California-based Vintage Electric builds beautifully styled, high-power electric bicycles unlike any other on the market. And just to make sure they retain their crown of individuality in the power department, they’ve stepped it up another notch with the highest performance e-bikes they’ve made yet. These new e-bikes tout a 72V electrical system for extreme speed and power.
To be fair, the…
The first US offshore wind farm has had no negative effect on fish, finds groundbreaking study
April 19, 2022
Block Island Wind Farm in Rhode Island is the United States’ first offshore wind farm. The 30-megawatt, five-turbine offshore wind farm began commercial operations in December 2016 and generates enough energy to power 17,000 homes. And it turns out, it’s perfectly safe…
Quick Charge Podcast: April 18, 2022
April 19, 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.
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Electric motorcycle maker CAKE shows off more teaser images for 3 upcoming models, sets release date
April 19, 2022
Sweden’s premier electric motorcycle manufacturer CAKE shared more images of the company’s upcoming new release and set the launch day for this Wednesday.
The new images follow on the heels of an announcement last week that CAKE was working on something new.
Now we know that it’s actually three somethings new.
As the company revealed today on its social media pages, there are three new…
Tesla Giga Berlin is now producing 350 Model Ys per week, aims to ramp up to 1,000 this month, report says
April 18, 2022
A new report coming out of Germany is giving us some insights into the state of the production ramp-up at Tesla Gigafactory Berlin, which is apparently now producing 350 Model Y vehicles per week.
The bulls like it and the bears say it’s bad. What do you think?
Tesla…
If you wanted to order a 2022 Ford Mustang Mach-E online in the US, you’re now out of luck
April 18, 2022
Despite it only being April, the 2022 Ford Mustang Mach-E is no longer available for retail order due to high demand.
Ford’s Mach-E page on its website now features the following notice for all Mach-E models, and Electrek confirmed the message intent with a Ford…
Tesla Megapack project with 730 MWh of capacity is now up and running on PG&E’s network
April 18, 2022
PG&E announced that they have turned on their giant Tesla Megapack project with 730 MWh of capacity, and the electric grid company expects that it will “enhance the overall reliability of California’s ever-changing energy supply.”
We first learned of the project at PG&E’s Moss Landing substation when it submitted it to CPUC and the company was in talks with Tesla in 2017. It…
Rivian CEO warns that battery shortage is going to make chip supply issue look like a ‘small appetizer’
April 18, 2022
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe is warning that the upcoming battery shortage is going to make the current chip shortage look like a “small appetizer.”
The warning comes almost a decade after Tesla announced plans for a battery gigafactory when the automaker sent similar warnings…
Tritium, a manufacturer of hardware and software for direct current fast chargers (DCFCs), announced it has entered into a multi-year contract with BP to supply EV chargers and services to its global network.
Tritium is a DCFC manufacturer founded in 2001 that operates…
Tesla workers are finally starting to return to Gigafactory Shanghai after three weeks of being shut down, but the production restart has again been delayed by a day.
The situation remains difficult amid a severe lockdown in Shanghai to attempt to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Shanghai has seen a rise in COVID-19 infections over the last month, and in an attempt to curb the growth, the…
