Famed rapper 2 Chainz is doing a Tesla Model 3 giveaway to encourage people to vote in the Senate runoff election in Georgia.
The runoff could be a gamechanger for many aspects of the governance of the country but also for Tesla itself.
Many factors contributed to Tesla’s recent surge in stock price, and the recent US election was one of them.
President-elect Joe Biden has been extremely…
Ford has released a new video of winter testing of its upcoming F-150 electric pickup, showing some impressive performance in the snow.
Last year, Ford finally confirmed that it plans to bring an all-electric version of the F-150 to market.
Not much is known about the…
Xpeng, a Chinese EV startup that made waves for copying Tesla to some degree, has now started delivering its electric cars in Europe, becoming one of the first new Chinese EV startups to expand west.
Xpeng, a Tesla clone?
Henry Xia, who founded Xpeng in 2014, admitted…
Quick Charge Podcast: December 21, 2020
December 22, 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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Reuters: Apple Car could begin production in 2024 with ‘breakthrough battery technology’
December 22, 2020
Apple Car rumors have been floating around for years, and a new report from Reuters today shed more light on the highly-secretive project. According to the report, production of the electric Apple Car could start as early as 2024, and Apple is once again planning to build…
Interest in electric cars increases, but survey shows big shift in consumer thinking yet to happen
December 22, 2020
A new US survey shows that interest in electric vehicles is increasing, but the expected massive shift in consumer thinking has yet to happen in the United States.
Electric vehicles are increasingly becoming mainstream, but the wider public still doesn’t believe in…
Elon Musk confirmed that other automakers are now “low-key” using Tesla’s Supercharger network for their own electric vehicles.
The CEO didn’t confirm which automakers or the extent of the “low-key” agreement.
In the past, Tesla has often indicated that they are open to the idea of sharing the Supercharger network with other automakers, but it would be dependent on coming to an…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Vermont’s Public Utilities Commission slashes solar net metering rates by 3 cents.
Québec’s public utility Hydro-Québec launches EVLO, an energy storage system subsidiary.
The UK breaks a green energy power generation…
GMC Hummer EV receives surprising number of pre-orders, and GM is looking to increase production
December 22, 2020
GM has been cryptic about its plan for the first year of production of the GMC Hummer EV electric pickup truck that it claims was sold out in minutes.
Now we have a better idea of how many pre-orders it received, and it is higher than we thought.
In October, GM officially…
Rimac starts pre-series production of its new electric hypercar with mindboggling specs
December 22, 2020
Rimac Automobili announced that it is starting pre-series production of its new C_Two electric hypercar, which comes with specs that are out of this world.
The electric vehicle company is best known for its all-electric hypercars, especially the Concept_One, arguably the first all-electric hypercar, and more recently, the new Concept_Two (C_Two).
In recent years, the company has also been…
