The US Department of the Interior today announced that it has now completed its environmental review and will hold its first offshore wind energy lease sale off the Carolinas on May 11.
The lease areas include 110,091 acres in the Carolina Long Bay area off North Carolina and South Carolina. Built wind farms there could result in at least 1.3 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind energy, enough…
Tesla has had to issue another “recall” that is actually just another over-the-air software update on a small number of cars in the US.
Lately, Tesla has had to issue a lot of recalls, but most of them were minor issues that were fixed by simple over-the-air software…
Electrek Podcast: Tesla made-in-Germany launch, Elon gives hint on Master Plan 3, USPS fail, and more
March 25, 2022
This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including Tesla’s launch of made-in-Germany Model Y, Elon Musk giving a hint on what Master Plan Part 3 is about, USPS’ fail fleet update, and…
USPS doubles its order of electric vehicles but sticks to mostly buying inefficient gas trucks
March 25, 2022
The United States Postal Service (USPS) announced that it updated its plan to upgrade its fleet of delivery vehicles to double the number of electric vehicles as part of the order.
However, the USPS decided to unfortunately still mostly buy inefficient gas trucks as part of the 50,000-vehicle fleet refresh.
Last year, the USPS placed an order for 50,000 vehicles with Oshkosh Defense as part of…
Can-Am announces it will launch two new electric motorcycles for on- and off-road riding
March 25, 2022
BRP, the parent company of the historic Can-Am brand, has just announced that the legacy motorcycle brand is returning to its roots with a new twist, coming back with two all-electric motorcycles.
Can-Am announces electric motorcycles
To mark the brand’s 50-year…
NIO moves ever-closer to delivering its ET7 luxury sedan. The company announced the first batch of EVs has officially rolled off its assembly line in Hefei, China. ET7 deliveries remain on schedule to arrive to NIO reservation holders in China beginning March…
Quick Charge Podcast: March 24, 2022
March 25, 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 Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
A new report shows that Tesla is spending more in research and development (R&D) per car than any other automaker by a wide margin, and it is spending the least in advertising per car sold.
Tesla is now the biggest automaker in the world by market capitalization…
Columbus, Ohio, headquartered American Electric Power’s 998-megawatt (MW) Traverse Wind Energy Center in Oklahoma is now online. It’s the largest single wind farm built at one time in North America.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar…
CATL announces zero-carbon battery plant in China as it looks to achieve global carbon neutrality
March 24, 2022
The world’s largest battery manufacturer, is going green… or at least starting to. Earlier today, CATL announced it has built a zero-carbon battery plant in Yibin, Sichuan province of China. While the current details are scarce, we can expect to learn more following a presentation on Friday local time overseas.
Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd., better known as CATL, is a global energy…
