Urban air mobility (UAM) company HT Aero continues to make progress toward the “flying car” it has promised to deliver by 2024. XPeng Huitian (aka HT Aero) recently posted a video to Weibo demonstrating an eVTOL prototype taking off, flying around, and being maneuvered like a car. It has the XPeng Motors steering wheel and everything – check it out.
HT Aero is the rebranded name of XPeng…
This week on a special episode of Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most interesting news and announcements from Eurobike 2022, the largest electric bicycle trade show in Europe. Some of the biggest stories include a first chance to test Tern’s new Quick Haul…
Panasonic, which grew into a major battery cell supplier in the EV industry through its partnership with Tesla, is now teasing some important improvements in battery capacity.
Back in the early 2000s, Tesla approached every battery manufacturer in the world with its idea…
Canoo stock doubles as Walmart orders up to 10,000 EVs in deal that includes warranted shares in company [update]
July 13, 2022
EV startup Canoo continues to feverishly lay the railroad down right in front of itself as it chugs along its route toward scaled production. A recent feeling of dread has been encapsulated by the company’s low stock, but new life has been injected into Canoo in the form of an order of at least 4,500 delivery EVs from Walmart, with the possibility of up to 10,000 in total.
July 13 update: Upon…
26% of US households use electricity as their only energy source – but there’s a caveat
July 13, 2022
In 2020, 26% of US households – that’s 32.25 million out of 123.53 million homes – used electricity as their only source of energy, according to the US Energy Information Administration. But what the EIA doesn’t note is what fuels that “electricity as the only…
Aptera asks Congress to make Tesla’s plug and Superchargers the standard for EVs in the US
July 13, 2022
Aptera has launched a petition to ask Congress to make Tesla Superchargers and its plug the standard for electric vehicles in the US.
When Tesla started making electric cars, there was no dominant charging standard, and therefore, Tesla developed its own. Things have…
Let’s be real: there just aren’t that many flying electric boats in the world. But even if there were, the Candela C-8 would undoubtedly be at the top of the list for premium models. Not only is it competing well against (and sometimes outselling) internal combustion engine boats in its class, but the Swedish boat is racking up sales all over the world ahead of the first shipments later this…
Plans in Europe to place a small number of coal plants on temporary standby would only add 1.3% to EU emissions annually, even in the worst-case scenario where they run at the highest levels, according to London-based energy think tank Ember.
Germany, Austria, France…
Whether it’s a new phone charger, that one specific laundry detergent you love, or a last-minute Halloween costume accessory, you’ve probably used Amazon. One of the perks of the web’s largest digital marketplace is Prime Day, a multiday sale event celebrated each year…
Eurobike 2022 starts tomorrow – Here’s a preview of the exciting electric bike debuts we’ll see
July 13, 2022
Eurobike is the premier bicycle trade show in Europe and one of the largest in the world. This year – for the first time – it’s taking place in Frankfurt, Germany. Once upon a time, electric bikes were a small corner of the show. But times have changed, and these days the main attractions are all the innovative e-bikes on display.
Electrek will be on the show floor right when the doors…
