Electric bicycles in the rugged moped style are all over the place these days, and for good reason. Unlike fitness e-bikes that are often used for a combination of exercise and leisure riding, electric mopeds are built mostly for good old fashioned getting around. And the Addmotor M-66 R7 moped fully embodies that design ethos. It’s a transportation e-bike that will have you zipping around your…
Tesla is the king of the hill when it comes to electric vehicles, and a big point of where the company pulls ahead is with tech. Android Auto, though, has always eluded Tesla vehicles, but a proof-of-concept demo shows that it is possible.
Emil Borconi, the creator of the…
Tesla’s stock (TSLA) is surging by over 3% in pre-market trading today, and it appears to again be due to delivery numbers in China, which seem to be confusing for the market.
Over the last few weeks, Tesla’s stock has had some wild swings, and it has mostly been…
Tesla announced today that Jerome Guillen, a longtime executive who most recently led its Heavy Trucking division, is leaving the company.
Guillen is one of Tesla’s most well-known executives and one of the longest-lasting top executives at the company.
He earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering at the École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées in Paris, France, his home country. He…
Quick Charge Podcast: June 7, 2021
June 8, 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.
This episode of The Electrek Podcast is brought to you by the all-new…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Hitachi ABB Power Grids launches transformer products for offshore floating wind farms.
Turbine installation is complete at Denmark’s largest wind farm, the offshore Kriegers Flak.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that…
Tesla loses head of energy operations
June 8, 2021
Tesla’s head of energy operations has left the company amid an important growth phase for the ‘Tesla Energy’ division.
RJ Johnson
RJ Johnson was a US Army officer who graduated from West Point in civil engineering.
When leaving the service in 2007, he joined NextEra, a large electric utility company operating throughout the US and Canada.
He spent over a decade at the company, where he…
Autonomous rideshare rivals Waymo and Cruise have both reportedly applied for permits to charge passengers for self-driving rides in the San Francisco Bay area. Some of the applications are still under review, but it could be a major step toward autonomous rideshare vehicles…
Jeda, well-known manufacturer of accessories for Tesla vehicles, is launches a designed for the latest Model 3 and Model Y vehicles. You can and receive an exclusive discount.
Tesla is known for its spartan interior with minimalist design and it can be hard for…
An uncrewed SpaceX Dragon CRS-22 cargo ship launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on June 3 and arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) two days later. It was carrying, among many other things, two new solar arrays that will power the ISS.
Jacksonville-headquartered Redwire Space is an aerospace manufacturer and space infrastructure technology company.
