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CAKE unveils solar-charging electric motorcycle designed to catch poachers in Africa

We first reported late last year on Swedish electric motorcycle manufacturer CAKE’s ambitious plan to deliver solar-charging electric motorcycles to Africa to combat poachers. Now the company is unveiling the new bikes, known as the CAKE Kalk AP, for anti-poaching operations. The bikes are built on the existing CAKE Kalk platform, which has long been a favorite in the premium electric dirt…
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Tesla (TSLA) releases Q4 2020 results: record revenue of $10.7 billion but misses on earnings

Tesla (TSLA) has released its financial results and shareholders letter for the fourth quarter of 2020 and full-year 2020 after market close today. We are updating this post with all the details from the financial results, shareholders’ letter, and the conference call later tonight. Refresh for the latest information. Tesla Q4 Earnings Expectations As we reported in our Q4 earnings preview…
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Quick Charge Podcast: January 27, 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…
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Tesla loses top manufacturing engineer behind battery production to electric pickup maker Rivian

Tesla has lost one of its top manufacturing engineers behind its battery cell production, Victor Prajapati, to electric pickup truck startup Rivian. Victor Prajapati Prajapati joined Tesla from solar module manufacturer First Solar, where he was manager of manufacturing engineering, back in 2017. He came to the automaker just as Model 3 production was starting and the company was entering some…
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