Cleantech & EV’s

Tesla says that it has updated its Autopilot software to slow down when it detects the lights of emergency vehicles at night. In an update to its Model 3 and Model Y owners manual coming with the 2021.24.12 software update, Tesla added new language about the capability (first spotted by @Analytic_ETH on Twitter): “If Model3/ModelY detects lights from an emergency vehicle when using Autosteer…

Ford and Redwood Materials, a battery recycling and material supply company founded by Tesla cofounder JB Straubel, announced that they are partnering on battery supply and recycling. Until last week, Straubel’s Redwood Materials was best known as a Nevada-based company developing new processes to recycle materials with a focus on electric car batteries. But the company announced that is also…

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The UK and Dutch transport secretaries call for China and the US to take more dramatic steps. An abandoned 114-year-old paper mill in New Jersey gets a second life as a solar farm. A large luxury home builder will now include solar on all their new California homes. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in…

The Munich Motor Show 2021 was fantastically packed full of crazy concepts, futuristic designs, and curiously cool EVs. We know that many of these concept designs won’t make it to production, but they are indications of what’s coming, and that’s something to get excited about. [This is part of an ongoing collaboration between Electrek and Fully Charged.] Craziest electric cars All the…