When the Rivian rolled up to our house for delivery last week, it was the first Rivian I had seen in the wild. WOW, I was pleasantly surprised by its striking and imposing look. Like the Lucid Air I saw in Santa Clara, the Rivian R1T just looks like it’s from the future.
If you are a sci-fi fan that enjoyed Star Trek, then you are familiar with the teleportation device that, with the press of…
Xiaomi’s new 40-mile range NAVEE N65 electric scooter heads west to Europe and North America
March 28, 2022
Xiaomi rocketed the NAVEE N65 electric scooter to a successful launch late last year on its Xiaomi Youpin crowdfunding platform. Now the scooter is making its way westward toward European and North American customers.
Xiaomi has made a habit of launching many new electric…
Quick Charge Podcast: March 26, 2022
March 27, 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…
Tesla has started to send out invites to an event called ‘Cyber Rodeo’, which is going to be the grand opening of Gigafactory Texas in Austin – a big moment for the company and its manufacturing expansion in the US.
Just a few days after launching GIgafactory Berlin with the first deliveries of the first European-made Tesla vehicles, the automaker is now inviting people to the opening of…
Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week: $8,000 electric boat with submarine capsule
March 26, 2022
We have a lot of fun scouring the abyss of Alibaba in search of the most creative assemblages in the Chinese shopping site’s endless array of electric vehicles. That search often takes us on land and occasionally even into the skies. But this week we’re going to don our…
Cake’s electric motorcycles could soon be even greener with paper body panels instead of plastic
March 26, 2022
Cake, the Swedish company known for its electric dirt bikes, street motorcycles and mopeds, has just announced a new partnership with PaperShell that could see the motorcycle manufacturer asking customers upon checkout, “Paper or plastic?”
The technological partnership…
Addmotor M-430 e-bike review: A surprisingly powerful and easy to ride fat-tire electric cruiser bike
March 25, 2022
The Addmotor M-430 may not look like much of a performance e-bike, but the don’t judge a book by its cover adage holds with electric bikes as well. Believe it or not, this relaxing-looking cruiser e-bike is actually a peppy ride when you open it up.
That’s not something we often associate with cruiser bikes.
Generally they’re more for the low-and-slow crowd, offering a comfortable ride in…
Tesla updated its delivery timelines on new vehicle orders and it showed that many models, especially the Model Y, are sold out for the year in the US – even after the price increase.
There’s currently a rush to order electric vehicles as the technology gains in…
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…
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 updates.
For example, the automaker issued a recall that was reported as a “massive” recall on over 800,000 vehicles due…
