A Tesla driver was filmed apparently fast asleep behind the wheel at about 100 km/h on British Columbia’s Trans-Canada Highway on Sunday, with two sleeping children in the car.
The obvious question is how Tesla’s driver monitoring — the very system meant to catch this — let it happen. The answer is that the driver was wearing large sunglasses, and that one detail exposes a real gap in how…
I’ve spent countless hours here at Electrek doing detailed hands-on testing of hundreds of electric bikes. Through thousands of miles of riding, I’ve been fortunate to learn these e-bikes inside and out, top to bottom and front to back. That long-term experience with…
Volkswagen's next electric SUV is almost here, and it's not just a rebadged ID.4 [Images]
July 7, 2026
The Volkswagen ID. Tiguan is expected to debut later this year, bringing much more than just a new look and name.
Volkswagen ID.4 due for an overhaul as the ID.Tiguan
Volkswagen announced in April that it would end production of the ID.4 at its Chattanooga, Tennessee plant.
Electrek American Solar Challenge 2026: About the race, full schedule, and teams competing
July 7, 2026
It’s now July, which means schools from around the world are making final preparations for the Electrek American Solar Challenge 2026, and this year is going to be an especially notable one! A record 42 teams from colleges in the US, Canada, Belgium, and the Netherlands are registered to compete in the Formula Sun Grand Prix pre-qualifier track event in less than two weeks.
This is a big deal…
British battery-electric vehicle registrations jumped 38% in June to 64,440 units, pushing EVs to nearly 30% of the new car market — their strongest monthly performance outside seasonal peaks, according to New AutoMotive data released Friday.
The overall market grew 15%…
Tesla has mapped out a Robotaxi service area in Miami, publishing a geofence that covers only a small slice of the metro — mostly West Miami and a strip stretching toward Doral and Sweetwater.
It’s the latest city Tesla has drawn a box around, but the announcement lands…
Harris County prosecutors have charged the Tesla driver who crashed into a Katy, Texas, home and killed a 76-year-old woman with manslaughter, alleging he overrode Full Self-Driving to floor the car to 73 mph in a residential cul-de-sac.
The charging document also reveals something new: in the weeks before the crash, the driver had been Googling that FSD wasn’t aggressive enough.
Michael David…
The new Storm edition variant offers “more bang for your buck,” Kia said after introducing the new special edition model.
Meet the Kia EV5 and Sportage Storm edition
The Sportage and EV5 are already among Kia’s most popular SUVs, but the new Storm variants may hit the…
A growing number of Tesla Cybertruck owners are losing the ability to charge at home due to failures of the truck’s Power Conversion System (PCS), the unit that handles AC charging and steps the high-voltage pack down to the 48-volt system.
Tesla is aware of the problem…
Rivian’s new R2 has been spotted near Rivian HQ sporting a LiDAR sensor, which won’t be included with the earliest vehicles but will be added in a few months. And the implementation actually looks pretty good, compared to the large “taxi bumps” present on many other vehicles.
Claims of future self-driving ability are all the rage in the automotive industry for quite some time now, a…
