Battery swap startup Ample publicly unveiled its second-generation station design in San Francisco today. This next chapter in US battery swaps is the culmination of thousands of previous swaps performed by Ample, which has now cut its processes down to a mere five minutes.
Ample is a California-based startup that has tasked itself with helping get 1 billion electric vehicles on roads around to…
A new report states that Tesla has proposed to build a factory in India during a meeting with officials today. After years of negotiation in the world’s most populous country, it would mark a reversal of its strategy.
India has the biggest auto market that Tesla has yet…
Elon Musk is predicting that some companies will go bankrupt within the next 12 months. He didn’t go as far as saying that they would be Tesla competitors, but he made it feel like given the context.
Which ones could it be?
Over the last year, Musk has often complained…
Rimac Nevera electric hypercar sets 23 records in single day, including fastest 0-249 mph time
May 17, 2023
Times of 0-60 mph simply aren’t enough when you get into the peak-performance, hypercar segment of electric vehicles. The Rimac Nevera has already done an excellent job demonstrating that it’s one of the highest-performing vehicles on the planet, but any doubt should now be dissolved as the electric hypercar smashed through 23 performance records – in just a single day, a record in it of…
Quick Charge Podcast: May 16, 2023
May 17, 2023
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…
Tesla gave an update on its humanoid robot program, which is known as Tesla Bot or Optimus. New images of prototypes were quite impressive – making the project look less like a sideshow and increasingly like a potentially real product.
When Elon Musk first announced the…
Tesla co-founder and former CTO JB Straubel is officially joining the company’s board of directors following a shareholder vote.
JB Straubel was a co-founder at Tesla and the company’s longtime chief technology officer until he left in 2019 to launch Redwood Materials, which is helping create a North American battery supply chain.
After Elon Musk, Straubel was the most well-known executive…
Here's how North America's first utility-scale solar recycling plant is ramping up for the clean energy boom
May 17, 2023
We Recycle Solar is deploying new machinery and technology to quadruple its processing capacity to 522 million pounds per year by 2028.
We Recycle Solar, which is permitted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to handle hazardous secondary materials that come…
Tesla is planning to finish the design and engineering of the next-generation Tesla Roadster by the end of this year and “hopefully” put the vehicle into production next year, according to CEO Elon Musk at Tesla’s shareholder meeting today.
The next-generation…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the company is going to “try advertising” after years of resisting the idea and even saying that he “hates advertising.”
For years, Musk has famously said that he despises advertising. He said that Tesla doesn’t pay or provide discounts for celebrities to drive its cars and that the automaker doesn’t pay to advertise – though we have seen exceptions…
