In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
A Montana cryptocurrency miner wants to use solar to power its energy-draining business.
Can emission-free electric (and hydrogen) airplanes replace fossil-fuel-powered planes?
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…
Tesla is finally releasing a driver monitoring system using its cabin-facing camera to ensure drivers are paying attention when using its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving package features.
It’s a feature that the automaker inexplicably has taken its sweet time to…
A recent SEC filing has revealed that electric vehicle charging network EVgo is still 82 charger installations short of meeting its June 30 milestone deadline for the quarter, part of an agreement with General Motors (GM). According to the filing, missing this milestone…
Quick Charge Podcast: May 27, 2021
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Bird’s electric scooters are nearly ubiquitous. Over 200 cities around the world are dotted with them, allowing riders to rent the zippy little electric two-wheelers by the minute. The company has gone through several designs for its hardware over the last four years, and…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
ExxonMobil and Chevron suffer shareholder rebellions over a lack of strategy for emissions reduction.
Here’s the latest US Electric Power Monthly report, and what renewables are projected to do.
UnderstandSolar is a free…
Tesla’s transition to its Tesla Vision system without radar on new Model 3 and Model Y is resulting in confusion over the availability of Autopilot safety features as the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) updates its safety report on those electric vehicles.
As we reported earlier this week, Tesla announced the transition to its “Tesla Vision” Autopilot without…
Rivian is preparing its buyers for the first deliveries of its R1T electric pickup truck, which the automaker has now confirmed will be delayed to July.
There’s currently a race to bring electric pickup trucks to the US market.
Pickups are the best-selling vehicles in…
General Motors (GM) continues to expand its electric vehicle fleet and has decided Earth simply isn’t enough. Together with Lockheed Martin, GM plans to develop an electric lunar rover for NASA to be operated by Artemis astronauts to explore our Moon.
GM is no stranger…
New data from the UK’s Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) reflects which parts of the UK are adopting electric vehicles the quickest, and it’s not London or its southeastern suburbs. And while there’s been a big jump in just a year, the mountain Britain has to climb to reach its 2030 target is still high.
UK EV growth
In 2020, more than twice the amount of people in the…