We’ve been following Savic Motorcycles for the last year or so, watching them progress towards commercial release of their electric motorcycles. Now the company is marching closer to production while showing off its new C-Series prototype and a new workshop.
Savic Motorcycles is an Australian electric motorcycle builder currently in pre-production, having recently moved into a larger space to…
Tesla Full Self-Driving settings leak, revealing myriad of options, including some funny ones
December 9, 2020
The development settings for Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta have leaked and it is revealing a myriad of options that FSD can do, including some funny ones.
Over the last few months, Tesla has been pushing its Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta software to a limited group…
Quick Charge Podcast: December 8, 2020
December 9, 2020
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…
Elon Musk says he moved to Texas to focus on Tesla Gigafactory and SpaceX’s Starship development
December 9, 2020
Elon Musk confirmed that he personally moved to Texas full time and revealed that the reason is to focus on Tesla Gigafactory Texas in Austin and SpaceX’s Starship development in south Texas.
As for the future of the electric automaker and rocket company in California, it is still unclear.
Back in May, when Tesla was fighting the local authorities in California in order to reopen its Fremont…
As if we needed any more evidence that electric vehicles are taking over essentially every form of vehicle, Monarch Tractor is announcing a new all-electric tractor.
However, the term “tractor” doesn’t seem sufficient to describe this technology-infused and autonomous…
EGEB: Ireland is converting old phone boxes into EV chargers
December 9, 2020
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Irish telecoms company Eir and EasyGo will replace 180 phone boxes with EV rapid charge points.
Denmark and Norway team up to build the world’s largest green hydrogen ferry.
Norway’s plugin vehicle market share jumped…
Denmark, Norway to build world’s largest green hydrogen ferry
December 9, 2020
Denmark and Norway are joining forces to build what will be the world’s largest and most powerful green hydrogen-fueled ferry capable of transporting 1,800 passengers between Copenhagen and Oslo by 2027.
Green giant hydrogen ferry
The two countries have applied for EU funding for the groundbreaking project. The fund targets “highly innovative technologies and big flagship projects.”
The…
Tesla co-founder JB Straubel on QuantumScape’s new fast-charging battery: It’s a ‘major breakthrough’
December 9, 2020
QuantumScape unveiled the data about its new solid-state battery technology today, revealing some impressive results with fast-charging and long-range capacity.
It received praise from many battery experts, including Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, who described the result as…
After GM unveiled the GMC Hummer EV pickup truck, much was made that GM didn’t have a working prototype at the time.
Now, a few months later, GM is revealing a working prototype of the electric pickup truck — showing the doubters.
In October, GM officially launched…
Tesla is ordered to stop tree clearing expansion at Giga Berlin over hibernating snakes
December 8, 2020
Tesla has been ordered by the court to stop clearing trees at Gigafactory Berlin in order not to disturb hibernating snakes.
While Tesla has received strong govermnent support for its project to build a massive electric vehicle factory outside of Berlin, the automaker has run into some issues with local environmentalist groups due to the need to clear a large part of the forest in Brandenburg in…
