The Royal Dutch Touring Club (ANWB), the largest cycling association in the Netherlands, has announced that it will no longer insure fat tire bikes due to their extremely high chance of theft.
The Netherlands is seen as the bicycling capital of the world, not just due to the high rate of cycling but also thanks to the country’s bike-first legislation and city design. There are more bicycles…
Volkswagen has begun production on its new flagship ID.7 electric car at its German plant in Emden. The ID.7 is the largest VW electric model yet and the second global MEB-based car behind the ID.4.
Volkswagen kicks off ID.7 electric car production
The electric sedans are…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced it had opened an investigation Monday into Ford’s solution for a June 2022 Mustang Mach-E recall.
Ford Mustang Mach-E recall query
The investigation, called a recall query, comes after Ford issued a…
Google Maps on Android Auto replaces 'gas stations' shortcut with charging stations in EVs
August 21, 2023
Android Auto has been preparing better support for electric vehicles (EVs) for a while now, and a new change is now coming to Google Maps that will replace the default shortcut to search for gas stations to instead search for charging locations.
In a recent beta update to Android Auto, it was noticed by the folks at SmartDroid that enabling EV features led to showing a shortcut for charging…
Tesla sues two former employees over 'Tesla Files' data leak
August 21, 2023
Tesla confirmed that it is suing two former employees over the large data leak to a German media that was dubbed the “Tesla Files.”
In May, Handelsblatt, a German media company, published a series of reports that it called “Tesla Files“, which they claim was based…
It’s no secret that most electric bikes come from China. Sure, there are high-quality e-bikes built in Europe and even a few in the US. But not the ones with the price tags that make you go, “Honey, how can we afford not to?!” And that’s exactly the story of my…
A Tesla Cybertruck was spotted on a glacier in Iceland for what appears to be the filming of a promo reel ahead of the vehicle’s launch.
The start of Cybertruck deliveries is so close I feel like I can smell it.
If Tesla sticks to its latest production timeline for the Cybertruck, we are just weeks away from the start of production and the first deliveries to employees.
We have been following…
A recent string of anti-ebike articles in the New York Times has attempted to spread fear around the increasingly popular transportation method of electric bicycles. But it’s not just the typical e-bikes you see students riding to class or adults cruising to work on. One…
Electric boating certainly isn’t new, but for a long time it has been outside the constraints of most recreational boaters’ wallets. Get ready though, as a new wave of innovation is seeing several new low-cost electric boats starting to enter the US market. Here’s a…
Quick Charge Podcast: August 19, 2023
August 19, 2023
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