In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
In 2020, due to the pandemic, US energy emissions fell to the lowest level since 1983.
Belfast, Maine, sees 7 megawatts of community solar launch for Central Maine Power customers.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so…
Huawei’s head of autonomous driving lost his job after claiming Tesla vehicles are killing people
July 28, 2021
Su Qing, the head of autonomous driving at Huawei, has been removed from his position after making some controversial comments about Tesla — going as far as claiming that Tesla vehicles are killing people.
At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference earlier this…
Hyundai Ioniq 6 plus Pony sneak peek [video]
July 28, 2021
In DK Kim’s first report from Korea, he gets a sneak peek at Hyundai’s incredible Ioniq 6, the production version of the Hyundai Prophecy Concept that was revealed in 2020.
[This is part of an ongoing collaboration between Fully Charged and Electrek.]
Hyundai Ioniq…
A team at University of Science and Technology of China has developed a new material that could potentially help lower the production costs of solid state lithium batteries and accelerate their commercialization into EVs. The new material, lithium zirconium chloride, offers a reduced material cost and necessary performance, all while remaining stable.
Solid state batteries have become a…
Tesla Energy, the automaker’s energy division, had a record quarter, but the market doesn’t seem to care much due to how small it is in relation to its automotive business.
CEO Elon Musk said that Tesla Energy is becoming a distributed global utility, and it could…
Tesla has all but confirmed that Cybertruck production is going to be delayed into next year.
After unveiling the Cybertruck in 2019, Tesla said that the electric pickup truck would make it to market by the end of 2021.
The automaker has not officially updated that…
Tesla has confirmed that it decided to delay the “launch of the Semi truck program to 2022” over battery cell supply constraints.
Last week, we reported on Tesla making progress toward Tesla Semi production at its facility in Nevada.
According to sources familiar with the matter, the automaker completed its drive axle production line, and it was in the process of debugging its low volume…
Elon Musk explains how non-Tesla EV owners are going to be able to use the Supercharger network
July 27, 2021
Elon Musk has released more details about how non-Tesla electric cars owners are going to be able to use the Supercharger network once the automaker opens it up later this year.
Over the last few months, Tesla has indicated that it plans to open the Supercharger network…
Quick Charge Podcast: July 26, 2021
July 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…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Vattenfall gets the green light to run a Dutch pilot combining solar panels and strip farming.
The UK currently has around 25,000 EV chargers, and will need 10 times that by 2030.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s…
