A fleet of 74 school buses have spent the last two years powering about a thousand homes, taking stress off the grid, thanks to V2G chargers built in America.
If you’ve spent much time around the electric vehicle space, you may have heard about vehicle-to-grid, perhaps by the acronym V2G (or its cousins, V2H/V2L/V2X, etc).
The basic idea is: if we’re looking to add batteries to the grid or to…
Polestar and the University of Oxford put 12 drivers in eye trackers and heart-rate monitors and sent them around a Swedish racetrack in two versions of the Polestar 4. The goal was to put numbers on something no spec sheet captures: how performance feels to the person…
The Volvo EX60 delivered more driving range in the real world, covering over 350 miles
October 21, 2026
The new Volvo EX60 has an EPA-estimated range of 312 miles, but in real-world conditions, it drove over 350 miles without stopping.
Volvo EX60 beats EPA range in the real world
Volvo calls the EX60 a “game changer” as its fastest-charging, longest-range electric vehicle…
Huawei’s smart car business is signing on to CATL’s battery swap network, giving the world’s largest battery maker another heavyweight partner for a technology most of the industry wrote off a decade ago.
Yinwang, the Huawei-controlled automotive unit also known as Newcool, signed a strategic cooperation framework with CATL and its swap subsidiary CAES on Monday. CATL’s Choco-swap network…
Foxconn is buying half of Mitsubishi Electric’s auto parts business for ¥115 billion ($727 million), its biggest bet yet on turning years of EV promises into a real car business.
But the target, Mitsubishi Electric Mobility, isn’t an EV company. It’s a traditional…
Subaru is testing its own tech for its next-generation EVs, breaking away from its longstanding partnership with Toyota.
Subaru moves away from Toyota for its next EV
After falling behind Chinese brands like BYD and other emerging EV makers like Tesla, Subaru and Toyota…
Tesla’s proxy for its 2026 annual meeting, filed today, confirms that one of its supposedly independent directors now sits on SpaceX’s board. Ira Ehrenpreis, who chairs both Tesla’s compensation committee and its governance committee, joined SpaceX’s board in February.
That’s one of several details in the filing that line up with a Tesla-SpaceX merger. There’s a three-item ballot, an…
Buying an e-bike without a battery might sound a little like buying a car without a motor. But that’s exactly what Minnesota-based e-bike company Monarc is now offering – and there’s actually a pretty good reason for it.
Monarc has just rolled out a new pricing…
Mercedes-AMG has unveiled the GT SUV, an all-electric performance SUV with up to 1,153 hp from three axial-flux motors and DC fast charging at up to 710 kW.
It’s AMG’s answer to the Porsche Cayenne Electric, and on paper, it may be more impressive. The first units hit US…
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 real-world e-bike testing has helped me find the best electric bicycles on the market for just about any budget.
Below are some…
