Cleantech & EV’s

This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including our first Rivian R1T electric pickup drive, Lucid starting Air production, Tesla FSD Beta slowly moving to a wider release, and more.  Discover all the new and innovative ways that Electrify America is providing freedom for electric vehicle drivers…

Tesla is angering some Tesla certified repair shops after the automaker used its contact to try to recruit the technicians that those shops paid to train on Tesla cars. Tesla and body repair shops The automaker has had a difficult relationship with body shops. Tesla owners have been complaining about repair time after accidents for a long time, but it came back to the forefront of Tesla news in…

Tesla employees have confirmed that the company has produced its 1 millionth battery pack at Gigafactory Nevada. Gigafactory Nevada was somewhat of a novel idea when it was first deployed. The plan was to build a giant factory in partnership with Panasonic, who would build battery cells, and Tesla would use those cells to build battery packs for its products at the same factory. The most…

Hot-rodding, hacking, or e-bike tampering – call it whatever you’d like. But Europe’s major electric bicycle companies are doing everything they can to prevent riders from finagling more speed from their e-bikes. Most e-bike companies in Europe have been against the practice of e-bike hacking for as long as they’ve sold e-bikes. But now the industry is getting more organized about…