Tesla’s stock (TSLA) is up in pre-market trading on Monday after releasing new record delivery numbers this weekend, despite investors learning that Gigafactory Shanghai is unable to restart production today.
As we reported on Saturday, Tesla released its Q1 2022 delivery and production results and beat its all-time delivery record with 310,000 EVs despite a difficult quarter.
One of the main…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk buys near 10% stake in Twitter
April 4, 2022
A new SEC filing revealed that Elon Musk, better known as CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, invested almost $3 billion in Twitter and now owns almost 10% of the social media platform.
Musk, the richest man in the world, famously doesn’t have many investments.
While most…
Quick Charge Podcast: April 2, 2022
April 4, 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…
KYMCO’s Ionex swappable EV batteries to share power between electric motorcycles and streetlights
April 3, 2022
KYMCO Chairman Allan Ko recently shared new plans from the company’s electric vehicle developments, including the debut of the KYMCO Ionex Smart Streetlights system. Once employed, the system would see connected streetlights and traffic lights in smart cities tied into the brand’s swappable EV battery stations.
The Ionex brand is the Taiwan-based motorcycle maker KYMCO’s electric vehicle…
Tesla released its Q1 2022 delivery and production results today and confirmed just over 310,000 deliveries, which is a new all-time delivery record despite a difficult quarter for several reasons.
Due to supply chain issues and 2 separate shutdowns at Gigafactory…
Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week: $3,000 electric pickup truck with bed cap
April 2, 2022
It’s no secret that I love me a fun little electric pickup truck from China. Yes, I’m that guy that floated one over from half way around the world to use as a farm truck in the US. But just like my four year old nephew after a run through a candy store, time does not…
The governor of Nevada, Steve Sisolak (D-NV), signed a multi-state agreement yesterday that pledges at least 30% of all new trucks and buses sold will be zero emission by 2030, and 100% will be zero emission by 2050.
Nevada trucks and buses have an electric future
Sisolak made the announcement Thursday morning via pre-recorded video at an event in Las Vegas hosted by the Electrification…
In Tesla’s latest video, a drone tours the company’s latest Gigafactory in Berlin, Germany. High-speed drone videos are nothing new, but the video the skilled pilot captured (in tandem with equally adept video editing) is impressive and gives us a look at the robots and…
Tesla has opened its “longest Supercharger station in the world” through a growing partnership with a French supermarket company.
There are larger, bigger Supercharger stations in the world, but apparently, there are none longer.
Tesla is currently growing its…
Cyrusher Kommoda full-suspension electric bike review: A fun, category-busting fat tire e-bike!
April 1, 2022
The Cyrusher Kommoda looks like the e-bike equivalent of someone who got dressed in the dark. It seems to be wearing a bit of every different type of e-bike on the market. Nothing really matches, but damn if this powerful e-bike doesn’t somehow pull it off in an awesome way!
When you first lay eyes on the Cyrusher Kommoda, there’s just so much to take in.
That dual crown suspension fork…
