UK-based sports car manufacturer, Lotus Cars, has officially unveiled details of its long-teased “Type 132” electric SUV. Today, the brand announced the EV will be dubbed the Eletre (pronounced “El-etra”) – calling it the “world’s first hyper-SUV.” We now have a slew of new specs and features to ponder.
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Lotus goes electric
Lotus officially unveils Eletre…
NIU’s fastest and most powerful electric scooter yet arrives in Europe, headed to US soon
March 29, 2022
I was fortunate enough to be in the front row when NIU unveiled its new MQiGT EVO electric scooter at the 2021 EICMA Milan Motorcycle Show last November. Now the leading smart electric scooter company has begun making deliveries in Europe, with other markets also set to soon…
London announced that it is providing funding to deploy a fleet of Tesla Model 3 vehicles through a vehicle subscription service to be available for private hire drivers such as Uber.
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Tesla co-founder and former CTO JB Straubel says EV batteries should last about 15 years
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Quick Charge Podcast: March 28, 2022
March 29, 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…
Elon Musk announced that Tesla’s head of AI, Andrej Karpathy, is on a four-month sabbatical, and people are worried since other Tesla execs have left after going on sabbatical.
It comes as Tesla expands its Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta to Canada.
While Tesla has built a…
Morfuns Eole S carbon fiber folding e-bike review: Lightweight with a torque sensor and throttle!
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The Morfuns Eole S is an interesting departure from many of the budget-end folding electric bicycles on the market. It features both a lightweight design and some nice components that should make it an awesome urban e-bike for someone on the lookout for a small and unobtrusive folder.
To be fair, we’ve of course seen plenty of lightweight folding e-bikes before.
But when you cut the weight and…
As UK prime minister Boris Johnson is due to unveil his energy plan this week, a British cabinet minister made a suggestion yesterday on a news program that he thinks would win the support of communities who live near onshore wind farms. Could it work?
NIMBYs and…
Porsche is reportedly working with Quantumscape to develop an electric 911 powered by solid-state batteries
March 28, 2022
After sharing long-term electrification goals during a recent financial report, new details of future Porsche EVs have emerged including plans for an electric 911. What might be even more mouth-watering (if true) is that the German automaker has been working with…
Tesla is planning a big Megapack project at Gigafactory Texas to avoid unreliable electric grid
March 28, 2022
According to new local flings, Tesla is planning a big Megapack project at Gigafactory Texas in order to complement its planned giant solar system and to try and mitigate problems that come with the state’s unreliable electric grid.
Tesla is preparing to launch Gigafactory Texas with its Cyber Rodeo event next week.
While production is just starting, the plant is still growing and more features…
