Taiga Motors has started deliveries of its Orca personal electric watercraft, basically an electric jet ski, and we got a chance to try it. It’s pure unadulterated fun on the water.
After being in the electric vehicle world for a decade, I’ve become extremely conscious of my energy usage. When I look at people flying around on jet skis on the water, I always thought that it looked fun, but I…
Ducati may not have a consumer-level electric motorcycle yet (and barely has a racing electric motorcycle, for that matter), but the company can’t stop pumping out smaller two-wheeled electric vehicles. Case in point: Ducati has just unveiled two new folding electric…
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded
July 10, 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…
EcoFlow Prime Day starts today, offering huge discounts on power stations and solar panels
July 9, 2022
As we kick off Independence Day in the US, EcoFlow is also kicking off on a bunch of its products. In words, “it’s prime time to buy.” Based on the hundreds of dollars of discounts outlined below, we won’t disagree.
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Can’t miss deals for EcoFlow Prime Day
EcoFlow DELTA
EcoFlow DELTA + 160W Solar Panel
EcoFlow Prime Day deal on the DELTA Max
EcoFlow DELTA Max + 160W…
Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week: Solar-powered ice cream vending bike
July 9, 2022
Dumpster diving into the abyss of the world’s largest online shopping site has regularly seen me bob to the surface with some uniquely interesting and sometimes terrifying finds. China has become the undisputed leader in producing electric vehicles, especially the…
Tim Cook goes for a ride in Rivian electric pickup at Sun Valley ‘summer camp for billionaires’
July 9, 2022
As reported earlier this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook is attending the Sun Valley Conference this week in Idaho, often referred to as a “summer camp for billionaires.” While we rarely learn much about what goes on at Sun Valley each year, a fun Friday story this year is that…
Back in April, the well-known billionaire Elon Musk announced that he would buy Twitter in a $44 billion deal. However, the deal was put on hold a month later after a number of controversies. Now Elon Musk seems to have officially backed out of the Twitter deal, as he has formally notified the company that he will no longer acquire it.
As reported by Bloomberg, Musk sent a letter to Twitter on…
Finnish startup Polar Night Energy and local Finnish utility Vatajankoski have together built the world’s first commercial sand-based, high-temperature heat storage system that can be powered by solar and wind.
Sand-filled energy storage in Finland
Polar Night Energy’s…
Fucare Gemini X review: Super cool 28 MPH electric bike with a super weird frame and two batteries
July 8, 2022
With so many electric bike options on the market these days, it can be difficult for companies to stand out and show us something different. You’ve got to start thinking outside of the box, which is exactly what the Fucare Gemini X does. It’s an electric bike with a…
Relatively new EV automaker ElectricBrands has unveiled a Camper version of its XBUS electric van, which originally debuted last year. While many of the pertinent details of this XBUS Camper variant remain a mystery, ElectricBrands has shared several images and claimed the EV is “at the top of customers’ reservation lists.” Check out the gallery below.
ElectricBrands is a German EV startup…
