Tesla announced that it is launching “Tesla Energy,” its energy division in China, starting with the Powerwall home battery pack.
China has become Tesla’s biggest market outside of the US, and it is growing fast.
However, that’s for its electric vehicles.
Tesla Energy, the automaker’s division selling solar rooftop systems and stationary energy storage, has been mostly operating in the…
A Rivian employee’s neighbor captured one of the first (blurry) glimpses of R1T’s UI and controls
June 23, 2021
One lucky person has a neighbor that works at Rivian. Better still, their Rivian neighbor was generous enough to allow them to go for a spin in an R1T and capture some footage from their phone of the interior, including the upcoming EVs User Interface (UI) and other…
Review: $1,199 Torque 1 electric bike just may be the most affordable torque-sensor e-bike out there
June 23, 2021
The Torque 1 electric bike from Florida-based RideScoozy is a commuter style e-bike that combines two features rarely seen together: a torque sensor and an affordable price tag.
As we’ve discussed in the past, torque sensors are a more elegant way to engage the pedal…
Stadia for Android TV is completely different from the phone app you’ve been sideloading
June 23, 2021
Yesterday, Google launched a new app in preparation for Stadia to be available on Android TV and Google TV devices. We’ve found that the new Android TV app is designed completely differently from how Stadia for Android works.
About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the Play Store. When we decompile these…
Hover-1 Dynamo electric scooter lets you travel with no gas or oil at $168, more in New Green Deals
June 23, 2021
As we close out Prime Day, we’ve gathered the best New Green Deals for you to browse. Today, we’re going to take a look at the on sale for a low of . Plus, there’s discounts on smart thermostats, LED lighting, and much more. We also have a wide selection of Tesla and…
Google is in the process of rolling out the “M89” update for the Nest and Google Wifi. There are several user-facing additions, as well as underlying improvements.
The M89 release, dated June 2021, starts with an expansion of what third-party services are supported by…
Miami-Dade County in Florida today announced it has bought 42 Proterra ZX5+ electric transit buses, featuring a total of 19 megawatt hours of battery storage capacity. The county also announced that it will install 75 Proterra chargers across three bus depots. Its first electric buses are slated to be delivered in 2022.
Miami-Dade’s new electric buses and chargers
Its latest purchase brings…
As we put the wraps on our final Canon EOS M50 Mark II review, we wanted to share some new samples with you from New York’s nightclubs to New York’s cats. Check out how the EOS M50 Mark II fares at ISO values low and high in our updated sample gallery, and keep…
PostPro's Wand is a Lightroom plug-in that wants to take the guesswork out of culling event photos
June 23, 2021
Surveys reveal that most event photographers spend an inordinate amount of time both editing and culling photos. PostPro created Wand, a plug-in for Adobe’s Lightroom that attempts to solve at least one of those problems. The program, which is now out of beta…
Volvo has announced a new 50 GWh battery cell gigafactory coming to Europe in partnership with Northvolt.
Earlier this year, Volvo announced that it plans to only sell electric cars by 2030 and believes that the internal combustion engine has no future.
In order to make it happen, it needs to secure a large amount of battery cells, and now, that’s what the Swedish automaker is…
