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Tesla gives up on drive-in restaurant but location is set to become big Supercharger V3 station

Tesla appears to be giving up on its idea for a drive-in restaurant in Los Angeles, but the location is set to become one of the biggest Supercharger V3 stations in the world. In 2018, Elon Musk said that Tesla plans to open an “old school drive-in, roller skates & rock restaurant at one of the new Tesla Supercharger locations in Los Angeles.” It was yet another, “Is he joking?”…
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Quick Charge Podcast: March 2, 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…
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Trek’s new e-bike is the ‘lightest full-suspension electric mountain bike’ in the world

Trek recently unveiled its new . The highest-end version of the pricey e-bike line is claimed to be the lightest full-suspension eMTB on the market. If the frame looks familiar to any fellow Trek fans, its because the E-Caliber shares the same basic setup (with necessary e-modifications) as the non-electric Supercaliber bikes. Unlike the Supercaliber, the 2021 Trek E-Caliber benefits from…
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Electric vehicle spotlight (EVS): Faraday Future

We continue to spotlight up-and-coming or lesser-known electric vehicle companies, with Faraday Future. The Los Angeles based-automaker has had its fair share of ups and downs and controversies around electric vehicle technologies. With its first production EV in road…
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Volvo unveils C40 Recharge electric SUV with over 200 miles of range

Volvo is today unveiling the C40 Recharge electric SUV, the Swedish automaker’s second all-electric vehicle and the first built from the ground up to be electric. Earlier today, Volvo announced that it plans to only sell electric cars by 2030. In order to achieve that, it is going to need a lot more electric vehicles than it currently has, which so far is only the XC40 Recharge. They didn’t…
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New Tesla Solar Roof tiles spotted at test facility

New Tesla Solar Roof tiles in a different color have been spotted at the automaker’s test facility near Fremont factory in California. When Tesla first unveiled its Solar Roof tiles in 2016, the product wasn’t fully formed yet, but the company had several different…
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Rivian planning to manufacture solid-state batteries

Recent job posts on Rivian’s career page reveal the automaker is searching for manufacturing engineers to develop solid-state batteries. The five positions currently listed are all for Rivian’s Palo Alto facility in California. Solid-state batteries have been touted for their potential of higher capacity compared to conventional lithium-ion batteries EV automakers currently use. That includes…
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