Tesla confirmed that it is fighting a $14 million fine from the German government over its battery end-of-life policy.
Over the years, Tesla hasn’t really received a warm welcome in Germany, which is really protective of its powerful automotive industry.
At times, it tried to keep Tesla out of its EV incentives, and it went after the automaker over its advertising of Autopilot and Full…
Tesla has been updating the Cybertruck’s design and now CEO Elon Musk says that Tesla will be ready to unveil the electric pickup updated design in “a month or so.”
What is it going to look like?
Last month, Musk did a design review of the Cybertruck with Franz von…
BMW reportedly working on a higher performance MINI Cooper SE
November 3, 2020
The all-electric MINI Cooper SE will get a high performance “GP” version, according to BMWBLOG.
While no specific details are available yet, BMWBLOG claims their “extremely reliable source” says the car has been green-lit and is currently in development.
Despite…
Ford is currently hyping up the Mustang Mach-E ahead of customer deliveries and the automaker’s new CEO, Jim Farley, is not shying away from comparing the upcoming electric car to Tesla.
In recent years, several legacy automakers venturing into electric vehicles have shied away from comparisons with Tesla — even though the California-based automaker remains the clear benchmark for new…
BMW is going to unveil its Tesla-fighting BMW iNext next week
November 2, 2020
BMW confirmed that it plans to unveil the production version of its BMW iNext, an electric vehicle that the German automaker has previously described as its response to Tesla, next week.
Since the launch of the BMW i3, the German automaker has been taking things extremely…
Here’s what happened when a country let people trade in old cars for electric bikes, scooters
November 2, 2020
Believe it or not, a cash-for-clunkers plan helped get old and polluting cars off the road, replacing them with efficient and traffic-reducing personal electric vehicles like e-bikes and e-scooters.
Shocking, right?
Trading in old cars for new electric bikes
Perhaps it’s…
Today, we take a look at Tesla Powerhub, a lesser-known Tesla energy product to monitor and control energy assets at a large scale.
Tesla’s well-known energy products are the Powerwall, Powerpack, Megapack, solar panels and solar roof.
Earlier this year, we also learned of Autobidder, Tesla’s platform to autonomously monetize battery assets.
But this new product is not alone in Tesla’s…
Just in case you didn’t notice, the US election is next week, on Tuesday, November 3. We at Electrek ran a Climate Crisis Weekly roundup on October 10 with the headline, “Humanity’s future rests on American voters.” Someone on the subreddit r/JoeBiden declared…
Tesla pushes new Full Self-Driving Beta update, Elon Musk says could slash interventions by a third
November 2, 2020
Tesla has started pushing a new software update under its Full Self-Driving Beta program and CEO Elon Musk says it could already cut driver interventions by a third.
It has been less than two weeks since Tesla has started pushing the first version of its “Full…
Quick Charge Podcast: October 31, 2020
November 2, 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 Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
