Cleantech & EV’s

Lucid Motors confirmed that it now has over 10,000 reservations for the Air, its first car and a luxury electric sedan. It might not sound as impressive as numbers of reservations in some other programs, but it’s actually not bad. Lucid has faced some delays in bringing its first electric vehicle to production, but it’s getting pretty close, according to new comments from Lucid CEO Peter…

Gogoro, the leading swappable battery electric scooter maker, has just announced a partnership with Foxconn, the world’s leading electronics manufacturer. And it’s hard to overstate how big this could be for both Gogoro and the electric scooter industry. Gogoro’s battery swapping network is widely acknowledge to be the most advanced in the world. The Taiwanese company has dotted its home…

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): EV100 businesses call for strong US emissions standards and all new-vehicle sales to be net zero by 2030. Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) introduces legislation to rapidly boost US solar manufacturing. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price…

One lucky person has a neighbor that works at Rivian. Better still, their Rivian neighbor was generous enough to allow them to go for a spin in an R1T and capture some footage from their phone of the interior, including the upcoming EVs User Interface (UI) and other controls. If you blink, you might miss it, though, as the videographer must have been so giddy with excitement experiencing the…