Ola Electric recently began construction on an electric scooter megafactory designed to produce 2 million of its 100 km/h (62 mph) electric two-wheelers per year. The factory doesn’t only produce green vehicles though, it is actually quite green itself.
Currently under construction in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the Ola FutureFactory is built on a 500-acre (two-square-kilometer)…
Tesla Model Y is already putting pressure on NIO and Xpeng with rapid ramp-up in China
March 10, 2021
Tesla Model Y is already seen as putting pressure on NIO and Xpeng, which mainly sell competing electric SUVs, as Tesla’s latest entry in the Chinese EV market is rapidly ramping up.
Chinese EV buyers had to wait a while for the Model Y as Tesla decided to only launch…
Nikon has announced an “unprecedented imaging experience” by revealing it is developing the Z9 full-frame flagship mirrorless camera. The camera will feature a newly-developed FX-format stacked CMOS sensor, a new processor, and support 8K video.
Nikon shared scant few…
ChargePoint and Polestar team up for in-car charging app
March 10, 2021
EV charging network ChargePoint and automaker Polestar announced what they call a “charging partnership.” The first product of the collaboration will be an integrated charging app for the Polestar 2 EV.
According to a press release from ChargePoint, the companies are working to improve charging challenges that inhibit the mainstream adoption of electric cars. The integrated app will provide…
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a 350-acre solar farm on agricultural land north of Livermore, California. This will be the Bay Area’s largest solar farm to date, once it’s built.
Big new Bay Area solar farm
The Aramis Renewable Energy…
In the wake of USPS’ announcement to replace its vehicle fleet with mostly gas-powered vehicles, lawmakers are asking questions about possible insider trading and seeking to ensure that the fleet purchases a minimum percentage of all-electric vehicles, as reported by…
Tesla and LG Energy Solutions are reportedly in talks to produce the automaker’s new 4680 battery cell at a brand-new factory potentially in Europe or the US.
LG became one of Tesla’s official battery partners when it started supplying battery cells for the Model 3 vehicles produced by the latter in China.
It became only the second battery manufacturer, after Panasonic, to have its cells…
Back in May, chat.google.com received a Progressive Web App to replace the previous desktop client. The Google Chat Electron app will stop working at the end of March with users encouraged to upgrade now.
If you or your users are still using the old version of desktop…
Quick Charge Podcast: March 9, 2021
March 10, 2021
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…
Google has opened the door for more companies to offer a smart home doorbell that can integrate with the Assistant.
Google maintains a fairly extensive list of the different types of devices that the Assistant can interact with, as part of their developer documentation. Once a device is listed here, it’s easier for product developers to directly integrate it with the Google Assistant.
The last…
