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Bluetti’s frightfully good solar + storage sale slices hundreds of dollars off for Halloween

No need to get caught in the dark, trick-or-treaters: Portable power station leader is offering great deals on power generators, batteries, and solar panels. This Halloween sale is running until November 5 at 7:00 p.m. PDT. Don’t miss it, as these deals are a treat. You can find the full sale if you and check out some of the highlights below. BLUETTI EB3A Portable Power Station BUETTI EB3A…
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Quick Charge Podcast: October 29, 2022

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…
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Weird Alibaba: Time to take this electric mobility scooter off some sweet jumps

One of the best things about scouring Alibaba for awesomely weird electric vehicles is that many of them seemingly start from something rather normal. There’s nothing strange about an electric tour bus, until it comes shaped like a tiger. Stuffed animals are rather normal, until engineers added wheels, motors and batteries to make them rideable. And a mobility scooter for old folks is a pretty…
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Does Ford think its EVs qualify for the full $7,500 IRA tax credit? Here’s what its CEO said

Here’s what Ford CEO Jim Farley said during the company’s Q3 2022 earnings call about whether the company’s electric vehicles would qualify for the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) full $7,500 tax credit. Here’s how the IRA tax credit, which will run to 2032, will work for new EVs: EVs that are purchased August 16, 2022 or later must have final assembly in North America to be…
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Tritium and DC-America are going to roll out a big US EV charging network [Update]

Tritium makes DC fast chargers for EVs. DC-America designs, makes, and installs EV charging stations. And now, the two companies are going to team up to create a US-wide, federally funded EV charging network. October 28 update: We asked Tritium’s reps what the rollout plan and timescale is for this coast-to-coast EV charging network, and those folks helpfully connected us with Nathan Bowen…
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