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Lucid Air beats Tesla Model S with insane 9.9-second quarter-mile

Lucid Motors has released a new video of its Air electric sedan beating the Tesla Model S on a quarter-mile run with an insanely impressive 9.9-second time. Lucid Motors is preparing to launch its highly anticipated Air electric sedan next week. The electric car has been in the works for years, and it is getting a lot of hype lately, thanks to the third-party test results of the EPA range test…
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Tesla receives full support from German government in Elon Musk’s visit w/ economy minister

Tesla is set to get “every assistance” from the German government, according to a comment from the economy minister in a meeting with Elon Musk. As we previously reported, Musk is in Germany this week to review Tesla’s vaccine printer venture with CureVac and Gigafactory Berlin. Yesterday, he visited CureVac. Today, he had a meeting with Peter Altmaier, German Federal Minister for Economic…
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Quick Charge Podcast: September 2, 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 Instrument Cluster is not dead, gets a new suspension widget

Tesla’s instrument cluster hasn’t seen many updates since the automaker started focusing on Model 3 and Model Y, which don’t have a traditional instrument cluster. But it has now gotten a rare new update: a new suspension widget. With Model 3 and Model Y, Tesla changed its interior user experience to have everything go through a center display. Model S and Model X still have an instrument…
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Kumpan launches new higher-speed seated electric scooters

Kumpan electric has just announced the launch of higher-speed versions of its retro-inspired seated electric scooters. The new scooters fill out the Kumpan 54i Series lineup and offer several models with speeds ranging from 45-100 km/h (28-62 mph). The Remagen, Germany-based company had previously rolled out the Kumpan 54 Inspire, a 45 km/h (28 mph) version of the scooter that qualified as an…
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