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Porsche buys (yet another) electric bike company, showing how serious it is about e-bikes

February 13, 2022
Porsche isn’t playing around when it comes to electric bikes. Not only has the German automaker already launched its own line of electric bicycles, but now we’re getting word that Porsche has bought up yet another company in the e-bike industry. This time Porsche set its sights on a company known as Fazua. You may not know them by name, but there’s a chance you’ve seen one of the 40…
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Quick Charge Podcast: February 12, 2022

February 13, 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…
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Wheel-E Podcast! Electric bike exercise debate, Babymaker 2 e-bike, Jeep’s electric scooter, Harley e-moto coming, & more

February 12, 2022
This week on Electrek’s new Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This week that includes new data about how electric bikes offer real exercise benefits, new electric bike models and testing, Harley-Davidson’s next upcoming electric motorcycle, a new electric scooter from Jeep, and lots…
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Here’s how rooftop solar could have prevented 2021’s Texas big freeze power outage

February 11, 2022
A year on from the big Texas freeze that knocked out the state’s power system and caused at least 246 deaths, new research released yesterday found that rooftop solar could have supplied more than enough electricity to meet the shortfall on all but two of the 13 days when power production fell short of forecasted demand. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar…
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Here’s the DFEH lawsuit against Tesla, and it’s way more serious than the company made it sound

February 11, 2022
The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) has now officially filed the lawsuit that Tesla warned about in a blog post earlier this week, and it’s a lot more serious than the automaker made it sound. Earlier this week, Tesla released a blog post titled “The DFEH’s Misguided Lawsuit”  in which it warned that the state agency was going to file a lawsuit alleging…
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