If you haven’t already had the pleasure of discovering it, I write a fun column called the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week. Each week I go spelunking into the caverns of the Alibaba electric vehicle catalog and find something awesome, weird, and usually surprisingly low-cost to share with the world. I’ve wanted to purchase a lot of these myself, and I even did pull the…
Tesla (TSLA) could dominate $1.2 trillion market with autonomous, Uber-like vehicle fleet
June 10, 2021
Tesla (TSLA) is looking at a more-than-decent chunk of a market valued at $1.2 trillion with its upcoming Tesla Network, a new Uber-like ride-hailing service with autonomous electric cars, according to Ark Invest.
For years, Tesla has taunted a ride-hailing app to be…
The Biden administration is keen to boost battery manufacturing on home soil as soon as possible. But in case you didn’t notice, the Democrats and Republicans are at loggerheads in Congress on Biden’s huge infrastructure plan. So here are four steps the Department of…
The Boring Company’s Las Vegas Loop with Tesla vehicles has officially gone into operations this week, and it is already preparing to expand to the Strip and beyond.
The Las Vegas Convention Center Loop, the Boring Company’s first full-scale loop project, has now entered operations, and it is available to the public.
Elon Musk’s startup had a small test tunnel in Los Angeles for years, but…
Aptera shows off its ultra-futuristic solar-powered Sol electric vehicle with 1,000-mile range
June 9, 2021
Electric vehicle startup Aptera has just released a new video with perhaps the best look yet at the company’s futuristic electric three-wheeler.
You may remember Aptera from the mid 2000s, when the company introduced plans for a truly revolutionary-looking solar-powered…
Anonymous attacks Tesla & Elon Musk in video that looks like it could have been made by the oil industry
June 9, 2021
Anonymous, an infamous group of hackers, is attacking Tesla and Elon Musk in a new video that uses so much misinformation that it looks like it could have been produced by the fossil fuel industry.
Tesla and Elon Musk are no stranger to smear campaigns and…
Quick Charge Podcast: June 8, 2021
June 9, 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.
This episode of The Electrek Podcast is brought to you by the all-new, all-electric Volkswagen ID.4 SUV with zero direct emissions. It’s the first electric vehicle for everyone. Before it can change the…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions breaks ground on its largest solar project to date, in Texas.
Fast charging is needed in all types of communities to speed up the EV transition, finds a new study.
UnderstandSolar is a free…
Tesla hasn’t released a new vehicle color for a long time, but a new “deep crimson” color could be coming as it was spotted on a new Model S body at its Fremont Factory.
Back in the early days of the Model S, Tesla used to offer a variety of colors, but the automaker…
The Yara Birkeland, the world’s first net-zero, battery-powered autonomous container ship, was delivered to Norwegian fertilizer company Yara Norge AS in November 2020. It’s currently in the Norwegian port of Horten, where it’s undergoing further preparations for autonomous operation and a late 2021 launch.
Electric, autonomous container ship
The open-top Yara Birkeland was ordered by…
