Cleantech & EV’s

Tesla is now facing NHTSA scrutiny with a new preliminary evaluation over potential suspension failures in Model S and Model X vehicles produced between 2015 and 2017. The new investigation comes after Tesla started a recall over the issue for vehicles in China, but the automaker argues that there’s no defect and China is forcing an unnecessary recall. Earlier this month, we reported on Tesla…

Bicycles, and especially e-bikes, are often the quickest way to cut through urban traffic. And so it makes perfect sense to see them being transformed into ambulance e-bikes for first responders. That’s exactly what a team at the tech firm Wunderman Thompson Paris set out to do when they designed their own electric bicycle ambulance. They partnered with the French e-mobility company Ecox…

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Elon Musk confirmed that Tesla plans to launch ‘special colors’ for the new Roadster electric supercar. What color options do you want to see? When Tesla first unveiled the next-generation Tesla Roadster in 2017, Musk said that it will come to market in 2020. Now that we are at the end of 2020, it’s clear that the electric supercar is not coming this year, but we are getting closer to the…