The US Department of Energy announced the winners of its collegiate competition, the Solar Decathlon, yesterday. The contest, which has been running since 2002, challenges student teams to design and build highly efficient and innovative buildings powered by clean energy.
What’s the Solar Decathlon?
As the US Department of Energy explains in its blog:
The US Department of Energy Solar…
Watch beat-up GMC Hummer EV crab walk in traffic
April 20, 2021
A pretty beat-up GMC Hummer EV prototype was spotted using its “crab walk” feature in traffic to help change lanes.
Last year, GM unveiled the GMC Hummer EV, a 350-mile electric pickup truck with an $80,000 starting price.
The pickup truck is stacked with a ton of…
A Tesla vehicle crashed into a tree and caught on fire in Houston this weekend – resulting in two deaths.
The police believe no one was in the driver’s seat, which could mean that this could be the first fatalities as a result of a Tesla driver jokingly getting into the…
Audi has just shown the future of their electric sedans with the A6 e-tron concept, which debuted at the Shanghai auto show today.
The sedan is based on a new platform that Audi is calling “Premium Platform Electric” or “PPE” for short, developed in collaboration with Porsche. This platform will enable Audi to offer several new vehicles, with the first hitting the road in late 2022.
The…
Toyota has unveiled today the bZ4X, a battery-electric SUV, though it didn’t release any specs despite a production version of the vehicle coming as soon as next year.
We have often discussed how Toyota has been lagging behind the rest of the auto industry when it comes…
Leaks are just as prevalent in the automotive world as in the drones sector. And, the day before Shanghai’s big Auto Show, a DJI-related autonomous electric vehicle leak has occurred.
We reported recently that DJI appears to have a new division related to autonomous…
A San Francisco woman has learned firsthand that electric bicycles aren’t just for recreation, they also make efficient and cost-effective alternatives to typical transportation like personal cars.
That’s exactly what Maureen Persico has discovered after she made the switch, though e-biking wasn’t part of her original plan.
In 2014 her car was totaled when she was hit by an uninsured…
Quick Charge Podcast: April 17, 2021
April 18, 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…
Tesla with Autopilot engaged approaches 10x lower chance of accident than average car: here’s the data
April 18, 2021
Elon Musk claims that Tesla with Autopilot engaged approaches 10 times lower chance of accident than the average car.
Here’s the data he is basing this claim on.
Since 2018, Tesla has been trying to create a benchmark for its improvement in Autopilot safety by releasing…
If you’re already sold on the many benefits of driving an electric car, then you’re probably in the pro-solar-energy camp as well. You may have even considered the interesting proposition of marrying the two into a solar electric car, charging your EV for free with the sun rays currently cooking your paint job. But if there are two technologies that don’t scream “cheap startup cost,”…
