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Tesla is offering free Supercharging in off-peak hours to help alleviate holiday traffic

November 24, 2021
Tesla announced that it is offering free Supercharging during off-peak hours in California to help alleviate holiday traffic and avoid long wait times at Superchargers. The holidays have been tough stress tests for Tesla’s Supercharger network, and it has not always passed with flying colors. Especially in California, one of Tesla’s biggest markets per capita and where there’s the largest…
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Rivian customers get their delivery windows: as early as March 2022

November 24, 2021
Rivian sent out emails to Launch Edition reservation holders today with two-month delivery windows for their vehicles. The windows start as early as March 2022, but some vehicles will be delivered as late as September 2022 (or possibly later). In September, Rivian shared photos of the first production trucks rolling off the assembly line. This made Rivian the winner of the race to market as the…
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Quick Charge Podcast: November 23, 2021

November 24, 2021
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…
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Serial 1 Mosh CTY e-bike is an urban commuter dream

November 24, 2021
Serial 1 provided a review bike to me so I could commute from my hotel in downtown Los Angeles a mile or so south to the Los Angeles Auto Show this week. But I used it to attend the USC Football game a few miles to the south, dinners/events in various parts of the city…
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GM’s Hummer EV has 329 mile range, “Edition 1” deliveries start in December

November 24, 2021
Hummer EV deliveries are imminent, slated to begin next month as confirmed today by GMC brand chief Duncan Aldred. While the truck will not be EPA rated, GM says it will have an all-electric range of 329 miles. Aldred also stated that about 125k “hand-raisers” have expressed interest in the Hummer, with about half of those putting down $100 for a reservation. It seems that most reservations…
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Portugal closes its last remaining coal plant

November 24, 2021
Portugal has shuttered its last remaining coal plant, becoming the fourth country in the European Union to do so, along with Austria, Belgium, and Sweden. The Pego plant in central Portugal was shut down on Friday, 10 days ahead of schedule. It was Portugal’s…
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Tesla Model X gets turned into war machine with dual machine guns coming out of the falcon wings

November 24, 2021
A YouTuber managed to turn a Tesla Model X into a war machine with dual machine guns deploying out of the falcon wing doors. For a while, Tesla made military-inspired builds of its vehicles for Veterans Day. Some of those were pretty cool, but they can’t hold a candle to this Model X build. YouTube channel FullMag put together a Tesla Model X for Black Rifle Coffee, a popular coffee company…
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