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Awesomely Weird Alibaba EV of the week: A $4,800 electric RV, with a small catch

It’s the classic American road trip: loading up the family in an RV and hitting the open road. Driving from sunrise to sunset as the miles and the sights pass by your window, your travel partner smiling in the passenger seat. But imagine if you could trade those gas fill-ups along the way for the satisfaction of power from clean and silent electrons. It’s no dream, my friend! You might…
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Rivian Adventure Network charging stations revealed with higher capacity than expected

The specs of the Rivian Adventure Network, the electric pickup truck startup’s upcoming charging network, have been revealed with a higher capacity than expected. Last year, Electrek revealed that Rivian is working on its own electric car charging network called the “Rivian Adventure Network” and it is hiring people who worked on Tesla’s Supercharger network to build it. We learned that…
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How smart home energy monitors could avert huge bills

During last week’s power crisis in Texas, prices surged to the market price cap of $9,000 per megawatt-hour for several days, resulting in some huge bills for a lot of homeowners. (To put that in perspective, the state’s seasonal average is $50 per megawatt-hour.) The…
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Podcast: Tesla Fremont factory situation, Hyundai Ioniq 5, WD ID.4, and more

This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including the current situation at Tesla Fremont factory, Hyundai Ioniq 5, WD ID.4, and more. The Electrek Podcast is me, Fred Lambert, editor-in-chief of Electrek, and Seth Weintraub, founder and publisher of Electrek and the 9to5 network, discussing all our top stories of…
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Lucid Motors pushes back first Air deliveries to second half of 2021

Following its massive merger with SPAC Churchill Capital Corp IV ($CCIV), Lucid Motors’ CEO revealed that deliveries of its first EV have been delayed. The Lucid Motors Air, Dream Edition was originally scheduled to begin deliveries this spring. It now appears it will debut sometime in the second half of 2021. Bloomberg‘s Ed Ludlow tweeted that Lucid’s Air, Dream Edition, the first EV to…
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