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Tesla has changed its standard paint color for the Model 3 and Model Y. Now everything but Midnight Silver is at least $1,000. “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black,” that’s what Henry Ford supposedly said when asked why Ford was not offering different colors

If you see more Hyundai EVs on the road, it’s not just you. Hyundai Motor North America reported its best-ever IONIQ 5 sales month in June, with the IONIQ 6 crossing the 1,000 mark for the first time. Hyundai US EV sales rise in the second half of 2023 The South Korean automaker has been

French automaker Peugeot is certainly not a newcomer to the electric bicycle world like many other automakers that have only begun dipping their toe in the e-bike waters. Peugeot has a long history producing bicycles that dates back over a century under its PEUGEOT Cycles division. Now the company has just released its latest line

Tesla (TSLA) announced its production and delivery numbers for the second quarter of 2023, and the automaker has crushed expectations with deliveries of over 466,000 electric vehicles. Earlier this week, we reported that Wall Street was expecting another record quarter for deliveries from Tesla, with a consensus of 448,000 vehicles. That’s up from Tesla’s previous

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Tesla has started to push a huge new software update with a bunch of new features, including Charge on Solar, a Spotify refresh, multiview cameras, and more. We haven’t had a big Tesla software update in a minute and it looks like this one is it. Teslascope, a third-party Tesla companion app, detected a new

A Swiss startup is using reclaimed wind turbine blades instead of metal beams as horizontal supports for solar panels. Solar panels, meet wind turbine blades Founded in 2022, Turn2Sun is based in Neuchâtel and calls its use of second-life wind turbine blades to support solar panels “Blade2Sun.” The company explains, “The strength of the blades

Tesla (TSLA) is expected to release its second quarter 2023 delivery results in the coming days, and Wall Street is expecting yet another record quarter for deliveries. When it comes to delivering high volumes of electric vehicles, Tesla is the only global automaker in the game, and it keeps growing. Tesla is currently on a

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Elon Musk says that Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) is going to get out of “Beta” with the upcoming version 12 update. Should we care? While Musk claimed that Tesla’s FSD is in beta to emphasize the need for drivers to pay attention and be ready to take control at all times, many believe that it

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We’re off to Topeka‘s Heartland Motorsports Park as the top North American engineering schools “scrutineer” their vehicles ahead of the big races this weekend. Along with all of the students, administration, and Electrek Formula Sun Grand Prix staff, we’d like to thank our other sponsors: Tesla, Blue Origin, Heartland Motorsports Park, MathWorks, and Altair. If

Tesla has begun running some Google ads for the first time following Elon Musk’s statement that the automaker would try advertising. Last month, CEO Elon Musk announced a reversal of his long-standing strategy that Tesla doesn’t spend on advertising but instead spends money to improve the products – counting on owners to spread the word.

Eurobike 2023 was my first chance to check out the recently unveiled second-generation FUELL Flluid electric bikes, the Flluid-2 and Flluid-3. I was able to see both models up close and personal, and take a test ride on the Flluid 3 to see how well that new Valeo gear box motor works. First of all,

Solar is growing at 33.7% year-on-year and is now at twice the capacity of coal power in China, according to a new report. Solar and coal in China Today, the China Electricity Council, a state-approved nonprofit national trade association, released its first-quarter report, the “Operational Situation of [the] Electric Power Industry.” As of the end

Luxury British sports car maker Aston Martin is revving up its plans to build “The world’s most thrilling and highly desirable electric performance cars.” The automaker is teaming up with American EV startup Lucid in a long-term partnership to supply proprietary EV technology to help propel its electrification strategy. Aston Martin and Lucid enter EV

Ahead of its world premiere at the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed in July, Hyundai Motor is teasing the public with one last video of its upcoming performance-focused IONIQ 5 N EV. The racetrack capable model recently entered its final phase of capability testing at the renowned Nürburgring motorsports complex in Germany. Hyundai’s N and N Line performance

New US-India joint venture VSK Energy has announced it will invest up to $1.5 billion to develop a vertically integrated solar manufacturing operation in the US, and it’s starting in Colorado. VSK Energy is made up of India-headquartered global solar module maker Vikram Solar and New York-based investors Phalanx Impact Partners and Das & Co.

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There’s something oddly endearing about miniature-sized vehicles that can still carry adults. It’s true with electric micro-cars and apparently its true with micro-boats as well. But don’t take my word for it. You can be the judge with this fun looking mini electric jet boat! This little vessel is a perfect candidate for this week’s

Ford, GM, and Stellantis will win the largest share of the US EV market over the next four years, but it won’t be easy. Ford, GM, and Stellantis gain on Tesla in US EV market According to Bank of America’s (BofA) annual “Car Wars” report, “The next four+ years could be some of the most

Instead of delivery vans clogging up the streets of your city, package delivery could soon be handled near you by fleets of four-wheeled cargo e-bikes with spacious van-like rear ends. That’s already the case in many European cities, and now it could be spreading even farther around the globe thanks to a new partnership between

South Fork Wind, New York State’s first offshore wind farm, has achieved its “steel in the water” milestone with the installation of the project’s first monopile foundation.  South Fork Wind will next install the first US-built offshore substation. Hundreds of US workers and three Northeast ports will support South Fork Wind’s construction through late fall.

Tesla’s new car inventory in the US has plummeted to a new low not seen since the beginning of the discounts as the automaker appears to successfully liquidate its inventory for the end of the quarter. There have been changes to tracking of Tesla’s new inventory data, but individual inventory checks also show very few

Tesla is an interested buyer of a small Germany-based wireless charging startup just as the automaker has indicated that it might launch its own EV wireless charger. Several companies have been working on wireless charging for electric vehicles in recent years, but the technology has never taken off. There are several issues with it. For

One year after trouncing the hillclimb record at the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed, McMurtry Automotive is set to showcase a limited-run, production version of its all-electric Spéirling fan car called the PURE. A validation prototype of this soon-to-be commercially available sealed-skirt fan car will be on display at this year’s hillclimb ahead of pre-production…

Holcim US is going to install a 25-megawatt (MW) solar farm at its Michigan cement factory that will generate more than 30% of the plant’s power. Holcim has pledged to power all of its US operations with 100% clean energy by 2030, and its latest move sees solar developer NorthStar Clean Energy installing an onsite

Eurobike is one of the largest two-wheeled vehicle trade shows in the world, and tomorrow the event returns to Frankfurt, Germany. Electrek will be on site to cover the show and share the latest announcements of interesting new bike tech. There’s plenty coming our way, much of it still shrouded in secrecy until tomorrow. But

Dutch-based Ebusco delivered its first 3.0 – a standout high-range, lightweight electric bus model – made in serial production. Ebusco says its 3.0 bus model, which features a composite body that’s 27% lighter than a conventional body, is a “game changer” in the electric bus industry. Ebusco says the 3.0’s lightweight body extends the operational

Tesla announced it produced 10 million 4680 battery cells at Gigafactory Texas. It is a good sign for the automaker’s production ramp-up, which relies heavily on the new cell. The 4680 battery cell format has taken the industry by storm since Tesla unveiled its own cell strategy at Battery Day in 2020. The automaker claimed