Volvo Cars has announced that its Torslanda site in Sweden has become the company’s first climate neutral car manufacturing plant. The automaker is calling this achievement a significant step toward its goal of making its global manufacturing network climate neutral by 2025.
Volvo Cars has nearly 100 years of experience in auto manufacturing and currently employs nearly 42,000 people across…
Tesla announced today that they have just surpassed 200,000 Powerwalls installed globally.
It means that Tesla installed as many Powerwalls over the last year as it did for the first five years of the home battery pack’s existence.
Tesla introduced Powerwall 2 in 2016…
Taycan Cross Turismo Turbo first drive: The best $2,600 upgrade Porsche has ever offered
May 27, 2021
Porsche hooked us up with a gorgeous blue Taycan Cross Turismo ‘Turbo’ for the better part of 24 hours last week so we could get a feel of the lust-worthy variant of the popular Taycan EV. For a short time, I was the envy of the suburbs…
The Porsche Taycan Cross…
Quick Charge Podcast: May 26, 2021
May 27, 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 Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
This new dual motor carbon fiber electric scooter is 3D-printed to the exact size of the rider
May 27, 2021
Following the wildly successful Superstrata 3D-printed carbon fiber electric bicycle last summer, the team behind the Arevo 3D-printers that enabled such tech has a new offering: the Scotsman electric scooter.
The Scotsman is the world’s first custom 3D-printed carbon…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
The US Pacific Coast is approved for commercial-scale offshore clean energy projects for the first time.
New US wind and solar scheduled for connection to the grid has reached record levels.
UnderstandSolar is a free service…
A court in the Netherlands today ordered Royal Dutch Shell to cut its carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 from 2019 levels. Previous to the ruling, Shell’s emissions reduction target was 20% by 2030.
It’s the first time activists have taken a major energy company to court to get it to overhaul its climate strategy, and they were successful.
Shell’s current climate target states that it aims…
Tesla Gigafactory Berlin was attacked by saboteurs who set cables supplying electricity to the construction site on fire.
An alleged confession letter points to political reasons targeting Tesla.
Tesla’s project to build a factory outside Berlin has faced some…
In anticipation of the imminent, yet cloudy delivery date of the Air sedan, Lucid Motors has shared video footage and new details of its User Experience, or UX. This in-depth look at Lucid UX offers a first look at several unique technologies implemented within a sleek…
Ariel Rider X-Class 52V e-bike review: Having way too much fun on this 36 mph electric moped
May 27, 2021
The is one of those electric bikes that just straight up looks like it needs to be ridden. Everything about it screams, “Hop on and rip it!” so that’s exactly what I did.
If there’s one thing Ariel Rider knows how to do well, it’s making fun e-bikes.
There are plenty of other companies out there making high utility e-bikes, or value-priced e-bikes, or any other niche/specialty.
And…
