Cleantech & EV’s

At an event today, Foxconn unveiled three new electric vehicles: a sedan, an SUV, and a bus. The manufacturing giant appears to be flexing its muscles ahead of becoming a manufacturer for other EV brands. The company has been making a lot of moves in the EV space lately. Last year, it had developed a platform of open-source hardware and software for EV manufacturing and was working to…

Tesla has updated the solar roof webpage and dropped the claim that its tiles are “3x stronger than standard tiles”. The company is trying to ramp up solar roof production and installations, but not without issues. Solar Roof has been one of Tesla’s toughest products to bring to production and one of the main problems has been validating the durability of the tiles. Since the roof needs to…

Electrek was invited to try out the cheapest EV in the world, which is manufactured by Changli. It was hilarious, cute, “cheap” in every way, and a wild exercise for the imagination. Even though it doesn’t retain its famed price tag, the US importers have put great effort into adding back value where the shipping costs took it away. Changli manufactures these vehicles in China to be used…

Gruber Motors, a shop best-known for working on Tesla vehicles, caught on fire again. The second time in 4 years. It is believed that several more rare Tesla Roadsters have been lost. Gruber Motors is a Phoenix-based shop that focused on offering services to Tesla owners. They made a name for being one of the rare companies able to fix the “bricking” issues that some Tesla Roadsters…