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Tesla is charging owners $1,500 for hardware they already paid for

This weekend, Tesla started offering their long-awaited Full Self-Driving subscription package for $199/month. Along with the package, Tesla is offering a $1,500 hardware upgrade for early owners who have old hardware that is not capable of full self-driving tasks. The problem is, Tesla previously told those same owners that their cars were capable of full self-driving tasks, and isn’t allowing…
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Quick Charge Podcast: July 17, 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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Rivian delays deliveries of its R1T electric pickup truck to September

Rivian has confirmed that it is delaying its first deliveries of the R1T electric pickup truck, which were supposed to start this month, to September. There’s currently a race to bring electric pickup trucks to the US market, and Rivian was seen as the most likely to be the first. Last year, a betting site even started taking bets on the electric pickup race, and Rivian received the best odds…
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Podcast: New Tesla solar panel, 300 kW Supercharger, Rivian delay, and more

This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including a new Tesla 420-watt solar panel, upgrading Supercharging network to 300 kW, Rivian delaying deliveries, and more. The show is back live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel. As a reminder, we’ll have an accompanying post, like this one, on the…
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WM Motor announces two new EVs for 2021 including the M7 sedan

Chinese EV startup WM Motor has unveiled its first sedan, called the M7 set to debut in China later this year. Furthermore, the automaker has shared plans to introduce a a second sedan-like EV specifically for the mobility market called the E5. With the announcement, the company has also revealed a new logo. Weltmeister, aka WM Motor, aka Weimar Motors, is an automotive technology group based in…
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