Tesla is set for another fight against unionization, this time over Gigafactory Berlin. IG Metall, a powerful union in the German auto industry, confirmed that it wants to have a worker council at the factory.
There have been several unionization efforts at Tesla over the years.
For years, United Auto Workers (UAW) tried to unionize Tesla Fremont factory and the automaker fought against it, so…
Podcast: Tesla revamping referral program, something big coming, Project Bobcat, and more
May 8, 2021
This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including Tesla revamping its referral program, something big coming along with the revamp, Project Bobcat, and more.
This week’s podcast sponsored by…
Electric bicycles have exploded in popularity in the US and around the world.
They provide the same personal mobility convenience as a bicycle, yet use an electric motor to help riders travel faster, farther, up steep hills and without the same level of exhaustion.
While…
Tesla updated its online configurator for Model 3 and Model Y overnight to increase the prices across the lineup.
This is just the latest small price increase in a long series that is starting to add up.
As we have previously reported, Tesla’s 2021 is off to a strange start when it comes to price changes.
Tesla would always regularly adjust pricing, but it never did it as often as it has been…
Formula E returns to Monaco this weekend, but it’s different this time. Rather than racing on an abridged version of the track as they’ve done before, they will finally race on the full version of the most famous racetrack in the world.
Previous Formula E races have…
Tesla is planning a new facility named “Bobcat Project” next to Gigafactory Texas, according to newly filed documents with the local municipality.
Electrek first revealed that Tesla is going to build its next Gigafactory in Austin around this time last year.
Now a year…
Quick Charge Podcast: May 6, 2021
May 7, 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…
What Arrival is doing is revolutionary, and since our visit last July, we have been desperate to return to its R&D centre in Banbury to see how the EV startup’s electric van and bus designs have developed.
Whilst still a prototype, the bus has come a long way with a…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
The US solar industry employed 231,474 workers in 2020. By 2035, we’ll need 900,000 solar workers.
2020 saw the largest annual decrease in US energy production on record.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to…
NIO, one of the most successful new electric automakers to come out of China, is expanding for the first time out of its home country – starting with launching its electric vehicles in Norway.
From the start, NIO had global ambitions.
It even marketed itself has a “global automaker,” but it had to rein back its ambitions as it discovered just how difficult it is to bring an electric…
