Beijing PingWest Interact Technology Co, the parent company of PingWest, noted that it received the indictment,

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Production vehicles rarely stay true to the beautiful curves we see on their concepts. There are many reasons why that is, including safety, homologation, and cost, but concepts do serve a purpose and help manufacturers gauge the feasibility of new technologies as well as the public interest in them. Our friend Alex Guberman over at the

By Eric Ralph Posted on January 17, 2021 The Falcon 9 booster assigned to SpaceX’s first Starlink launch of the new year is on track to become the world’s most rapidly reusable rocket as early as Monday, January 18th. Targeting Monday, January 18 at 8:45 a.m. EST for Falcon 9 launch of 60 Starlink satellites

San Diego-based electric bicycle company Ride1Up has long been a value leader in the US e-bike industry. Now with the new Ride1Up Prodigy’s unveiling, the company is bringing the same value-oriented design to its first ever mid-drive electric bicycle. Ride1Up Prodigy e-bike announced Popular models like the $995 Roadster V2 and $1,095 Core-5 have underscored

Audi, together with partners, conducted a research project on grid-optimized charging of electric cars, which has potential to help avoid the blackouts. It utilizes a communication layer between the charging stations and the grid operator, which can request to stop/postpone charging in peak demand periods. Since some EVs, including the e-tron, can charge at 11

By Maria Merano Posted on January 15, 2021 The US Justice Department recently issued a $180 million penalty against Japanese carmaker Toyota over the company’s alleged violations to the reporting requirements of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air Act. The veteran automaker’s violations allegedly lasted for about a decade, from about 2005 to at least

Tesla claims that a driver is “7x less likely to be involved in an accident” with Autopilot enabled. The data is not that clear, but it shows improvements in a new Autopilot safety report from Tesla. Tesla Autopilot safety report Since 2018, Tesla has been trying to create a benchmark for its improvement in Autopilot

The website, Chasing Cars, came up with the great idea of reimagining some of the most popular modern electric vehicles as if they were designed in the 1960s. That era is considered by many as the glory days of automotive design, spawning vehicles like the Ford Mustang, the Chevrolet Corvette, and the Jaguar E-Type.  So

By Eric Ralph Posted on January 13, 2021 Around 12:30 pm CST (UTC-6), SpaceX Starship prototype serial number 9 (SN9) ignited its Raptor engines for the second time, followed by another Raptor ignition at 2:22 pm. Both tests were extremely brief, mirroring SN9’s first static fire, which ended sooner than SpaceX intended back on January

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

There was a time when Elon Musk was fond of combustion-engined cars – so much so that he bought one of the best ever made: the McLaren F1. This video from 1999 ironically gives us something Justine Wilson said she was afraid Musk could miss: “a sense of appreciation and perspective.” We cannot talk about

By Maria Merano Posted on January 11, 2021 A Tesla Model Y instructional video provided the community and potential buyers of the vehicle’s seven-seater option an inside look into the third row of the all-electric crossover. The extensive video showed the differences, in terms of seats and rows, between the Model Y five-seater and seven

Teasers late last month indicated that Vmoto’s Super Soco was planning to unveil an electric motorcycle soon. Vmoto’s presence in much of Asia, Europe and Australia has led to increased interest in the launch, as the new bike stands a good chance of reaching multiple international markets. TS Street Hunter unveiling clues Super Soco currently

NIO’s recently introduced ET7 will employ NIO’s latest NAD (NIO Autonomous Driving) technology based on NIO Aquila’s suite of sensors and NIO Adam’s powerful computing capabilities.  NIO has built up the NAD full-stack autonomous driving capability including perception algorithms, localization, control strategy, as well as platform software. NIO Aquila features 33 high-performance sensing units, including 11

By Joey Klender Posted on January 9, 2021 Earlier this week, a report was released that revealed Tesla’s margins for the Model Y crossover in Shanghai. Guosen Securities, a Shenzen-based financial firm, found that Tesla holds a nearly 30% marginal rate on every unit. As the Model Y just recently began production and has become available for

Robots aren’t going to take over the world, but they can definitely make life a lot easier for humans. And that was the aim of BladeBUG, a UK startup that has developed insect-like robots to inspect, maintain, and repair offshore wind turbine blades without the need for rope access. BladeBUG’s founder and CEO, Chris Cieslak,

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the U.S. is the biggest oil producer in the world. Saudi Arabia is the second one, but petrodollars highly fund its economy. This is why there is such a delicious irony to the fact that Lucid would be discussing to have a plant in Saudi Arabia: one of

By Joey Klender Posted on January 7, 2021 Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA)  has officially overtaken the world’s largest social media platform, Facebook, as the sixth most valuable company in the world. It is now the most valuable company in the world that isn’t worth $1 trillion; the top five companies are worth $1.2 trillion or more.

One of the big news stories of the day — which has now been massively eclipsed by the US Capitol being stormed by domestic terrorists — are the Senate race results in Georgia. Democrat Raphael Warnock has been declared the winner of one Senate seat, defeating Republican Kelly Loeffler. Democrat Jon Ossoff is about to

The partnership between General Motors and Honda soon might enter a new level and include  joint production of new Ultium-based electric cars in North America. According to Automotive News’ unofficial sources, there is a plan to launch an electric Honda and electric Acura crossovers, produced in GM plants, within four years from now. The first

By Joey Klender Posted on January 5, 2021 Tesla’s new Giga Shanghai-produced Model Y has a 29.4% gross margin, according to Guosen Securities, who analyzed the cost of building the car compared to its selling price. According to the Shenzhen, China-based financial firm, Tesla’s China Model Y only costs ¥237,930 (USD 36,852) to produce. However,

Bosch, the world’s largest automotive supplier, has decided to take a bold, and arguably dumb, stance against electric cars based on new comments from its chairman. Bosch and Electric Cars Some people often forget that the transition to electric vehicles not only disrupts automakers but also the entire automotive supply chain. Over the years, many

Tesla Model 3 owner Adam Schulz reached out to us to share his very first YouTube video. He tests his 2021 Model 3 Standard Range Plus to get an idea of how much range to expect in cold temperatures and winter weather. We’ve seen and shared various EV cold-weather range tests, but the latest version

By Eric Ralph Posted on January 3, 2021 Mirroring comments made a few weeks ago, CEO Elon Musk says that SpaceX could be ready to test two Starships simultaneously within “the next few weeks.” On November 30th, in response to an unofficial aerial photo edited to show two Starships at SpaceX’s South Texas launch pad,

Tesla released its delivery and production numbers for the fourth quarter of 2020 and the full year 2020. They managed to deliver a record number of over 180,000 vehicles, but barely missed the goal of 500,000 vehicles delivered in the full year. Tesla Q4 Delivery and Production Over the last few weeks, we reported on

It has been quite some time since Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), the Berlin public transport company, placed an order for 90 Solaris Urbino 12 electric buses in June 2019. Just before the end of the year, Solaris completed the deliveries and BVG can now enjoy one of the largest EV bus fleets, which includes a total

By Joey Klender Posted on January 1, 2021 Tesla has officially launched the China-made 2021 Model Y which includes a new interior design with an updated center console, new door panels, a heated steering wheel, HEPA air filtration system (aka bioweapon defense mode), and other similarities to its 2021 Tesla Model 3 “refresh”. Updates made