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Workhorse gets order for 6,320 electric delivery vans – it had planned to build 1,800 this year

Workhorse Group, a company focusing on commercial sales of last-mile electric delivery vans, has received an order for 6,320 all-electric vans. The order comes from Pride Group Enterprises, a company which focuses on equipment sales, rental and leasing for the logistics industry. While 6,320 doesn’t seem like an astounding number at first blush, it’s much larger than Workhorse’s planned…
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EGEB: Japan to scrap gas-powered cars by mid-2030s

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Japan aims to abolish gas-powered vehicles in the next 15 years. Massachusetts reaches a deal to make 40% of its electric power green by 2030. South Korea will replace all diesel trains with an electric bullet train by…
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Tesla (TSLA) stock surges to $700 billion valuation

Tesla (TSLA) stock start its first trading day of 2021 by surging 5% to a market capitalization of $700 billion for the first time. Tesla (TSLA) Stock Performance 2020 was a crazy year for Tesla’s stock. It went up 700% while raising billions of dollars on three…
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Tesla gets green light to import electric cars in Israel, launch is imminent

Tesla has received the green light to import its electric cars in Israel, meaning that a launch in the country is imminent. Tesla in Israel Tesla has been looking into entering the Israeli auto market for a while now. Last year, we reported that Tesla is working on opening a service center and a Supercharging station in Tel Aviv. The automaker listed some job openings for sale and service…
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Blacksmith Electric unveils new 75 MPH Vespa-style electric scooter, takes pre-orders

Blacksmith Electric has added a new electric scooter model known as the B4 to its existing lineup of electric motorcycles and scooters. The Chennai, India-based electric motorbike startup appears to have drawn heavily upon the design of their previous iteration, the B3. That scooter was in turn largely based on their stunning B2 electric cruiser motorcycle unveiled in the summer of 2019. Those…
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Quick Charge Podcast: January 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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Tesla (TSLA) delivers record of 180,000 cars in Q4, barely missing goal of 500,000 cars in 2020

Tesla released its delivery and production numbers for the fourth quarter of 2020 and the full year 2020. They managed to deliver a record number of over 180,000 vehicles, but barely missed the goal of 500,000 vehicles delivered in the full year. Tesla Q4 Delivery and Production Over the last few weeks, we reported on Tesla trying to achieve what CEO Elon Musk referred to as the “historic…
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