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Tesla batteries to power a passenger boat

Two Swedish companies announced that they are using Tesla batteries to convert a passenger boat to electric propulsion for some eco-friendly sight-seeing. Eco Sightseeing, a company offering electric boat tours in Sweden, and El & Marinteknik, a specialist in electric maritime technology, announced this week that they have partnered on the electric conversion of a 1943 boat built for the…
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EGEB: Anheuser-Busch will make low-carbon beer cans

Beer giant Anheuser-Busch will make Michelob Ultra cans using hydroelectricity. HSBC, Europe’s largest bank, says it will become net zero across its customer base by 2050. Greater Boston’s MBTA will source 100% of its forecasted electricity from green energy. Arcadia Power is committed to making clean energy work for the planet and your bank account — all without changing your utility…
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Quick Charge Podcast: October 8, 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…
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Tesla is doing a Model 3 refresh and we’ve seen it

Tesla is making an update to Model 3, which is significant enough that people other than Elon Musk would call it a refresh, and we’ve seen it. Electrek can confirm some of the new features. Over the last few months, we have heard a lot of rumors about a Model 3 update. It started when Tesla updated the Model 3’s frunk and then submitted an application to produce the Model 3 with a chrome…
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First-ever fully customized Zero SR/S electric motorcycle adds wings and style

Zero Motorcycles recently teamed up with Deus ex Machina to create the first-ever fully customized Zero SR/S electric motorcycle. Zero has occasionally collaborated with designers who have taken Zero’s platform in entirely new (and often shocking) directions. The modularity of electric motorcycles and lack of conventional design constraints like gas tanks and internal combustion engines have…
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