Cleantech & EV’s

Rivian was spotted testing its delivery van near the company’s facility in Irvine, Calif., on Saturday. The van is part of a deal with Amazon, which has ordered 100,000 of them from Rivian after leading a $700 million funding round for the company. Rivian is headquartered in Michigan and has a factory in Illinois, but it has a lot of operations in the Irvine area. Its ~20,000-square-foot…

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote to employees in an email obtained by Electrek tonight that they are seeing strong demand, but the automaker needs to increase production fast in order to capitalize on it. As we previously reported, Tesla is currently in the middle of its end-of-year delivery push as it aims to deliver a record number of vehicles this quarter to achieve 500,000 deliveries in 2020. The…

North Carolina-based Huck Cycles may be less than a year old, but the electric moped company is moving fast! I first stumbled upon the company in April of this year. There was almost no information available, so I called up founder Brett McCoy to figure out what was going on with this obscure little e-moped startup. As it turned out, Huck Cycles was flying under the radar for a reason. The new…