The United States National Parks Service (NPS) has just updated their regulations to codify electric bicycles up to 750W as legal in all national parks where bicycles are already permitted.
The new regulations, posted yesterday on the National Parks Service website, move to support the decree issued by the US Secretary of the Interior last year, stating that all e-bikes should be allowed in all US…
Quick Charge Podcast: October 3, 2020
October 4, 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.
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According to Polaris CEO Scott Wine, the company may be returning to the electric motorcycle space.
And the new Polaris/Zero Motorcycles partnership announced earlier this week would be the way they do it.
The exclusive partnership between Zero Motorcycles and Polaris…
Elon Musk confirmed that a new “vector-space bird’s eye view” is coming to Tesla vehicles under the FSD package.
Bird’s eye view, a vision monitoring system that renders a view of a vehicle from the top to help park and navigate tight spaces, has become a popular feature in premium vehicles and it has even moved down market over the last few years.
It is generally made possible due to…
Greenland’s ice is melting faster than at any time in the past 12,000 years, according to a new study.
Sir David Attenborough’s A Life on Our Planet debuts on Sunday to help us better understand climate change.
The Environmental Defense Fund launches the Climate…
GM unveils Buick Electra electric crossover concept, claims over 400 miles of range with Ultium battery
October 3, 2020
GM has unveiled a new Buick Electra electric vehicle concept and claims a range of over 400 miles with GM’s Ultium battery.
The Buick Electra was a flagship luxury vehicle for the Buick brand for decades and now GM might bring it back as an electric car.
In Shanghai this…
Honda has announced that it will withdraw from Formula One as an engine supplier, stating that it wants to focus more of its R&D towards fuel cells and battery electric vehicles instead of combustion engines. They will continue supplying Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Alpha Tauri until the end of the 2021 season.
Honda says that this change in focus is intended to facilitate their…
This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including Tesla’s Q3 production and delivery results, potential Tesla acquisitions, Ford Mustang Mach-E price drop, and more.
Discover all the new and…
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Tesla is acquiring a German battery assembly line manufacturer supplying BMW and Mercedes-Benz, according to several reports.
Over the last few years, Tesla has been on a buying spree of companies involved in manufacturing engineering and building machines for manufacturing, like Hibar Systems and Compass Automation.
Now Tesla is reportedly adding another similar company as a subsidiary as it…
