Volkswagen Group has announced it is significantly expanding its production of battery systems at its components plant in Braunschweig. The expansion will double the plant’s output and, when fully ramped up, will be able to produce 500,000 MEB battery systems per year. Additionally, the plant will also be able to produce an additional 100,000 battery systems for non-MEB platform models…
Rivian is announcing today the launch of its own insurance arm: Rivian Insurance.
It’s the latest in a series of moves that are extremely similar to initiatives previously launched by Tesla.
Ahead of the start of deliveries of its R1T electric pickup, Rivian has been…
The media and Tesla shorts are quick to call the new Mercedes-Benz EQS a “Tesla killer.”
While the new electric car is impressive, I wouldn’t be so quick to give it the too easily tossed around “Tesla killer” title.
Today, Mercedes-Benz held the full unveiling of…
Washington State legislature has passed “Clean Cars 2030,” a bill setting a goal to require all light-duty vehicles of model year 2030 or later to be electric. The bill passed as part of a larger package directing utilities to prepare the state for all-electric transportation.
With this bill, Washington State becomes the first US state to pass a gas car ban legislatively (as opposed to by…
The Rivian R1T electric pickup truck is still a few months away from customer deliveries, but it looks like Blue Origin already has its own fleet of Rivian R1Ts.
Yesterday, Blue Origin, a private American aerospace company, conducted its latest test in its New Shepard…
The schools at the front lines of solar
April 15, 2021
In the early 2010s, Pat Collins, a 7th-grade life science teacher at Chisago Lakes Middle School — in Lindstrom, Minnesota, about 35 miles northeast of the Twin Cities — was having a discussion about solar panels with his students. One asked why they couldn’t just use…
Quick Charge Podcast: April 14, 2021
April 15, 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 Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
Tesla next-gen ‘Full Self-Driving’ is delayed to May-June, subscription coming next month
April 15, 2021
Elon Musk has provided an update on the timeline for the next-generation of its “Full Self-Driving Beta” system and the availability of the package as a monthly subscription.
Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta
Tesla is currently testing the “feature complete” version of…
Back in 2018 Harley-Davidson unveiled one of the coolest-looking electric mopeds we had seen at the time. But years later the Milwaukee-based motorcycle manufacturer hasn’t shown us any more progress than a two-year-old prototype.
That opened the door for others to try…
Ford unveils new hands-free driver-assist system ‘similar to Tesla Autopilot’ coming to Mustang Mach-E
April 15, 2021
Ford is today unveiling BlueCruise, a hands-free highway driving system, which it describes as “similar to Tesla Autopilot.”
The new system is going to be pushed as an optional over-the-air software update to Ford Mustang Mach-E owners.
When we tested the Ford Mustang Mach-E last year, the electric car was already equipped with the Ford Co-Pilot360 suite of driver-assist systems.
But now…
